Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What makes someone midwestern? I wish I had asked this to the person who exclaimed that an applicant "is very midwestern, even though his parents are immigrants." 🤨 110
Reposted by Raji Shyam@arvoinfo.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@arvoinfo.bsky.social members, it's time to show off the beauty of your #VisionResearch! Enter the 2026 ARVO Scientific Image Contest and your lab image could be featured at #ARVO2027 and win a $300 gift card. Learn more: bit.ly/4mNNbq8 013
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So many! Asked if I'd like the job. I said yes, but there was no communication for 2 months. Emailed again to ask if I was interested. I said no; I took another. Rejection in 30 mins. I had a K99. The interviewer: "I see you have a K award. I wouldn't advertise this. They are so easy to come by." 040
Reposted by Raji ShyamBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hey, #Pittsburgh peeps: I'm doing a thing tomorrow. See you there? 23116
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Hanging out with your friends at meetings is the best! 000
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I had the best time at #ISER2026! I am inspired by the new advances in the corneal endothelium field. Thank you to the speakers, including @sarathomasy.bsky.social, for sharing their insights. Kudos to the organizers, @palomaliton.bsky.social, for putting together a great meeting! 061
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Please stop by the corneal endothelium session on August 27th at 1 pm @iser.bsky.social Featuring talks by many greats, including @sarathomasy.bsky.social. Looking forward to catching up with all my favorite eye people! 084
Reposted by Raji ShyamBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I've got a new chapter out, Insights Into Retinal Remodeling In Retinal Degenerative Disease: bryanwjones.com/2026/07/insi... 57521
Reposted by Raji ShyamJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Foundational! "The scientist doing basic research may not be at all interested in the practical applications of his work, yet the further progress of industrial development would eventually stagnate if basic scientific research were long neglected." From Science: The Endless Frontier, Bush, 1945 09235
Reposted by Raji ShyamSofia de Oliveira, Ph.D. @sdeoliveira.bsky.social · 17/06/2026📣This is bigger than science ⚠️ Please help us reach non-scientists: share this on Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, neighborhood groups, Search OMB-2026-0034 on Regulations.gov Comment by July 13 ⌛ #ScienceMatters #PublicHealth #FederalFunding #CommunityMatters #SpeakUp 157
Reposted by Raji ShyamBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Science peeps, particularly trainees: When reviewing grants, it really, really helps if you have a Google Scholar page, an ORCID account, or a website that makes getting information about you, easy. Some sort of web presence. I'm begging you. Make it easier for study sections to give you money. 1412752
Reposted by Raji ShyamAnna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Excited to share our new paper! This work explores how Sonic hedgehog signaling helps coordinate retinal patterning and neurogenesis, including regulation of both cell cycle exit and progenitor competence during mammalian eye development journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...journals.biologists.comRoles of sonic hedgehog signaling in retinal patterning and neurogenesis during mammalian eye developmentSummary: Temporal disruption of sonic hedgehog signaling reveals stage-specific roles in eye cup patterning and in regulating proliferation, progenitor competence and fate specification during retinal... 12610
Reposted by Raji ShyamTom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 12/05/2026unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/317...unc.peopleadmin.comLaboratory Research TechnicianThe primary function of this position is to assist the Principal Investigator and members of the laboratory with experiments involving molecular biology, animal behavior, biochemistry, electrophysiolo... 01516
Reposted by Raji ShyamTom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested. 14340
Reposted by Raji ShyamCrystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Please check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development. 55917
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 04/05/2026First R01 for the lab! Elated does not even begin to describe what I am feeling!! Many many thanks to the hardworking people at the NIH for getting this NoA together for us! 9752
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Very proud of Hsuan-Yeh Pan, a post doc in the lab, who received $100K from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation! This was the first grant he ever wrote!! His work will focus on aqueous humor components in Congenital Hereditary Endothelial Dystrophy. 040
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 21/04/2026My home department hosted @blockintheback.bsky.social for a visit and seminar last week. As always, Kristen gave an amazing talk!! Always nice to reminisce out with the fabulous folks at the U! @eannemartin.bsky.social 150
Reposted by Raji ShyamNatasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2026@tcpotts.bsky.social paper is live. Happy to share #FishNAP, a new, non-invasive way to measure #BBB permeability in 96-well format with #zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 41910
Reposted by Raji ShyamMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Apply now for the Signaling by Adhesion Receptors GRC June 7 - 12, 2026! The meeting has a terrific program that balances developmental biology, cell polarity, and adhesion and signaling. Please share! www.grc.org/signaling-by... 01310
Reposted by Raji ShyamJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Good news from NIH! Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...nei.nih.govMichael F. Chiang, M.D. | National Eye InstituteMichael F. Chiang is director of the National Eye Institute, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. 711018
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Please take a moment to email your senators and congressmen about the importance of passing the FY26 appropriations bill. takeaction.researchamerica.org/Default.aspx...takeaction.researchamerica.orgResearch!AmericaThe Research!America alliance advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all. We urge Congress and the administration to increase funding for the National Institutes... 010
