Alex Hughes
alxhug.bsky.social
Alex Hughes
@alxhug.bsky.social
Stats, cats, and running
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WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 4 DAYS?

Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide!

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March 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

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February 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Immunologists, time to embrace your inner neuroscientist 🧠🧪

Macrophages (yes, #macrophages) release glutamate (yes, #glutamate) to sensory neurons engaging in the muscle stretch reflex. Very cool paper! #neuroscience #immunology

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion - Nature
A population of macrophages with exclusive molecular and functional signatures in the muscle spindles express machinery for synthesizing and releasing glutamate, and a cellular component, the muscle s...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Hello! I've had this account for a couple of weeks now so it's time to start posting cat pictures. This is Cauchy - we just celebrated his 11th gotcha day!
December 2, 2024 at 4:08 PM