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The Tidgewell Research Lab

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Drug Discovery Lab at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy We do natural products discovery and medicinal chemistry synthesis to develop new compounds to treat and understand CNS disorders Account ran by KJT

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My quote of the day You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. Michelle Obama
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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Natural products continue to be important. As does the NIH's National Cancer Institute's dedication to discovery, cataloging, and testing of NPs.
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Small-molecule modulation of β-arrestins - Nature
Integrated pharmacological, biochemical, biophysical and structural analyses of small-molecule β-arrestin inhibitors show how they block β-arrestin engagement with activated GPCRs, revealing their mec...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social
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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
When I was coming up (the 90s) NIH's payline was about 20% - i.e. 80% of research proposals went unfunded - and we thought that was brutally competitive. With today's 6% payline you'd have to be nuts to go into academic biomedical research (from which most modern medical advances spring).
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#icymi
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Them: "If you want students to engage, you have to meet them where they are!" Me: "No argument there." Them: "For this generation, that means making short videos to address concepts." [spends a lot of time making videos going over content in bite-size chunks] Students: [do not watch the videos]
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵
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Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:
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Last Year, and the Year to Come
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
#facultychemjobs weather report: stabilizing at 25% off Today (12/16/25), there are 349 tenure-track research/teaching positions and 58 teaching positions for the 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List. 12/17/24: 449 tenure-track, 69 teaching 12/19/23: 481 tenure-track, 60 teaching
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Great 4th year seminar by one of the grad students working in the lab this morning!! Be on the lookout for some of her work to make it to publication in 2026 hopefully 🤠
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Really excited about this paper going live this mornning!! Lots of hard work by a great team and should be more to come Veraguamide E, a Marine Cyanobacterial Depsipeptide Targeting σ2R/TMEM97: Chemical and Neurobiological Characterization Journal of Natural Products pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Veraguamide E, a Marine Cyanobacterial Depsipeptide Targeting σ2R/TMEM97: Chemical and Neurobiological Characterization
The human sigma-2 receptor/transmembrane protein 97 (σ2R/TMEM97) has been identified as a promising target to modulate neuronal excitability in chronic pain and address the unmet need for nonopioid th...
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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... #microbiology #ecology
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Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology
The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fun to start the day off today with a departmental seminar by one of the grad students in the lab.
FLyer listing title and location for a seminar within the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Includes an image of the graduate student presenter.
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Back in New Hampshire for some fun at the GRC Bioactives and Natural Products!! Stoked for a week of science and walking in the woods and more science
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
So I was doing some account balancing today and just noticed the Sigma is adding a "Tarriff" Charge onto our most recent orders ... anyone else notice that? #chemsky
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A short Bluetorial about my early days as the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH. The importance of feeling responsibility and taking pride in doing the best job you can
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a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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By far the best thing about America is its universities. Not Harvard, Yale, e tutti quanti: though marvelous, they are not distinctively American-their roots reach across the ocean to Oxford, Heidelberg, and beyond. Nowhere else in the world, however, can boast such public universities. You drive for miles across a godforsaken midwestern scrubscape, pockmarked by billboards, Motel 6s, and a military parade of food chains, when-like some pedagogical mirage dreamed up by nineteenth-century English gentlemen-there appears...a library! And not just any library: at Bloomington, the University of Indiana boasts a 7.8-million-volume collection in more than nine hundred languages, housed in a magnificent double-towered mausoleum of Indiana limestone.
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Lab earned a gold star today! Way to go team, keep up the hard work @ukresearch.bsky.social
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Here is the dirty secret no one is speaking out loud: Trump does not believe that bombing the hell out of Iran is going to send Iran back to the negotiation table, nor has anyone in his inner circle suggested to him that outcome. He fully knows he has entered America into a war.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 22/06/2025
U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.
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'This is not Constitutional': GOP congressman stands up to Trump on Iran strike
U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.Trump over the weekend announced his administration had dropped a "full payload of bombs" on Iran."We have completed our very successful attack on the th...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Group Photo Day! @ukresearch.bsky.social
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University of Kentucky Research @ukresearch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Research drives discovery at UK. Funding from the NIH makes a difference. UK Acting Vice President for Research Ilhem Messaoudi explains how this funding impacts Kentuckians. Learn more: www.research.uky.edu/news/researc...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Some important additional considerations about the need to comment of the implementation of schedule F. First, several sources have indicated that Institute Director and Division Director positions would likely be converted but not Program Officers. 1/n
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is heartbreaking and terrifying
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Really fun visit to @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for a seminar Huge thanks to @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social for the invite Tried my best to channel banana slugs and was rewarded with a couple along the walk in 😁
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Somehow you knew this was coming. They will do anything to avoid responding meaningfully to FOIA requests.
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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down. Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year I asked the White House to explain. “This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Awesome visit to @utah.edu for a seminar in the Pharm Tox Department Lots of great neuroscience focused chats and great group of faculty plus snuck out to see a bit of nature as well
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Another fun international collaboration (that started via email) resulting in a publication out today! Happy to be a small part of this awesome chemistry effort by the groups at Uni Bristol
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
All of the physics knowledge in the world and all of the paper published about NASA’s success and failures won’t save you if you fired the seamstress who knew the one weird trick to the stitches on a blanket or a parachute. Not all knowledge is translated well by text. (2/)
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New paper with my collaborator in Cameroon exploring the utility of traditionally used plants as therapeutics and for discovering new leads for development. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Aqueous and Ethanol Extracts of Acacia sieberiana (Fabaceae) Stem Bark Reverse the Pain–Depression Dyad in Mice Through Modulation of Catecholamines, Proinflammatory Cytokines, and Oxidative Stress
Rationale and Objective: The pain–depression dyad is highly prevalent and has reciprocal psychological and behavioral effects, leading to poor quality of life, increased disability, and challenging t...
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
One new post on Federal Register about meetings in late March early April and three more that should be posted by tomorrow ... at least review can return and hopefully that means we can have a sense of grant funding soon
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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Before grants are awarded, they have to be evaluated in meetings called study sections. Before a study section can meet, it has to be listed in the federal registry for at least 15 days. These are the new study section meetings listed in the federal registry this year. 2/
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Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
In Frankfort! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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Stand Up for Science 2025 - Frankfort, KY
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Better?
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
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Cancellation megathread
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 22/02/2025
Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research
By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding proposals.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 21/02/2025
Good lord
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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‘Cowardliness at the top’: Science agency staff revolt over cuts
At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Newest publication available on two linear veraguamides isolated and identified by the lab along with some interesting activity we have been exploring ... keep watching for future updates on the development of these scaffolds mdpi.com/1420-3049/30...
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Isolation and Bioassay of Linear Veraguamides from a Marine Cyanobacterium (Okeania sp.)
Marine cyanobacteria have gained momentum in recent years as a source of novel bioactive small molecules. This paper describes the structure elucidation and pharmacological evaluation of two new (vera...
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Excited to be in Oxford for a talk in the School of Pharmacy at Ole Miss
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Always a joy to see this brutalism style when coming to DC! Need to hustle to make my talk about our work with Cameroonian plants to discover new analgesics
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Feel like I'm in grad school again ... Let's see if my old extraction method still works 😁
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
No notes Going to need a stack of these stickers to have on me at all times
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The Tidgewell Research Lab @thetidgelab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Heading down to San Juan for the weekend to talk a bit about our science, learn a bit about the RISE program at UPR, catch up with some friends and collaborators, and eat some mofongo!!
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