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physician-scientist Assistant Professor @ucsf. #newPI stemcellbio+RNA/omics scientist | liver pathologist | founder @MDPhDEquity.bsky.social | BWF CAMS | ASCI YPSA | alum @ucsf @DukeMSTP @Stanford | csangokoya-mdphd.com | sangokoyalab[dot]ucsf.edu

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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.isscr2026.org Excited about #ISSCR2026! submit an abstract by 25 February 2026
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ISSCR @isscr.org · 14/01/2026
The ISSCR offers Child & Dependent Care Grants for members attending ISSCR 2026 to help cover additional care costs while at the meeting. Grants are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. Apply before 4 March 2026 👉 bit.ly/4qZ0Spq
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 17/01/2026
Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
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Dealing with ScienCV formatting
Some tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage
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ISSCR @isscr.org · 05/11/2025
ISSCR & Stem Cell Network are seeking nominations to form a working group of early career scientists & senior trainees in stem cell & regenerative medicine research who will provide perspectives on global workforce development. Nominations are due 5 December. Learn more 👉https://ow.ly/j8uY50Xnlzc
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The ISSCR and Stem Cell Network Launch Global Regenerative Medicine Workforce Development Initiative — International Society for Stem Cell Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and the Stem Cell Network (SCN) are pleased to partner to lead a joint initiative and a global conversation on workforce development in regenerative medicine. Through this collaboration, the organizations will examine current challenges and op
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BARC-BayArea RNA Club @sfbayrna.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
looking forward to #BARC2025 #RNA meeting!
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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
rdcu.be/eMhkj excited for new paper rounding out complementary sensors for cellular iron (FEOX), and IRP activity (FIRE). let's go! sangokoyalab.org
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The genetically encoded biosensor FEOX is a molecular gauge for cellular iron environment dynamics at single cell resolution
Scientific Reports - The genetically encoded biosensor FEOX is a molecular gauge for cellular iron environment dynamics at single cell resolution
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
David Baltimore passed away this weekend. A pioneer of molecular virology who won the Nobel prize in medicine & physiology for his discovery of viral reverse transcriptase. This essay he wrote in 2018 reflecting of his 60yr career in science is a great read. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Sixty Years of Discovery | Annual Reviews
Each of us is a story. Mine is a story of doing science for 60 years, and I am honored to be asked to tell it. Even though this autobiography was written for the Annual Review of Immunology, I have ch...
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 09/09/2025
I care for children in the hospital on inpatient & consult services. Most weeks there are at least a few kids admitted with vaccine preventable diseases. Often in children who can’t get vaccinated themselves. 15 years in pediatrics and I’ve never seen a single one admitted with vaccine injury.
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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
nice to be spotlighted by @isscr.org this month! The ISSCR is a great community for scientists, clinicians, patients, and the public -- check out www.isscr.org to learn more about stem cell initiatives +learning, public syllabi and the new Stem Cell Medicine CME course. www.isscr.org/isscr-news/m...
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International Society for Stem Cell Research
The ISSCR is the largest, most respected society of stem cell researchers in the world. The non-profit organization represents 5,000 scientists, educators, ethicists, and business leaders across 80 c...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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UCSF Health @ucsfhealth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Atul Butte, a visionary scientist, educator and leader whose work reshaped biomedical research and health care. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Dr. Butte’s family, colleagues, trainees and collaborators. ucsfh.org/4n25xVH
Dr. Atul Butte smiles at the camera in a grey suit.
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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I’m proud to have presented and contributed to the curriculum in the open-access ISSCR course, Stem Cell Medicine: From Research to Patient Care, jointly provided with Harvard Medical School! This resource is a major milestone for the field at such a pivotal time. Learn more: invt.io/1bxb3fzpy35
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I am a presenter in the ISSCR Continuing Education Course.
Learn more.
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Kimberly Prather PhD @kprather.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
To all of the young scientists feeling scared and unsure, stand strong and know many of us will keep fighting for science and your contributions. Don't give up. We got this.
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025
Crazy how long this conversation has been going on
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone
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RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
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Sarah Cobey @cobey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I received a surprising and disturbing request from NIH on Friday. They wrote to cancel a subaward to Hong Kong on one of my grants. (This was disturbing but not surprising.) They also ordered us not to interact with our collaborators in Hong Kong on any work under the award:
Screenshot of email stating "The subaward and the associated amounts listed above will need to be removed from the current and future year awards, and any other amounts budgeted for activities related to the Hong Kong research must also be removed. No rebudgeting of these funds is permitted, and no involvement or collaboration with researchers in Hong Kong or China is permitted in connection with the activities of this award, regardless of whether any funds are transferred," with the "no involvement" clause highlighted.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
TV watching recommendations The lead story on 60 Minutes tonight is about NIH and concerns about damage done and continuing during the current administration. 1/2
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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
congrats @christinahomer.bsky.social all of that BSL-3 time paying off! Dr. Homer is a great example of leadership and excellence training as a physician-scientist (soon) translating to **superstar** faculty! 🎉🎉🎉
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MDPhDEquity @mdphdequity.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
congratulations Christina Homer on your publication! another one from this outstanding @hhmi.org Hanna Gray Fellow and physician-scientist at UCSF!! @christinahomer.bsky.social
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Christina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A tragic turn of events for understanding the health of 50.5% of our population. This has been a landmark study and such a waste to end it early and disassemble the massive infrastructure built to yield new insights into women's health.
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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Virus expert Melanie Ott talks about the ongoing measles outbreak, explains how vaccination can lower the risk of Alzheimer’s, and shares other positive “side effects” of vaccines. Read more: gladstone.org/news/virolog...
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/04/2025
NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/04/2025
The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/04/2025
The post- World War II US investment in R&D is one of the greatest economic and national security engines in history. As I said to @revkin.bsky.social a decade ago, “the budget is policy”. We should expand R&D, not shrink it. Broaden participation not restrict it. archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blo...
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Panel's Latest Warming Warning Misses Global Slumber Party on Energy Research
The latest global warming report from the U.N. climate panel helpfully clarifies risks but largely misses a key factor in driving an energy transformation — research.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This reminded me of an experience I had when I was EiC at Science. Through a friend, I was introduced to members of the CO2 Coalition. This is a group that promotes the idea that CO2 is good for plants and, therefore, good for the planet and that demonization of CO2 was inappropriate. 1/n
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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 15/04/2025
Stanford stands with Harvard stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...
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Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight
The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Susan Kegeles, PhD @motherkegs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Yes, this is me. As you can tell, I was not having it! I refuse to be a nice old lady(or granny, they call me). We must do everything we can to stand up!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
so great catching up with #ucsfpathology alumni and #USCAP pathology friends in Boston #USCAP2025 #liversky #pathsky @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @uscap.org
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USCAP @uscap.org · 19/03/2025
We can't wait to see everyone this weekend at #USCAP2025! Getting excited for Boston!
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Ashley Stueck, MD, FRCPC @liverpath.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Can't wait to learn, meet old friends, and make new ones! #USCAP2025 #liversky #pathsky
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RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@isscr.org I am excited to share that I have been recognized as a 2025 ISSCR Public Service Award Honoree! Read more about the award and my fellow honorees. invt.io/1lxbx2qiphh
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I am a 2025 ISSCR Public Service Award Honoree.
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ISSCR @isscr.org · 18/03/2025
Recognizing the commitment and talent of all ISSCR volunteer leaders, the ISSCR Executive Committee is honoring members of committees, taskforces, and working groups with the 2025 ISSCR Public Service Award. Learn more 👉 ow.ly/HvrE50Vk8jB
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ISSCR @isscr.org · 26/02/2025
#ISSCR joined hundreds of biomedical research organizations to urge House and Senate appropriators to support robust funding for NIH & avoid drastic measures that will slow scientific progress and weaken the U.S. research ecosystem. www.isscr.org/isscr-news/t...
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The ISSCR Signs on to Coalition Letter in Support of NIH — International Society for Stem Cell Research
The ISSCR joined with Research!America, hundreds of biomedical research organizations, and thousands of private citizens from the U.S. scientific community to urge House and Senate appropriators to av...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
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MDPhDEquity @mdphdequity.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This #InternationalWomensDay absolutely inspired by our panel @ucsfhealth.bsky.social as we continue holding the vision in academic science and medicine. we need all the ideas, science, and discoveries that come from trailblazing scientists +physician-scientists. #IWD2025 #StandUpForScience
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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What a great day! Thousands showed up in DC and nationwide for #StandUpForScience. The lead organizing team totally crushed it 🧪🌎🌊 @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Materials produced or authored by NCI staff that address topics that may be controversial, high profile, or sensitive must be sent to the NCI Clearance Team for review prior to publication.

Depending on the nature of the information, additional review and clearance by the NCI director, deputy directors, NIH, and HHS may be required. In some cases, the material will not need further review, but the NCI Clearance Team will share it with NCI leadership, NIH, and/or HHS for their awareness.

Examples of controversial or high-profile topics include, but are not limited to:

Cancer Moonshot
NCI budget
COVID-19
Vaccines
H5N1/bird flu
Opioids ,
Marijuana
Dietary guidelines/ultra-processed foods
Obesity
Stem cell or fetal tissue research
Abortion
Autism
Peanut allergies
Fluoride
Measles
Diversity/equity efforts
Gender ideology
Environmental justice
Discussion of federal policies
Topics of federal investigations
Issues concerning pending legislation
Topics that have received recent attention from Congress
Topics that have received widespread or critical media attention
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Northwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Awesome day in Salem 😍 #standupforscience #researchmatters #sciencematters #factsmatter 💚
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Proud to speak at the StandUpForScience rally in Boston today!
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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Standing up for #Science in #Sacramento! Great representation by @ucdavis led by @doctheagrif.bsky.social who was instrumental organizing it with an excellent speech by @rogerslabucd.bsky.social.
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Eric Chow @eric-chow.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Awesome turnout @standupforscience.bsky.social SF today! The Oregon Trail inspired sign was one of my favorite!
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