Amy Sater
@amysater.bsky.social
Embryonic development, emergence of neural/glial lineages, astrocyte superpowers. working toward a new experimental model of Traumatic Brain Injury. Tikkun Olam requires Palestinian self-determination.
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Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries
Threats to international peace and security - Security Council, 10085th meeting
The situation in Venezuela.
webtv.un.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries
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🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
2025: A Year of Resistance, Solidarity and Resolve
CONTACT: Brian L. Evans, PhD, President, Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affiliated with the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT), aaup.texas@gmai...
aaup-texas.org
January 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
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An amazing course!
You'll learn: genetic manipulation including CRISPR-Cas9, oragnoid generation, explant systems, biomechanics, high-resolution imaging and analysis, bioinformatics, and more!
Register now!
Deadline: January 16, 2026
You'll learn: genetic manipulation including CRISPR-Cas9, oragnoid generation, explant systems, biomechanics, high-resolution imaging and analysis, bioinformatics, and more!
Register now!
Deadline: January 16, 2026
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
An amazing course!
You'll learn: genetic manipulation including CRISPR-Cas9, oragnoid generation, explant systems, biomechanics, high-resolution imaging and analysis, bioinformatics, and more!
Register now!
Deadline: January 16, 2026
You'll learn: genetic manipulation including CRISPR-Cas9, oragnoid generation, explant systems, biomechanics, high-resolution imaging and analysis, bioinformatics, and more!
Register now!
Deadline: January 16, 2026
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“In conclusion, CBS is a land of contrasts.”
This whole thing reads like a half-assed class project some fifth graders rushed through before Christmas break.
This whole thing reads like a half-assed class project some fifth graders rushed through before Christmas break.
January 2, 2026 at 9:46 PM
“In conclusion, CBS is a land of contrasts.”
This whole thing reads like a half-assed class project some fifth graders rushed through before Christmas break.
This whole thing reads like a half-assed class project some fifth graders rushed through before Christmas break.
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For anyone trying to keep up with the grant termination/delay litigation against NIH, the ACLU has a good page with summaries and links.
www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...
www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...
APHA v. NIH | American Civil Liberties Union
APHA v. NIH is a legal challenge to the unprecedented and ideologically-driven purge of hundreds of biomedical research projects by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Years of research on a wide...
www.aclu.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
For anyone trying to keep up with the grant termination/delay litigation against NIH, the ACLU has a good page with summaries and links.
www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...
www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...
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Full @amstatnews.bsky.social release, "The Nation’s Data at Risk: 2025 Report," is here: www.amstat.org/policy-and-a...
The Nation's Data at Risk - 2025 Report
The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians, the “Big Tent for Statistics.
www.amstat.org
December 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Full @amstatnews.bsky.social release, "The Nation’s Data at Risk: 2025 Report," is here: www.amstat.org/policy-and-a...
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BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.
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@marcelias.bsky.social @aclu.org @maya4rights.bsky.social
#Arpx #Arkansas
Check your #registration people.They're gonna pull out all stops to try to win this thing. They're tanking fast and they're in a panic. They'll do anything they're allowed to get away with. #vote
#Arpx #Arkansas
Check your #registration people.They're gonna pull out all stops to try to win this thing. They're tanking fast and they're in a panic. They'll do anything they're allowed to get away with. #vote
December 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
@marcelias.bsky.social @aclu.org @maya4rights.bsky.social
#Arpx #Arkansas
Check your #registration people.They're gonna pull out all stops to try to win this thing. They're tanking fast and they're in a panic. They'll do anything they're allowed to get away with. #vote
#Arpx #Arkansas
Check your #registration people.They're gonna pull out all stops to try to win this thing. They're tanking fast and they're in a panic. They'll do anything they're allowed to get away with. #vote
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Exactly what we expected
![Screenshot of article which reads: According to a report by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, minority-serving institution programs are unlawful because they award money to colleges and universities based on the percentage of students of a certain race. The report said such programs “effectively [employ] a racial quota by limiting institutional eligibility to schools with a certain racial composition” and should no longer be funded.
The report also deemed it unconstitutional that two scholarship providers, the United Negro College Fund and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, both of which award scholarships to students of a specific race, are given access to Free Application for Federal Student Aid data.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreiagwy5bp74avvsezakkesczbszl4sj2gdrzbclxkmdk6gyemdy22y@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Exactly what we expected
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Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
Abstract Deadline TONIGHT for GCC Conference on The Future of Healing, Feb 12 in Houston. Sponsored by GCC - Integrative Development, Regeneration, and Repair. Please join us!
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Abstract Deadline TONIGHT for GCC Conference on The Future of Healing, Feb 12 in Houston. Sponsored by GCC - Integrative Development, Regeneration, and Repair. Please join us!
