Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
Thanks Debbie 🙏🙏
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Happy to share that the first data paper from my lab is out! We find that developmental exposure to PBDE flame retardants drives persistent and sex specific effects on mast cells in and ex vivo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Yay! Thank you!!
Very cool! Can I DM you? I have some cool images and would love to get your insights!
Wow! What kind of cells are these?
Sure, but If there is ANY risks for children that should be clearly stated in the label then.
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Has anyone self-built an apparatus for the The 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time task, or know a company that would make it for less that $6K? TIA!
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Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
My quote of the day
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia Butler
Omg that’s gorgeous
Waking up to learn that the EPA office of Research and Development, which supports environmental science and informs environmental policymaking has been eliminated.
#NoWords
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Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀
Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
A discussion of the use of animals in research.
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Please share!! NIH funding for studies that are conducted using animal models - listen to the conversation at the 7/7 FDA meeting and COMMENT on the results of the meeting by July 14th www.fda.gov/news-events/... FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing - 07/07/2025 | FDA
Super cool! What do you mean with “increasingly observed” in this context? Has the behavior of the bird or the observer changed over time?
Thank you!
Lastly, Thank you to NCSU Center for Human Health and the Environment for being the first to support our baby lab with a pilot grant! ❤️
I also wanted to thank our collabs and support: Heather Patisaul (who was kind to share PBDE sol. in early 2023 so I could get started in a still empty lab), Heather Stapleton (a true flame retardant expert) and Leslie Sombers, who’s lab collected crucial FSCV data.
This has implications not only across tissues and systems-mast cells are widely distributed in our bodies, incl the brain, where they play important physiological pathological roles-but also all hematopoietic cell lines, potentially explaining many of the negative effects of developm PBDE exp 4/n
Thank you Mandy!
We found that, PBDE exposed adults M+F show blunted responses to allergy-like challenges, associated with a deficit in mast cells’ (MCs) capacity to sustain histamine release. These deficits are also present in MCs derived from adult bone marrow, suggesting reprogramming of hematopoietic precursors
This is especially concerning for developing individuals, as they can be exposed via placenta, milk, and are more exposed to contaminated dust as toddlers. 3/n
