Martha Bhattacharya
@marthabhattacharya.bsky.social
Neuroscientist doing cell bio/genetics/genomics in Drosophila/mouse/iPSC neurons @ U of Arizona. Wife and Mom of 2. Love endorphins, learning new things, and sunrises.
Maybe a great holiday gift for your science-interested friends!
My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Maybe a great holiday gift for your science-interested friends!
Friendly Nick's Butcher (Fort Collins CO), my brother’s shop, will be offering free meat (beef, pork, chicken, eggs) to anyone who is losing their SNAP benefits or furloughed/working without pay. All free, just show your EBT or Federal ID card.
Please share! #foco #snap #shutdown
Please share! #foco #snap #shutdown
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Action you can do today: call members of US house leadership and insist that they seat our elected, certified Tucson House rep Adelita Grijalva. Say you are calling for your friends in Tucson who do not currently have representation (me). Steve Scalise (house maj leader) Tom Emmer (house whip).
Congressman Steve Scalise
Representing the 1st District of Louisiana
scalise.house.gov
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Action you can do today: call members of US house leadership and insist that they seat our elected, certified Tucson House rep Adelita Grijalva. Say you are calling for your friends in Tucson who do not currently have representation (me). Steve Scalise (house maj leader) Tom Emmer (house whip).
October 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I agree.
A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I agree.
This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.
🧪🧠👩🔬https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🧪🧠👩🔬https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
Reposted by Martha Bhattacharya
This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.
And this is why we need to keep going with corporate pressure. Next up: groundavelo.org. #rightsmatter
September 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
And this is why we need to keep going with corporate pressure. Next up: groundavelo.org. #rightsmatter
🧪🧠👩🔬 Hey, check it out! New research from our lab with lots of collaborators! We found a new genetic cause of common neurodevelopmental syndromes (thin corpus callosum, developmental delay and seizures) and explain why they happen!
📣New from @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social & co!
📄Pathogenic variants in TMEM184B cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with alteration of metabolic signaling
📄Pathogenic variants in TMEM184B cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with alteration of metabolic signaling
Pathogenic variants in TMEM184B cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with alteration of metabolic signaling
De novo TMEM184B variants in six children are associated with neurodevelopmental deficits
hallmarked by developmental delay, corpus callosum hypoplasia, seizures, and/or microcephaly.
Studies in zebra...
www.cell.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
🧪🧠👩🔬 Hey, check it out! New research from our lab with lots of collaborators! We found a new genetic cause of common neurodevelopmental syndromes (thin corpus callosum, developmental delay and seizures) and explain why they happen!
🧠🧪👩🔬This is the answer to the new NIH public access policy. Let’s see if the big conglomerate publishers follow suit.
A pleasant surprise from the Journal of Neuroscience RE the application of the updated NIH public access policy (authors deposit accepted manuscript in PMC, journal retains license to final copyedited version, no requirement to pay OA fee) www.jneurosci.org/content/righ...
Rights and Permissions | Journal of Neuroscience
www.jneurosci.org
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🧠🧪👩🔬This is the answer to the new NIH public access policy. Let’s see if the big conglomerate publishers follow suit.
🧪👩🔬🐭New work from my PhD students!
Elizabeth Wright, Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social and colleagues discover that TMEM184B modulates endolysosomal acidification via the vesicular proton pump.
#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess #ReadandPublish
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
August 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
🧪👩🔬🐭New work from my PhD students!
Reposted by Martha Bhattacharya
August 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Rallies this weekend around the country to support Texas Dems and oppose the redistricting efforts! Info here: www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...
Fight The Trump Takeover Rally · Fight the Trump Takeover
The Texas House Democrats are denying quorum to stop the Trump takeover of Texas and block his attempt to rig the 2026 midterm elections. But Trump isn’t stopping in Texas. He’s targeting Missouri, Oh...
www.mobilize.us
August 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Rallies this weekend around the country to support Texas Dems and oppose the redistricting efforts! Info here: www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...
