RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 29/01/2026www.isscr2026.org Excited about #ISSCR2026! submit an abstract by 25 February 2026 100
Reposted by RNAHelixISSCR @isscr.org · 14/01/2026The 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 032
Reposted by RNAHelixKevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 17/01/2026Been 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...open.substack.comDealing with ScienCV formattingSome tips for composing and making your new NIH biosketch not look like garbage 05238
Reposted by RNAHelixISSCR @isscr.org · 05/11/2025ISSCR & 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/j8uY50Xnlzcow.lyThe ISSCR and Stem Cell Network Launch Global Regenerative Medicine Workforce Development Initiative — International Society for Stem Cell ResearchThe 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 043
Reposted by RNAHelixBARC-BayArea RNA Club @sfbayrna.bsky.social · 05/11/2025looking forward to #BARC2025 #RNA meeting! 041
RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 23/10/2025rdcu.be/eMhkj excited for new paper rounding out complementary sensors for cellular iron (FEOX), and IRP activity (FIRE). let's go! sangokoyalab.orgrdcu.beThe genetically encoded biosensor FEOX is a molecular gauge for cellular iron environment dynamics at single cell resolutionScientific Reports - The genetically encoded biosensor FEOX is a molecular gauge for cellular iron environment dynamics at single cell resolution 020
Reposted by RNAHelixBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 08/09/2025David 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...annualreviews.orgSixty Years of Discovery | Annual ReviewsEach 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... 625382
Reposted by RNAHelixShematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 09/09/2025I 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. 7840121167
RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 08/09/2025nice 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...isscr.orgInternational Society for Stem Cell ResearchThe 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... 021
Reposted by RNAHelixᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 14/08/2025one 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 1125851
Reposted by RNAHelixMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...ki.seCall for 20 Assistant Professor positionsKarolinska 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... 5246193
Reposted by RNAHelixUCSF Health @ucsfhealth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025We 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 043
RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I’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/1bxb3fzpy35invt.ioI am a presenter in the ISSCR Continuing Education Course.Learn more. 010
Reposted by RNAHelixKimberly Prather PhD @kprather.bsky.social · 19/05/2025To 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. 211817
Reposted by RNAHelix𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025Crazy how long this conversation has been going on 27178015132
Reposted by RNAHelixRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/04/2025There 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 alonelatintimes.comRFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin AddictionDespite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths. 15431761312
Reposted by RNAHelixSarah Cobey @cobey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I 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: 12247154
Reposted by RNAHelixJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025TV 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 18870212
RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 25/04/2025congrats @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! 🎉🎉🎉 010
Reposted by RNAHelixMDPhDEquity @mdphdequity.bsky.social · 25/04/2025congratulations Christina Homer on your publication! another one from this outstanding @hhmi.org Hanna Gray Fellow and physician-scientist at UCSF!! @christinahomer.bsky.social 013
Reposted by RNAHelixChristina Homer @christinahomer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A 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. 06716
Reposted by RNAHelixGladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Virus 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... 113
Reposted by RNAHelixMary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025For 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. 🧵 16971420
Reposted by RNAHelixJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The 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/nfederalregister.govImproving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil ServiceThe 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... 10113140
Reposted by RNAHelixScott 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 16621488
Reposted by RNAHelixProPublica @propublica.org · 18/04/2025NEW: 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.socialpropublica.orgTrump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and MoreBy 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... 861627752
Reposted by RNAHelixCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/04/2025The 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. 292134571
Reposted by RNAHelixCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/04/2025The 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...archive.nytimes.comPanel's Latest Warming Warning Misses Global Slumber Party on Energy ResearchThe 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. 7565139
Reposted by RNAHelixJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025This 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 21610
Reposted by RNAHelixKevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025After 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. 1412619599
Reposted by RNAHelixCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 15/04/2025Stanford stands with Harvard stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...stanforddaily.comStanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fightThe president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.” 424035
Reposted by RNAHelixJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Director 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...nature.com‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffsIn shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts. 5167102
Reposted by RNAHelixSusan Kegeles, PhD @motherkegs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Yes, 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! 2854478428
Reposted by RNAHelixProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025Dozens 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%.propub.liTexas 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. 404101225989
RNAHelix @rnahelix.bsky.social · 25/03/2025so great catching up with #ucsfpathology alumni and #USCAP pathology friends in Boston #USCAP2025 #liversky #pathsky @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @uscap.org 011
Reposted by RNAHelixUSCAP @uscap.org · 19/03/2025We can't wait to see everyone this weekend at #USCAP2025! Getting excited for Boston! 065
Reposted by RNAHelixAshley Stueck, MD, FRCPC @liverpath.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Can't wait to learn, meet old friends, and make new ones! #USCAP2025 #liversky #pathsky 052
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/1lxbx2qiphhinvt.ioI am a 2025 ISSCR Public Service Award Honoree.Learn more 251
Reposted by RNAHelixISSCR @isscr.org · 18/03/2025Recognizing 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 031
Reposted by RNAHelixISSCR @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...isscr.orgThe ISSCR Signs on to Coalition Letter in Support of NIH — International Society for Stem Cell ResearchThe 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... 0118
Reposted by RNAHelixJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/03/2025This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993. 6595196
Reposted by RNAHelixMDPhDEquity @mdphdequity.bsky.social · 08/03/2025This #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 012
Reposted by RNAHelixKatherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · 07/03/2025if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12 3491381
Reposted by RNAHelixDr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · 08/03/2025What a great day! Thousands showed up in DC and nationwide for #StandUpForScience. The lead organizing team totally crushed it 🧪🌎🌊 @standupforscience.bsky.social 850953
Reposted by RNAHelixMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The 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. 39439041631
Reposted by RNAHelixNorthwest Noggin @nwnoggin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Awesome day in Salem 😍 #standupforscience #researchmatters #sciencematters #factsmatter 💚 522838
Reposted by RNAHelixNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Proud to speak at the StandUpForScience rally in Boston today! 323222
Reposted by RNAHelixDr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Standing 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. 1565
Reposted by RNAHelixEric Chow @eric-chow.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Awesome turnout @standupforscience.bsky.social SF today! The Oregon Trail inspired sign was one of my favorite! 2102