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Harvard Neuro PhD student | Beth Stevens’ lab | Using in-vivo genomics to study glial cell function & complex neuropsychiatric disease | NSF & HHMI Gilliam fellow 🏳️‍🌈

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Arithmetic in the "New Golden Age of Science" at NSF: Reduce $600M in STEM funding between FY25 and FY26 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Propose to reduce NSF GRFP fellowships by $180M in FY27 nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... Declare "success" w/a $100M "push" for US scientists.
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White House Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists
The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and po...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I feel like I’m going to throw up
Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026
additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”
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Rippling Ideas @ripplingideas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The qed 1% club controversy highlights a difficult road ahead for openRxiv as they embark on the next decade of trying to bring about a bigger preprint ecosystem. But it also raises questions about the motivations of some open science "advocates"
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The 1% club and the rocky road ahead for bioRxiv
The recent launch of qed's "top 1%" preprint ranking has sparked controversy, with concerns about its arbitrary nature, potential harm to authors, and low-quality inclusions. While the tool aims to provide valuable feedback, backlash against qed and its partnership with bioRxiv highlights the challenges and complexities within the evolving preprint landscape and academic community.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For context, this is one hundred ninety-two thousand, five-year biomedical research grants. More than five years of complete funding for the entirety of the NIH for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases, etc… An entire generation of scientists.
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Dionnet L Bhatti Mazo @victoryofflight.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My PhD work on how lateral septum cells and circuits process threat cues to guide defensive actions is now online at @nature.com rdcu.be/fjNgT w/ @gordfishell.bsky.social and others
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Feature-specific threat coding in lateral septum guides defensive action - Nature
The populations of CRHR2-expressing neurons in the lateral septum of mice involved in threat-related behaviour in response to environmental challenges are defined.
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Craig Crews Clips Leash To Belt Loop, Calls It 'Dog-TAC'
NEW HAVEN, CT—Yale professor Craig Crews, 58, was observed Tuesday morning in East Rock Park walking his golden retriever using a leash clipped directly to his belt loop rather than held by hand, a…
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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
updating your committee on your dissertation progress
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding
HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Part of what we're seeing is the long-foretold victory of Lee Atwater's covert racism strategy. Forty years later and journalists still have no ability to accurately describe a racist who doesn't use the n-word in public.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/05/2026
clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”
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Melissa Cooper, PhD @melcooperphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Astrocytes do so much more than any of us thought - they even communicate among specific brain regions across hemispheres! The journey to this paper spanned nearly a decade, but I'm most excited to see what everyone else does with the tools we've built. There's so much for all of us to explore!
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Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - Nature
Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Science is a container ship carrying 200,000 tons of observations. The weight comes from years of hard work mining and refining these observations. The ship can’t turn on a dime, so scientific knowledge often changes slowly. And I think the public’s expectations don’t always match this truth.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This thin-skinned mafia administration is insane. newrepublic.com/post/208820/...
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Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump
It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/03/2026
Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Amazing turnout at our #NoKings outside NIH. We heard energizing and impactful words from @michaeldgreen.phd, @lauramatalopez.bsky.social, former NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, amazing folks from @27unihted.bsky.social & @savehealthresearch.bsky.social Recharged and ready to keep up the fight!
Photo of Michael Green giving a speech outside the NIH in front of a crowd of hundreds of supporters.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Amazing work FL, GA, VA, PA, IL, NC, OH, NY, and NJ. You’re showing up. From small towns to big cities, massive crowds are already gathering and the day is just getting started!
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 28/03/2026
Donald Trump would love nothing more than for us to be scared, be afraid, & be silent while he wrecks our democracy. But as millions of Americans are showing today, we will not be scared, we will not go away, & we will say loudly: NO KINGS! 📍Laurel, MD
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's gonna be a bright bright bright bright sunshiny day throughout the United States today! Happy No Kings III, y'all. ❌👑
Map showing no precipitation in the US for No King III!
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Quentin Smith @qmsmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
1/11 In our story out today in @nature.com , we showcase the molecular mechanisms that enable Cas9 to bind and cleave negatively supercoiled ((-)SC) off-targets! 🧬🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR #Cas9 #DNATopology #AFM #CryoEM #SingleMolecule #Biophysics
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Structural basis of supercoiling-induced CRISPR–Cas9 off-target activity - Nature
Cas9 structures explain topology sensing and off-target activation.
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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.
Body-cam footage from the incident, reviewed by The Post, shows Shah Alam standing near the door of the shed holding two black poles. Officers shout at him and order him to drop the poles, reportedly curtain rods he’d fashioned into walking sticks. Shah Alam repeatedly says, “Sorry” while adjusting his grip on the poles and walking toward the officers. The officers continue to shout and warn that they will fire their Tasers. At one point, Shah Alam responds, “No,” then points the rods at the officers.

The officers both fire their Tasers and tackle him. Two officers report being bitten in the scuffle. After Shah Alam is restrained, the officers remark that they smell alcohol.

In the footage, Shah Alam can be heard speaking in Rohingya and Malay. He asks for God’s help and tries to explain to the uncomprehending officers that he lives nearby and was going to the store. He pleads with the officers not to throw away his phone.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The think pieces write themselves. My contribution: this is fucking beautiful, and we should keep fighting for more of this! Everywhere.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country. Find it here: www.icemap.dev. Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement
The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 30/01/2026
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
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‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/01/2026
State-sponsored white supremacist terror.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
we are re-enacting crimes against humanity that we swore would be put down deep in the ground forever
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Out of the 39, Nigeria is also the country most heavily impacted by the ban on non-immigrant visas. Excluding the COVID years, from FY 2015 to 2024 an average of 128,000 Nigerians were granted nonimmigrant visas each year. These were primarily tourist and student visas, which are now barred.
Chart showing average nonimmigrant visas granted, FY 2015 to 2024 excluding the COVID years of 2020 and 2021. Nigeria has 128,300 average, followed by Venezuela at 81,800, then Haiti at 24,7000, Iran at 17,500, Burma at 13,300, Cuba at 11,500, and Zimbabwe at 11,000. Tanzania, Cote D'Ivoire, Angola, Senegal, and Syria each have between 5,000 and 10,000. Every other country is below 5,000.
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
BOSTON… (those are people, not ants) #NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Carrboro, NC showing up for #NoKings
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/08/2025
The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures. Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives. This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
CNN headline that reads: "Supreme Court allows Trump to block $783 million in National Institutes of Health grants for now"
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling. thehill.com/regulation/c... I have no (printable) words...
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
That white Marine who fatally strangled a homeless black man on the subway got invited to Trump’s suite at a football game and got a job at a vc firm. They’ve definitely told us what it is.
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
U.S. Science Has Weathered Attacks Before and Won
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U.S. Science Has Weathered Attacks Before and Won
Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired and offers lessons for today
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social
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