Linda Barlow
@bizzarlow.bsky.social
How come taste is so reliable? Colorado is a great place to live but don’t tell anyone. Amateur mushroom hunter. Away from office = somewhere in the outdoors.
Prof at University of Colorado SOM | Cell & Developmental Biology
Taste homeostasis Stem cells
Prof at University of Colorado SOM | Cell & Developmental Biology
Taste homeostasis Stem cells
Jesus fucking christ
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Jesus fucking christ
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Incredible work, cell biology of cuticle nanopore formation. Check out the video summary (second post in this thread)
An extensive ER network develops in the olfactory hair cells of Drosophila. Inagaki et al. @riken-bdr.bsky.social report that the transmembrane protein Gore-tex controls a novel ER to the plasma membrane trafficking pathway essential for the cuticular nanopore formation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Incredible work, cell biology of cuticle nanopore formation. Check out the video summary (second post in this thread)
Oh it all makes so much more sense now…
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Oh it all makes so much more sense now…
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It is widely thought that 🕷️ mostly experience the world through their tactile and vibratory senses. However, vertebrates and invertebrates like insects can smell, so what about spiders? This comparative study identifies putative glomeruli in 🕷️👃🤨! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Presumed Glomerular Neuropils in the Central Nervous Systems of Spiders (Araneae)
Spiders sense chemicals in their environment with particular sensory hairs (sensilla) on their legs and feelers. Chemosensory neurons inside these sensilla send their axons into the central nervous s...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:54 PM
It is widely thought that 🕷️ mostly experience the world through their tactile and vibratory senses. However, vertebrates and invertebrates like insects can smell, so what about spiders? This comparative study identifies putative glomeruli in 🕷️👃🤨! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The best
January 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The best
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MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.
Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com
Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.
Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com
Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com
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A favorite place…
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A favorite place…
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“To this day, grants continue to be ‘realigned’ with administration priorities, a clear form of ideological coercion.”
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
1/3
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
1/3
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
www.statnews.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
“To this day, grants continue to be ‘realigned’ with administration priorities, a clear form of ideological coercion.”
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We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l
Why the flu season is so bad and how you can protect yourself
We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant known as subclade k is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. Public health officials say this c...
www.pbs.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l
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25 Years Later, Xenbase Still Supporting Scientific Leaps @cincyresearch.bsky.social
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/25-years-lat...
www.xenbase.org/xenbase/
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/25-years-lat...
www.xenbase.org/xenbase/
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
25 Years Later, Xenbase Still Supporting Scientific Leaps - Research Horizons
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
25 Years Later, Xenbase Still Supporting Scientific Leaps @cincyresearch.bsky.social
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/25-years-lat...
www.xenbase.org/xenbase/
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/25-years-lat...
www.xenbase.org/xenbase/
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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As a friend points out: Turns out Nicholas Maduro’s biggest crime was being more newsworthy than the Epstein Files
January 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM
As a friend points out: Turns out Nicholas Maduro’s biggest crime was being more newsworthy than the Epstein Files
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Congrats Simon Han & @brugmannlab.bsky.social on your publication @cincyresearch.bsky.social
A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Congrats Simon Han & @brugmannlab.bsky.social on your publication @cincyresearch.bsky.social
A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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So many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them.
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
a man in a suit says there are unspoken rules on netflix
Alt: a man in a suit says there are unspoken rules on netflix
media.tenor.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
So many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them.
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
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I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
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🤞 that this pans out. Also, of course, none of this would have been possible without #NIH funding.
In preclinical models, treatment repaired brain pathology, restored cognitive function, and normalized Alzheimer’s biomarkers (in HUMAN models as well).
• case.edu/news/new-stu...
The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
🧪🧵⬇️
• case.edu/news/new-stu...
The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...
🧪🧵⬇️
December 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🤞 that this pans out. Also, of course, none of this would have been possible without #NIH funding.
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Edward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration.
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Edward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration.
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The plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.
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Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
Organelles harbour pH gradients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.694065v1
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
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Now @thenode.bsky.social #SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...
SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido - the Node
A Pioneer in Developmental Biology On the past 10th of November, Antonio García-Bellido passed away. Widely regarded as the father of the Spanish school
thenode.biologists.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Now @thenode.bsky.social #SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...
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Such a tragedy
Will miss you, Meathead...
Will miss you, Meathead...
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Such a tragedy
Will miss you, Meathead...
Will miss you, Meathead...
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And let's not forget they're also glow in the dark (thanks @chemzymes.bsky.social)
December 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
And let's not forget they're also glow in the dark (thanks @chemzymes.bsky.social)
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Some funding good news for a change (from AAAS policy alert)
The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.
The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Some funding good news for a change (from AAAS policy alert)
The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.
The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM