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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 3d

Apple picking with the ScaLabRats!

4 women picking apples in an apple orchard

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 5d

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

‘These bottlenecks have gotten so bad that some labs have had to ration gloves and paper towels.’

Ian Morgan for TheScientist

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! They are phenomenal!

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 5d

Today is my first external invited seminar where I’m not interviewing for a job! Excited to talk science and present my lab’s work at Marquette.

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 7d

So happy for Teresa and a well-deserved honor! Geniuses work on retinal circuits :)

UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 7d

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley News

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

news.berkeley.edu

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Víctor Calbiague-García @victorcalbiagueg.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 New preprint out from our lab!
📄 The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes to Surround Responses in OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes To Surround Responses In OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells

Sensory neurons can be influenced by stimuli beyond their receptive field center, yet the mechanisms underlying this surround modulation remain poorly understood. In the retina, many OFF ganglion cell...

www.biorxiv.org

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 15d

I had to look this up. Evil mouse????

Cropped image from Figure 3h Musall et al., 2019. Mouse head and eye looks like it has flames coming out of it.

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 23d

The frustrating thing is we know improving social services reduces homelessness, poverty, crime, illness/death, etc. while reducing costs for everyone. But when we say government exists for the communal good, enough people respond “absolutely not”.

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 27d

Adventuring in Prague in between RD Meeting! @wertlaboratory.bsky.social

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks to Brightfocus for hosting! I definitely learned a lot about AMD!

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 29d

Ohh this looks super interesting! Looking forward to reading.

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Sep 15

For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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RetINaBox: A hands-on learning tool for experimental neuroscience

An exciting aspect of neuroscience research is developing and testing hypotheses via experimentation. However, due to logistical and financial hurdles, this compelling part of neuroscience research is...

www.biorxiv.org

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Sep 15

Optimally entertaining and informative. Thanks @choroidlab.bsky.social!

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 4

Save the date! In this @neuronline.sfn.org event, we'll have a social media guru, a university comms officer and yours truly there to speak and answer your Qs about 'why' and 'how' of scicomm, to colleagues and the public. Open to all - just register!

neuronline.sfn.org/professional...

Communication and Recognition: Getting Attention for Your Science

<p>So, your article has been accepted and published in a journal. What’s next? Social media, multimedia, and the press can all be powerful tools to get noticed. How do you promote your paper, an...

neuronline.sfn.org

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Sep 4

Race to the bottom!

Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ron Johnson came to MCW a few months ago and told lie after lie about science/medicine because he thinks he can get away with it. Proud of my community for calling him out; wish more would do the same. He’s dangerous and shameful.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 4

The last few minutes before the break were very hard to sit through.

Numerous false allegations of corruption in science were made by Ron Johnson and enthusiastically agreed with by Kennedy.

I am stating for the record that if this continues, more violence against scientists will occur.

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Jonathan Rosenblum @jsrosenblum.bsky.social · Aug 29

Another way the administration is trying to gift America's scientific leadership to China - 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀.

So of course 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲.

Comments accepted until end Sept.

Cc: @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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UR Center for Visual Science @cvsuor.bsky.social · Aug 20

TOMORROW at 2:00 pm, Zoom (check CVS Slack for link)
Telias Summer Journal Club: Supraja Varadarajan, UT Southwestern Medical Center
The Role of Retinorecipient Neuronal Activity in Promoting Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration
www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @flaumeye.bsky.social

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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Aug 20

This Friday we are excited to host Julie Semmelhack on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
Tune in here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...

World Wide Neuro | Sussex Vision Series - 22/08/2025 - Prof. Julie Semmelhack

YouTube video by BadenLab

m.youtube.com

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 7

A giant YES for @gliangel.bsky.social for this incredible honor. Great news for Angel, the lab, and the greater neuroscience ( neuroscience.berkeley.edu/grad ) and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social communities. We look forward to being a part of this fantastic community. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is amazing! Congratulations @gliangel.bsky.social!!

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy to join you in changing the narrative from maladaptive to homeostatic, one microglia and bipolar cell at a time!

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Aug 8

Rockstar @sabanlab.bsky.social ended with a fantastic talk!

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · Aug 8

Kamila Milejczyx did an amazing job presenting the summer project she worked on in my lab!

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