Danielle Beckman
@daniellebeckman.bsky.social
PharmD, MS in Biophysics, PhD in BioChem
I like taking photos of weird things inside the brain 🔬
Cure #LongCovid
Long Covid Advisory Team: https://whn.global/long-covid-advisor.
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I like taking photos of weird things inside the brain 🔬
Cure #LongCovid
Long Covid Advisory Team: https://whn.global/long-covid-advisor.
daniellebeckman.com
There is a lot of good research and amazing people working on #LongCovid in Europe! Yes, the road is long, but after today, I feel my hope is restored. Some of my favorite moments from today's meeting at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome:
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
There is a lot of good research and amazing people working on #LongCovid in Europe! Yes, the road is long, but after today, I feel my hope is restored. Some of my favorite moments from today's meeting at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani in Rome:
Airport time! Final touches on my slides and I am on my way to Rome for an exciting Long Covid meeting!
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Airport time! Final touches on my slides and I am on my way to Rome for an exciting Long Covid meeting!
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
A little upset that I am not in San Diego to see my images in person, so I am just trying to find them online 👀
Badge pick-up with upside-down hippocampus!
#SfN25
Badge pick-up with upside-down hippocampus!
#SfN25
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A little upset that I am not in San Diego to see my images in person, so I am just trying to find them online 👀
Badge pick-up with upside-down hippocampus!
#SfN25
Badge pick-up with upside-down hippocampus!
#SfN25
The Society for Neuroscience meeting starts tomorrow! I prepared some microscopy images for display at the convention center in San Diego. Let me know if you see one of my images around! 🤓 🔬 🧠
@sfn.org #SfN25 #FluorescenceFriday
@sfn.org #SfN25 #FluorescenceFriday
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Society for Neuroscience meeting starts tomorrow! I prepared some microscopy images for display at the convention center in San Diego. Let me know if you see one of my images around! 🤓 🔬 🧠
@sfn.org #SfN25 #FluorescenceFriday
@sfn.org #SfN25 #FluorescenceFriday
Join us tomorrow online at the Canadian Collaborative conference on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)! I will be talking a bit about Cognitive Dysfunction in ME and the lessons we have been learning from Long Covid research.
Free registration here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#ME #LongCovid
Free registration here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#ME #LongCovid
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Join us tomorrow online at the Canadian Collaborative conference on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)! I will be talking a bit about Cognitive Dysfunction in ME and the lessons we have been learning from Long Covid research.
Free registration here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#ME #LongCovid
Free registration here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#ME #LongCovid
Brain microscopy with annotations for better understanding ☺️! What if we take a deep dive into the cerebral sulcus? The grey matter has the neurons' cell bodies🔵, and while microglia🟣are more evenly distributed, astrocytes🟡 shape changes in the white matter. #Neuroscience #Microscopy 🧠🔬
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Brain microscopy with annotations for better understanding ☺️! What if we take a deep dive into the cerebral sulcus? The grey matter has the neurons' cell bodies🔵, and while microglia🟣are more evenly distributed, astrocytes🟡 shape changes in the white matter. #Neuroscience #Microscopy 🧠🔬
From the series of philosophical questions I ask myself every day:
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
From the series of philosophical questions I ask myself every day:
More and more Neuroscience shows that building muscle makes your brain more resilient to adversity by improving its ability to handle stress. I decided to experiment on myself. 3 months of strength training 3-4 per week. Daily 2g of protein/kg and 10g of creatine. Never felt better 💪
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
More and more Neuroscience shows that building muscle makes your brain more resilient to adversity by improving its ability to handle stress. I decided to experiment on myself. 3 months of strength training 3-4 per week. Daily 2g of protein/kg and 10g of creatine. Never felt better 💪
I love how the laws of nature don’t care about ideology or politics: gravity, cancer biology and virology behave the same no matter who’s in office.
Cutting investment in this type of discovery will only slow down scientific progress and relocate it, but will not stop it.
#vaccineswork
Cutting investment in this type of discovery will only slow down scientific progress and relocate it, but will not stop it.
#vaccineswork
People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 than if they hadn’t
go.nature.com/4hkqZma
go.nature.com/4hkqZma
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
go.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I love how the laws of nature don’t care about ideology or politics: gravity, cancer biology and virology behave the same no matter who’s in office.
Cutting investment in this type of discovery will only slow down scientific progress and relocate it, but will not stop it.
#vaccineswork
Cutting investment in this type of discovery will only slow down scientific progress and relocate it, but will not stop it.
