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Daniel Colón-Ramos
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Professor Cellular Neuroscience @Yale; Associate Director WuTsaiYale; Co-fundador @CienciaPR #cienciaboricua 🇵🇷 Él; He; Him
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Understanding the mind takes many ways of seeing.

Faculty at the Wu Tsai Institute are working across neuroscience, engineering, and psychology to study how the mind works. A look inside the institute’s new home shows how shared spaces and new tools are supporting discovery through collaboration.
Wu Tsai Institute: Making the right connections
With state-of-the-art research facilities and collaborative spaces, Yale's Wu Tsai Institute is on a mission to understand human cognition by bridging academic disciplines.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yale Law Prof S. Baldwin in 1899: “To give.. the ignorant and lawless brigands that infest Puerto Rico.. the benefit of such immunities .. would be a serious obstacle to the maintenance ..an efficient government”. Today: Dean of Yale Law is of P Rican and Cuban descent. Congratulations Cristina!
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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This about sums it up, folks.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Remember when Qatar hosted World Cup and everyone was told to be respectful of local customs and culture? Let’s hear that same energy about Seattle culture.
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today's NYT front page.
A methodical quest and the latest salvo
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Honorary PhDs from academic institutions in 3,2,1….
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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omg they've got me reposting George F Will
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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This paper was written by my WormAtlas colleagues, Dave and Nate, in addition to 5 Nobel Prize winners. Hopefully more attention and funding will find its way to the invaluable C. elegans resources described in the paper.
A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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"Minority women...have traditionally been excluded [from STEM] because of biases related to both their race or ethnicity and gender, constituting a double bind." 🧪
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December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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“Those Muslims must assimilate to our way of life. Like we did when we ‘visited’ other countries.”
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Arden Patapoutian, Immigrant “from third world country” & Nobel Prize Laureate, 2021.
I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here.

“Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.”

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here.

“Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.”

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront"
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From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS
Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...
www.pnas.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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One of our founding directors Anthony Hyman @hymanlab.bsky.social will become @embl.org Director General: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
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November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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🧪 This is what whooping cough looks & sounds like.

A baby tragically died of whooping cough today.

Dr. Ralph Abraham is the CDC’s new deputy director.

He:

1. Halted Louisiana's mass vaccination campaign

2. Promoted ivermectin

3. Delayed public warnings about a deadly whooping cough outbreak
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM