Carmen Sandoval-Espinosa 🧠
carmeyeii.bsky.social
Carmen Sandoval-Espinosa 🧠
@carmeyeii.bsky.social
🧬🔬🧫 Building cool tools to study neurodegeneration. Genentech.
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My yearly plea, daylight savings time should take effect at 4pm on Friday and the day called “early happy hour day” and become a beloved national holiday.
March 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.

Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.

This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
January 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Probably one of the tweets I'm most proud of...

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November 16, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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From pre-diabetes to #Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as sick. Who benefits from this and who is harmed? One of my favorite med journalism articles of 2024 dives into the debate. #medsky
www.latimes.com/science/stor...

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Inside the plan to diagnose Alzheimer’s in people with no memory problems — and who stands to benefit
People without memory problems could be diagnosed with Alzheimer's under a plan by an influential scientific panel dominated by members with ties to drug companies.
www.latimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:29 PM