KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong
@klab.bsky.social
Neurobiology Lab studying development, maintenance, and aging of the Enteric Nervous System.
Home of 'enfant terrible' of enteric neurobiology
https://www.enteric-neuron.com
Home of 'enfant terrible' of enteric neurobiology
https://www.enteric-neuron.com
Auto and steel are publicly traded for-profit companies and academic biomedicine is not..fact the author doesn't see and aooreciate the difference (forget about understanding the whole point of basic research) tells us how much weight we should put in this inane article @statnews.com
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U.S. scientists must compete internationally, just like auto and steel workers do
“We ask auto and steel workers to compete with the world, yet we treat research funding as something that must be protected from it,” an economist writes.
www.statnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Auto and steel are publicly traded for-profit companies and academic biomedicine is not..fact the author doesn't see and aooreciate the difference (forget about understanding the whole point of basic research) tells us how much weight we should put in this inane article @statnews.com
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Do better
@phylogenomics.bsky.social mono lake at night
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
@phylogenomics.bsky.social mono lake at night
..and they say #gastrointestinal #dysmotility disorders are not fatal
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
..and they say #gastrointestinal #dysmotility disorders are not fatal
Funny innit?
While folks who spread fake news about #science and #vaccines take to social media and make things viral to millions, scientists have taken keep repeating message upon message of 'science works!', of vaccine efficacy and #safety to their own echo chambers in scientific #societies.
While folks who spread fake news about #science and #vaccines take to social media and make things viral to millions, scientists have taken keep repeating message upon message of 'science works!', of vaccine efficacy and #safety to their own echo chambers in scientific #societies.
a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .
ALT: a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Funny innit?
While folks who spread fake news about #science and #vaccines take to social media and make things viral to millions, scientists have taken keep repeating message upon message of 'science works!', of vaccine efficacy and #safety to their own echo chambers in scientific #societies.
While folks who spread fake news about #science and #vaccines take to social media and make things viral to millions, scientists have taken keep repeating message upon message of 'science works!', of vaccine efficacy and #safety to their own echo chambers in scientific #societies.
This #Thanksgiving, a big thanks to all those who do their best to promote #public #health at all costs (which often involves trekking through forests and wading through flooded rivers) and often at minimal rewards
Meet the health worker risking her life to deliver vaccines | BBC News India
YouTube video by BBC News India
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This #Thanksgiving, a big thanks to all those who do their best to promote #public #health at all costs (which often involves trekking through forests and wading through flooded rivers) and often at minimal rewards
Emergency Modifications to NIH Peer Review | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Important to remember, what food is and what isn't ultraprocessed isn't clearly defined.
Without such clear definition, associating the term with diseases is incorrect at best and stupid at worst
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
Without such clear definition, associating the term with diseases is incorrect at best and stupid at worst
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Important to remember, what food is and what isn't ultraprocessed isn't clearly defined.
Without such clear definition, associating the term with diseases is incorrect at best and stupid at worst
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
Without such clear definition, associating the term with diseases is incorrect at best and stupid at worst
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
8 millennia of solitude
Eight millennia of continuity of a previously unknown lineage in Argentina - Nature
A previously unsampled deep lineage in central Argentina was discovered that had distinctive genetic drift by 8,500 bp and persisted as the main Native American ancestry component in the reg...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
8 millennia of solitude
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Our students do a far better job than faculty and organized paid media... no wonder we gagged them and took away their rights a while back
Harvard To Launch New Investigation Into Epstein’s Ties to Summers, Other University Affiliates | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will open a new probe into former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ connections with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein, after newly released documents revealed the two ...
www.thecrimson.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Our students do a far better job than faculty and organized paid media... no wonder we gagged them and took away their rights a while back
Summers (and other Epstein friends) still on CAFR at HARVARD
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Summers (and other Epstein friends) still on CAFR at HARVARD
Reposted by KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong
Reposted by KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong
Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.
Question
How many more shoes to drop?
Why are the major players in the Epstein saga on a so called council for academic freedom
Members – Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard share.google/gESxtNmYI5C4...
How many more shoes to drop?
Why are the major players in the Epstein saga on a so called council for academic freedom
Members – Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard share.google/gESxtNmYI5C4...
Members
Membership in the Council on Academic Freedom is open to all members of the Harvard faculty who support free inquiry, intellectual diversity, and civil discourse. Non-tenured faculty members are espec...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Question
How many more shoes to drop?
Why are the major players in the Epstein saga on a so called council for academic freedom
Members – Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard share.google/gESxtNmYI5C4...
How many more shoes to drop?
Why are the major players in the Epstein saga on a so called council for academic freedom
Members – Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard share.google/gESxtNmYI5C4...
A Netflix for clothes
More women are planning to deck the halls in rented fashion this year, just as inflation and tariffs are poised to push clothing prices higher. n.pr/47Iu2S6
More women are renting dresses, coats and ugly sweaters as clothing prices tick up
More women are planning to deck the halls in rented fashion this year, just as inflation and tariffs are poised to push clothing prices higher.
n.pr
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A Netflix for clothes
WOW! This is a game changer!
Kosmos please help us create a new transgenic animal, perform drug treatments, and perform gut motility assays
If 1 Kosmos run = 6 months of postdoc time, this should get done by tomorrow morning? Latest by this weekend?
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Kosmos please help us create a new transgenic animal, perform drug treatments, and perform gut motility assays
If 1 Kosmos run = 6 months of postdoc time, this should get done by tomorrow morning? Latest by this weekend?
/s
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
WOW! This is a game changer!
Kosmos please help us create a new transgenic animal, perform drug treatments, and perform gut motility assays
If 1 Kosmos run = 6 months of postdoc time, this should get done by tomorrow morning? Latest by this weekend?
/s
Kosmos please help us create a new transgenic animal, perform drug treatments, and perform gut motility assays
If 1 Kosmos run = 6 months of postdoc time, this should get done by tomorrow morning? Latest by this weekend?
/s
Funny how everyone wants the gut to solve all ailments of the body, but no one wants to solve ailments of the gut
Yes, it's possible. As I wrote in Super Agers regarding expansion of healthspan.
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Funny how everyone wants the gut to solve all ailments of the body, but no one wants to solve ailments of the gut
Edmund Blackadder on goats
YouTube video by Dimitrios Kyranas
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"Research on autism and the microbiome risks feeding into pseudoscientific remedies and snake oil”
When folks ask about "why microbiome research didnt translate to therapies", it is always useful to point to the 'hype generators' in the microbiome field who inferred correlations as causations.
When folks ask about "why microbiome research didnt translate to therapies", it is always useful to point to the 'hype generators' in the microbiome field who inferred correlations as causations.
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say
Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Research on autism and the microbiome risks feeding into pseudoscientific remedies and snake oil”
When folks ask about "why microbiome research didnt translate to therapies", it is always useful to point to the 'hype generators' in the microbiome field who inferred correlations as causations.
When folks ask about "why microbiome research didnt translate to therapies", it is always useful to point to the 'hype generators' in the microbiome field who inferred correlations as causations.
@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com are in a race to the bottom
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com are in a race to the bottom
How to deal with Reviewer 2
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
How to deal with Reviewer 2
Dedicated to those who continue to believe that biotech/pharma are wiser than academia and don't back projects that simply don't work...
Sarepta: Enough, For God's Sake
www.science.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Dedicated to those who continue to believe that biotech/pharma are wiser than academia and don't back projects that simply don't work...