Sign in

zara weinberg

@weinberz.witchlab.org
3.4K followers 884 following 207 posts

cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchy, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. ⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧙🏻‍♀️

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by zara weinberg
Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️ Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development
Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...
1259
Reposted by zara weinberg
no. @joles.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
the nice thing about being a gemini is that you can blame every single one of your problems on being a gemini. capricorns, for example, cannot do this.
2122
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 18/06/2025
how is it that elsevier gets this right when my own university is still fucking up??
A screenshot showing Elsevier asking:

With which Gender do you identify most?

With the options: 1) Woman, 2) Man, 3) Non-binary or gender diverse, or 4) I prefer not to disclose.
0161
Reposted by zara weinberg
Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Expanding the synthetic toolkit to study development in mESCs Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
SNIPR induces neuronal differentiation in mESCs. Validation of neuronal differentiation of ALFA-mESC sender cells and UAS-Ngn2 + NbALFA-SNIPR receiver cells co-cultured in 2i using the TUBB3 marker with confocal microscopy (DAPI is in purple, mCherry reporter is in green and TUBB3 is in cyan). Maximum-intensity projections are shown. Scale bar: 20 µm.
152
Reposted by zara weinberg
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
16135124
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 02/04/2025
so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program. this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole
I am writing to let you know that due to changes in NIH/HHS priorities, the Maximizing Opportunity for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program has been terminated.
Your institution can continue to draw funds on any active award for allowed costs that are within scope and consistent with the Grants Policy Statement. Further awards will not be made, and NIGMS will not permit no-cost extensions.
24413
Reposted by zara weinberg
cate @buny.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
this really is what it’s like
Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.
40154625593
Reposted by zara weinberg
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“The result is going to be the systematic removal of women and people of color from the act of research. At the end of this, we’re going to end up with an academy that is more white, more wealthy, more male, more cisgender, and it’s going to reinforce the same problem.”
310573
Reposted by zara weinberg
Peter H @henderburn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."
076
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 15/03/2025
also helps to understand how an institution like Johns Hopkins, which is ostensibly private, is being hit so hard because their funding might be more public than similar tier “public” institutions
020
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 15/03/2025
that distinction makes a lot of sense, and i guess is a good foreshadowing of which institutions will survive this
100
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 15/03/2025
maybe that comparison isn’t reasonable given the Mark Benioff of it all, but still UWashington and UMichigan are hanging on to their grad programs too…
040
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 15/03/2025
why are some public med schools rescinding admissions and others are behaving like nothing is happening? is this different risk mitigation strategies or is there something about the economics that fundamentally differs between say UMass and UCSF?
2121
Reposted by zara weinberg
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/02/2025
I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
602053553
Reposted by zara weinberg
Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
me reading your posts
Ed from the anime cowboy bebop hooked up to their computer system
311620
Reposted by zara weinberg
eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
General strike?
3632347
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 27/01/2025
wait you’re telling me “go birds” ISN’T a cheer to support our feathered friends dying from the flu??
060
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 25/01/2025
same song different font
a spotify screenshot showing Mama by My Chemical Romance and Mother by Pink Floyd
060
Reposted by zara weinberg
Nick Silva @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬
nicholassilvalab.org
Silva Lab – Neuroimmune mechanisms in health and disease
34213
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 23/01/2025
Da Share Zone JUST WALK OUT MEAN, suggesting that "if it sucks... hit da bricks" and reminding you that "real winners quit"
0152
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 23/01/2025
we have more power and agency than we think we do
1122
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 23/01/2025
the fact that quitting or delay are the only options you can think of in the face of fascism says a lot about the scope of your imagination :)
010
Reposted by zara weinberg
Melissa Lewis @melissa.news · 23/01/2025
So it’s not going to be a new agency but rather a renaming of the U.S. Digital Service (launched in 2014). And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA. thedispatch.com/article/clev...
thedispatch.com
‘Clever’ Trump Executive Order Shrouds DOGE From Public Scrutiny
Situating the new department in an existing agency enables it to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.
109971
Reposted by zara weinberg
Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/01/2025
#goals
candid shot of Scully and Mulder, both smiling, his head tucked against her chest while she embraces him
21027
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 23/01/2025
bureaucracy isnt preventing them from dismantling the NIH or DEI programs. bureaucratic compliance is enabling it!