Reposted by Raji ShyamJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The appropriations bill that includes NIH is being finalized. The Senate bill includes a bipartisan amendment from Senators Capito (WV) and Baldwin (WI) limiting multi-year funding of grants. The House version does not and OMB has issued a veto threat if the House includes such language. 1/3media.tenor.coma close up of a brown surface with a few spotsALT: a close up of a brown surface with a few spots 810165
Reposted by Raji ShyamDorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Hello #PortfolioDay 🐡 I’m a scientific illustrator with a PhD in biology and research experience in ecology and evolution. My work includes infographics, illustrations, learning materials, and branding I’m open to commissions and/or a full-time job in communications or educational design 04016
Reposted by Raji ShyamSamer Hattar @samerhattar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ldrdcu.beipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytimeNature - The inability of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells to shift the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during daytime is caused by light-dependent depolarization... 34214
Reposted by Raji ShyamAbraham Palmer @abepalmer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv. 2717792
Reposted by Raji ShyamScott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids. 8344121
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Why this obsession with oil? There is not enough time left for this planet to burn all of it! Morons! 030
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I am down with the flu twice in the past two months (although vaccinated) I could have used a better start to the New Year :( 110
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 12/12/2025This 👇 Absolutely awful! It feels like I am using my phone underwater.. 010
Reposted by Raji ShyamDr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Trying to find some protocols for cone isolation from frogs that don't involve transgenics or freezing. There is a surprising dearth of information out there for cone isolation? Seems to be mostly rods. Is anyone familiar with any simple-ish protocols? 🧪 👀 #xenopus 5108
Reposted by Raji ShyamHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.) 188179
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 10/11/2025New preprint from the lab in collaboration with @sherberg128.bsky.social. By only altering the stiffness of the substrate, we discovered changes in corneal endothelial cell health. This study indicates how physical changes to the Descemet's membrane can affect the endothelium. 061
Reposted by Raji ShyamBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 06/11/2025As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function. 2024284
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Had an amazing time catching up with @eannemartin.bsky.social It is especially serendipitous to meet grad school friends as a PI! 170
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Proud to be a part of the 50 States, 50 Stories initiative organized by @arvoinfo.bsky.social Read more about National Eye Institute funded work in my lab on Fuchs Dystrophy here - www.arvo.org/news/arvo-bl...arvo.orgNIH’s role in advancing Fuchs dystrophy research 022
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This👇 You can do good work, and it is not limited to being at elite institutions. As you advance in your career, it becomes more about "what have you done?" not "where did you do it?" 0357
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Happy Diwali to all! Here is hoping a mighty force (democracy, collective will, whatever you want to call it) will light the path for all of us.media.tenor.coma greeting card for happy diwali with fireworks and candlesALT: a greeting card for happy diwali with fireworks and candles 040
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Hardest thing about moving to a new place as an adult is making new friends. Shamelessly approaching strangers, and asking if I can be their friend is my new strategy. My new friends (3 so far!) say they are charmed by my candor (read desperation). Onward.. 1200
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Writing two manuscripts at the same time is not worth my sanity. Stating this on a public forum so I can be reminded to not pursue such lunacies anymore.media.tenor.coma cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fineALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine 4140
Reposted by Raji ShyamMichel Cayouette @michelcayouette.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Check this out! So nice! 172
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Attending a grant writing seminar at the University. Its quite interesting how there is no mention of luck as an imperative in grant funding. 170
Reposted by Raji ShyamDaisy Shu @eyedaisyshu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I'm so excited to be hiring my first postdoc! If you love retinal biology and developing new therapeutics to cure blindness, please apply! Thank you to the @brightfocus.bsky.social for supporting my research and enabling me to grow my research team! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... 085
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 07/10/2025A tree fell on my fence few months ago. Neither my spouse nor I are handy, and we left it in its unkempt state. My neighbor took it up on himself to buy the materials, and fix it (after he checked with us). Welcome to Iowa! People are way too nice here. 030
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Attended the post-doc to PI panel organized by the University of Iowa post-doc association. Always fun to discuss career trajectories with PIs new to Iowa, including the awesome @kmulfaul.bsky.social 050
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 02/10/2025One of those weeks where I am happy to bury myself in the science and tune the world out. Happy science-ing to all who can relate!media.tenor.coma kitten wearing headphones with its mouth open and its eyes closed .ALT: a kitten wearing headphones with its mouth open and its eyes closed . 010
Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 26/09/2025New paper from the lab! In collaboration with Patrice Tankam lab at Indiana University, we evaluated changes in the Descemet's membrane thickness in the double mutant FECD mice. Congrats to the co-first authors Hadiya Pattan and Subashree Murugan! iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...iovs.arvojournals.org Enabling In Vivo Longitudinal Evaluation of Descemet's Membrane Thickness in Wild-type and FECD Mice Using Self-Referenced Optical Coherence Microscopy | IOVS | ARVO Journals 021