Sign in

Rachel Fox

@rachelgiulia.bsky.social
216 followers 438 following 15 posts

🧠 Neuroscience PhD candidate @UCLA with @wellslab.bsky.social Reed College '15 she/her | opinions my own

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2026
1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
journals.plos.org
Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...
7324131
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Nik Baya @nbaya.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Why do some individuals defy their polygenic score? In the largest study of its kind (402k UKB individuals; 7 continuous traits + 3 diseases), we asked: If your phenotype deviates from common-variant polygenic score prediction, what's driving that difference? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
25027
Reposted by Rachel Fox
The Wells Lab of UCLA @wellslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The first (of hopefully many) reports to come from our collaboration with @hjp.bsky.social We present a new type of cell fitness assay that allows you to both quantify and explain differences across human donors in cell proliferation and sensitivity to environmental toxicants.
1177
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Ted Laderas @tladeras.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It's been a long while since I've done a #tidytuesday - did a quick bar plot of the top 10 cities with roundabouts. I used #databot and went pretty fast. I spent about 10 minutes getting the data to this point. Mind is blown. #rstats #databs #datascience
A bar plot of the 10 ten cities with roundabouts. The top 3 are Auckland (NZ), Carmel Indiana (US), and Gothenburg (SWE).
2152
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
As Trump tries to use the tragic story of the Brown shooter and his victims to further vilify immigrants, remember that MIT professor and innovator Nuno Loureiro followed the same path here
0267
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
357238357186
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Harold Pimentel @hjp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Super excited to get this out. This collab started a few years ago and is the first paper from it. Here, with experimental and computational approaches we: 1. establish that cell villages can be just as accurate (one might argue more accurate!) than arrayed-based designs bsky.app/profile/bior...
24021
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Ben Novitch @novitchlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is a lovely article that showcases some of the outstanding work that my UCLA colleagues Tom Carmichael and Alcino Silva and their trainees have done over the past few years seeking to leverage intrinsic repair pathways. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/s...
nytimes.com
A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience
194
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Perhaps gauche to quote your own book, but I think CROSSINGS's section on the Roadless Rule gets at something fundamental: that to designate places as roadless is to assert that our national forests have value—for wildlife, for water, for slow recreation—beyond mere timber extraction. #roadecology
24516
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Me three months ago:
432163823730
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Michael F. Wells @mfwells.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Hundreds of millions of dollars suspended for cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's research (among many, many other equally important diseases and endeavors) and for what? What is the point of all of this? Help me understand how this makes our country better, stronger, and healthier in any way.
67626
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Juliane Glaser @julianeg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5
nature.com
Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles, causing developmental limb phenotypes - Nature Genetics
Activation of an LTR retrotransposon inserted upstream of the Fgf8 gene produces viral-like particles in the mouse developing limb, triggering apoptosis and causing limb malformation. This phenotype c...
15295127
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
exactly
Post: being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot. 