M. Gessen is always worth reading, this time about "The Voice of Hind Rajab" -
Opinion | The Movie I Was Afraid to See
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
M. Gessen is always worth reading, this time about "The Voice of Hind Rajab" -
Houston/Galveston folks - please join us for "The Future of Healing" - a GCC symposium integrating development and regeneration with biomedical engineering. Abstract deadline is this Thurs (12/18) - students and postdocs welcome! more info at idrr26.blogs.rice.edu
Integrative Development, Regeneration and Repair Symposium, The Future of Healing
idrr26.blogs.rice.edu
December 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Houston/Galveston folks - please join us for "The Future of Healing" - a GCC symposium integrating development and regeneration with biomedical engineering. Abstract deadline is this Thurs (12/18) - students and postdocs welcome! more info at idrr26.blogs.rice.edu
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So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.
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Mail call! Urgent new reading by UC Davis colleague Brian Soucek. THE OPINIONATED UNIVERSITY observes that universities do have values, that "neutrality" is a politics, silence is loud, and the best way to stand by our values is to be clear about what they are.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Mail call! Urgent new reading by UC Davis colleague Brian Soucek. THE OPINIONATED UNIVERSITY observes that universities do have values, that "neutrality" is a politics, silence is loud, and the best way to stand by our values is to be clear about what they are.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Well, this is horrifying -
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
...
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Well, this is horrifying -
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Hot off the press at EMBO Journal. The culmination of several years of work and hopefully useful to people in the field!
BIG Shout-out to Review Commons, who handled the submission. It's a sensible and efficient model and all the journals I like (Society and NFP) are already participating. 🙏
BIG Shout-out to Review Commons, who handled the submission. It's a sensible and efficient model and all the journals I like (Society and NFP) are already participating. 🙏
Integrating endogenous TurboID and data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry for in vivo proximity labeling - The EMBO Journal
Proximity labeling has emerged as a powerful approach for identifying protein–protein interaction networks within living systems, particularly those involving weak or transient associations. Here, we ...
link.springer.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hot off the press at EMBO Journal. The culmination of several years of work and hopefully useful to people in the field!
BIG Shout-out to Review Commons, who handled the submission. It's a sensible and efficient model and all the journals I like (Society and NFP) are already participating. 🙏
BIG Shout-out to Review Commons, who handled the submission. It's a sensible and efficient model and all the journals I like (Society and NFP) are already participating. 🙏
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Students at A&M object to the Regents’ censoring of teaching about race + gender: “Before the university experiences an impending brain drain, we ask that they stop selling students to politicians. Let students have an education the university is ready to offer. Let us have a future.”👏
Opinion: Our future rests on education — the Regents want us to abandon it – The Battalion
In today’s crisis of higher education, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents doesn’t desire to simply maintain the marketplace of ideas, as it’d
thebatt.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Students at A&M object to the Regents’ censoring of teaching about race + gender: “Before the university experiences an impending brain drain, we ask that they stop selling students to politicians. Let students have an education the university is ready to offer. Let us have a future.”👏
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We are honored to share our Perspective in Nature Communications, reflecting on the legacy of John B. Gurdon.
Beyond his discoveries, his generosity and curiosity inspired a community of scientists-we remember and celebrate his lasting impact. #JohnGurdon #Xenopus #NatureCommunications
Beyond his discoveries, his generosity and curiosity inspired a community of scientists-we remember and celebrate his lasting impact. #JohnGurdon #Xenopus #NatureCommunications
Reversibility, regulation, and the community of development: the legacy of Sir John B. Gurdon
Nature Communications - Reversibility, regulation, and the community of development: the legacy of Sir John B. Gurdon
rdcu.be
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We are honored to share our Perspective in Nature Communications, reflecting on the legacy of John B. Gurdon.
Beyond his discoveries, his generosity and curiosity inspired a community of scientists-we remember and celebrate his lasting impact. #JohnGurdon #Xenopus #NatureCommunications
Beyond his discoveries, his generosity and curiosity inspired a community of scientists-we remember and celebrate his lasting impact. #JohnGurdon #Xenopus #NatureCommunications
great, if horrifying, thread (the irony gods must have their due...)
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
great, if horrifying, thread (the irony gods must have their due...)
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“There’s no doubt in my mind that’s the intent…the worst thing is that politically mandated ideas will be taught instead of scientifically accepted concepts in our disciplines, or concepts that are recognized by the disciplinary experts.”
– Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP
@texasaaup.bsky.social
– Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP
@texasaaup.bsky.social
At Texas Tech, Professors Now Need Permission to Teach About Race and Gender
Faculty say the policy is vague and a violation of the First Amendment.
www.chronicle.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“There’s no doubt in my mind that’s the intent…the worst thing is that politically mandated ideas will be taught instead of scientifically accepted concepts in our disciplines, or concepts that are recognized by the disciplinary experts.”
– Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP
@texasaaup.bsky.social
– Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP
@texasaaup.bsky.social
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I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have refined
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
The uranium
That was in
The centrifuge
And which
You were probably
Saving
For power generation
Forgive me
It was so powerful
I am
Become death
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'A House of Dynamite' but it's your uncles trying to deep fry a turkey.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
'A House of Dynamite' but it's your uncles trying to deep fry a turkey.