Jessica Fiser

Inflammasome signaling in astrocytes modulates hippocampal plasticity The function of immune pathways in homeostatic neurobiology remains underexplored. Zengeler et al. find that the inflammasome complex, typically associated with immune responses, is involved in memory...

Excited to share our new work demonstrating a role for astrocytic inflammasome signaling in modulating hippocampal plasticity. @cp-immunity.bsky.social
All credit to Kristine Zengeler, who was the brains🧠 and muscle💪 behind this project and is a wonderful collaborator. www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

This paper changed my life: Shane Liddelow on two papers that upended astrocyte research A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres’ lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.

Shane Liddelow @liddelowsa.bsky.social shares how a game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres’ lab transformed astrocyte studies and helped him build a career studying their reactive substates, in our latest “This paper changed my life.

www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

I'm sorry, but rich, privileged women going on a space fieldtrip is not inspiring. The people are who ARE inspiring are the hardworking women working in STEM. You know, the ones who are at risk of losing their jobs and grants. #SaveOurScience

I just wanna do my fucking research Sign

Me, after repeating a PCR for the fourth time

Have you tried yoga and kale? [Olympics shooter guy aiming labeled me]

Omg 🤣🤣🤣

I really hope they do!!

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Frontiers Publishing Partnerships | Cerebellar contributions to dystonia: unraveling the role of Purkinje cells and cerebellar nuclei Dystonias are a group of neurodegenerative disorders that result in altered physiology associated with motor movements. Both the basal ganglia and the cerebe...

The first paper out of the Snell lab is live! This review was led by my postdoc Dr. Nichelle Jackson. We dove into the cerebellar contribution to dystonia, specifically focusing on Purkinje cell and cerebellar nuclei dysfunction and calcium handling. www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/dys...

That’s incredible!! 👏👏

The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development Gene regulatory changes are considered major drivers of evolutionary innovations, including the cerebellum's expansion during human evolution, yet they remain largely unexplored. In this study, we com...

Brilliant new preprint by @ioansarr.bsky.social @marisepp.bsky.social @tyamadat.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social
on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian #cerebellum development 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

If you can't judge a book 📕- then don't judge a brain🧠⤵️

Our cells aren't always as they seem.

Watch the full episode w/ @drnathanasmith.bsky.social &
@johnfoxe.bsky.social 👉 urmc.info/1XD

#BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainAwarenessWeek2025 #URochesterResearch
@urochestersmd.bsky.social

I just checked pubmed....there are over 1200 papers about vaccines and autism. There is no link. This is a waste of tax payer money.

A woman holding a sign showing a polar bear and a melted iceberg and the words Science shouldn’t be polarizing

This is Courtney. She’s about to graduate with her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Colorado. She made this sign in 2017 for the first science march and has had it in her lab ever since.

“In 2017 we felt science was being attacked. Now it actually is.”

#StandUpForScience Denver

Puffer coats and fleece aplenty as #standupforscience kicks off in Seattle — med student Anders Ledell recycled a Godzilla Halloween costume to advocate for basic research

A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

All my childhood punishments have become my adult goals: Eating vegetables,
staying home, taking a nap, going to bed early.

I keep saying it: scientists know exactly what #BirdFlu can do in the brain, and it is not good.
SARS-CoV-2 was a new virus we had to learn about.
#H5N1 is not.

This is terrifying 😭

One of the many reasons the cerebellum is my favorite 🫶🫶

Composite image of women scientists from the Joyce lab over the past 20 years

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Its been a privilege to work with these extraordinary scientists in my lab over the years - all making an incredible impact throughout the world 🙌

We must never give up on #equality #diversity & #inclusion 💪

#WomeninScience #GirlsInSTEM 🧪🔬🔭🚀

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪

www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening

It’s super surreal as an actual biologist to see the dipshit brigade mandate their fevered hallucinations as reality. It’s an abuse of both human rights and of science.