Banu Gumusoglu
@banugphd.bsky.social
Assistant prof, University of Iowa, Ob/Gyn. Neurodevelopment x Maternal Health. Organoids, mice, translational science. Opinions are mine. She/Her/Dr/Mom
#DOHaD #teamplacenta #neurodev #obgyn
#DOHaD #teamplacenta #neurodev #obgyn
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Congratulations Serena Banu Gumusoglu, Ph.D., M.Sc., recipient of a Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship for the project, "Anti-Angiogenic Mechanisms in Prenatal life as Drivers of ADHD.”
@banugphd.bsky.social
@banugphd.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Congratulations Serena Banu Gumusoglu, Ph.D., M.Sc., recipient of a Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship for the project, "Anti-Angiogenic Mechanisms in Prenatal life as Drivers of ADHD.”
@banugphd.bsky.social
@banugphd.bsky.social
Submit your DOHaD abstract by June 30th to be considered for our poster session where you can join trainee and seasoned DOHaD scientists alike in sharing cutting-edge science with an international DOHaD community at the Annual Meeting in Portland, OR!
June 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Submit your DOHaD abstract by June 30th to be considered for our poster session where you can join trainee and seasoned DOHaD scientists alike in sharing cutting-edge science with an international DOHaD community at the Annual Meeting in Portland, OR!
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The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.
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More political meddling at NIH:
I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires.
No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.
I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires.
No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.
March 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
More political meddling at NIH:
I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires.
No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.
I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires.
No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.
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The new issue of Science Advances (open-access) has multiple papers on women's health. These 2 are related to menopause, hormone replacement and brain health
www.science.org/toc/sciadv/c...
www.science.org/toc/sciadv/c...
March 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The new issue of Science Advances (open-access) has multiple papers on women's health. These 2 are related to menopause, hormone replacement and brain health
www.science.org/toc/sciadv/c...
www.science.org/toc/sciadv/c...
Proud to have a piece in this wonderful special issue.👩🔬They can defund us, but we won’t stop fighting for meaningful science on women’s health!
March 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Proud to have a piece in this wonderful special issue.👩🔬They can defund us, but we won’t stop fighting for meaningful science on women’s health!
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Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools, such as cleanBib, anneslist and others, exist to help researchers counter citation bias across genders and other demographic divides.
By Anne Churchland, Felicia Davatolhagh
#WomeninScience
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...
By Anne Churchland, Felicia Davatolhagh
#WomeninScience
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...
Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools can change that.
An omitted citation in a high-profile paper led us to examine our own practices and to help others adopt tools that promote citation diversity.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools, such as cleanBib, anneslist and others, exist to help researchers counter citation bias across genders and other demographic divides.
By Anne Churchland, Felicia Davatolhagh
#WomeninScience
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...
By Anne Churchland, Felicia Davatolhagh
#WomeninScience
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...
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Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
February 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
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THAT FLAG MADE OF BLACK FOLK!! WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY
February 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
THAT FLAG MADE OF BLACK FOLK!! WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY
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🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦
@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
www.nature.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦
@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@ebi.embl.org:
Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.
Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?
@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr
February 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr
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The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
orwh.od.nih.gov
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
January 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
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Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
January 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
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Broader impacts and DEI create better science. More backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives all help us really understand what we’re seeing in the data.
These cuts are all so short-sighted. Our world runs on science. 🧪
These cuts are all so short-sighted. Our world runs on science. 🧪
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Broader impacts and DEI create better science. More backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives all help us really understand what we’re seeing in the data.
These cuts are all so short-sighted. Our world runs on science. 🧪
These cuts are all so short-sighted. Our world runs on science. 🧪
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It's really important for 🧪 to explain this to the early career researchers in their group. Everyone who comes through my group knows exactly where their $ and my $ comes from, in part so they know how the system works.
Definitely true. I drove that home with my undergraduates in my lab last week - told them their salaries come from a federal grant. The university doesn't technically pay them or pay for their research projects. Not sure they knew this.
Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪
January 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It's really important for 🧪 to explain this to the early career researchers in their group. Everyone who comes through my group knows exactly where their $ and my $ comes from, in part so they know how the system works.
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🧪Here's the script for your senators. If you're in WI, like I am, that's Johnson www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/office_locat... and Baldwin www.baldwin.senate.gov
Data by state on NIH impact: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
Data by state on NIH impact: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
![I am calling due to grave concerns with the freezing of communications at Federal agencies. Specifically, I am calling regarding HHS and the National Institutes of Health, including the indefinite suspension of council review meetings, review section, and travel. Currently, our state of [insert state here] benefits from over $654 million [WI data; insert data from your state here] in biomedical research funding from the NIH with a significant portion of that going to support jobs, innovation, and education, translating to $1.64 Billion in economic activity [WI data; insert data from your state here]. As a concerned local [citizen/resident/scientist/researcher/educator], I urge you to make sure that the money that has already been allocated for NIH extramural funding, including all training and workforce development grants remain committed. Having this funding removed would be disastrous for our local economy, important university biomedical research, and would lead to the loss of thousands of research training positions at the staff, postdoctoral, and graduate student level. NIH has always benefited from Congressional support across political ideologies, and continuing to commit to its funding and extramural projects ensures our country remains at the forefront of biomedical research efforts and innovations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pj7rqr7fzl2qf4v7l7ygej6w/bafkreif2irkeiikyvwoqan3aksfsatisbkobnupftulco2gjy6reu2lfoa@jpeg)
January 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
🧪Here's the script for your senators. If you're in WI, like I am, that's Johnson www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/office_locat... and Baldwin www.baldwin.senate.gov
Data by state on NIH impact: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
Data by state on NIH impact: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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So sorry to my colleagues whose work will be affected, and to all the taxpayers to paid for the generation of this information, and who have a right to it.
I’ll share some tips and encouragement from my March for Science training below👇
#GiftArticle 🧪 #BlueSci #PublicHealth
wapo.st/4aqfN44
I’ll share some tips and encouragement from my March for Science training below👇
#GiftArticle 🧪 #BlueSci #PublicHealth
wapo.st/4aqfN44
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
wapo.st
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
So sorry to my colleagues whose work will be affected, and to all the taxpayers to paid for the generation of this information, and who have a right to it.
I’ll share some tips and encouragement from my March for Science training below👇
#GiftArticle 🧪 #BlueSci #PublicHealth
wapo.st/4aqfN44
I’ll share some tips and encouragement from my March for Science training below👇
#GiftArticle 🧪 #BlueSci #PublicHealth
wapo.st/4aqfN44
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This is so important.
Consequences of microglial depletion differ by sex.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Consequences of microglial depletion differ by sex.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
The microglial response to inhibition of Colony-stimulating-factor-1 receptor by PLX3397 differs by sex in adult mice
Le et al. examined the sex-dependent effects of a drug that removes microglia, called
PLX3397. They revealed that male microglia are more susceptible to being depleted
by PLX3397 than female microglia...
www.cell.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This is so important.
Consequences of microglial depletion differ by sex.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Consequences of microglial depletion differ by sex.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Just adding the tag for my other scientists out there having the strangest inauguration week conversations of their lives. 🧪
If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Just adding the tag for my other scientists out there having the strangest inauguration week conversations of their lives. 🧪
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Pass it on. Text your friends, family, and neighbors.
January 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Pass it on. Text your friends, family, and neighbors.
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Jimmy's here in Heaven, and let me tell you, it's rare to meet someone who got the 'love thy neighbor' part so right.
December 31, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Jimmy's here in Heaven, and let me tell you, it's rare to meet someone who got the 'love thy neighbor' part so right.