Laura Herndon
@enchiladalaura.bsky.social
PhD scientist, aging researcher, WormAtlas editor who loves to travel, read and enjoy nature whenever the opportunity arises.
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Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.
Fay: Cuts to research funding risk the collapse of U.S. science and technology
I started as an assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming in 2001.
www.wyomingnews.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.
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WormAtlas has had a great time meeting so many new people and visiting with old friends. If you haven’t already, please come by and say hello on Tuesday afternoon. #worm25
July 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
WormAtlas has had a great time meeting so many new people and visiting with old friends. If you haven’t already, please come by and say hello on Tuesday afternoon. #worm25
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Very grateful to get to have such a helpful and informative in-person meeting of the WormAtlas Board this morning to discuss the current content and future direction of WormAtlas. #Worm25
June 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Very grateful to get to have such a helpful and informative in-person meeting of the WormAtlas Board this morning to discuss the current content and future direction of WormAtlas. #Worm25
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Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: “I strongly believe in DEI!”
Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.
March 7, 2025
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.
March 7, 2025
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: “I strongly believe in DEI!”
Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.
March 7, 2025
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.
March 7, 2025
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
In case anyone had any doubt as to Trump’s agenda…
February 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
In case anyone had any doubt as to Trump’s agenda…
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February 19, 2025
February 19, 2025
The past week has solidified a sea change in American—and global—history.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
February 19, 2025
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Scene from Rutgers "Hands Off Our Research" Protest. Professor Monica Driscoll - National Academy of Sciences member - rallies our undergrads, grad students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and community. The resistance is growing!!! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social #celegans
February 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Scene from Rutgers "Hands Off Our Research" Protest. Professor Monica Driscoll - National Academy of Sciences member - rallies our undergrads, grad students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and community. The resistance is growing!!! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social #celegans
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What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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Impossible to overstate the devastating impact this could have on NYC.
Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk.
The cruelty and chaos is the point.
We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.
Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk.
The cruelty and chaos is the point.
We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.
The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Impossible to overstate the devastating impact this could have on NYC.
Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk.
The cruelty and chaos is the point.
We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.
Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk.
The cruelty and chaos is the point.
We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.
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This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful.
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful.
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
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Amazing how these people are suddenly experts in everything.
Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
Anthropic CEO Sees AI-Powered Advances Doubling Human Lifespans | PYMNTS.com
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday (Jan. 23) that accelerated advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in biology, can lead to a
www.pymnts.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Amazing how these people are suddenly experts in everything.
Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
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Menopause affects or will affect 50% of us. There is a dearth of research-based information. Here's some 🧪 #womeninSTEM
Few medical options are typically presented to people going through menopause, but t outlook for managing it is now starting to change. A feature in Nature outlines the emerging therapies, which includes a relook at hormone replacement therapy. #Medsky 🧪
The new science of menopause: these emerging therapies could change women’s health
Researchers are exploring how to prolong ovarian life and revisiting hormone replacement therapy — a once routine treatment that has fallen out of favour.
go.nature.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Menopause affects or will affect 50% of us. There is a dearth of research-based information. Here's some 🧪 #womeninSTEM
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January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025
“NUTS!”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
January 24, 2025