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Pinar Ayata

@pinar-ayata.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, proud enemy of the Nazis, @asrc-gc.bsky.social. Microglia. Ayatalab.org previously Mount Sinai & Rockefeller University

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yes!
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I had to do a double take. Our provost was behind the bar yesterday. Incredible!
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Neuroscience Initiative at the CUNY ASRC @asrcneuroscience.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Friend or foe? Let @pinar-ayata.bsky.social lab's soon-to-be doctor Anna Flury take you to the dark side of microglia at her pre-defense seminar on Tuesday, March 31. Join in person or via Zoom.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Potentially unsalvageable country.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 02/01/2026
Q: Would you be surprised if President Trump directs DOJ to indict you? Jack Smith: “No.” That answer should alarm anyone who cares about independent justice. www.readtpa.com/p/house-repu...
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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
This new @michellemonje.bsky.social preprint shows that #psilocybin promotes the rapid and persistent growth of... xenografted glioma in mice. 🫠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Enduring but maladaptive plasticity induced by #psychedelics. h/t @tylerekins.bsky.social @theborislab.bsky.social
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A year ago, our lawsuits helped make sure congestion pricing would go into effect on January 1, 2025. Now, the results are clear:  Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New York City has fallen. Day 1 of living in Mamdanistan. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 05/11/2025
The #TarakhovskyLab, as part of an international team of scientists, has identified a new molecular pathway that shifts microglia into a protective state. The findings may lead to Alzheimer's therapies that can reprogram the brain’s own immune defenses.
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This immune circuit may protect the brain from Alzheimer's - News
The atlas makes the most dangerous animal in the world a lot easier to study--and perhaps defeat one day.
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MPI for Biology of Ageing @mpiage.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Protective Microglia Subtype Offers Potential New Therapeutic Pathway in Alzheimer’s Disease 🧠🛡️ A new nature.com study by the Schaefer lab and reseachers at Mount Sinai Medical Center, with rockefeller.edu and cuny.edu, identifies a protective state of microglia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function - Nature
PU.1low CD28-expressing microglia may act as suppressive cells in Alzheimer’s disease, mitigating its progression by reducing neuroinflammation and amyloid plaque load, indicating potential immunother...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage. This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We joined the protests from the highest point in the northeast!
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NYC: Aerial view of the #Nokings protest gives an indication of the magnitude of this unstoppable movement in downtown NYC.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2025
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We are witnessing the destruction of the remnants of Turkey’s already agonizing parliamentary democracy, as police forces occupy the Istanbul headquarters of the main opposition party, firing tear gas and plastic bullets both inside and outside against party members, MPs, and protesters.
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
100%
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Afternoon cat
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Was just pointed to this newly posted clarification language about animal models in NIH research grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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How Does the NIH Initiative to Prioritize Human-Based Research Affect Research Proposing the Use of Laboratory Animals? | Grants & Funding
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts
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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Excited to share this new story from the lab and led by the very talented @bendevlin.bsky.social! In collab with Anne Schaefer and grateful for funding from NIH and @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social. a brief 🧵
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate. But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“It’s so New York.” ❤️
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Same
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Today’s win: I didn’t rank Cuomo
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
Trump & my Republican colleagues want to throw 16 million Americans off health care – on top of 85 million who are uninsured or underinsured. Their actions will cause more than 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year. Why? So they can give massive tax breaks to the 1%.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.
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JaValle @handle.invalid · 07/06/2025
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Bryan Cranston, on MAGA. 🎯🎯🎯👇
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Is there any point to submitting F31s now? Is anyone getting theirs funded since Jan 2025?
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout…. You're not a Nazi simply because you use X-but also, what exactly are you doing there?”
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Pinar Ayata @pinar-ayata.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Scialog was a great experience! And now we get to do some cool science based on the ideas born in Tucson.
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Dimitrios Davalos & Lab @davalos.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Why do the brain’s professional phagocytes stop clearing amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease? Can we restore microglial superpowers & rescue dying neurons in AD? YES, by stopping DGAT2-mediated lipid droplet formation! Checkout our latest manuscript @cp-immunity.bsky.social 👇🏼 www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
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Amyloid-β induces lipid droplet-mediated microglial dysfunction via the enzyme DGAT2 in Alzheimer’s disease
Why microglia stop reducing amyloid deposits from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brains is unknown. Prakash, Manchanda, et al. show that microglia increase their lipid droplets and lose their phagocytic cap...
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Bernard Taylor @bernardtaylorforfl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Stop listening to what is said and pay attention to what is being done. #trumpadministration #socialsecurity #medicaid #taxcuts
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet" It's nice to have such a clear statement directly in the title 👏 Interview with Ian Godwin from Queensland University, Australia for Contact Magazine. qaafi.uq.edu.au/article/2025... #PlantScience #OrganicFood #PlantNGTs #PlantGMOs
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Organic food isn't pesticide-free - or better for the planet
Many of us reach for foods labelled as ‘organic’, assuming they’ll be free from chemical nasties and hold a higher nutritional value. But is this reputation deserved – and is organic food worth the hi...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/04/2025
@chrisdjackson.bsky.social
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Savage-Dunn lab @cswormlab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just found out that @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social #NIH U-Rise grant for undergraduate research opportunities has been cancelled. More important than ever to attend this webinar.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 22/03/2025
www.investopedia.com/terms/p/plut...
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What Is Plutocracy? Definition, Meaning, and Example Countries
A plutocracy is a government controlled exclusively by the wealthy, either directly or indirectly.
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