Noelle Dwyer
@noelledwyerphd.bsky.social
Neural Developmental and Cell Biologist. My lab studies how neural stem cells build the brain. Cell division, cilia, cytoskeleton, neurogenesis. Mom, feminist, curious person. Opinions are my own.
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Here's a Dwyer Lab Papers word cloud (in the shape of a brain!) Find our papers in Pubmed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=dwyer+n...
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Thank you UVa for being the first places asking for grad school recomendations that did not include ANY of the silly ratings questions
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Thank you UVa for being the first places asking for grad school recomendations that did not include ANY of the silly ratings questions
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Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Volume 138 Issue 20 | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
Journal of Cell Science publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. It is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation.
journals.biologists.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.
Please RT 🙏
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
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UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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Restricting visas to 4 years would be yet another way to strangle innovation in science. Please comment TODAY. Average PhD length in biomedicine is 5-6 years in USA.
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
September 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Restricting visas to 4 years would be yet another way to strangle innovation in science. Please comment TODAY. Average PhD length in biomedicine is 5-6 years in USA.
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...
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Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share
September 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share
Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytokinetic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium affect apical membrane size and cilia
Cytokinetic abscission is the last step of cell division, during which the intercellular bridge between daughter cells is severed. While abscission genes are linked to cancers and developmental disord...
www.biorxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Math + Cake = Yum! Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day!
9-16-25! 😎📐🍰
9-16-25! 😎📐🍰
Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day!
September 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Math + Cake = Yum! Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day!
9-16-25! 😎📐🍰
9-16-25! 😎📐🍰
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Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Chair, Department of Cell Biology - Charlottesville, Virginia job with University of Virginia School of Medicine | 12844380
University of Virginia School of Medicine invites nominations and expressions of interest for the position of Chair, Department of Cell Biology.
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September 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!
Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!
Important:
ICE and DHS have proposed capping F and J visas at 4 years, threatening international students and postdocs who drive U.S. research. Share your comments to oppose this harmful policy: www.ascb.org/science-poli...
White House Proposes Shorter F and J Visa Terms - ASCB
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have published a notice in the Federal Register proposing changes to regulations that would significantly s...
www.ascb.org
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Important:
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Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠
Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026.
👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
Apply - Interfolio
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September 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!
Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Chair, Department of Cell Biology - Charlottesville, Virginia job with University of Virginia School of Medicine | 12844380
University of Virginia School of Medicine invites nominations and expressions of interest for the position of Chair, Department of Cell Biology.
www.nature.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Did Axons Evolve by Activating Cytokinesis During Interphase? A Hypothesis on the Origin of Neurons https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40737258/
July 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Did Axons Evolve by Activating Cytokinesis During Interphase? A Hypothesis on the Origin of Neurons https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40737258/
If you use novel mouse models in scientific discovery research, please complete this survey:
🚨 Calling the Scientific Community to Help Shape the Future of IMPC
The IMPC is at a funding crossroads and seeking community input.Take our 10-min survey to help us determine how we can best continue to shape the future of mammalian genetics research.Read: bit.ly/ReadIMPC
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The IMPC is at a funding crossroads and seeking community input.Take our 10-min survey to help us determine how we can best continue to shape the future of mammalian genetics research.Read: bit.ly/ReadIMPC
Survey: bit.ly/IMPCSurvey
IMPC survey: Completing the catalogue of mammalian gene function and defining future priorities
IMPC is currently evaluating its future production and phenotyping priorities.
To date, IMPC has focused on protein coding genes with human orthologs and little to no functional annotation, also refe...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Investments in NIH and NSF give huge returns to our economy. They're basically money-multiplying-machines. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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May 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Investments in NIH and NSF give huge returns to our economy. They're basically money-multiplying-machines. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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Another good use of 5 minutes of your time.
Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Another good use of 5 minutes of your time.
Congratulations to our very own Ray Keller from UVA, and all the new members of the National Academy! 🤩 www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Congratulations to our very own Ray Keller from UVA, and all the new members of the National Academy! 🤩 www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
"A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in research and development accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article)
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in research and development accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest.
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April 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest.
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Can we please just call it Artificial Dumbness instead of Artificial Intelligence?
We live in stupid times: “The debacle that was the February 2025 bar exam is worse than we imagined. I’m almost speechless. Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial intelligence is just unbelievable.” apnews.com/article/cali...
California Bar discloses AI was used to develop some questions in problem-plagued February exam
The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.
apnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Can we please just call it Artificial Dumbness instead of Artificial Intelligence?
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Bill Kaelin @harvardmed.bsky.social explains how federal investment in academic science and medicine fuels American prosperity and world leadership in medicine and biotechnology 👏
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
Killing the Science Golden Goose
In the 1970’s I was probably one of the last American high school students who was
told that if you wanted to go to medical school, you should learn to speak German.
This was because in the late 19th ...
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April 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bill Kaelin @harvardmed.bsky.social explains how federal investment in academic science and medicine fuels American prosperity and world leadership in medicine and biotechnology 👏
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...