Ben Renquist and Renquist Lab

Happy to see this review out there. A great writing team made this a fun project. Thanks @ahadjihambi.bsky.social for including me!

Quit confounding those in administrative positions with "leadership". It is possible that administrators (In academia read as Provost, Dean, Department Heads) lead, but in my experience it is much more likely that they are just not going to make waves. This makes them bad leaders.

Yes, I'm a white able bodied male. That is not something to create shame. The message chain has nothing to do with race, sex, or disability.

Did anything in your posts have to do with race or disability? This message chain is rediculous. You go after a fake enemy (professors as a entity) then attack the one person who engaged telling them they are too white and able bodied to understand. Goodbye

The scenario being described is not accurately portraying any professor I've ever met. We assign grades based on what was earned.

Your message suggests that faculty assign grades on something other than knowledge. Hard classes are not an attempt to lower GPAs or put students in their place, but instead, focused on ensuring that knowledge is gained. I'd encourage introspection.

The $40 Billion going to Argentina is equal to 83% of the entire NIH budget that supports health research throughout our country.

The Trump administration is expected to link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy President Trump and HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are expected to tie autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, and present a cancer drug as a possible treatment. There is little credible scientific evidence for either claim.

President Trump and HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are expected to tie autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, and present a cancer drug as a possible treatment. There is little credible scientific evidence for either claim.

Yep, no one sould be killed, but what they believed should affect how they are remembered. I'll remember him based on what he said and wish punishment on anyone who caused an early death.

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

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Looking for a postdoc! We have a recently funded NIH T32 and would love for you to work with our faculty to apply. Reach out to me and let me know your area of interest. I'll put you in touch with faculty with that expertise. My expertise is mechanistic studies of fatty liver and diabetes.

Don't text me to see if I can talk. Call me and I'll answer if I can talk. If I don't answer, I can't talk, but I'll call back.

Graphpad will even interpolate the values of your samples based on the 4PL regression.

Its gone to the birds

@renquistlab.bsky.social #LittleSSIB #SSIB2025

@ssibsociety.bsky.social

Thanks for the idea!

Way too many people in academia act like their job is a Game of Throwns. This job would be so much more enjoyable if we worked toward common goals.

Hey #neuroscience bsky. I know that expression of NaChBac can chronically activate neurons. Is there a similar protein that will chronically inhibit neurons?

CoQ imbalance drives reverse electron transport to disrupt liver metabolism - Nature Reverse electron transport is the mechanism behind excess mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in the livers of obese mice, which has implications for developing therapeutics for fatty liver dis...

CoQ imbalance drives reverse electron transport to disrupt liver metabolism
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I'm not sure what makes and affiliate, but I'd be happy to become one and help out.

Congratulations Thadeus and Yashika! Celebrating our awesome UA graduates. So proud of everything you have accomplished in the lab. You will be missed, but we're excited for you to go on and do great things! 🥳 @uazhealthsciences.bsky.social @uazbio5.bsky.social

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research

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GLP-1R/GCGR dual agonism dissipates hepatic steatosis to restore insulin sensitivity and rescue pancreatic β-cell function in obese male mice - Nature Communications Early drivers of T2D include ectopic fat accumulation that impairs insulin sensitivity. Here, the authors show that GLP1/GCGR dual agonism provides multimodal benefits in obese male mice by reducing l...

GLP-1R/GCGR dual agonism in mice provides multimodal efficacy to decrease hepatic steatosis and consequently improve insulin sensitivity, in concert with recovery of endogenous β-cell function and reduced insulin demand #diabetes @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

This is absolutely terrible news.

With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.

h/t @merz.bsky.social

🎤Hey, is this thing on?

The Animal Models for the Social Dimensions of Health and Aging Research Network is on Bluesky! We are an NIA-funded network headquartered at UMN, ASU, UNC, and Duke that supports early-career scientists using animal models to study social aging. New funding available soon!

To be clear, we tried to work with them. They assumed we were the issue so we humored them when they asked us to show that we could get a virus to work (inject a CAG GFP encoding AAV). After showing we weren't the issue they refused to stand behind their product and provide working virus.

For all my science followers, we ordered an AAV from @vectorbuilder.bsky.social. They delivered an AAV that didn't induce expression and refuse to provide working virus. My advice, find another company to make your AAVs.