Taking a break for on here, maybe for now, or for good. Please text or email (and retry in case it gets buried). Let's catch up in real time! I want to see your typos and phrasing, gaze at your office art as you fumble with the share button on zoom, and hear about fun science and your life.
Deadline today! Submit and abstract and join us to discuss science in the exciting brain body interaction field!
Please consider joining us for a wonderful meeting on Brain Body Physiology at Cold Spring harbor this summer, organized with @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social and Asya Rolls. In CSHL tradition most talks are chosen from submitted abstracts. Abstracts due this Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
So cool that your DRG has the mitral valve too!
A wonderful piece by @callimcflurry.bsky.social on how mechanosensitive PIEZO ion channels are being used to explore how our bodies rely on pressure sensing. It is a thoughtfully researched article, with perspectives from many colleagues across the field.
www.thetransmitter.org/interoceptio...
I save most of these kinds of posts for another site, but please talk to friends and family about what ICE is doing. This is all horrifying and your voice matters. Masked federal forces performing extrajudicial kidnapping and murder requires a groundswell of opposition from all corners.
NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
If anyone is looking for a summary outlining the encroaching fascism in the US, this collects it pretty well (despite the weak title). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
2025 was the year we stopped debating whether paying peer reviewers might work and started showing that it does.
this is delightful, as you are
Creations:
Group photo, holding homemade onesies
Harry the dog is 18.5, and was born before Cora, a new undergraduate lab member. Cora is far more accomplished than Harry.
A proud baby display to adoring onlookers.
It was so fun to celebrate a great year with the Marshall lab yesterday! We missed a few people, but we laughed, feasted, made onesies for Brandon’s sweet newborn, and discovered that our new lab member Cora is younger than Harry, my dog. It is a joy to work with these wonderful people!
Got the same message and I didn’t know this. Thanks for info!
Congrats Yvette!
So excited for @alexchesler.bsky.social and the future of pain therapeutics! I’m also sad for the huge loss for NIH and our academic field.
haha- that confused me too
Lots of great news from lab lately: so proud of @brityag.bsky.social for an amazing score on her AHA fellowship!
When overwhelmed by scope of tragedy, specifics can be important. Here is just one story. Thinking of all those affected by this weekend's tragedies at Brown and in Sydney.
Very proud that graduate student @yasmeen-hamed.bsky.social and Undergraduate @catcalhoun22.bsky.social got awards in the multi-institutional Cooley Neuroscience Poster Session last weekend! So nice to see their hard work recognized.
I guess I can only judge effectiveness by interest: it was a mixed audience politically, but it filled up so fast that I did I it twice. Everyone was very engaged and stayed for an hour of questions each time!
I think everyone can relate to the importance of science for healthcare, and I’ve been sharing these slides for people to use and adapt with their own stories! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig
So proud of Yasmeen!
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
Congratulations Yudong!
Please join us at CSHL May 12-16 to dig deeper into brain body interactions! Abstract deadline is in February, and in CSHL tradition, most talks will be chosen from abstracts. Link below.
Check out this wonderful collection! Hanneke Verstegen and I contributed a review for anyone interested in how the brain senses and controls the bladder.
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
This group is so incredible- amazing scientists and friends. An outstanding lineup of talks. What a legacy!