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Tamara Tal

@tamaratal.bsky.social
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Mechanistic toxicology group leader @UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. I want to understand how chemicals in the environment disrupt biology.

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UFZ-CITE @ufz-cite.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Can a fungicide affect the brain, through your gut bacteria?Scientists @tamaratal.bsky.social lab exposed a human gut microbiome model + larval zebrafish to azoxystrobin. Fish with normal gut bacteria became more restless +lower serotonin, fish without them didn't: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41795836/
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Proud to work at UFZ! Thanks so much for supporting our work at the intersection of chemical exposure and brain health. @ufz-cite.bsky.social
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 26/01/2026
Hallo liebe Community! Wie schon letzte Woche kommen auch die Beiträge dieser Woche aus Leipzig. Ich bin Elena, Doktorandin in der mTox-Gruppe am Department für Ökotoxikologie am UFZ Leipzig. Mein Projekt befasst sich mit dem angeborenen Immunsystem und der Darm-Hirn-Achse bei Zebrafischen. 1/4
Das neue Gebäude auf dem Gelände des UFZ in Leipzig, mit Schnee umgeben und gekleidet in einem freundlichen Mausgrau. Es sind sieben Stockwerke geballte Umweltforschung mit Laboren, Büros und Tischtennisplatte.
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 27/01/2026
Wenn ihr unsere Arbeit verfolgen möchten: Folgt unserer Gruppenleiterin auf Bluesky @tamaratal.bsky.social und vernetzt euch mit meinen Kolleg*innen auf LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/renee-owe... www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-her... www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-wra... www.ufz.de/index.php?en...
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UFZ-CITE @ufz-cite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Excited for Dr. @ilonajaspers.bsky.social talk: "Climate Change Research – Coming Together To Explore Mechanisms of Human Health Effects" (Dept. of Pediatrics, UNC Chapel Hill, USA). 📅 Tuesday, January 20, 1 PM 📍 KUBUS Hall 1A, UFZ
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UFZ-CITE @ufz-cite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Upcoming Talk by Dr. Katie Paul Friedman @ulresearchinst.bsky.social "Can NAMs close the chemical data gap?" hostet by @tamaratal.bsky.social 📅 27 Jan 2026 | 10:00 CET 📍 UFZ Kubus, Hall 1A Insights on using NAMs for rapid risk values, chemical prioritization & mixture modeling in safety assessment.
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thanks for highlighting this @danielgorelick.bsky.social ♥️. Most US citizens want their air, water, and food to be safe from harmful chemicals. The US EPA Office of Research Development is the scientific engine that ensures chemical safety. ORD should be celebrated, not destroyed!
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Scott Glaberman, Chris Frey and I lay out why EPA's Office of Research and Development should be protected, not destroyed. Please share widely. Dismantling EPA’s research office jeopardizes environmental safety, public health, and US competitiveness | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🍿 👀 „They are taking on an influential agricultural and chemicals lobby that has long rebuffed attempts to strengthen restrictions on atrazine and other pesticides, at a time when the Trump administration is rolling back government restrictions on industries, not imposing new ones.“
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Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Public health matters
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Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply by May 18: imba.science/beagroupleader #hiring #biology #research #groupleader #europe
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Check out @enicolay.bsky.social’s amazing #zebrafish image! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“How might the narrative about senior women be challenged or changed in order to respect these women who have achieved enough success to earn promotion? How do we stop this generational cycle so that women's wings aren't clipped as soon as they approach the power to soar.”
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The "Crazy/Bitch" Narrative About Senior Academic Women
When I was a graduate student there weren’t many senior women in my department. There were narratives about them that seemed unique to e...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC: lookout.co/trumps-escal...
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Trump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act now
The Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump too...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This top line--"nearly 800 NIH grants"--was made possible by every scientist who reported their terminated grant to us. 🙏 Small acts add up, and the country is finally learning the full scope RFK's vandalism. And don't stop now! Report your terminated NIH grant here: forms.gle/FnGLkUtK3M58...
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UFZ-CITE @ufz-cite.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🌍 IP3 Retreat: Healthy Planet 📅 May 7, 2025 | 🕘 9:00–17:00 | 📍 KUBUS Leipzig Last chance to register – deadline until today (April 25)! Join us for a day of science, exchange & inspiration. Agenda & abstracts are now online. Open to all @ufz.de employees 👉 Register here: events.hifis.net/event/2299/
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I wrote a thing. I am eternally grateful for my editor, who took the original draft and helped me narrow down my key points into a more effective piece with a broader reach. Also, thanks to the editorial & legal teams, who maintained the message while protecting us in this fraught moment.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In today's Nature: "These cutbacks put the entire US research enterprise at risk. For more than 8 decades, the US has stood unrivalled as the world’s leader in scientific discovery and technological innovation. US universities spin off more than 1,100 science-based start-up companies each year.."
