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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@landolfrb.bsky.social something for us to mull over at our next meeting

TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It’s been years since I last saw this “mighty woman with a torch” up close but the sight of her, holding her light up to the stormy skies, remains as awe-inspiring as ever.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wordle 1,852 4/6* When the solution is also a reaction to the solution ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Re-reading the Hallmarks reviews in prep for a lecture. Given how critical redox mechanisms and ROS-generating pathways are to oncogenic transformation and cancer metabolism, I can’t believe redox dysregulation isn’t an official hallmark of cancer. Fellow ROS biologists - time to mount a campaign?

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Made me think of ‘30 Rock’… Wordle 1,775 4/6* 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Excited for #SfRBM2025! Anyone else here heading to DC?

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Sometimes I think Wordle is just trolling us… Wordle 1,550 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Rod Dagnan @rod-dagnan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions. Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I never fail to be blown away by the intricate beauty of the Blaschka glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The skill and dedication that went into making these botanical specimens is just mind-boggling.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A fine example of Nature and nurture

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My 8th and final year as director of our SURF program - it’s grown a bit from the three students in the year I first took over😃 Couldn’t ask for a better person than our new director @chvolmar.bsky.social to take SURF upwards and onwards!

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

just one of many small actions you can take that make a huge difference in your community, especially now in the face of SNAP cuts — and seriously, no one can stretch a dollar like a food bank

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Never thought I’d miss having a Twitter account but here we are…

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s more important than ever now to remember institutions don’t love you back. Focus on your science, your trainees and collaborators, and your own well-being. Institutions will always find a way to move the goalposts.

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Michael Battalio @battalio.com · 31/05/2025

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Thank you @itaiyanai.bsky.social for an exciting research seminar and an engaging Night Science workshop! People are still buzzing about all the cool stuff they learned during your visit. (Loved the reminder to seek out science buddies who raise our game and encourage new thinking - very timely).

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Coskun Lipid Cellar @ ZML Dresden @lipid.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip

Size and shape are critical discriminators between molecular species and states. We describe a microchip-based high-throughput imaging approach offering rapid and precise determination of molecular pr...

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My wonderful undergrad Bhipasha received the Outstanding Honors Thesis in Biology award for her project characterizing metabolic dysfunction markers in our obesogenic prostate cancer model. Seeing my trainees thrive and succeed right now gives me so much hope.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Looking to hire a PhD level scientist with a solid tumor biology background to work with us on an exciting translational project centered on redox-regulated signaling and metabolism in cancer. Here’s the link (please re-post!): careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My chocolate mint has come back to life so many times, it’s basically on the path to attaining nirvana…

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Stefanie Robel @stefanierobel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Quick question for New PIs: We’re hosting a New PI Success Essentials Workshop next Friday, April 11, from 10am to 2pm ET. Given the challenging circumstances many of you are facing, we’re making this session free for PIs in the US. Consider it our small contribution ;)

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today’s happy place - spending the day listening to some amazing cutting-edge science at our annual Tumor Biology symposium. Great talks from external speakers Drs Koumenis, Akbay and Cunniff as well as from our stellar faculty and trainees!

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Much will be written about how 4 PhD students and a PhD –Colette Delawalla, Sam Goldstein, Emma Courtney, Leslie Berntsen & JP Flores – organized @standupforscience.bsky.social to unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Today’s positive was belting “Science is real” with They Might Be Giants and 100s of fellow S Floridians. A scientific theory Isn't just a hunch or guess It's more like a question That's been put through a lot of tests And when a theory emerges Consistent with the facts The truth is with science

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This thread really brought home to me why the mental load is so crushing right now. Academic research requires so much planning ahead, risk management and handling uncertainty even at the best of times. Now, key support structures for our problem-solving are falling apart.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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2025 Study section tracking

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

From an email viewed by me sent from the acting NIH director Matthew Memoli just a bit ago: "The last few weeks have been difficult for many of us, but we must prepare for further changes ahead. When this transition is behind us, NIH might look different... but our mission will remain unchanged."

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My nervous system cannot handle any more New York Times email alerts with the subject line “Breaking News:…”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thanks for the info from reviewers... All 8 CSR study section meeting scheduled today have been cancelled (due to the Federal Register announcement issue). Some reviewers are finding out that their meetings are cancelled when they are notified by the travel agency that their tickets are cancelled.

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a man is playing basketball in a gym with a sign that says `` you just got shut down '' .

ALT: a man is playing basketball in a gym with a sign that says `` you just got shut down '' .

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

With all the carnage being indiscriminately wrought on scientists in the US, remember, a war on science is a lost war. Science doesn’t care what you or anybody else thinks. You either embrace science or you chase imaginary demons. It took us centuries to realize this.

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Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Trying to focus on the positive here - had a blast presenting our prostate cancer work and learning from the experts at the nitric oxide and thiol signaling GRC. And the only thing better than a week spent sharing ideas and talking science was my kids running up to hug me at baggage claim.

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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Scott Soleimanpour @soleimanpourlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A post over a decade in the making… 🙌beyond excited to share our work out today in @science.org. We found that retrograde (mitonuclear) signaling regulates the identity and maturity of metabolic tissues.🧵 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Retrograde mitochondrial signaling governs the identity and maturity of metabolic tissues

Mitochondrial damage is a hallmark of metabolic diseases, including diabetes, yet the consequences of compromised mitochondria in metabolic tissues are often unclear. Here, we report that dysfunctiona...

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org 🥳😃 🐣 Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reminder: You can always submit a grant late and include a cover letter saying why. NIH receipt and referral may take it. Or not. If you end up missing deadline because of these Commons access issues, there is this potential save move.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The timeline cleansing story I needed today 😂

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A 70th percentile grant that got funded because someone actually thought about the potential impact from the proposed science despite grantsmanship flaws,and advocated for it at council. Imagine that…

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As scientists going through difficult times, I think it’s important to remember the things that bind us together: 1) Our love of free food. 2) Our inability to explain what we do to our families. 3) Our hatred for Reviewer #3. Now please go do fun things this weekend and hang out with nice people.

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TheRaiLab @therailab.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

These supplements have helped US science and medicine by supporting diverse cross-sections of society. Diversity is not some sinister code word, it reflects a whole made up of differing elements. Eliminating diversity is not a good thing. Ecosystems that select against diversity die out under stress

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Getting rid of diversity supplements is devastating. I run a seminar series for up and coming scientists. One thing I can do to help is to ensure this series represents the full diversity of the scientists in our field. Pass this along and help us make that possible. bsky.app/profile/mike...

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