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Tabrez J. Siddiqui

@siddiquilab.bsky.social
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Neurobiology of Autism and Schizophrenia, Molecular logic of neural circuits, Synapse Organization n Plasticity, Science advocate

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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Very grateful to MP Dr. Helena Jaczek for meeting with CAN representatives yesterday - Dr. Jaczek is a long time champion for science and health research in Canada and understands that scientific research in one of Canada's most strategic investments. Thank you for the insightful discussion!
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social
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CIHR Project Grant Cycle Restructuring
Dear colleagues, Below you will find a draft letter regarding the proposed transition to a single annual CIHR Project Grant competition, and to invite you to sign on if you are in agreement with its c...
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Eugenio F. Fornasiero @forna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Excited for our latest work! We developed nanobinders for the luminal domain of Synaptotagmin 1 (calcium sensor for synaptic vesicles). Thanks among others to @verstrekenlab.bsky.social @opazo.bsky.social @meunierlab.bsky.social @volkerhaucke-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nanobinders for Synaptotagmin 1 enable the analysis of synaptic vesicle dynamics in rodent and human models.
Synaptic neurotransmission is a critical hallmark of brain activity and one of the first processes to be affected in neural diseases. Monitoring this process, and in particular synaptic vesicle recycl...
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Get ready to meet candidates by reading the CAN election one-pager! We encourage you to print it out and give it to candidates you meet, to emphasize the importance of science and research for all Canadians. #VoteScience #ResearchersVote #ElbowsUp can-acn.org/can-election...
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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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National Letter
Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...
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Tabrez J. Siddiqui @siddiquilab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Here's a brilliant idea for making Canada the envy of the world. Double our science budget. Fund research and innovation. Fund Canadian scientists..and bring the brightest to Canada.
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Canadian Brain Research Strategy @cbrs-scrc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🧠 Brain health affects every Canadian—so why isn’t it a national priority? In a new op-ed, CBRS Executive Director Dr. Jennie Young @brainstrategist.bsky.social makes the case for why brain research must be on the election agenda. #Vote4BrainHealth #CdnPoli #BrainHealth
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Canadian Brain Research Strategy @cbrs-scrc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Join us—raise your voice and #VoteForBrainHealth! 🧠🍁 Brain health must be a national priority. Read more and help put brain research on the ballot! ⬇️
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Canadian Brain Research Strategy @cbrs-scrc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
1 in 5 Canadians live with a brain condition—yet brain health is missing from the national conversation 🧠. This election, let’s make brain health a priority! Join the call to action: www.vote4brainhealth.ca #VoteForBrainHealth #cdnpoli 🧪🔬
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent
A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of graduate school and postdoctoral opportunities available across all disciplines in 🇨🇦. With decent grant funding and outstanding research facilities as well as recognition of EDI and gender issues. Americans, look past your backyard.
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Tabrez J. Siddiqui @siddiquilab.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I have openings for prospective graduate students in my group.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky
Statement by Francis Collins, MD. PhD
March 1, 2025 Yesterday I notified NIH Acting Director Matt Memoli, MD of my retirement from the federal government.
effective February 28, 2025. The National Institutes of Health is the world's foremost medical research institution. It has been rightfully called the "crown jewel" of the federal government for decades. It has been the greatest honor of my life to be part of this institution in various roles
over the last four decades. In the 1980s, NIH supported my work at the University of Michigan through a peer-reviewed grant. That led
to the identification of the gene for cystic fibrosis. Thirty years later that has led to an almost miraculous treatment that allows most kids with cystic fibrosis to
look forward to an almost normal life span. I was recruited to NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project - an extraordinarily bold initiative to read out the three billion letters of the human DNA instruction book. Funded by the U.S. Congress, the project completed its work -- two years ahead of schedule, and $400 million under budget. The success of the project, and the commitment to share all of the data rapidly and freely, has revolutionized every aspect
of human biomedical research and medical practice. Subsequently I was honored to be asked to serve as the Director of the National Institutes of Health. I had the chance to serve three Presidents - Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joseph Biden. I also had the opportunity to work regularly
with members of Congress in both parties. I loved those interactions and
relationships.
Throughout that time, investmentrelieving
human suffering, and
contributing
substantially to the U.S. economy.
