Subhojit Roy MD, PhD
@roylab-ucsd.bsky.social
Often when I find no answers to a question, it turns out to be the wrong question.
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Often when I find no answers to a question, it turns out to be the wrong question.
Cotton wool Abeta plaque
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Cotton wool Abeta plaque
"My student’s feedback prompted me to think why I pursued career in academia in first place. I recalled the excitement I felt as a postdoc, when curiosity was king for me...I lost sight of this when I was consumed by problems and fears under the tenure clock"
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I needed a culture shift in my lab. I’m grateful one student spoke up
“I was transferring the stress I was under onto my graduate students,” this professor writes
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January 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
"My student’s feedback prompted me to think why I pursued career in academia in first place. I recalled the excitement I felt as a postdoc, when curiosity was king for me...I lost sight of this when I was consumed by problems and fears under the tenure clock"
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"What I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness… I hold onto the world with every gesture, to men with all my gratitude and pity"
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Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World
Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just thre…
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January 29, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"What I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness… I hold onto the world with every gesture, to men with all my gratitude and pity"
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"I might not have felt the need to step away from academia had we aimed for a lower impact journal...success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers...its tracing a path that isn’t defined by what others expect of me"
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How chasing a high-impact publication nearly broke me
“Looking back, I’m not sure it was worth the sacrifice,” this scientist writes
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January 26, 2026 at 8:44 AM
"I might not have felt the need to step away from academia had we aimed for a lower impact journal...success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers...its tracing a path that isn’t defined by what others expect of me"
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"His groundbreaking work was not the result of mythical serendipity alone, but rather the culmination of perseverance, intellect and a willingness to think differently from the heart of a colonial world"
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Why Satyendra Nath Bose was more than Einstein’s sidekick | Aeon Essays
The life of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose illuminates how scientific genius can emerge from the most unexpected quarters
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January 24, 2026 at 5:26 AM
"His groundbreaking work was not the result of mythical serendipity alone, but rather the culmination of perseverance, intellect and a willingness to think differently from the heart of a colonial world"
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In the same boat.
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 PM
In the same boat.
Organizations that we have served and trusted forever @sfn.org and @ascbiology.bsky.social what are you doing about this? I only get emails to renew membership.
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Organizations that we have served and trusted forever @sfn.org and @ascbiology.bsky.social what are you doing about this? I only get emails to renew membership.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:14 AM
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Subhojit Roy MD, PhD
the original language in the Senate appropriations bill kept the MYF policy to 2024 levels
ask your congressional representatives for the current language in the funding bill to be replaced with this language: keep MYF at 2024 levels, NOT 2025 levels 🧪
ask your congressional representatives for the current language in the funding bill to be replaced with this language: keep MYF at 2024 levels, NOT 2025 levels 🧪
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
the original language in the Senate appropriations bill kept the MYF policy to 2024 levels
ask your congressional representatives for the current language in the funding bill to be replaced with this language: keep MYF at 2024 levels, NOT 2025 levels 🧪
ask your congressional representatives for the current language in the funding bill to be replaced with this language: keep MYF at 2024 levels, NOT 2025 levels 🧪
What exactly can scientists do?
January 21, 2026 at 3:06 AM
What exactly can scientists do?
Reposted by Subhojit Roy MD, PhD
The NIH's MYF policy in 2025 resulted in 4000 fewer grants and fellowships that touched every area of biology and medicine; continuing it in 2026 would be disastrous for science, technology and health in the United States 🧪
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January 20, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The NIH's MYF policy in 2025 resulted in 4000 fewer grants and fellowships that touched every area of biology and medicine; continuing it in 2026 would be disastrous for science, technology and health in the United States 🧪
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This sentence made me think how according to the Gita any work done to achieve any kind of outer reward is wasted effort. But to be fair this concept would be so alien to the West, what he says is a good compromise. There are many gems in this article.
January 17, 2026 at 1:51 AM
This sentence made me think how according to the Gita any work done to achieve any kind of outer reward is wasted effort. But to be fair this concept would be so alien to the West, what he says is a good compromise. There are many gems in this article.