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Endangering travel to the US also limits the free exchange of ideas, a crucial component of our academic and research success. This administration is using every conceivable tool to decimate the US’s academic and research enterprise and we will be the poorer for it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Did somebody say make #PeerReview more fair, more transparent, and more fast? Fast & Fair peer review from @biologyopen.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
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Biology Open | The Company of Biologists
Biology Open | The Company of Biologists Fast & Fair peer review A new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission Biology Open (BiO) has embark...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard steps up www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Fast & Fair peer review made it to the European Zebrafish PI meeting in Paris. Ran into one of our reviewers @simoesfilipa.bsky.social used her honorarium to buy new shoes. Zebrafish research never looked so good. 📄 bit.ly/4iZ30st bit.ly/fastandfair @biologists.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Nightmare scenario. „On Feb. 16, customs officials detained her at Logan International Airport in Boston for failing to declare samples of frog embryos she had carried from France at the request of her boss at Harvard.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
„So, I ask you: How do you feel? How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk? I know I feel outrage, and I hope others recognize what’s at stake and feel the urgency to support science.“
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025
Great article by @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @ardemp.bskyverified.social outlining the health, economic and national security benefits of US biomedical research, and the devastation of government efforts to destroy our leading edge. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
So lovely to host Jess Plavicki at UFZ today where we learned about how TCDD exposure disrupts neurovasculature development. This image represents the Brown-to-UFZ pipeline - Here’s hoping I get to work with many more Plavicki trainees in the future 👾. @ufz-cite.bsky.social @plavickilab.bsky.social
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 06/04/2025
Good tutorial on how measles infections work, fortunately all of this is avoidable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Measles Attacks an Unvaccinated Child
With falling vaccination rates and outbreaks that have caused more than 580 U.S. cases and at least two deaths, health experts expect hundreds or even thousands more to be infected in the coming month...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our daughter, a life-long NC resident and a Tarheel born and bred is one of those whose ballot was challenged. This is a shocking example of using the courts to overturn valid elections
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/04/2025
“a 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now…is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...
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Harvard’s moment of truth - The Boston Globe
The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Maybe it's a good time to remind everyone that 40% of US Nobel Prize winners are immigrants. America benefits when we welcome global talent. When we block international scientists, we diminish our own future www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Immigrant Nobel Prize Winners Continue To Impress
Immigrants now have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NIH’ers and all HHS people: Remember, if they put you on admin leave today that’s not a firing, not until a legal RIF is completed. We are going to fight this.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you are sitting back thinking your research won't be targeted, you're wrong. This isn't being done in a "logical" way: any area of research could be next. 2/n
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Just received the email that my recent appointment to a BSC, which was supposed to be until June 2029, was terminated effective immediately.
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
International researchers whose research with the U.S. has been curtailed, canceled or withdrawn due to Trump administration requirements or actions Specific Trump administration decisions that create isolation for US scientists and what consequences growing isolation has
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Hi, do I know anyone willing to go on the record for Politico about: How the Trump administration’s actions are isolating the U.S. from climate or other science collaboration and what are the potential consequences International researchers hesitant to partner with, or travel to the U.S. for work
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I was 100% sure this headline was from the Onion. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“We scholars cannot let the government hold our work hostage. Science funding is being withheld in retaliation for protected free speech. We are passionate about science and its benefits to society, but we fear more what will happen if we do not help defend everyone’s fundamental rights.”
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Nervous system of a five-day-old zebrafish larva. Credit to Dr. Nathan Martin of @plavickilab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Dorsal view of a five days post fertilization zebrafish larva that has been stained with acetylated alpha tubulin. Color coded for depth. Anterior to left.
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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Bravo, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! Thank you to the members who crafted this important statement. @drglitterbear.bsky.social sbn.org/news/news/wh...
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Day 2 Today we are staying on the topic of #PFAS which are industrial chemicals that contaminate humans and the environment. Because legacy PFAS such as PFOA or PFOS have been banned, new alternatives have emerged.
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UFZ-CITE @ufz-cite.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Das Team um @tamaratal.bsky.social forscht zu den Auswirkungen von PFAS am @ufz.de. Warum PFAS so gefährlich sind und Zebrafische sich zum Screening eignen, erfahrt ihr in dem spannend Laborpraxis-Artikel: www.laborpraxis.vogel.de/toxikologisc...
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Toxikologische Auswirkungen von PFAS im Fokus
(Bild: © EVERST - stock.adobe.com) Erst kürzlich titelte die Tagesschau: „Hoch belasteter Meeresschaum an Nord- und Ostsee“. An der deutschen Küste wurden Per- und Polyfluoralkylsubstanzen (PFAS) in K...
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Day 1 #PFAS are industrial chemicals that contaminate humans and the environment. One type of PFAS, called PFOA, was banned in 2020 because of its toxic effects. Despite the ban, it is still found in most living organisms along with complex mixtures of structurally similar PFAS.
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Tamara Tal @tamaratal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My feed is full of people posting about innovative US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) science in lieu of attending the single largest international toxicology meeting (Society of Toxicology (SOT)), held this week in Orlando, because all Agency travel was blocked by the new administrator.
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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We are recruiting! Do you know butterflies? Are you living around Leipzig, and feel like joining our efforts to expand butterfly monitoring in urban and rural settings? See our assistant position offer: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...
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Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (d/m/w) zum Thema Schmetterlingsmonitorting in den Projekten UNP+/VielFalterGarten
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Kari Sant @santastic-k.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Come join Sant Squad at #sot2025 in Orlando next week! Ashley and Jenielle are both presenting posters on their ongoing projects. Our newest member, Katelyn, is presenting on her dissertation research from the Colacino and Dolinoy labs at UMich. @sotoxicology.bsky.social
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