Baby napping on chest while working on laptop

American (academic) maternity leave

Working on my NIH progress report while my dad has a high risk open heart surgery while also 7.5 months pregnant cause thats just how this week is rolling... FML.

Canada could do a lot worse than to ban US cable news networks.

I really, really dislike these lying attack ads in the Pittsburgh mayoral election. Both candidates have +-'s, but Gainey's minus is not housing (it's probably administrative). He's done quite well on housing.

Paper is finally out!!!!

The notion that this administration was stripping Columbia of its medical research grants in order to combat antisemitism would be more credible if 1) there were any tangible & ethical requested steps & 2) they were not attempting to decimate research on several other fronts

Great speech!

My colleagues put together an ebook on tissue clearing (for #lightsheet microscopy).

If you are like me and have only experience with live imaging and are a bit confused with the different acronyms flying around, I highly recommend you take a look!

I counted 37 methods!

Pdf below or message me.

we're f'd.

Canada should burn down the White House again. Just sayin...

I mean, also, we get the money any way we can and then continue doing the best science we can. Yes, we aren't going to get additional support to do the right thing, but that doesn't mean we can't continue to do the right things.

Republican donors trying to unseat Pittsburgh’s progressive Black mayor Democratic primary battle promising to be biggest test for progressive movement since Trump’s presidential victory

I just have to leave this here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Interrupting your doom scrolling to share some wonderful news...

I have officially been promoted to Associate Professor!

Thank you to all the wonderful mentors and colleagues who have supported me to achieve this, especially
@statgendan.bsky.social and my cohort of Mothers Leading Science!

Thanks for all the support!

Quantifying the relationship between cell proliferation and morphology during development of the face Morphogenesis requires highly coordinated, complex interactions between cellular processes: proliferation, migration, and apoptosis, along with physical tissue interactions. How these cellular and tis...

10 years, 19 authors. Finally accepted. Seriously, this publication has been in progress longer than my marriage and is older than my child. @mcfunny.bsky.social @lovercio-lucas.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I spent a lot 4 years prostrate to the higher mind, got my papers….

This is such a load of …

Finding searches aren’t giving the same output as a few weeks back. Possible it’s just “glitches”

stuff is disappearing from pubmed.... keep your eyes open.

I think this can be seen by the fact that HHMI dropped existing grants like they were on fire and tried to erase all evidence of their previous existence. We're on our own.

More worried about if I still have travel funds…

Trump Team Dismantles Efforts to Find a Cure for Cancer and Other Deadly Disorders and Diseases President Trump’s Administration is imposing a new policy to cap indirect costs for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants at 15 percent, which would cut billions of dollars in funding fo...

Press release by the appropriations subcommittee on NIH budget slashing by @delauro.house.gov 🙏

We live in nightvale now.

So much for separation of church and state

Trump to create religious office in White House, target 'anti-Christian bias' (Reuters) (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will create a commission on religious liberty and a faith office at the White House.

l.smartnews.com/p-iGl0d5w/pL...

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A screenshot from a CNN article that reads as follows: Publicizing immigration enforcement less effective and puts officers at risk, former acting ICE director says From CNN's Javon Huynh There are good reasons why it is typical to refrain from drawing attention to immigration operations until they are complete, the former director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN. “Officer safety, especially when you're targeting individuals who should have a nexus to public safety, you don’t want to do anything to tempt them where they might be lying in wait for an officer, especially if somebody is doing harm,” John Sandweg told CNN’s John Berman. “It reduces the effectiveness of the operation as word gets out that you are targeting individuals within the nexus to the criminal justice system, those individuals tend to disappear,” Sandweg said.

Reminder to publicize immigration activity as much as possible 😄👍