"The first is the pleasure in having the initial idea or insight. The insight could be asking a new question or finding a new answer; there is surprisingly not much difference...in either case, the essential event is a shift of perspective..." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:02 AM
"The first is the pleasure in having the initial idea or insight. The insight could be asking a new question or finding a new answer; there is surprisingly not much difference...in either case, the essential event is a shift of perspective..." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Clock in and Clock out to make new discoveries and improve human health. Simple.
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Clock in and Clock out to make new discoveries and improve human health. Simple.
Annie Dillard in An American Childhood. All great writers are ultimately Yogis.
January 1, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Annie Dillard in An American Childhood. All great writers are ultimately Yogis.
Full pdf @cp-iscience.bsky.social collab w/ @christlet.bsky.social www.cell.com/action/showP...
I may go down ya'll but this was the best thing I wrote:
DECLARATION OF GENERATIVE AI AND AI-ASSISTED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WRITING PROCESS
"No AI/AI-assisted tools were used in the writing process"
I may go down ya'll but this was the best thing I wrote:
DECLARATION OF GENERATIVE AI AND AI-ASSISTED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WRITING PROCESS
"No AI/AI-assisted tools were used in the writing process"
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Full pdf @cp-iscience.bsky.social collab w/ @christlet.bsky.social www.cell.com/action/showP...
I may go down ya'll but this was the best thing I wrote:
DECLARATION OF GENERATIVE AI AND AI-ASSISTED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WRITING PROCESS
"No AI/AI-assisted tools were used in the writing process"
I may go down ya'll but this was the best thing I wrote:
DECLARATION OF GENERATIVE AI AND AI-ASSISTED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WRITING PROCESS
"No AI/AI-assisted tools were used in the writing process"
"More recently, I've also noticed that trainees don't spend time thinking on their own and only do so when prodded"
Didn't want to sound like dad in interview...BUT I think this is due to passive consumption of media. Specifically excessive cell phone usage. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Didn't want to sound like dad in interview...BUT I think this is due to passive consumption of media. Specifically excessive cell phone usage. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Interview with Journal of Cell Science Editor Subhojit Roy
ABSTRACT. Subhojit Roy is Professor of Pathology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the USA. Subhojit completed his MD in Kolkata, India and then moved to Temple University in Philade...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"More recently, I've also noticed that trainees don't spend time thinking on their own and only do so when prodded"
Didn't want to sound like dad in interview...BUT I think this is due to passive consumption of media. Specifically excessive cell phone usage. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Didn't want to sound like dad in interview...BUT I think this is due to passive consumption of media. Specifically excessive cell phone usage. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
American author Joan Didion once said: “I write entirely to find out what I am thinking.” What happens when we stop writing? Do we stop finding out?
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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
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December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
American author Joan Didion once said: “I write entirely to find out what I am thinking.” What happens when we stop writing? Do we stop finding out?
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Looking forward to #2026
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Looking forward to #2026
“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy
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I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Fable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light
“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest, least known …
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December 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy
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How does the axonal sub-membrane periodic cytoskeleton develop? Nick & Rohan from our lab found that building blocks are delivered in packets and co-assemble locally with actin for final structure. Fun collaboration with imaging Guru @christlet.bsky.social and his team.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How does the axonal sub-membrane periodic cytoskeleton develop? Nick & Rohan from our lab found that building blocks are delivered in packets and co-assemble locally with actin for final structure. Fun collaboration with imaging Guru @christlet.bsky.social and his team.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
I was in Bondi beach about this time last year...
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was in Bondi beach about this time last year...
"The gene therapy was previously licensed by Orchard Therapeutics which stopped work in 2022 to save cash amid layoffs. It’s one of the many gene therapies abandoned by industry even with promising clinical data because they may not be profitable" New paradigm?
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In a first, FDA approves a gene therapy from a nonprofit
The FDA on Tuesday approved Waskyra for a rare immune disease called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, for which patients have little options besides a bone marrow transplant.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"The gene therapy was previously licensed by Orchard Therapeutics which stopped work in 2022 to save cash amid layoffs. It’s one of the many gene therapies abandoned by industry even with promising clinical data because they may not be profitable" New paradigm?
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