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Also now presenting a digital iPoster in front of the ASCB booths today until 3:45 PM! These aren’t on the #CellBio2025 schedule

Excited to present a poster today at #CellBio2025 !

If you’re around, stop by my poster, “Convergence of Autism Proteins at the Cilium” at board B174 from 12:45 -3:45 PM!

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Correction: early career poster session is in hall E tonight at 6:45 PM!

If you’re interested in posters from early career scientists from various diversity programs (or cilia and autism and frogs🐸) stop by!

If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!

Looking forward to presenting my poster today at #SfN2025 Early Career Poster Session!

Come chat about cilia and autism at poster #A34 in SDCC Room 25A!

Or catch @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and I’s session on cilia in the brain tomorrow! 👇👇

Looking forward to speak here!

A graphic depicting a brain with an antenna behind it and the large title "Cilia in the brain". The full text is: Join us for a series of talks on: Cilia in the Brain. Sunday November 16, 2025 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM. Sessin # Nano-013, SDCC RM25A, SfN session title: "Primary Cilia Signaling and Function". on the right half an SfN logo is depicted with a list of speakers for this session

Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development.

Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!

Excited to attend my very first SDB!

Another successful WiNSS at @UCSFPsychiatry and looking forward to co-hosting a summer full of cool neuroscience seminars!

It's a 24 panel illustration, with a rotor (circle) with 24 open circles. For each increment from 1 to 24, an additional circle is filled with blue or pink, in ways that create a symmetrical axis of mass, allowing the rotor to be balanced when rotating at high speeds. The pinks generally show the odd numbers (divisible by 3) while the blues are the paired (divisible by 2) I think?

Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.

Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.

(🧑‍🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

This is where collective action is needed if we all include diversity and its relevance to are research in grants& biosketches will they defend all of us?
Complying in advance is harmful. Some people can delete diversity from biosketches and grants I can't delete that I'm a black woman scientist.

NINDS DSPAN Scholars Join the conversation

Keep in touch with NINDS #DSPANscholars here 🧠 Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/TQdWJr3

Join us for the fantastic annual @cshlnews.bsky.social #Xenopus cell & developmental Biology course.
Deadline for application is Jan 31st.

meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

real panic going on with the status of trainee fellowships at the moment

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

This was a v cool talk a few months ago at the European cilia conference and looking forward to reading the paper! 🐟🧠

Motile cilia modulate neuronal and astroglial activity in the zebrafish larval brain The brain uses a specialized system to transport cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), consisting of interconnected ventricles lined by motile ciliated ependymal…

Have you ever wondered what role motile #cilia and cerebrospinal fluid (#CSF) play in brain development and physiology? If yes, please check out our latest article now published in Cell Reports and spearheaded by the newly minted Dr D'Gama www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Acknowledgement slide for Elina Kostyanovskaya from Willsey lab on her team, collaborators, patients and patient groups and funders.

Power of #HumanGenetics- is #autism a #ciliopathy? @elinakosty.bsky.social (goodfrognosis.bsky.social) makes a compelling case for unexpected synaptic & chromatin disease genes at #cilia, both #primary & #motile-"cilia are beautiful in #Xenopus". ICYMI: doi.org/10.1101/2024... #ukcilia2025 /3

So excited to be speaking at the 50th BSCB UK Cilia Network e-symposium tomorrow! I'll be talking about my work on the convergence of autism proteins at the cilium in @goodfrognosis.bsky.social lab , but there will be many very cool cilia talks tomorrow at 7 AM PST / 10 AM EST 👇

Advert for the e-symposium with list of speaker, affiliations and imagegs of cilia and centrioles.

Line up of our speakers, affiliations and talk titles for our 50th event!

Calendars out- just over two weeks until our 🎉50th🥳 @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium 14/01/2025 15:00-17:30- everything hot in #cilia #centrosomes free & open to all! Register to access this 🔥 series: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... /1

My poster is today so if you think cilia, autism genetics, neurodevelopment or frogs 🐸are cool please drop by poster B87! #CellBio2024

So excited to present my work at #CellBio2024! I'll be presenting a poster on the convergence of autism proteins at the cilium 👇@goodfrognosis.bsky.social. This is my first time at #CellBio2024 so if you're interested in neurodevelopment, frogs🐸, autism, or cilia please drop by and let's chat!

Thank you!!

Thank you so much! 🙏 And no worries I’m quite new to Bluesky so my handle is new.

Convergence of autism proteins at the cilium Hundreds of high confidence autism genes have been identified, yet the relevant etiological mechanisms remain unclear. Gene ontology analyses have repeatedly identified enrichment of proteins with ann...

Cilia take center stage in neurodevelopmental disorders. I think this is only the beginning, many more studies to follow. Stay tuned #cilia
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Convergence of autism proteins at the cilium Hundreds of high confidence autism genes have been identified, yet the relevant etiological mechanisms remain unclear. Gene ontology analyses have repeatedly identified enrichment of proteins with ann...

Excellent preprint from @goodfrognosis.bsky.social’s
lab, showing convergence of #autism related proteins at the #cilium (sure to interest people working on cilia/centrosome on this platform; ping @cilialab.bsky.social)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A special thank you to the @curesyngap1.bsky.social for all their support and to the NIH #DSPAN fellowship and community (21/ )