#vaccineswork
When science and medicine work together to improve people's lives the results are so impressive 🤩! This is a deep-brain stimulation surgery to implant electrodes in specific areas of the brain that control movement, in this case, allowing a #Parkinson's patient to keep playing 🎼
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When science and medicine work together to improve people's lives the results are so impressive 🤩! This is a deep-brain stimulation surgery to implant electrodes in specific areas of the brain that control movement, in this case, allowing a #Parkinson's patient to keep playing 🎼
Testing some new antibodies to identify oligodendrocytes 🟣, for me, the most difficult one to target in brain microscopy! Here I was able to identify its nuclei (oligo2 marker), not the whole cell body like neurons 🟡or microglia 🔵. Still, you can see oligos are everywhere! #Neuroscience #Microscopy
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Testing some new antibodies to identify oligodendrocytes 🟣, for me, the most difficult one to target in brain microscopy! Here I was able to identify its nuclei (oligo2 marker), not the whole cell body like neurons 🟡or microglia 🔵. Still, you can see oligos are everywhere! #Neuroscience #Microscopy
A single millennial with no kids is spending her money. Please take a look at my Kang and Kodos Halloween-approved new pair 👽😁
October 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A single millennial with no kids is spending her money. Please take a look at my Kang and Kodos Halloween-approved new pair 👽😁
*The uninvited guest* (sound on this time!)
Third week of observing scary things under the microscope: watching #SARSCoV2🟣 positive cells arrive in the brain. Note it's still inside a blood vessel and being checked by astrocytes🟢and microglia🔵. What happens next? 😨 #FluorescenceFriday
Third week of observing scary things under the microscope: watching #SARSCoV2🟣 positive cells arrive in the brain. Note it's still inside a blood vessel and being checked by astrocytes🟢and microglia🔵. What happens next? 😨 #FluorescenceFriday
October 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
*The uninvited guest* (sound on this time!)
Third week of observing scary things under the microscope: watching #SARSCoV2🟣 positive cells arrive in the brain. Note it's still inside a blood vessel and being checked by astrocytes🟢and microglia🔵. What happens next? 😨 #FluorescenceFriday
Third week of observing scary things under the microscope: watching #SARSCoV2🟣 positive cells arrive in the brain. Note it's still inside a blood vessel and being checked by astrocytes🟢and microglia🔵. What happens next? 😨 #FluorescenceFriday
" Here we present a large-scale longitudinal analysis of health records from more than 100 million individuals in the U.S that demonstrates a consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics."
#Neurovirology #Alzheimer
#Neurovirology #Alzheimer
Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine
Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
" Here we present a large-scale longitudinal analysis of health records from more than 100 million individuals in the U.S that demonstrates a consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics."
#Neurovirology #Alzheimer
#Neurovirology #Alzheimer
Are you one of the 20.000 people who've registered for #SfN25, one of the world's largest science meetings? To make a statement about the importance of #NeuroCovid, my poster will be presented by the President of SfN😱, as I will be in Rome giving a talk on the same topic!
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Are you one of the 20.000 people who've registered for #SfN25, one of the world's largest science meetings? To make a statement about the importance of #NeuroCovid, my poster will be presented by the President of SfN😱, as I will be in Rome giving a talk on the same topic!
In a parallel universe, the iron throne belongs to the crazy cat lady. She is clearly tired and needs a break. She was married to Palpatine, but they have since separated and she kept the Praetorian Guard during the divorce. Kylo Ren is their only child. Night King plots revenge.
October 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In a parallel universe, the iron throne belongs to the crazy cat lady. She is clearly tired and needs a break. She was married to Palpatine, but they have since separated and she kept the Praetorian Guard during the divorce. Kylo Ren is their only child. Night King plots revenge.
Viral trigger in Alzheimer’s disease is the real scary spooky #FluorescenceFriday.
Amyloid-β🟣 is an antimicrobial peptide that can be produced to trap pathogens in the brain. But it also induces an extensive neuroinflammatory response, as shown here with 🟠astrocytes. #NeuroCovid
Amyloid-β🟣 is an antimicrobial peptide that can be produced to trap pathogens in the brain. But it also induces an extensive neuroinflammatory response, as shown here with 🟠astrocytes. #NeuroCovid
October 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Viral trigger in Alzheimer’s disease is the real scary spooky #FluorescenceFriday.