That consistent
support
made
possible
bold
new projects
in regenerative medicine, brain science, precision health, cancer, and solutions for opioid addiction, to name just
a few. When the worst pandemic in more than a century arose in 2020, it was my job as Director of NIH to pull together partnerships with the FDA, academia, and the private sector to produce what only America's unparalleled biomedical sector could have: COVID vaccines in just 11 months, a staggering medical
achievement that saved over three million lives in the
U.S.alone. After a stint in the White House as the President's Acting Science Advisor, where I had the chance to organize a major initiative to eliminate hepatitis C in the United States, i returned to the intramural research program of the National Human Genome Research Institute in 2023. There I have been overseeing a research laboratory of a dozen highly talented and visionary scientists who are providing new insights into the causes and possible means of prevention of type 2 diabetes, as well as seeking a gene therapy cure for one of the world's rarest diseases - progeria, a
premature aging disorder. NIH is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be. NIH supports everything from basic science to clinical trials,
providing the foundation of many breakthroughs. When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on NIH research over many decades. When you hear about
sickle cell disease being cured because of CRISPRgene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by NIH. It has also been the largest supporter of global health research in the world, winning us many friends and colleagues from across
the globe. I have loved being employed by this extraordinary, life-giving institution for 32 years. I will continue to devote my life in other ways to seeking knowledge and enhancing health, to healing disease and reducing suffering, and to doing what I can to bring together our fractured communities around the shared values of love, truth, goodness, and faith. As I depart NIH, I want to express my gratitude and love for the men and women with whom I have worked side-by-side for so many years. They are individuals of extraordinary intellect and integrity, selfless and hard-working, generous and compassionate. They personify excellence in every way, and they deserve the utmost
respect and support of all Americans.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
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Canadian Association for Neuroscience @canacn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Researchers are getting ready for the upcoming elections - Researchers are invited to join the CoRE meeting today at noon EST to develop a common message and strategy to make research an election priority - register on eventbrite: buff.ly/4gRz8g2
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Here's my latest reflection on a lesson I learned from a woman who was in the second tower on 9/11. When the world is turned upside down taking action is the only way to survive. Our democracy is under threat but politicians are still living in 2024. charlieangus.substack.com/p/no-return-...
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NO RETURN TO NORMAL
A Message To My Fellow Parliamentarians
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
In other news, pathogens everywhere welcomed the confirmation of RFK Jr as the health secretary
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Any NIH veterinarians, @westernuwin.bsky.social is looking for an attending university veterinarian right now! Come support an active research faculty base!
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Luciano A. Masullo @lumasullo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF CELL-SURFACE GLYCANS 🧬🎨🍬 The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jesper Sjöström @pjsjostrom.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In our most recent paper, now out in Nature Protocols, we provide a detailed recipe for how to do microsurgery of axons, one at a time, using a 2-photon Ti:Sa laser! With this approach you can elucidate the axonal mechanisms that regulate neurotransmitter release!
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...
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Statement from Liisa Galea, Scientific Lead of the Women's Health Research Cluster - Women's Health Research Cluster
We are so proud to have over 800 members across 32 countries in the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Our Vision is to achieve sex and gender health equity, and we strive for a future where women...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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LoveisThicker 🇨🇦 @loveisthicker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Canadians ‘Stand on Guard For Thee’ aren’t just nice words we sing at a hockey game. We need to come together to face the hostile attack from the Felon in the White House. Join MP Charlie Angus and Olympic Champion Mark Tewksbury in signing this Pledge for Canada. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
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Sign the Pledge for Canada
This petition is intended as an invitation to Canadians to reflect on the current challenges Canada faces and what we can all do to respond to the risks and to contribute to building a more resilient ...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell has signed the pledge for Canada. She joins thousands of leaders, artists, activists, Canadians who will resist the gangster in Washington. Have you signed the pledge to stand up for our values? True.North. Strong. Free. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
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Sign the Pledge for Canada
This petition is intended as an invitation to Canadians to reflect on the current challenges Canada faces and what we can all do to respond to the risks and to contribute to building a more resilient ...
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Tabrez J. Siddiqui @siddiquilab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Canada needs to build stronger trade ties with the EU, China and others.
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noeinan @noeinan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Someone posted this archive that backs up us gov website at the end of each presidential term, maybe it will help? blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 warns Trump will need Russia, China, or Venezuela for resources if he enforces a 25% tariff on Canada. I'm sure Pierre Poilievre would be ok with that, especially Venezuela. #cdnpoli #peipoli
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Jean Chrétien’s message about Donald Trump and Canadian unity. 1/8
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Adema Ribic @ademaribic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Never have I ever...sent a paper out for review before a major holiday 😂 Poor timing aside, we are super happy to finally preprint this one: we dug deep into why prematurity increases risk for NDDs and it turns out-duh-bad PFC and inhibition
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Appalled that scientific societies (SfN!) are silent about RFK. Happy to see this kind of organized opposition. Please consider calling your senators to ask them to oppose his appointment - letter below has talking points. United States Capitol switchboard # (202) 224-3121. He will kill people. 🧪
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social, a new national coalition of more than 1500 public health experts, has led an effort to send >3500 letters to US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.’s nomination to HHS. Concerns include his unfounded beliefs about vaccines, raw milk and HIV. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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DPH Press Release.docx
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2025 Healthcare, Public Health, and Scientific Experts Call on the Senate to Reject RFK Jr. Nomination to Lead HHS CONTACT: Julie Scofield, 301-455-2558, jscofie...
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Tabrez J. Siddiqui @siddiquilab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
New to Bluesky. Looking forward to building my network here.
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