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@nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social
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Piwi and piRNA and pugs enthusiast. Tennis on occasions. laulab.bu.edu

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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As I prepare to submit 3 NIH grant applications this Fall to our government, this picture aptly captures my current mood.
Kid face down on ice pondering existence and life choices.
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sad times for US Science
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Another silver lining to 2026! Please check out our study now published @genomeresearch.bsky.social on the tracking of human brain transposable element large and small RNAs during aging and in two neurodegenerative disorders: Huntington's and Parkinson's Disease genome.cshlp.org/content/36/6...
Cover art composed by Christian Brion and Gargi Dayama
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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For anyone who is a scientist or has benefitted from basic research on model organisms (that's EVERYONE), please take the time to leave a comment about priority 1 here: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6998c3a23e... by the deadline May 28! I know I wouldn't be here today without modern medicine
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Request For Information
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
At last! Please check out our study now published @natcomms.nature.com on the #virus small #RNAs profiles across Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes from labs and around the world: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Small RNA genomics of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes discovers infectious viruses that trigger an RNA interference response - Nature Communications
This study is a small RNA genomics survey from global Aedes aegypti mosquito samples, and detected replicating viruses. This study then isolated several mosquito viruses into cell cultures to show tha...
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ktr-nakanishi.bsky.social @ktr-nakanishi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sure, it's snowing on April 7 today, but will it be TACO Tuesday tonight?
Snowing in April
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
#Dros26 was so great last week to only think of Flies and forget all the world's messes. Bonus to witness @lucksmith.bsky.social and @tarafinegan.bsky.social great performance of "Don't you know that the Fly is fly!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tht-...
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Eric Lai & Tara Finegan perform "Don't you know that the Fly is fly!" at DROS26 Meeting
YouTube video by douglasthepug
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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
thanks @lucksmith.bsky.social 15 years after your key paper with Nelson Lau showing the abundance & widespread nature of piRNAs from 3' UTRs, we now start to get the logic. dissecting how the Yb protein reads out U-content, and talks to the Upf1-related SF2 helicase Armitage, will be interesting.
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Will Venezuela beat Canada for becoming the 51st U.S. state?
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Klingon Bond – Today is a Good Day to Spy! Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy! Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High! Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai! Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Salient that the late Sir John Gurdon's seminal Nobel-prize discoveries of pluripotency was accomplished with Xenopus frogs, another model organism whose NIH funding support has massively declined as much as its invertebrate brethren.
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The moose out front should have told you… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This guy's shirt I saw walking to work sums up today's Oval office Dunning Kruger-esque press briefing on ASD.
Dude's shirt reads "Back on my Bull Shit"!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Real Slim Shady in Boston?
License plate EMINEM!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
That is some nice luciferase activity!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Welp! Sitting in dark office, entire lab building on emergency power since 3pm. Whole chunk of downtown Boston without power!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Michael, so sorry! You have alot of fans of your research, myself included. Keep fighting and thank you for this brave post! Hope HMS backs up you and your lab to fight another day!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy Dog Day, Chester the Tennis Pug!
Chester the Pug with his three tennis racquets
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If Spongebob Squarepants can find these two planes, he can help fund 60 biomedical research labs on land for at least 5 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
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Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier | CNN Politics
Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, four people familiar with ...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Why NIH/NIGMS funding of basic research matters with our latest work now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social sky.social. We solved a >30-year-old mystery of what transcription factor drives the Flamenco piRNA cluster required for female Drosophila fertility. /1 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Traffic Jam activates the Flamenco piRNA cluster locus and the Piwi pathway to ensure transposon silencing and Drosophila fertility
Rivera et al. discover Drosophila Flamenco piRNA cluster enhancers bound and activated by the Traffic Jam transcription factor. Traffic Jam also binds many follicle cell genes including activating mul...
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Before the ChatGPT Hyphen was derided, we @bartellab.bsky.social alumni were already trained in the ways of the em dash, amirite @shechnerlab.bsky.social ? wapo.st/4co1WvY
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Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree.
Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Been listening to the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein Show, and wowed by this episode that quotes my friend @johndoench.bsky.social about NIH progress reports! If my PO follows me, yes I'm working on my RPPR now! Just hope I can still get my Non-competing funding, please please🙏?
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@lucksmith.bsky.social will enjoy this HA-Tag. Hemagglutinin HA? or Funny HA?
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Hopefully this will backfire and stop future institutions from caving. The admin has now shown (as anyone with half a brain already knew) that appeasement won't save you.
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Also great to see Faculty peers here at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Bill Theurkauf @rti-umasschan.bsky.social and @remlehmann.bsky.social Mitch McVey, Norbert Perrimon, Welcome Bender are here, Standing up for NIH funded Drosophila Research!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The Attack on Science in the USA is so bad right now, this moderate independent was compelled to protest at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Good turnout with my colleagues from @bostonu.bsky.social !
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2025 Study section tracking
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Sean's FAB Lab @fablabbu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Will be there! Hope to see a crowd size that trumps Trump's @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So sorry to learn of Scott Hawley's passing. I only had email communications with Scott and received some of his fly strains, but I was touched by his grace. When I wrote him about a sequencing error, he thanked me for reaching out instead of dismissing me as an inexperienced junior PI. RIP.
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks @baym.lol for giving a great seminar at the BU Genome Science Institute! Hope you liked the tapas! Plasmid ecology is wild!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Pairs well with my startup of point-of-meal sequence verification of soups and sauces: Nanoporridge Technologies.
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hey now, Icon! @lucksmith.bsky.social
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Happy Birthday Chester!
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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I hope Bluesky is a fun place to talk Science and share goofy posts too.
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