Emma Chory, Ph.D.
@chorye.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ Duke University BME, guerilla knitter, pipettor of small volumes of liquid. Biologist masquerading as engineer, or the other way around.
2011 v 2025. Variance not statistically significant.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
2011 v 2025. Variance not statistically significant.
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
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We're thrilled to announce SeqHub, an AI-enabled platform for biological sequence analysis. SeqHub brings together sequence search, genome annotation, and data sharing in one place.
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We're thrilled to announce SeqHub, an AI-enabled platform for biological sequence analysis. SeqHub brings together sequence search, genome annotation, and data sharing in one place.
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Teamwork makes the scream work. Happy Halloween from the Chory lab! 🦖🎃👻
October 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Teamwork makes the scream work. Happy Halloween from the Chory lab! 🦖🎃👻
October 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Crick is looking for new junior group leaders! Any postdocs or early career researchers wanting to be our colleagues should apply 👍
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Interested in using microbes to degrade plastics?
We made the discovery that two breakdown products of PET, MHET and BHET, are readily taken up by E. coli cells
Our latest preprint exploits this surprise to realize improvements in cell-based upcycling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We made the discovery that two breakdown products of PET, MHET and BHET, are readily taken up by E. coli cells
Our latest preprint exploits this surprise to realize improvements in cell-based upcycling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Robust cellular transformations of PET deconstruction products by import of glycol esters
Efforts to transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET) deconstruction products using live cells have been limited by terephthalic acid (TPA) uptake. Here, we used an intracellular carboxylate reduction...
www.biorxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Interested in using microbes to degrade plastics?
We made the discovery that two breakdown products of PET, MHET and BHET, are readily taken up by E. coli cells
Our latest preprint exploits this surprise to realize improvements in cell-based upcycling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We made the discovery that two breakdown products of PET, MHET and BHET, are readily taken up by E. coli cells
Our latest preprint exploits this surprise to realize improvements in cell-based upcycling
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The things Apple will do to procrastinate improving Siri
September 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The things Apple will do to procrastinate improving Siri
Reviewer #3:
Major Comments:
1) The absence of ref Ahlqvist et al. (2024, JAMA) calls the manuscript’s central claims into question. This selective omission undermines the work’s credibility. Major revisions required prior to resubmission.
::cough peer review cough:: @washingtonpost.com
Major Comments:
1) The absence of ref Ahlqvist et al. (2024, JAMA) calls the manuscript’s central claims into question. This selective omission undermines the work’s credibility. Major revisions required prior to resubmission.
::cough peer review cough:: @washingtonpost.com
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reviewer #3:
Major Comments:
1) The absence of ref Ahlqvist et al. (2024, JAMA) calls the manuscript’s central claims into question. This selective omission undermines the work’s credibility. Major revisions required prior to resubmission.
::cough peer review cough:: @washingtonpost.com
Major Comments:
1) The absence of ref Ahlqvist et al. (2024, JAMA) calls the manuscript’s central claims into question. This selective omission undermines the work’s credibility. Major revisions required prior to resubmission.
::cough peer review cough:: @washingtonpost.com
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Years in the making — Mice Against Ticks is on @60Minutes this Sunday!
🎥 Sneak peek: www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/v...
🌐 Join the fight! miceagainstticks.org
Huge cheers to our amazing team, brilliant collaborators & island communities for bringing this story to life! 💛
#LymeDisease #MITMediaLab
🎥 Sneak peek: www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/v...
🌐 Join the fight! miceagainstticks.org
Huge cheers to our amazing team, brilliant collaborators & island communities for bringing this story to life! 💛
#LymeDisease #MITMediaLab
Researchers are attempting something unprecedented: using genetic engineering to curb Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness spreading across the U.S. Instead of targeting deer or ticks, they hope to rele...
TikTok video by 60 Minutes
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September 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Years in the making — Mice Against Ticks is on @60Minutes this Sunday!
🎥 Sneak peek: www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/v...
🌐 Join the fight! miceagainstticks.org
Huge cheers to our amazing team, brilliant collaborators & island communities for bringing this story to life! 💛
#LymeDisease #MITMediaLab
🎥 Sneak peek: www.tiktok.com/@60minutes/v...
