Mayank Chugh (he/him) ✨

Single-nucleus transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling of mouse hypothalamic LepRb neurons reveals cell type-specific cis-regulatory elements linked to human obesity Leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRHypo) are key regulators of energy balance, yet a comprehensive, cell type-resolved, chromatin accessibility map of these neurons is lacking. We pr...

I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists – ASAPbio The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is requiring its scientists to post their research articles as preprints under an open license that allows

YASS!! Let’s keep pushing open the doors to research assessment with preprints!!

asapbio.org/hhmi-enacts-...

First lab meeting w/ 6 grad students UMBC!

Congrats @needhibhalla.bsky.social
Well deserved!!!

@madhupai.bsky.social @mads100tist.bsky.social @needhibhalla.bsky.social @cpw-uaw4100.bsky.social @ucs.org @statnews.com @therealdrdukes.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @science.org @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social

Yeah, this is a piece of labour, love, & mostly experience from our team.

Two impactful pieces of data are:

Thanks, already?! Appreciate it. Indeed.

This work is done with amazing folks: Payel Ganguly, Raquel Ferrer-Espada, & Michel Nofal @harvard.edu

Huge gratitude to HMPA and Office of Postdoc Fellows, Jim Gould.

And Thank You to all the postdocs who took part in our study.

U.S. Visa Bureaucracy and Its Burdens Among Early Career Scholars Foreign-born research scholars on temporary visas are essential to the U.S. scientific workforce and economy, yet they face systemic challenges shaped by restrictive immigration policies. While schola...

📣 Thrilled to share the first paper from ReForm Lab

Are you an international scholar on a visa? Faculty with international students in your lab and class? Student center workers? For the 1st time, we report data on visa burdens from over 700 ECRs.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open Science: An Antidote to Anti-Science Disappearing public datasets and funding cuts undermine US research. Can open science practices help researchers find stability?

The Trump admin is eliminating research through cuts to the #NIH and #NSF. In this op-ed, @mayankchugh.bsky.social & @jacoates.bsky.social urge a shift to open science: a model based on transparency, equity, and free access to research.
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Learn more in The Scientist. ⤵️

Science Under Threat in the United States: The impact on undergraduate students Anti-science policies, funding cuts, scientific censorship and the US withdrawing from international commitments are worrying members of the ReForm Lab at the College of William & Mary.

Science in the US is in turmoil—funding slashed, research censored, students shut out. How do we tell young scientists to stay when the system is pushing them away?

Students from @mayankchugh.bsky.social's ReForm lab are worried, but they march on. #StandUpForScience
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My undergraduate students & I have been having discussions about what the current US policies mean for the science, their career aspirations, & public health.

Thank you @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @elifecommunity.bsky.social
for giving us a space to share our voices & fears.

There are academics I’ve spoken to that still don’t understand the publishing process @elife.bsky.social & yet have opinions on why it ain’t great. 🙄

Here’s a clear step by step with video explaining how publishing/PRC model at eLife. 👇🏽

Have you got your understanding right? 🤨

This was spot on. Thanks for this!

Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis.

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social

“It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.”

“Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.”

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more:

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

2/ Dine Roseline Dzekem introduced the work of eLife's Global South Committee and for an overview of our Early-Career Advisory Group, we heard from members Laura Han, @mayankchugh.bsky.social, Charlotte Ayima and Diana López.

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open scie...

I got to collaborate with amazing @jacoates.bsky.social on this:

Calling open science community to be the guidepost & lead by example as science & scientists suffer in chaos.

Read here:

upstream.force11.org/open-science...

Thank you! @network-alba.bsky.social for having me to discuss challenges faced by postdocs and thank you to Katie for covering this for the @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Important than ever now

Thank you @epimechfc.bsky.social for featuring and including us!!

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

So my first semester of undergraduate teaching ended and in the last class I got some sweet souvenirs from my students. I am so humbled. Awww.

It indeed is quite nice here! :)

Yes yes yes. Kiwanuka is a genius!

Welcome!!!!! ✨
Join the lost gang. :)

Thank you so much, @godwyns.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social for having me & providing an excellent space to share my voice & experiences with the research community!

Thanks, W&M for covering me in the news. Plus, a great photo with my postdoc advisor Sean Megason & Dean Reede.

news.wm.edu/2024/11/19/h...

Oh lord, ffs.