From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism - a perspective written by 11 scientists, six of whom are Nobel laureates
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Congrats to Norris Lab students: Shameer (best poster) and Anusha (best talk) @ucriverside.bsky.social Wedding Symposium 🎉😍
RFK Jr. is an outright danger to this country, and he should resign or be fired. Do we still have the sort of government that does such things? Or have we turned into. . . that other kind. You know the one.
Really cool work, everyone. Loved seeing the work when Junjie came to talk recently. Congrats! 🎉
Very happy (and sad!) to say this is Bikash Choudhary's last day in the Norris Lab. He's about to start his own lab at Sewanee new.sewanee.edu/our-faculty-...
Downtown Davis celebrating #Worm25 with Ascaris decorated piano.
Go worms! #worm25
Regulated microexon alternative #splicing in single #neurons tunes synaptic function.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
MICROEXONS! 💪
Not only are they included in neuronal transcripts, but they are also alternatively spliced between neuron types! We unpack their regulation and function 👇 @emboreports.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
This project was only possible thanks to the herculean efforts of the CeNGEN consortium, and we're pleased to be publishing our paper in parallel with a paper of theirs: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fun with alternative splicing in single neurons!
Our paper: "Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes" @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plus, explore the data interactively: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
The Secretary of Health doesn't want to give advice on health and doesn't feel like it's his place to tell people whether vaccines are good or bad.
What does he imagine his job to be?
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I spoke with a reporter at my local paper @silive.com - thanks to Jillian Delaney for this excellent write-up!
Staten Island biologist fears her lab is at risk due to Trump’s cuts www.silive.com/news/2025/02... 🧪 #celegans
Local traditional media still works!
We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago.
www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
RNA xkcd.com/3056
This is absolutely pathetic. Saying nothing was bad enough, but this?
my first bsky post!
scientific societies are advocating as hard as we can right now to preserve and protect science & researchers. your individual (and collective) voices matter.
raise 'em.
Three steps to the perfect SoCal Superbowl.
For these uncertain times, we all need support of our communities more than ever. An updated list of 180+ researchers for the #Celegans community is here:
C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (30+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
#CeleganSky 🧪 1/n
cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