Amyloid-β🟣 is an antimicrobial peptide that can be produced to trap pathogens in the brain. But it also induces an extensive neuroinflammatory response, as shown here with 🟠astrocytes. #NeuroCovid
Amyloid-β🟣 is an antimicrobial peptide that can be produced to trap pathogens in the brain. But it also induces an extensive neuroinflammatory response, as shown here with 🟠astrocytes. #NeuroCovid
"Nothing About Us Without Us".
I've been thinking about the title of this meeting and asking myself, why don't we hold more scientific meetings like this? The public brings the questions for the scientists, and we show them what we are doing to address it. #ME #MECFS
#AcademicSky
I've been thinking about the title of this meeting and asking myself, why don't we hold more scientific meetings like this? The public brings the questions for the scientists, and we show them what we are doing to address it. #ME #MECFS
#AcademicSky
October 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Nothing About Us Without Us".
I've been thinking about the title of this meeting and asking myself, why don't we hold more scientific meetings like this? The public brings the questions for the scientists, and we show them what we are doing to address it. #ME #MECFS
#AcademicSky
I've been thinking about the title of this meeting and asking myself, why don't we hold more scientific meetings like this? The public brings the questions for the scientists, and we show them what we are doing to address it. #ME #MECFS
#AcademicSky
Join us at the Canadian Collaborative Conference on #ME, 100% free and online!
Register here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #LongCovid
Register here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #LongCovid
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join us at the Canadian Collaborative Conference on #ME, 100% free and online!
Register here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #LongCovid
Register here: icancme.ca/research/202...
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #LongCovid
'Living his best life' 😎😁
#NobelPrize
#NobelPrize
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
'Living his best life' 😎😁
#NobelPrize
#NobelPrize
More than $500 million in federal grants for UCLA research were frozen in July, and partially restored a few days ago (legal proceedings are ongoing). For research that saves lives and wins prizes. American hegemony in the Nobel Prizes is going to drastically change soon.
UCLA alumnus Fred Ramsdell received the @nobelprize.bsky.social today in Physiology or Medicine — our 17th Nobel Prize for an alum or faculty member, and the third prize in five years for a Bruin. ucla.in/4oaVlKd #nobelprize #academicsky 🧪
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
More than $500 million in federal grants for UCLA research were frozen in July, and partially restored a few days ago (legal proceedings are ongoing). For research that saves lives and wins prizes. American hegemony in the Nobel Prizes is going to drastically change soon.
👻 "Dark Forest Within" 🧠
What if the brain is a creepy forest? Our neurons are the 🌲, old (as old as we are!), and without mobility. Suddenly, comes the microglia, our brain's immune cells. Everything lights up when they move around.
🟢microglia🟣neurons
#FluorescenceFriday 🎃
What if the brain is a creepy forest? Our neurons are the 🌲, old (as old as we are!), and without mobility. Suddenly, comes the microglia, our brain's immune cells. Everything lights up when they move around.
🟢microglia🟣neurons
#FluorescenceFriday 🎃
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
👻 "Dark Forest Within" 🧠
What if the brain is a creepy forest? Our neurons are the 🌲, old (as old as we are!), and without mobility. Suddenly, comes the microglia, our brain's immune cells. Everything lights up when they move around.
🟢microglia🟣neurons
#FluorescenceFriday 🎃
What if the brain is a creepy forest? Our neurons are the 🌲, old (as old as we are!), and without mobility. Suddenly, comes the microglia, our brain's immune cells. Everything lights up when they move around.
🟢microglia🟣neurons
#FluorescenceFriday 🎃
Be aware of the spooky #FluorescenceFriday season, folks.
👻🧟♀️🔬🧠
👻🧟♀️🔬🧠
October 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Be aware of the spooky #FluorescenceFriday season, folks.
👻🧟♀️🔬🧠
👻🧟♀️🔬🧠
My reality, and for so many other scientists as well. Guess we can just use this as a template 🙄.
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My reality, and for so many other scientists as well. Guess we can just use this as a template 🙄.
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
#LongCovid #NeuroCovid
Behind the scenes: researching Long COVID and menstruation
#LongCovid #Periods #COVID19 #menstruation
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#LongCovid #Periods #COVID19 #menstruation
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Behind the scenes: researching long COVID and menstruation
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, few of us anticipated the lingering aftermath that would emerge in its wake. As a researcher in women's health, I found myself drawn into an unexpected and urgent are...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Behind the scenes: researching Long COVID and menstruation
#LongCovid #Periods #COVID19 #menstruation
communities.springernature.com/posts/behind...
#LongCovid #Periods #COVID19 #menstruation
communities.springernature.com/posts/behind...