Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷

Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.

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At risk of spreading fear, I'm retweeting this without looking into the details

She was amazing!!

Common thread was definitely: be bold. Very happy I was able to bring two trainees, who I think had an awesome experience. The touch screen posters were super fun 🤩 It was also great getting to know several members of my fellow 2025 Freeman Hrabowksi cohort! Excited and energized to get to work 👩🏾‍🔬

I had an amazing experience at my first @hhmi.org Science Meeting! It was very fun to hear about the cool work done by HHMI labs across disciplines. It was also very interesting to see the commonalities and differences in approaches used by scientists from diverse fields.

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Look at these masked losers. This morning on 10th and Harrison.

Trump is acting like a Chinese Communist Party asset: Trying to kill the American clean energy industry — ensuring an energy shortage & skyrocketing costs — as China smartly rockets ahead with massive clean energy expansion.

Major milestone achieved Wednesday: my very first grad student delivered his exit seminar. Dr. Cyrrus Espino is a science rock star and I’m lucky to have had the opportunity to contribute to his development. Very excited to see what’s to come in what will surely be a successful career. Cheers Doc!

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

These supernumerary synapses are pruned in a proprioceptor-activity dependent manner.
A cool finding was that impaired proprioceptor activity fails to induce expression of proteins in the complement signaling cascade, which we hypothesized leads to persistent intersegmental synapses.

Activity-driven proprioceptive synaptic refinement in the developing spinal cord by complement signaling mechanisms Proprioceptive group Ia afferents detect muscle stretch to guide effortless and purposeful movement and make monosynaptic connections with spinal α–motor neurons to mediate reflexes, such as the stret...

Happy to share the my lab's latest preprint, where we investigated sensorimotor circuit formation in the developing spinal cord. We show that proprioceptive axons target motor neurons in neighboring spinal segments to give rise to intersegmental reflex responses.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Da Nang Vietnam 😇

If you sent me an email in the last few weeks, my bad. This is how it found me 😎 promise I’ll get back to you soon.

Happy August 5 to all who celebrate! 😊🙌🏾#Alabamabrawl #Fadeinthewater #Thebruhsdonotplay #Aquamayne #IYKYK

Notes my daughter took during my talk at the 2025 @faseborg.bsky.social Ion Channel Regulation Meeting 🥰🥰🥰

The $87 Trillion Bill That Comes From Denying Reality Even putting aside science, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to reverse the finding that greenhouse-gas emissions are a danger to the public makes no economic sense.

Bloomberg argues Zeldin’s plan to revoke EPA’s 2009 greenhouse‑gas finding is fiscally reckless: it might save ~$1T in compliance but risks ~$87T in climate damages.

Legally shaky and economically absurd, it shifts massive costs to the public, on top of massive health risks.

zurl.co/Evupj

There are Black people in the future 👽

On our way to the FASEB Ion Channel Regulation Meeting! Passed by a lovely exhibition at SFO. Surprised to see it still standing! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 @drcontrexin.bsky.social

But also entire research areas are being de-prioritized or wiped out. I think our ability to advance knowledge of biological sex differences could definitely be at risk. Climate change related research, etc. All very much at risk.

I’m worried the longest lasting effect will be a loss of trainees. They could very reasonably become disillusioned with the process and decide to pursue something else. We are also at risk of losing a lot of international talent that has been crucial to scientific progress in the US.

Yesterday I had the chance to let @mikethompson.house.gov know just how important it is he continue advocating against the destructive federal research funding cuts. I spoke about the importance of our research and how the cuts are affecting future generations of scientists.

Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.

Texas Republicans, at Trump’s request, are redrawing their Congressional district lines to steal FIVE additional seats.

They’re undoing democracy to keep themselves in power. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...

Current advances in large‐pore channels: From structure–function to physiology and disease Click on the article title to read more.

Large-pore channels: the Transformers of membrane proteins, versatile, dramatic, and never just selective or passive conduits.

Not just simple (typical) ion channels, they’re molecular multitaskers we’re beginning to comprehend.

Don’t miss the first-ever special issue dedicated to this!

Heyyyyyyy!!! So glad you’re here!!! Welcome 🤗

"NIH, EPA, & now NASA. The federal government’s scientists & science-adjacent employees are in open revolt against an administration that wears its disdain for such work and expertise on its sleeve..."

Support the brave #NASA employees here ➡️zurl.co/jHKbx
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#VoyagerDeclaration

The problem with this headline writing style is now that it is possible for a vehicle to actually do this without human guidance it’s actually a problem that AP refuses to say that a person drove their vehicle into a crowd

Which is terrible

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests.

We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

If you see AI videos of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask speaking and pretending to be Anonymous, those are fake and are being generated by MAGA. Be aware and know the signs.

It's cringe, don't fall for it.