Michael Sewell

You know you work in academia when you can brush off a desk rejection (that took almost a month for a paper of five years worth of work) back to back with a fellowship rejection. In less than half an hour…

Very VERY proud to have been part of this incredible piece of work

Hundreds of paired and group interactions, exploring the double empathy problem in a large diverse sample.

good to see work that really cares about statistical rigor too in the field (something that is really lacking) - awesome job!

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

Long-read RNA sequencing atlas of human microglia isoforms elucidates disease-associated genetic regulation of splicing - Nature Genetics This isoform-centric microglia genomic atlas includes 35,879 novel human microglia isoforms identified by long-read RNA sequencing. A multi-ancestry quantitative trait locus meta-analysis of known and...

Ecstatic to see our paper "Long-read RNA sequencing atlas of human microglia isoforms elucidates disease-associated genetic regulation of splicing" now published in @naturegenet.bsky.social with @trajnp.bsky.social and @panosroussos.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

2025 off to a decent start...Happy to share my latest first author paper with the brilliant Nela Fialova and @axelmontagne.bsky.social where we sought to identify genes that are frequently altered in vascular cells in CNS disorders across existing datasets. Check it out here!

Work from my undergrad (over eight years ago now 🤣) officially out as a pre-print! Check it out here

awesome opportunity with a great bunch of PIs :)

(VIDA DTC) Exploring the role of the astrocyte-leptomeningeal vessel interface in dementia at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - (VIDA DTC) Exploring the role of the astrocyte-leptomeningeal vessel interface in dementia at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity: If you're interested in how astrocytes and the meninges talk to each other and how this is affected in dementia come do your PhD with us in Edinburgh (cc: Karen Horsburgh and Ingo Schiessl)!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Would love to join this!

go.bsky.app/Lyzro3M

!WELCOME!

thought we might need a starter pack for all those coming over from the birdhouse - here's a GliaSky list.

apologies for missing many of you - please do reply to get added

and remember to repost so the newbies can find us!