@sierralab.bsky.social
Research professor at Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience. Microglial lover, passionate about science outreach. ORCID: 0000-0001-8415-096X Lab website: https://www.achucarro.org/es/laboratory/glial-cell-biology/
Reach out if you want to discuss!
We discuss limitations of current protocols (including statistical analysis!) and provide recommendations on validating the immunicompetence of microglia in the brain organoids.
Our recent review on #microglia and brain #organoids is getting a good reception! 🧠🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🧠🧪Funded PhD job offer ok neddylation in glial cells @achucarro.bsky.social
Pls repost
Join us if you want to learn about #microglia!
"Sisterly love"
Proliferating neural stem cells🧪🧠
Are you interested in human brain #organoids to study #microglia but don't know where to start?🧠🧪
#neuroskyence
Here's our piece of advice on "Building Immunocompetent Cerebral Organoids From a Developmental Perspective"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The @sierralab.bsky.social lab is hiring!
Postdoctoral position in #microglial development (#IKUR)
www.achucarro.org/job/postdoct...
Reaching Marseille was quite an odissey because of the wildfires, but the #Euroglia meeting was quite a success! Tons of science, friends and fun!
@sierralab.bsky.social reflexiona sobre si se puede parar la #menopausia
www.elcorreo.com/vivir/salud/...
Pero cámbiate el handle que no sabía que eras tú!
Congrats dear Alberto! You rock!
This sounds sooo familiar
So, maybe, "The next time we hear a crazy/bitch narrative about a senior woman, let's ask ourselves: How much first-hand evidence do we personally have to back it up -- does it resonate with our own direct observations and interactions with her?"
#Cellpose 3 paper now out. Not all images are perfect. Restore your images with Cellpose3 to get better segmentations, w/ @marius10p.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats Marisol, you rock!
Even in the absence of formal instruction to do so, we should continue to hold ourselves and our neuroscience colleagues accountable for “Sex as a Biological Variable” practices, writes @docbecca.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
My heart is with my fellow american scientists... Politics interfering with science at this level is something I could have never expected
Fantastic defense by the ever amazing @martapiglesias.bsky.social! Watch out for more great things to come from her!
Thank you Carles!
Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
Of course, the field has been focused on pruning for too long, disregarding other roles. It's not good for discovery!
🗣️ℹ️How do we prevent misinformation? By talking about it, without reservations and full openness.
🧫🐁It is the same with science communication and #AnimalResearch specifically.
💉💡Even if you somehow oppose it… know why it is still needed.
Thanks for reaching out! The distinction between hunters or gatherers (culling or scavening) is mechanistic and needs to be experimentally determined. Pruning and gardening are poetic terms but not accurate enough in my opinion. They do not help understanding how microglia actually remove synapses
This is today. No recording, so it won't be available in our website.
Don't miss it!
I would love to hear your views on this article. I discuss some hurdles I faced when thinking about experiments and projects design. This is something no one formally teaches you.
network.febs.org/posts/thinki...
🧪🧠
Interested in pursuing a PhD in neuroimmunology and metabolism? Apply to this call to work on a collaborative project between my group and @cmadore.bsky.social !
"Note, for all the seemingly sophisticated thought and language, the moral indifference born of unintelligence. Here, ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation".
"On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations".
"The human mind is not, like ChatGPT a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response, most probable answer to a scientific question"
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/o...