🪰🧪 Model organism databases provide the raw materials for our understanding of evolution. Sequences on these databases help human databases predict how bad a mutation might be, based on its conservation. This is how platforms like FlyBase contribute to modern medicine. Terrible news.
I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
August 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🪰🧪 Model organism databases provide the raw materials for our understanding of evolution. Sequences on these databases help human databases predict how bad a mutation might be, based on its conservation. This is how platforms like FlyBase contribute to modern medicine. Terrible news.
🧠🧪 My husband and I are University of California alumni (UC Berkeley and UCSF, respectively). The UC system, specifically UCLA, is under attack and needs your support now. Read, sign, and share: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
August 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🧠🧪 My husband and I are University of California alumni (UC Berkeley and UCSF, respectively). The UC system, specifically UCLA, is under attack and needs your support now. Read, sign, and share: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
Reposted by Martha Bhattacharya
🧪🤬🤬 We are in deep doodoo when the next pandemic hits.
Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work?
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.
www.pbs.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
🧪🤬🤬 We are in deep doodoo when the next pandemic hits.
Reposted by Martha Bhattacharya
Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Meet the 2025 ASCB Award Winners—trailblazing scientists honored for research, mentoring, education, and innovation. Celebrate excellence across all career stages in cell biology. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...
🧪🧠 Wow!! Great job and congrats to the whole team! I can’t wait to dig in to this resource!
How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧪#Neuroskyence
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧪#Neuroskyence
August 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🧪🧠 Wow!! Great job and congrats to the whole team! I can’t wait to dig in to this resource!
🧠🧪👩🔬In the world of “why bother getting a college degree” or “can’t I just ask AI to do my homework,” here is a powerful rebuttal. Our educational research shows that students get huge benefits from doing long-term hands-on research in teams. science.arizona.edu/news/neurosc...
Neuroscience VIP course strengthens STEM identity, boosts student success
A study led by the University of Arizona finds that immersive, multi-semester undergraduate research experiences can significantly enhance student confidence, scientific identity, and career readiness...
science.arizona.edu
August 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🧠🧪👩🔬In the world of “why bother getting a college degree” or “can’t I just ask AI to do my homework,” here is a powerful rebuttal. Our educational research shows that students get huge benefits from doing long-term hands-on research in teams. science.arizona.edu/news/neurosc...
Beautiful illustration by @drrabbithole.bsky.social !
This morning, NASA released the #VoyagerDeclaration. This afternoon, NIH #BethesdaDeclaration signers met w/ Jay Bhattacharya. Earlier, EPA staff were terminated for their act of resistance.
I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social
I made this in solidarity. @altnih4science.bsky.social @altnasa.bsky.social @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Beautiful illustration by @drrabbithole.bsky.social !
Reposted by Martha Bhattacharya
Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kim is spot on. She says: “When women, primarily Black women and queer women, demand pay equity in a league that is finally getting mainstream attention?
Suddenly, it’s “how dare you.””
Suddenly, it’s “how dare you.””
"Imagine being an employee at a company that has NEVER turned a profit and showing up to work in these shirts."
This caption, shared to 122K followers, is intended to mock the WNBA players wearing “PAY US WHAT YOU OWE US” tees.
This caption, shared to 122K followers, is intended to mock the WNBA players wearing “PAY US WHAT YOU OWE US” tees.
July 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Kim is spot on. She says: “When women, primarily Black women and queer women, demand pay equity in a league that is finally getting mainstream attention?
Suddenly, it’s “how dare you.””
Suddenly, it’s “how dare you.””
Reposted by Martha Bhattacharya
A three-judge First Circuit panel has unanimously denied the Trump administration's request to pause the judgment that restored hundreds of NIH grants.
July 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A three-judge First Circuit panel has unanimously denied the Trump administration's request to pause the judgment that restored hundreds of NIH grants.