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Good science-ing this morning making figures & editing manuscript drafts, good hair day 👱🏼‍♀️, my office is filled with Colorado sunshine & my office orchids have bloomed...I'll appreciate all the little 'wins' that come my way. 😊👩‍🔬🌸📊🧠

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Influenza is a very serious infection
This season we are seeing more complications of flu due to the high case numbers and a late second peak of cases. In the last 10 days I have seen
- 2 cases of severe rhabdomyolysis with kidney failure caused by Flu B
- FluA myocarditis - pt had troponin > 50,000

4th Canadian Zebrafish Research Community meeting Join 4th Canadian Zebrafish Research Community meeting, May 15, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

🎉Registration is OPEN! 🎉
Abstract submissions for oral & poster talks are live for the 4th Canadian Zebrafish Research Conference! 🐟
✈️ Travel awards will be selected from submitted abstracts, don’t miss your chance!
👉 event.fourwaves.com/4czrc/pages
@izfs.bsky.social @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

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We have the vaccine, we have the means to distribute it. We need to redouble efforts to tackle the slow loss of confidence in vaccines.

No quick way to do this but we have the tools – it needs effort, outreach, listening to people’s concerns, answering questions, & working within communities. 8/8

Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A line graph shown the number of NIH projects funded for fiscal year 2026 (through 2/13/26) compared with fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is lagging behind following a slow start due to a government shutdown during October and November.

My weekly NIH update (grants funded through 2/13/26)

All projects...

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A line graph shown the number of NIH new and competitive awards funded for fiscal year 2026 (through 2/13/26) compared with fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is lagging well behind with only 569 awards made through 2/13/26 compared to >2000 for previous fiscal years.

New and competitive renewal awards.

The number of awards is 569 compared with more than 2200 through the same date in earlier fiscal years.

All ICs have now made awards except for NIAAA, NCCIH, NLM, FIC, and OD. NEI (Eye Institute) made its first award during the new period.

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My department @WashUMedNeuro is recruiting Assistant or Associate Professor of neuroscience. Join us for great science and a collegial environment! facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta... Please repost.

Quote card featuring UCSF neurosurgeon Doris Wang, MD, PhD. Quote: This establishes a framework for future adaptive DBS systems that could adjust stimulation in response to a patient's activity state.

New in #ScienceAdvances: @doriswang.bsky.social's team shows for the first time that at-home recordings from fully implanted deep brain stimulation devices can be used to decode personalized neural biomarkers associated with gait in patients with #Parkinsons. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/02...
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REQUEST: I am looking to speak to an avalanche expert for a story about the Castle Peak avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada. I am located a few miles from the incident location and am hoping to get some background information about avalanche danger.

Any recommendations appreciated!

Voices: Medical research saved my daughter’s life. We must protect the funding that makes that research possible. “Scientists are seeking new treatments and cures for many diseases, common and rare,” writes Lateishia Curtis in an op-ed. “Talk to friends, neighbors and policymakers about medical research. The next...

Wonderful op-ed by a mother who explains how NIH-funded research at U of U Health saved her daughter's life.

"That research — and Briar’s life — demonstrate just how critical federal support is to scientists, doctors and, especially, the patients they help."
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

Opinion: Confusing federal guidance is complicating Iowa parents' right to make vaccine decisions Anna Hicks prepares a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Andrews County Health Department, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in …

Confusing federal guidance is complicating Iowa parents’ right to make vaccine decisions www.thegazette.com/guest-column...

I nominated several students to attend the ULW while at UWM, and about five of them were selected to attend. All raved about their experiences, and it helped them figure out what they wanted to do next. Even if it comes back in 2027, I grieve for this year’s juniors who won’t be able to participate.

Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you.

Reposts appreciated!

Peer Review Timelines Show Gender Gap, Large Study Reports A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.

Great article for hiring committees and T&P committees....
But I'd also love to see breakdown by ethnic categories. I saw a talk a few years ago at WEPAN.org that said on average, papers led by a Black woman took 6 months to 3 years longer! (the longest she saw was 7!! years).

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE COLORADO NATIONAL DAY of ACTION Take back our science, health, and democracy! MARCH 7TH, 2026 DENVER, CO AND NATIONWIDE! standupforscience.net/march7

DENVER! Join your local March 7th rally to take back our science! Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#rally
#March7
#ImpeachRFKJr
#science
#standupforscience

We are pleased to share that Assistant Professor Anna Wuttig has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! 🏆

This honor from the Sloan Foundation recognizes early-career scientists with the potential to revolutionize their fields.

#UChicago #Chemistry #SloanFellow #Electrochemistry #WomenInSTEM

Voting Restrictions That Could Make It Harder for Married Women to Vote Pass US House A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections.

Organizations like the Legal Defense Fund and the League of Women Voters issued statements criticizing the bill, arguing it would disenfranchise millions of voters.

"This is modern-day voter suppression, plain and simple," the League of Women Voters' statement said.

Why is a cross-species spinal cord taxonomy important? 🧠📈

Join us on March 11 for an interactive webinar on this collaborative effort.

RSVP for link: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/

🧵Good news out of #NIH today.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

A Single-Cell Temporal Atlas of Mouse Nasal Embryonic Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.705966v1

'AI' anything is a trigger word. The big rat testicles and gibberish labels on nonsensical biological processes generated by AI and published in papers was kind of tame because it was so ridiculous. Oh that it would stay that ridiculous...🥴

Preprint or bust. [Though I feel like that one kind of got settled] Maybe someone just needs to attempt to revolutionize the peer review process in a new way, that will get us going. We all love to b**** about peer review.

“But don’t despair. Be as wise as my grandmama. Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread. When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we’ll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our Nation.”

IOB welcomes DELBERT ANDRÉ GREEN II, as Associate Editor in 2026!
Green is an Assistant Professor of #Ecology and #Evolutionary #Biology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
greendeilab.com
#biology #academia #PhD #science #entomology #butterflies

Tissue mechanics and systemic signaling safeguard epithelial tissue against spindle misorientation Bosveld et al. identified a multilayered system of safeguards that reuses homeostatic mechanisms to maintain epithelial integrity and cell number in the face of spindle misorientation. This work delin...

How resilient are tissues to cell mispositioning and loss, and how do they restore their cell numbers?

Check our latest work, from @ybellaichelab.bsky.social
Congratulations to all authors.

Artwork from the artist @lale-alpar.bsky.social
(lalealpar.com)

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Interview with Aníbal Vargas Ríos, LiSIUM initiative coordinator - FocalPlane Interview with Aníbal Vargas Ríos, LiSIUM initiative coordinator - Interviews

Our Community Manager @helenzsci.bsky.social chats with Aníbal Vargas Ríos @anvargasr.bsky.social about the LiSIUM initiative, which is democratising access to light-sheet microscopy in Chile and throughout Latin America.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/17/i...

😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)

A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭

Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