Welcome to January in Colorado, where it's sunny and *checks notes* 64 degrees
Welcome to January in Colorado, where it's sunny and *checks notes* 64 degrees
Do you have mentor in dementia research who is amazing? Or do you know a student or postdoc in neuroscience who is a potential rising star?
@alzassociation.bsky.social nominations for their Excellence in Mentoring and One to Watch awards are due this Friday!
www.alz.org/neuroscience...
Dr. Susan Monarez: βI could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly erodedβ¦I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.β
π¨π¨ BREAKING NEWSπ¨π¨
Florida to eliminate all use of stop signs and stop lights
βThe government does not have the right to tell you when or where to stop your car. That is between you, your car, and your god.β
- Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladipo, probably
Measles is now in Indiana
If you have questions about the measles vaccine, if you need a booster, etc
I found this post by @kkjetelina.bsky.social super helpful
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/10-faqs-on...
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
Science is not a liberal conspiracy tshirt
Donβt panic organize. Stand up for science March 7, 2025
Today is the day! Join me in standing up for science at your local statehouse rally! Biomedical research and healthcare must be protected and misinformation must be stopped! #defendscience #standupforscience #scienceisnotaliberalconspiracy
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them β βtheyβre studying the spit of lizards?!β β remind them thatβs exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Biomedical researchers, @aimbe-official.bsky.social has developed & put out another advocacy letter opposing the recent slashed support for NIH indirect cost rates.
Regardless of your career stage (or if you are a Fellow), please take 1-2 mins to send a letter to your congressional representatives!
Snapshot of the Parker Solar Probe's stats as it passed less than 6.2 million km from the Sun.
Earlier today, the Parker Solar Probe set two space records: closest approach to the Sun, and fastest-ever human object, hitting a speed of 191 km/sec. π§ͺ
parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu
A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.
Indianapolis friends. If you have a high school student interested in science, please check out the 2025 Indianapolis Brain Bee. The top 3 winners will receive scholarships in IU Indianapolis and the top winner moves on to the National Brain Bee. Here are details and the link to register! π§ π
Extremely proud of Rebecca Wallings & Team in #TanseyLab3.0 for these high-impact findings in @sciencetranslationalmedicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hard to get my head around this
Greetings Rachel! Yours as well! #NeurodegenerationSquad
Combining my two favorite things, neurodegeneration and genetics research π§ π§¬! Very cool case studies and implications! π§ͺ
lol was it from me? π€£
Thank you!!!
Scientists, academics, researchers: Weβre excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! π§ͺ
Please add me! ALS researcher here! π
Please add me!
Hello! Could I please be added? Neurodegeneration scientist here! orcid.org/0000-0003-08...
The final #WPC Research Spotlight of 2024 is Tue 12/3 at 11AM ET w our newly minted PhD Dr Janna Jernigan to talk about Inflammation and Parkinson's!
Registration is FREE at web.cvent.com/survey/c0524... You can read her blog on inflammation beforehand at www.worldpdcongress.org/home/2024/11...
The Hourglass Nebula seen by Hubble
Hoosiers Win!!
Elevated expression of the retrotransposon LINE-1 drives Alzheimerβs disease-associated microglial dysfunction
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sky bridge app!
Game day morning line favors your Indiana Hoosiers by 29 vs. Purdue, o/u 56.5