Maureen Barr
@barrlab.bsky.social
Scientist studying tiny things: cilia, extracellular vesicles (EVs), C. elegans; ADPKD; Secretary Genetics Society of America; distinguished professor at Rutgers; three boy mom; she/her; my opinions
https://barrlab.rutgers.edu/
https://barrlab.rutgers.edu/
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November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My ERA commons is broken! 😆🫠
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My ERA commons is broken! 😆🫠
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I vote this for Science Pun of the Year 2025
Scientists have a whole new understanding of how the overlooked lichen helped plants turn Earth's land green. Which means, ahem! Please lichen subscribe to our excellent news stories!!! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet
An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land
www.scientificamerican.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I vote this for Science Pun of the Year 2025
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#aECM folks take note!
Don't miss your chance to contribute to Development's next special issue, which takes a non-cell-centric approach to devbio, stem cells & regeneration. We hope to capture papers that discuss how secreted factors, external forces and the shape of spaces instruct development.
#DevSIextracellular
#DevSIextracellular
📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#aECM folks take note!
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Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Share a smile.
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Share a smile.
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
Cross-section from Ascaris lumbricoides, the most common parasitic worm in humans.
(🔬: Massimo Brizzi)
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Happy Monday, Chicago!
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy Monday, Chicago!
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Tomorrow!!
#Cilia and #Centrosome friends- tomorrow is the big day!! 🎉 🎉
Organoids for #PCD, #CryoET of the base of motile cilia, TZ organization in #IRDs, macrophages & cystic niches in #PKD, how pro-inflammatory lipids & #adipogenesis AND cilia as signal-sending organelles shedding #EVs! 🤩 😍 Join us!!
Organoids for #PCD, #CryoET of the base of motile cilia, TZ organization in #IRDs, macrophages & cystic niches in #PKD, how pro-inflammatory lipids & #adipogenesis AND cilia as signal-sending organelles shedding #EVs! 🤩 😍 Join us!!
🎆 Join us for an unmissable finale to 2025! 🎆 We're thrilled to bring our #cilia & #centrosome community together 25/11/2025 15:00-17:45 GMT! Our 53rd @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium schedule is live: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... /1
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Tomorrow!!
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I have a degree in English and I can assure you that the word “orthodoxy” is NOT being used correctly and that the phrase “scientific orthodoxy” is an affront to the English language.
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I have a degree in English and I can assure you that the word “orthodoxy” is NOT being used correctly and that the phrase “scientific orthodoxy” is an affront to the English language.
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Night sky in phthalo over Glacier N.P. 10”x10” oil
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Night sky in phthalo over Glacier N.P. 10”x10” oil
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
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I wrote this in 2018 for a resource that doesn’t seem to exist anymore about how to respond to sexual harassment in STEM. I’m so disappointed, but not surprised, that I need to post it again
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/_files/diver...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/_files/diver...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I wrote this in 2018 for a resource that doesn’t seem to exist anymore about how to respond to sexual harassment in STEM. I’m so disappointed, but not surprised, that I need to post it again
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/_files/diver...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/_files/diver...
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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Pole creek in November
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Pole creek in November
Random photos from my November sanity walks. Beauty is everywhere. It's so important to breathe. Take good care, Bluesky peeps
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Random photos from my November sanity walks. Beauty is everywhere. It's so important to breathe. Take good care, Bluesky peeps
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In fairness, the NIH Director was describing his own research...
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In fairness, the NIH Director was describing his own research...
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Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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"They thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"They thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
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This is a great follow-up to our paper in another #devbio journal @dev-journal.bsky.social describing the step-wise, postnatal development of 🧠 perivascular fibroblasts via proliferation & migration - w/ their 'friends' the perivascular macrophages, they are the last to join the perivascular space!
Meningeal origins and dynamics of perivascular fibroblast development on the mouse cerebral vasculature
Highlighted Article: Brain perivascular fibroblasts migrate from their origin in the meninges and proliferate locally to fully cover penetrating vessels during postnatal mouse development.
journals.biologists.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is a great follow-up to our paper in another #devbio journal @dev-journal.bsky.social describing the step-wise, postnatal development of 🧠 perivascular fibroblasts via proliferation & migration - w/ their 'friends' the perivascular macrophages, they are the last to join the perivascular space!
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This is very exciting. Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine substantially outperformed the traditional/control vaccine. This cumulative incidence graph is remarkable. Again, they’re comparing the mRNA flu vaccine to an existing flu vaccine, not to a placebo @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is very exciting. Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine substantially outperformed the traditional/control vaccine. This cumulative incidence graph is remarkable. Again, they’re comparing the mRNA flu vaccine to an existing flu vaccine, not to a placebo @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
Cellular structure self-organizes through an interplay between internal mechanisms and external cues. The single-celled suctorian P. collini builds a trap structure to capture large prey using microtubule feeding tentacles, creating feedback between cell morphology and prey availability.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
now i've seen everything... 😱
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive