Pinar Ayata

Pinar Ayata

@pinar-ayata.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, proud enemy of the Nazis, @asrc-gc.bsky.social. Microglia. Ayatalab.org previously Mount Sinai & Rockefeller University

202 Followers 276 Following 42 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Wow.

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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To. 12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony

Q: Would you be surprised if President Trump directs DOJ to indict you?

Jack Smith: “No.”

That answer should alarm anyone who cares about independent justice.

www.readtpa.com/p/house-repu...

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3 months ago
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This new @michellemonje.bsky.social preprint shows that #psilocybin promotes the rapid and persistent growth of... xenografted glioma in mice. 🫠

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Enduring but maladaptive plasticity induced by #psychedelics.

h/t @tylerekins.bsky.social @theborislab.bsky.social

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A year ago, our lawsuits helped make sure congestion pricing would go into effect on January 1, 2025. Now, the results are clear: 

Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution – not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.

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New York City has fallen. Day 1 of living in Mamdanistan. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

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This immune circuit may protect the brain from Alzheimer's - News The atlas makes the most dangerous animal in the world a lot easier to study--and perhaps defeat one day.

The #TarakhovskyLab, as part of an international team of scientists, has identified a new molecular pathway that shifts microglia into a protective state. The findings may lead to Alzheimer's therapies that can reprogram the brain’s own immune defenses.

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Lymphoid gene expression supports neuroprotective microglia function - Nature PU.1low CD28-expressing microglia may act as suppressive cells in Alzheimer’s disease, mitigating its progression by reducing neuroinflammation and amyloid plaque load, indicating potential immunother...

Protective Microglia Subtype Offers Potential New Therapeutic Pathway in Alzheimer’s Disease 🧠🛡️

A new nature.com study by the Schaefer lab and reseachers at Mount Sinai Medical Center, with rockefeller.edu and cuny.edu, identifies a protective state of microglia.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.

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We joined the protests from the highest point in the northeast!

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A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.

Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏

History.

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NYC: Aerial view of the #Nokings protest gives an indication of the magnitude of this unstoppable movement in downtown NYC.

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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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6 months ago

We are witnessing the destruction of the remnants of Turkey’s already agonizing parliamentary democracy, as police forces occupy the Istanbul headquarters of the main opposition party, firing tear gas and plastic bullets both inside and outside against party members, MPs, and protesters.

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7 months ago

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Afternoon cat

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How Does the NIH Initiative to Prioritize Human-Based Research Affect Research Proposing the Use of Laboratory Animals? | Grants & Funding

Was just pointed to this newly posted clarification language about animal models in NIH research grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

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8 months ago
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The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

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Excited to share this new story from the lab and led by the very talented @bendevlin.bsky.social! In collab with Anne Schaefer and grateful for funding from NIH and @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social. a brief 🧵

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My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate.

But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.

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“It’s so New York.” ❤️

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Today’s win: I didn’t rank Cuomo

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An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

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Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement

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Trump & my Republican colleagues want to throw 16 million Americans off health care – on top of 85 million who are uninsured or underinsured.

Their actions will cause more than 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year.

Why? So they can give massive tax breaks to the 1%.

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It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

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