zara weinberg

Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...

‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️
Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

the nice thing about being a gemini is that you can blame every single one of your problems on being a gemini. capricorns, for example, cannot do this.

A screenshot showing Elsevier asking: With which Gender do you identify most? With the options: 1) Woman, 2) Man, 3) Non-binary or gender diverse, or 4) I prefer not to disclose.

how is it that elsevier gets this right when my own university is still fucking up??

SNIPR induces neuronal differentiation in mESCs. Validation of neuronal differentiation of ALFA-mESC sender cells and UAS-Ngn2 + NbALFA-SNIPR receiver cells co-cultured in 2i using the TUBB3 marker with confocal microscopy (DAPI is in purple, mCherry reporter is in green and TUBB3 is in cyan). Maximum-intensity projections are shown. Scale bar: 20 µm.

Expanding the synthetic toolkit to study development in mESCs

Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Sarah Soliman @sssoliman.bsky.social, Devan Shah, Hana El-Samad @hanascientist.bsky.social & Zara Weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org:

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions...

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I am writing to let you know that due to changes in NIH/HHS priorities, the Maximizing Opportunity for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program has been terminated. Your institution can continue to draw funds on any active award for allowed costs that are within scope and consistent with the Grants Policy Statement. Further awards will not be made, and NIGMS will not permit no-cost extensions.

so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program.

this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole

Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.

this really is what it’s like

“The result is going to be the systematic removal of women and people of color from the act of research. At the end of this, we’re going to end up with an academy that is more white, more wealthy, more male, more cisgender, and it’s going to reinforce the same problem.”

"Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit."

also helps to understand how an institution like Johns Hopkins, which is ostensibly private, is being hit so hard because their funding might be more public than similar tier “public” institutions

that distinction makes a lot of sense, and i guess is a good foreshadowing of which institutions will survive this

maybe that comparison isn’t reasonable given the Mark Benioff of it all, but still UWashington and UMichigan are hanging on to their grad programs too…

why are some public med schools rescinding admissions and others are behaving like nothing is happening? is this different risk mitigation strategies or is there something about the economics that fundamentally differs between say UMass and UCSF?

I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.

Ed from the anime cowboy bebop hooked up to their computer system

me reading your posts

General strike?

wait you’re telling me “go birds” ISN’T a cheer to support our feathered friends dying from the flu??

a spotify screenshot showing Mama by My Chemical Romance and Mother by Pink Floyd

same song different font

Excited to share that our lab website is live! nicholassilvalab.org

Please reach out if you are interested in studying neuroimmune mechanisms using the zebrafish model. 🐟🧠🥼🔬

we have more power and agency than we think we do

the fact that quitting or delay are the only options you can think of in the face of fascism says a lot about the scope of your imagination :)

‘Clever’ Trump Executive Order Shrouds DOGE From Public Scrutiny Situating the new department in an existing agency enables it to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.

So it’s not going to be a new agency but rather a renaming of the U.S. Digital Service (launched in 2014).

And because the origin of the USDS was the executive branch, it’s legal for Trump to move it to the Executive Office of the President, not subject to FOIA.

thedispatch.com/article/clev...

candid shot of Scully and Mulder, both smiling, his head tucked against her chest while she embraces him

#goals

bureaucracy isnt preventing them from dismantling the NIH or DEI programs. bureaucratic compliance is enabling it!

at what point during the first trump administration or in the past week has it seemed like bureaucracy is actually preventing them from doing bad things??? this is such a gross misunderstanding of how fascism works it boggles my mind

okay bootlicker

We have the power to create our own reality.

i'm just confused - like if he can make up the rules, why can't everyone? what's he gonna do, fire them? he's gonna let elon fire them anyway!

but like what if... the federal agencies didn't just follow orders?