Jeff Yau 姚明穎
@jeffmyau.bsky.social
family guy • neuroscientist in Houston interested in touch, the body, and multisensory processing • views are mine and not my employer’s • he/him • proud immigrant • mask wearer • RT≠endorse #CIDP #autoimmune 🐆
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Jeff Yau 姚明穎
@jeffmyau.bsky.social
· Dec 17
1/ In March 2023, I received a lumbar puncture. This was key to receiving my chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy #cidp diagnosis. This 🧵 is on my experience with identifying and treating #autoimmunedisease. I'll also be sharing some 🧵s I posted previously on the Other Place.
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"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
“Nice” NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile.
I often write blog comments about NIH grant review matters that exist in an uncomfortable tension between what NIH wants us to do on study section and what I see as our professional obligation to t…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
Current feeling in US academia… 😓
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Current feeling in US academia… 😓
Super proud to announce Juan Carlos Ramirez’s successful PhD defense! Keep an eye out for his exciting work on thermo-tactile interactions! #proudmentor #phdone @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Super proud to announce Juan Carlos Ramirez’s successful PhD defense! Keep an eye out for his exciting work on thermo-tactile interactions! #proudmentor #phdone @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a SARS-CoV-2 triggered Kawasaki disease
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Flu season is here somewhat early. Be careful out there, masks in crowded indoor spaces are a good idea, and get your flu (and Covid) shots asap.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Flu season is here somewhat early. Be careful out there, masks in crowded indoor spaces are a good idea, and get your flu (and Covid) shots asap.
Voting for a better future 🇺🇸💪
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Voting for a better future 🇺🇸💪
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25 hospitalizations, six deaths and one fetal loss have been reported in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled ready-to-eat pasta salads supplied by Nate's Fine Foods Inc. sold at Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Kroger, Walmart. FDA, CDC are investigating multi-state outbreak.
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
25 hospitalizations, six deaths and one fetal loss have been reported in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled ready-to-eat pasta salads supplied by Nate's Fine Foods Inc. sold at Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Kroger, Walmart. FDA, CDC are investigating multi-state outbreak.
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Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
😓
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Behavioural and neuronal insights into multisensory combination of unpracticed cues. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685323v1
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Behavioural and neuronal insights into multisensory combination of unpracticed cues. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685323v1
How Covid 🦠impacts the brain 🧠
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
How Covid 🦠impacts the brain 🧠
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Using a multi-step stimulation protocol, a team shows they can convert self-reacting, pathological CD4 T cells into stable antigen-specific regulatory T cells to suppress autoimmunity and treat pemphigus vulgaris in mice.
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/47qLomt
Learn more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/47qLomt
Conversion of pathogenic T cells into functionally stabilized Treg cells for antigen-specific immunosuppression in pemphigus vulgaris
Functionally stable regulatory T cells converted in vitro from pathogenic T cells can confer antigen-specific immunosuppression in pemphigus vulgaris.
scim.ag
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Happy Halloween from Yau Lab and friends! @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Happy Halloween from Yau Lab and friends! @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
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New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
Problems with ELife's new article type: Replication studies
I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
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🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
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I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...
Guest Essay: Unity is the only way out of Trump’s ‘compact’ - Washington Square News
Grace Lindsay is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Data Science at New York University. Nine universities received an Oct. 1 letter from the Trump administration with an offer: If you agree to a ...
nyunews.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...
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Eliminating DEI & hiring your friends www.science.org/content/arti...
JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute
Unusual hiring process raises fears of political favoritism
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Eliminating DEI & hiring your friends www.science.org/content/arti...
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Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.
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The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
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I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
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I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
Also, nevermind the weak statistical effects that fail to achieve significance if appropriate corrections for multiple comparisons are applied…
This study says that prenatal exposure does not affect babies negatively. In fact, they may have fewer nighttime awakenings, suggesting “improved maturity.”
Nevermind that thing about reduced orientation.
Well at least it’s mostly good news.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nevermind that thing about reduced orientation.
Well at least it’s mostly good news.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
COVID-19 infection during pregnancy and infant neurodevelopment - Pediatric Research
Pediatric Research - COVID-19 infection during pregnancy and infant neurodevelopment
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Also, nevermind the weak statistical effects that fail to achieve significance if appropriate corrections for multiple comparisons are applied…