110
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 23/01/2025
at what point during the first trump administration or in the past week has it seemed like bureaucracy is actually preventing them from doing bad things??? this is such a gross misunderstanding of how fascism works it boggles my mind
110
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 23/01/2025
okay bootlicker
100
Reposted by zara weinberg
Rose Z. Hill, Ph.D. @rose-hill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We have the power to create our own reality.
041
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 22/01/2025
i'm just confused - like if he can make up the rules, why can't everyone? what's he gonna do, fire them? he's gonna let elon fire them anyway!
161
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 22/01/2025
but like what if... the federal agencies didn't just follow orders?
3242
Reposted by zara weinberg
no. @joles.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
you may find yourself… with some damn fine coffee
special agent dale cooper but his trench coat is enormous
041
Reposted by zara weinberg
Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Among nearly 35,000 biological scientists who authored their first paper in 2000, women were more likely than men to have stopped publishing after 5, 10 or 20 years. The size of this gender gap varies between disciplines.
12294135
Reposted by zara weinberg
Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The resurgence of the r-word slur is setting the ground for the coming Buck v Bell style eugenicist policies dealing with cognitive disabilities in the wake of pandemic. Which happened after both the 1889 flu pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic.
624881
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 07/01/2025
love learning about the neurobiology of the two genders (lordosis and aggression) 🫠
052
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 07/01/2025
nope!!! hochul only delayed it, cars are now more expensive WE'RE BACK BABY!!!
010
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 06/01/2025
happy first day of NYC congestion pricing to all who celebrate, ban cars!!!
150
Reposted by zara weinberg
mike @sonuvafitch.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
discourse? on a sunday?
092
Reposted by zara weinberg
Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Economic papers are not my usual read with my morning coffee but, now more than ever, this is important. "In essence, the absence of these individuals—missing people—can lead to missing ideas, which is particularly problematic in a world where ideas may be “getting harder to find”
1158
Reposted by zara weinberg
Red Lori Bright Eyes A Fucking Bitch @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Texas is murdering women www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
nbcnews.com
A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban
Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.
24229
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 19/12/2024
brain stew is objectively the best green day song, right?
010
Reposted by zara weinberg
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Can’t get past the NYPD and Eric Adams putting on a ridiculous show of force to transport Luigi Mangione and make the ruling class feel better. And across town they’re using force to attack a strike and make the ruling class feel better. Rarely is the purpose of cops so obvious.
321974599
Reposted by zara weinberg
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
seems a bit dramatic
Luigi Mangione is escorted by several police officers and Mayor Eric Adams in New York.
2817301383354
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 19/12/2024
@dev-journal.bsky.social has been great so far - excellent reviewers, fair editorial process - but i am disappointed that they prohibit sharing a revised manuscript as a preprint update, and they don’t share peer reviews until the publishing process is complete. there’s always room for improvement!
030
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 19/12/2024
you can find Sarah’s preprint below. She’s added a lot of new experiments that we’re excited to share after @dev-journal.bsky.social finishes their review process www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
130
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 19/12/2024
the best peer review one can ask for is when someone uses your work in their own science! check out this awesome synthetic development paper that uses tools developed by Sarah Soliman in our preprint from this year! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
cell.com
Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions
Synthetic organizer cells, engineered to spatially self-assemble around stem cells, can be used to create specific morphogen gradients and systematically guide in vitro development.
1399
Reposted by zara weinberg
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“NIH reiterates that compliance with the Policy does not require the payment of an open access fee to a journal…free pathway to compliance can be achieved by depositing the Author Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central for public availability upon the Official Date of Publication without embargo.“
88545
Reposted by zara weinberg
Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Shorter NIH: “hey you guys know that silly embargo the publishers bribed out of Congress last time? Fuck that.”
0358
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 17/12/2024
“merit is a socially and culturally constructed concept” - Erin Cech preaching the truth at #CellBio2024
080
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 17/12/2024
i bring a very “cities are for people” attitude that the cars in san diego don’t seem to like
0150
Reposted by zara weinberg
Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Also here’s the link to RSVP and details for the #SciArt show! ^^ link so it's easy to register: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/
beatascienceart.com
Science Art Show & Reception – Beata Science Art
132