Welcome to January in Colorado, where it's sunny and *checks notes* 64 degrees

program Alzheimer's Association national site – information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, diagnosis, stages, treatment, care and support resources.

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: “I 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 eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨

Florida to eliminate all use of stop signs and stop lights

“The 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.”

- Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladipo, probably

10 FAQs on MMR and Measles Protection Boosters, waning immunity, checking titers, infection induced immunity, and more

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...

An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine 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.

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

Don’t 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 — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s 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. 🧪
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! 🧠 🐝

The R1441C-Lrrk2 mutation induces myeloid immune cell exhaustion in an age- and sex-dependent manner in mice The R1441C-Lrrk2 mutation causes age-acquired immune exhaustion in mouse macrophages in a sex-dependent manner.

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 🧠 🧬! Very cool case studies and implications! 🧪

lol was it from me? 🤣

Thank you!!!

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Please add me! ALS researcher here! 👋

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 Alzheimer’s disease-associated microglial dysfunction - Acta Neuropathologica Aberrant activity of the retrotransposable element long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1) has been hypothesized to contribute to cellular dysfunction in age-related disorders, including late-ons...

Elevated expression of the retrotransposon LINE-1 drives Alzheimer’s 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