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Contact your congressional representatives to prevent this new halt in NIH funding.
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Today, a Veteran trusted me with their experiences which caused their TBI, and asked me questions because they had a personal stake in my research. It’s easy to lose sight of motivations, but learning from real people affected by such work is an efficient reminder of what is truly important.

Yesterday a senior leader in federal relations for our university sincerely informed me that our institution is "working hard to understand things and not overwhelm congressional offices" with researchers concerns in this moment.

Let my Thursday frustration be your Friday motivation.

NIH indirects case update:

Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.

Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:

(I'm paraphrasing here)

I tend to mind my business on social media. I'm mostly here for gardening and LOTR memes. BUT, I've dedicated my life to science, and I feel it is existentially threatened. Not just science and research, but academia in general. (1)

www.science.org/content/arti...

If you are interested in immunity and neurodegeneration, please check out the Year in Review Webinar Series hosted by the Alzheimer's Association! Register at alz.org/research-webinars
#Alzheimersdisease #immunity #brain #neurodegeneration

Congrats to Dr. Sarah Hopp and team, thanks for allowing me to collaborate on your study! Her group is doing the hard work to test how microglia internalize tau to improve understanding of tau spread and pathology. #alzheimers #tau #microglia

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Blanket advice to avoid acronyms/abbreviations/initialisms (protip: these are different..) should be more nuanced. Yes they can be confusing, but the full name may be irrelevant or, worse, misleading. So a description rather than an expansion may be better. For example: 1/2

💯 - Don't exhaust your audience with too much information. Give them threads they can follow through the talk. 🧪

A slide with multiple experiments and too much jargon is the presentation equivalent of a grant page with justified margins, no line breaks, and no figures. 😵‍💫

I dunno if it’s late in the season for them, but our dill hatched swallowtail caterpillars. We have named it Gilbert and dedicated the rest of our crop to its sustenance. #butterfly #garden #zone9a

One of the most persistent and forceful critics was a neuroscientist from Stanford named Ben Barres.

He made it clear that he felt that many talented women had been overlooked and that the message that had been sent was tremendously damaging to fulfilling the NIH mission.

11/n

#FluorescenceFriday is a thing? Here is my submission: GFAP positive #astrocytes (red) projecting aquaporin 4 positive endfeet (green) onto blood vessels in the mouse cortex. It’s good for me, good for you, and great for the #bloodbrainbarrier

Hi #astrocyte lovers! We are organizing the third edition of #AstrocyteCafe online, with FREE monthly seminars starting from January 2025...and we are looking for speakers!

Speakers can be of any career stage: just send us an email with your topic to [email protected] 😍

Behold. My vast bean harvest. Which shall go into the pickle jar.

go.bsky.app/Lyzro3M

!WELCOME!

thought we might need a starter pack for all those coming over from the birdhouse - here's a GliaSky list.

apologies for missing many of you - please do reply to get added

and remember to repost so the newbies can find us!

Here’s a thread with a lot of starter packs to find your science friends quickly!