Image of two guys, one saying: no way. Should I change? He’s the one who sucks.
101015309
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dear Science Journalists, Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored. The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?
123395
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Kelly Ireland @kelly-ireland.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
More fun teaching kids about fish today. Today we had anadromous and freshwater threespine stickleback to show off. The kids were surprised to learn that all the fish were fully mature adult fish and that the freshwater stickleback were in fact not the anadromous stickleback’s babies. #stickleback
Anadromous threespine stickleback fish in a person’s hand. Freshwater and gravid female threespine stickleback in a person’s hand.Freshwater reproductive male threespine stickleback in a person’s hand above a table with a bucket and fish net on it.
3327
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
How bad is this year's budget? You can hear us discuss on the latest LA Podcast: thelapod.com/episode/the-la-shitty-budget But you don't have to take our word for it. City department after city department have sent scathing letters to the budget committee begging council not to make these cuts 🧵
A graphic for the latest LA Podcast episode, The LA Shitty Budget, with an image of LA Mayor Karen Bass giving her state of the city address to the council
15819
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@genandgenes.bsky.social makes a powerful case for anti-racist genetics education in secondary school and university, and at the risk of climbing onto a well-worn pedestal, I'd argue this moment, more than any other, calls for a rethinking of how we approach doctoral education in genetics
1198
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/04/2025
Amidst all of the horrors of the Trump administration, one stands above the rest: the trafficking of 270 men to El Salvador's CECOT prison. Here is the definition of concentration camp from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. Persons are placed in such camps often on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group rather than as individuals and without benefit either of indictment or fair trial. Concentration camps are to be distinguished from prisons interning persons lawfully convicted of civil crimes and from prisoner-of-war camps in which captured military personnel are held under the laws of war.
14942291
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
There’s a big thread of baffled people on Reddit trying to figure out what the emails mean or if they’re real. They include: - Citizens - Canadians (living in Canada) - Green card holders - DACA recipients Whatever dataset DOGE used was the wrong one. www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comm...
reddit.com
From the USCIS community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the USCIS community
411955563
Reposted by Rachel Fox
K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Unless I've missed it, I don't believe we have computational models that would accurately predict how a *bacterium* would respond to a novel compound. Just, you know, for context.
57724
Reposted by Rachel Fox
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
4378952449
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Alain Dagher @alaindagher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New: Energy use shapes brain organization and development. We use gene expression maps from the @alleninstitute.bsky.social Human Brain Atlas to map the main energy metabolism pathways in the brain. Led by @moohebatpe.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @goliashf.bsky.social and Justine Hansen 🧵
24520
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...
statnews.com
Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
85936
Reposted by Rachel Fox
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 18/03/2025
enacting fascism because you're afraid of an imaginary computer is the most Loser shit ever conceived. did you know you can go ride bikes or something
151767209
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
932028824
Rachel Fox @rachelgiulia.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I was thrilled to learn that Pi Day was a Reedie invention! Also, the Exploratorium was/is one of my favorite places ever, having introduced me to the amazing mix of science and art!
010
Reposted by Rachel Fox
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
LAFD on the scene. Three private town trucks. No LAPD. I wonder who's meant to write the report? Doesn't seem like there's any fatalities, if someone had been waiting on a Culver 6 southbound bus, a bus I take often, they would be dead now.
181
Reposted by Rachel Fox
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
012410
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.
388247622925
Rachel Fox @rachelgiulia.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Things are really not going well are they
020
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/03/2025
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying to make you believe that they are cutting “waste,” but they’re actually reaching into your wallet to fund tax cuts for their “rich as hell” friends. Spread the word.
22442281049
Reposted by Rachel Fox
ucdavisnews.bsky.social @ucdavisnews.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
UC Davis Launches 'From Labs to Lives' to Highlight Federally Funded Research www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Launches 'From Labs to Lives' to Highlight Federally Funded Research
The University of California, Davis, has launched a website and video series titled, “From Labs to Lives,” to highlight federally funded research, describe how the research benefits the public, and sh...
0135
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I hear they've already put out feelers for a director of a new National Institute of the Four Humours.
1183
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...
592876628
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
From the brilliant minds behind "THERE ARE OBVIOUS INNATE UNCHANGEABLE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SEXES!", we now get "It is only necessary to perform scientific testing for one of them (male, obviously)"
211937
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Almost all grant-review meetings still suspended at the NIH -- the Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo. @maxkozlov.bsky.social reports for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
01411
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/02/2025
Must watch speech by neuroscientist Kailyn Price at a HHS rally protesting funding cuts to science. "Cutting indirect costs is like telling a football team to work with only the players. No lights for the field, no physical therapists for the players, no water for the showers."
101148280
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
21994963480
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Very important story:
23016
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/02/2025
This is such an incredible explainer of Indirect Funding! 💡 Some takeaways: 🧬 The federal science funding landscape in America was created after the US economy, security, and health by partnering with universities that would conduct research for the government. 🧵
16733
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Gandolf the Grey @gsnyder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.
12096112248
Reposted by Rachel Fox
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025
i'll just add that completely gutting our science, technology and medical research and trying to destroy our universities is a very weird way to counter chinese aggression and influence
20996156
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is one of those things that lies at the heart of the contradiction that is modern America We want to go back to when we were a manufacturing powerhouse But none of us would want to live in the America that is a manufacturing powerhouse I know because I'm from a place it poisoned
4668203
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Like EIS officers, these are highly skilled professionals offering their service to their country for well below what they could earn elsewhere, in service to our nation, the world, humanity. And this is their thanks from this administration.
2153
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
There will be nothing left of biomedical research in the US when Trump is done. Just think about that and anytime you or someone you love has been sick or dying. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees
Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC
14335156
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rick Caruso said his new rebuilding nonprofit would "bypass red tape, drive real solutions, and act with the urgency this moment demands" to prevent the "endless delays hurting people who need help now." Two days later the Grove sued the city of LA to stop an approved project right next door
torched.la
Rick Caruso wants LA to build faster — just not near his property
Just two days after Caruso embarked upon a press tour touting his red-tape-slashing plan, his other LA mall sued the city to delay the construction of a major job center right next door
420659
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My piece in @statnews.com on creating a better environment for autistic researchers in science. Great comments from researcher Greg Siegle on his journey. #ActuallyAutistic @thekibosch.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/a...
statnews.com
Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp’s advice for other scientists with autism
“Building a much better scientific enterprise means embracing the idea of collaboration across all aspects of neurodiversity,” writes Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp, who was diagnosed with autis...
15519
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 12/02/2025
“The fact that LA could even aspire to host a ‘car-free’ games owes a great debt to Donald Shoup repeating, for decades, that just because you're going somewhere in this city, you're not automatically guaranteed a free parking spot when you get there.” - @awalkerinla.bsky.social
torched.la
Feed the meter
The fact that LA could even aspire to host a "car-free" games owes a great debt to Donald Shoup repeating, for decades, that just because you're going somewhere in this city, you're not automatically ...
03611
Reposted by Rachel Fox
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
307126783159
Reposted by Rachel Fox
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thanks to Carolyn Johnson and colleagues at the Washington Post for covering the impact of drastic cuts to NIH on biomedical science 🧪 wapo.st/42RMXrn
wapo.st
Trump’s NIH challenges the model that underlies U.S. scientific dominance
The 80-year-old partnership between the federal government and research institutions has made the U.S. the leader in scientific innovation. But now a proposed funding cut threatens the arrangement.
410849