Maureen Barr
@barrlab.bsky.social
Scientist studying tiny things: cilia, extracellular vesicles (EVs), C. elegans; ADPKD; Secretary Genetics Society of America; distinguished professor at Rutgers; three boy mom; she/her; my opinions
https://barrlab.rutgers.edu/
https://barrlab.rutgers.edu/
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Look, these are the sorts of manuscript titles we just can't be using anymore. Imagine what all the billionaire right-wingers are going to be doing next? Either complaining this got funded or starting to look into whether this also works in humans!
Exposure to deceased remains of conspecifics extends the lifespan of young and aged C. elegans via distinct pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.08.704602v1
February 10, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Look, these are the sorts of manuscript titles we just can't be using anymore. Imagine what all the billionaire right-wingers are going to be doing next? Either complaining this got funded or starting to look into whether this also works in humans!
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Facts!
Don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of this organization aligning with the current NIH/HHS “leaders”: kill all the animals you want to eat more and more animal flesh and fat but it is unethical to use animals for life saving medical research
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Facts!
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Don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of this organization aligning with the current NIH/HHS “leaders”: kill all the animals you want to eat more and more animal flesh and fat but it is unethical to use animals for life saving medical research
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of this organization aligning with the current NIH/HHS “leaders”: kill all the animals you want to eat more and more animal flesh and fat but it is unethical to use animals for life saving medical research
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February 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Institutional Mentored Career Development Award (K12) has been forecasted. These awards support clinician scientist training programs. simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...
Opportunity Listing - Institutional Mentored Career Development Award (K12)
Read detailed information about this funding opportunity.
simpler.grants.gov
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Institutional Mentored Career Development Award (K12) has been forecasted. These awards support clinician scientist training programs. simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...
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VERY excited that @harmitmalik.bsky.social will be giving the UNC Biology seminar tomorrow, and is featured in one of Bob Goldstein's gig posters. I missed him the last time he cams through (I was away giving a talk) and thus have never heard him speak
February 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
VERY excited that @harmitmalik.bsky.social will be giving the UNC Biology seminar tomorrow, and is featured in one of Bob Goldstein's gig posters. I missed him the last time he cams through (I was away giving a talk) and thus have never heard him speak
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This is really nice to read:
Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.
It's not that hard to just say no.
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
This is really nice to read:
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just want to state for the record that I am incredibly proud of the althletes representing the USA that are using their platforms to speak out about what is happening here.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
just want to state for the record that I am incredibly proud of the althletes representing the USA that are using their platforms to speak out about what is happening here.
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This is the most British looking cat I've ever seen.
Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This is the most British looking cat I've ever seen.
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must read
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
must read
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Great, NOW who's going to smash these Pumpkins
Great, NOW who’s going to test all of these crash dummies
Great, NOW who's going to Kill all of these Bikinis?
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Great, NOW who's going to smash these Pumpkins
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I would like to think @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social for describing the Sledgehammer Approach (to research) in WormBook. It is invaluable advice that I share with every trainee.
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 AM
I would like to think @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social for describing the Sledgehammer Approach (to research) in WormBook. It is invaluable advice that I share with every trainee.
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I don’t have any Bad Bunny attire so I’m wearing my eagles shirt for the Super Bowl today. I know they’re not in it, I don’t care, it’s still go birds.
February 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I don’t have any Bad Bunny attire so I’m wearing my eagles shirt for the Super Bowl today. I know they’re not in it, I don’t care, it’s still go birds.
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It’s been a year since this post. Life is…so different now.
Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.
@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.
@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
Can’t believe I’m typing this but…
FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.
If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.
If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
IF YOU KNOW IF ANYONE PLANNING A SCIENCE RELATED PROTEST IN DC, PLEASE DM ME!
February 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
It’s been a year since this post. Life is…so different now.
Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.
@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.
@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
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I feel you here @cdelawalla.bsky.social .
A year ago, I had been on Signal for 1 day after asking a scared NIH friend "What's Signal?"
I was just starting to track what was (and was not) happening within NIH.
And I thought, the grant "pause" was likely the worst thing to happen for the year...
A year ago, I had been on Signal for 1 day after asking a scared NIH friend "What's Signal?"
I was just starting to track what was (and was not) happening within NIH.
And I thought, the grant "pause" was likely the worst thing to happen for the year...
It’s been a year since this post. Life is…so different now.
Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.
@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
Yet, I’m sitting here on my living room floor, with my cold coffee, in the same robe, playing with my beautiful son. Just like I was when I wrote this.
@standupforscience.bsky.social started with a skeet and an idea.
Can’t believe I’m typing this but…
FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.
If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.
If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I feel you here @cdelawalla.bsky.social .
A year ago, I had been on Signal for 1 day after asking a scared NIH friend "What's Signal?"
I was just starting to track what was (and was not) happening within NIH.
And I thought, the grant "pause" was likely the worst thing to happen for the year...
A year ago, I had been on Signal for 1 day after asking a scared NIH friend "What's Signal?"
I was just starting to track what was (and was not) happening within NIH.
And I thought, the grant "pause" was likely the worst thing to happen for the year...
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Here is the video of Hakeem Jeffries saying "fuck Donald Trump" for posting that racist video of the Obamas. (originally from his official Instagram account) www.instagram.com/reel/DUbeoy5...
February 6, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Here is the video of Hakeem Jeffries saying "fuck Donald Trump" for posting that racist video of the Obamas. (originally from his official Instagram account) www.instagram.com/reel/DUbeoy5...
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Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
February 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
The things I saw and heard
the grief feels enormous and bottomless
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A comprehensive and thought-provoking review on how perturbations of proteostasis impact immunity in C. elegans & comparisons/conserved principles w/ vertebrate immunity - Emily Troemel, @hawlelab.bsky.social, and Michalis Barkoulas
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
Intersections between proteostasis and immunity: insights from Caenorhabditis elegans
Summary: Discoveries from the nematode C. elegans have provided insight into the many connections between immune responses and proteostasis, with examples of conservation across species.
journals.biologists.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
A comprehensive and thought-provoking review on how perturbations of proteostasis impact immunity in C. elegans & comparisons/conserved principles w/ vertebrate immunity - Emily Troemel, @hawlelab.bsky.social, and Michalis Barkoulas
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
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Cotton wool Abeta plaque
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Cotton wool Abeta plaque
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Genetics Dept at Einstein is hiring - please share and apply! faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...
Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Medical Education | Biomedical Research
faculty-einstein.icims.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Genetics Dept at Einstein is hiring - please share and apply! faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...
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We are watching an attempt to resegregate and defeminize (right word?) elite spaces in real time because white women and people of color question these norms and often demand something better, which is often an improvement for everyone (except those in power who want to maintain these norms)
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
We are watching an attempt to resegregate and defeminize (right word?) elite spaces in real time because white women and people of color question these norms and often demand something better, which is often an improvement for everyone (except those in power who want to maintain these norms)
Congratulations @neilshubin.bsky.social !!!
Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...
February 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Congratulations @neilshubin.bsky.social !!!
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Paylines don’t exist anymore.
As for MYF impact, @jeremymberg.bsky.social did a really good analysis on this. His numbers suggested a 10% cut. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
Tho last year we saw a 24% cut in new research largely driven by MYF.
As for MYF impact, @jeremymberg.bsky.social did a really good analysis on this. His numbers suggested a 10% cut. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
Tho last year we saw a 24% cut in new research largely driven by MYF.
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Paylines don’t exist anymore.
As for MYF impact, @jeremymberg.bsky.social did a really good analysis on this. His numbers suggested a 10% cut. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
Tho last year we saw a 24% cut in new research largely driven by MYF.
As for MYF impact, @jeremymberg.bsky.social did a really good analysis on this. His numbers suggested a 10% cut. open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
Tho last year we saw a 24% cut in new research largely driven by MYF.
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Abstract submission for #PEQG26 closes TOMORROW! buff.ly/afxqRZ7
Share your science with hundreds of geneticists doing unique population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics research in an array of model and non-model organism systems.
Presenting your work will open countless doors 🚪🔑
Share your science with hundreds of geneticists doing unique population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics research in an array of model and non-model organism systems.
Presenting your work will open countless doors 🚪🔑
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Abstract submission for #PEQG26 closes TOMORROW! buff.ly/afxqRZ7
Share your science with hundreds of geneticists doing unique population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics research in an array of model and non-model organism systems.
Presenting your work will open countless doors 🚪🔑
Share your science with hundreds of geneticists doing unique population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics research in an array of model and non-model organism systems.
Presenting your work will open countless doors 🚪🔑