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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i seem to have a knack for submitting manuscripts while on cross-country road trips 😮‍💨

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Cirice Gray @In Her Image out now! @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026

New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel

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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women

This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a

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begüm aydın @begumaydin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share that I'll join Columbia in Jan 2027 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Development& the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative! A long-held dream; I'm grateful for my mentors and colleagues. We'll study microbiota-ENS interactions-now hiring! theaydinlab.com

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The Aydin Lab | Laboratory of Neurodevelopmental Plasticity

The Aydin Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center studies how gut microbiota shape the development and plasticity of the enteric nervous system.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10

graphical abstract of the manuscript depicting pink estrogen-sensitive neurons with a subset of their nuclei colored in green. These green nuclei represent estrogen receptor dependent neural gene transcription, tracked via the expression of a destabilized GFP with a 2 hour half-life. At top, in green is shown a cartoon of the neural response to estrogen across two estrous cycles, and below there is a cartoon of a mouse implanted with an optic fiber for in vivo imaging.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mamdani fixing the rotting BQE where I make the sign of the cross each time I ride over it? Cantilever Communism.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Proud of our work through NYC-DSA TRBA that helped make this happen! Trans Solidarity Forever! 🌹🏳️‍⚧️

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Gare Davis @bishonentype.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Zohran is launching a direct care access fund for transgender youth in NYC. Happy Pride!

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NYC is on such a roll. It's beautiful to behold. Not just antifascist but the *antithesis* of fascism.

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Julie @julesqs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Unfortunately this is just incorrect. The clinic does not cost $15 million, the $15 million is completely separate funding that will be used for youth care. A lot of posters on bluesky including @katelynburns.com @erininthemorning.com and @esqueer.net are spreading false alarmism

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Congratulations to the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows!
Airi Yoshimoto, Yijun Yang, Alexandra Wells, Simran Virdi, Archana Venkataraman, Emery Usher, Marianna Tannus Ruckert, Wenzhi Song, Kathryn Shelley, Selin Schamiloglu, Julia Peloggia de Castro, Ines Patop, Ruhi Patel, Suranjana Pal, Bernie Simone Owusu Yaw, LaShae Nicholson, Sivapratha Nagappan Chettiar, Dallas Mould, Jessica Moore, Deka Mohamed, Sierra Marable, Annie Ly, Xi (Lucy) Lu, Deirdre Logsdon, Anna Lipkin, Ellen Lesser, Mia Konjikusic, Veronika Kondev, Cayla Jewett, Lucia Ichino, Erin Huiting, Maggie Horst, Isabella Gaeta, Martha Echevarria-Andino, Natasha Claxton, Sarah Cherkaoui, Nikita Bhalerao, Merci Best, Meenakshi Asokan, Alicer Andrew

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 26/04/2026

Have they claimed the shooter is trans yet?

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on here. Been working on a lot, some of it’s finally bearing fruit! Excited for my latest review! Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology & Behavior #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology and Behavior

Sex hormones are a primary source for biological variation throughout the animal kingdom, from morphological characteristics to elaborate courtship displays. These steroids, such as estrogens and andr...

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🏆❤️🤍It’s Dawn!🧡💙🏆 @dawnandr0meda.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

Erin Reed
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News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care.
Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power.
He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients.
He has maintained radio silence.
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NYU Langone still silent on NY Attorney General's call to resume transgender care - Washington Square News
NYU Langone Health remains silent three weeks after the New York attorney general's deadline for t...
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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

until i get a “real headshot” random lab selfie will have to do

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology and Behavior

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science" Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Zara was an inspiration. Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.

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Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing. She was truly one of the best.

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I cannot overstate how much my experience of my experimental results is my internal scientist going "WOAH" and my internal transsexual going "DUH."

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

the insanity of simultaneous hope and hopelessness too much and not enough

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Beautiful and inspiring work showing how hormones and social context come together! Big behavior and neuroimaging data! I’m in awe 🤩

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Everybody's transgender, especially the nuclei from my transgender brain cells in my transgender mice. Everybody's transgender.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points. His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Good lord, the soundtrack to Clair Obscur is beyond phenomenal. One of the best, if not the best, video game scoring I’ve heard.

Screenshot of album art for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack. Track currently playing is “Nos Vies En Lumière” from the recent bonus edition of the video game soundtrack.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Please, like he doesn't already live there.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

To understand why US science is currently being destroyed, take a close look at this: The "Abundance 2025" conference is being held in Sept. It is FILLED with rightwing money. Most notably the "Foundation for American Innovation," which is funded by billionaires that wish to privatize science. 1/

Zach Graves
CO-CHAIR

Zach Graves is executive director at the Foundation for American Innovation, as well as an ex officio member of the board. Previously he was head of policy at FAI, and managed the policy team. His research and writing focuses on the intersection of technology and governance issues, including work to strengthen science and technology expertise and capacity in Congress. Before joining FAI, he was director of the R Street Institute's technology and innovation policy program. Prior to that, he worked at the Cato Institute as manager of new media.

He is currently a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is a member of the Polaris Council, a science and technology advisory board for the Government Accountability Office. He is a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Artificial Intelligence Task Force. In addition, he is a board member of the Institute for Progress.

He holds an MA in aesthetics and politics from the California Institute of the Arts, and a BA in philosophy from the University of California at Davis.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

y’all, the nyc mayoral primary was just the beginning. we ain’t fuckin’ done. we just gettin’ started.

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thrilled to announce I'll be starting my own neuro-theory lab, as an Assistant Professor at @yaleneuro.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this Fall! My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵

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Jessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Male brains are full of estrogen. Testosterone in the circulation is converted into estrogen by the enzyme aromatase, which is expressed in the brains of all vertebrates.

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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Estrogen is made from testosterone is made from progesterone.

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Kyra Bee @kyrabee.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I can't imagine realizing your life is in danger every day and deciding to shoot for the moderate position on everything

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