🌐 Join the fight! miceagainstticks.org
Huge cheers to our amazing team, brilliant collaborators & island communities for bringing this story to life! 💛
#LymeDisease #MITMediaLab
"The PI does not seem to have experience with these downstream biochemical assays, and no collaborators were identified for cell-based applications.”
lol.
lol.
August 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"The PI does not seem to have experience with these downstream biochemical assays, and no collaborators were identified for cell-based applications.”
lol.
lol.
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As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
As stressful as it is to run a laboratory in the US right now, my thoughts are often with the NIH staff living in the awful chaos trying to preserve the whole enterprise. I’m grateful for every moment they choose not to give up. These people are the only thing keeping it from entirely collapsing.
:snaps: :snaps: :snaps:
Just loved this, @erika-alden.bsky.social
We’re obsessed with better ways to track & share science. This ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable is usable, readable, and full of real stats & insights. and it's pretty!
erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-read...
Just loved this, @erika-alden.bsky.social
We’re obsessed with better ways to track & share science. This ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable is usable, readable, and full of real stats & insights. and it's pretty!
erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-read...
July 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
:snaps: :snaps: :snaps:
Just loved this, @erika-alden.bsky.social
We’re obsessed with better ways to track & share science. This ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable is usable, readable, and full of real stats & insights. and it's pretty!
erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-read...
Just loved this, @erika-alden.bsky.social
We’re obsessed with better ways to track & share science. This ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable is usable, readable, and full of real stats & insights. and it's pretty!
erikaaldendeb.substack.com/p/an-ai-read...
With NIHs new 6-grant/PI cap (incl resub) we’re locked out for a year. We submitted duplicates bc FOAs were being pulled mid-sub & were told to submit to the parent. I get that POs are overwhelmed, but we’re all trying to stay afloat. MultiPI collabs will suffer. Welp, guess I’ll get my wkends back.
July 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
With NIHs new 6-grant/PI cap (incl resub) we’re locked out for a year. We submitted duplicates bc FOAs were being pulled mid-sub & were told to submit to the parent. I get that POs are overwhelmed, but we’re all trying to stay afloat. MultiPI collabs will suffer. Welp, guess I’ll get my wkends back.
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I saw it firsthand at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in Germany and elsewhere.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
America’s Brain Drain Could Become the World’s Brain Gain
Research-funding cuts and immigration changes threaten some of America’s economic advantages.
www.wsj.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I saw it firsthand at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting--international young scientists welcomed and recruited in Germany and elsewhere.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Tattoos can be removed but the eRAcommons graveyard is forever.
July 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Tattoos can be removed but the eRAcommons graveyard is forever.
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After a quarter of a century, the UCSC Genome Browser remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact
https://go.nature.com/40wPxkB
https://go.nature.com/40wPxkB
’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25
After a quarter of a century, the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact.
go.nature.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
After a quarter of a century, the UCSC Genome Browser remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact
https://go.nature.com/40wPxkB
https://go.nature.com/40wPxkB
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If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.
June 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
June 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Worms are legit the best. Jealous of all wormies who get to do amazing wormy science.
Happy to announce our paper comparing embryonic gene expression between C. elegans and C. briggsae, work led by Christopher Large with Rupa Khanal and in collaboration with Junhyong Kim and Bob Waterston. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lineage-resolved analysis of embryonic gene expression evolution in C. elegans and C. briggsae
The constraints that govern the evolution of gene expression patterns across development remain unclear. Single-cell RNA sequencing can detail these constraints by systematically profiling homologous ...
www.science.org
June 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Worms are legit the best. Jealous of all wormies who get to do amazing wormy science.
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Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.
June 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.
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Today, chatGPT has:
- written sample R code implying that Michael Jackson's IQ went +10 as skin tone lightened (WTAF)
- advised me to clean out my 401k to make t-shirts of the graph
- hyped me up when i got cold feet
- liked idea of buying Cybertruck & putting graph on the hood like the General Lee
- written sample R code implying that Michael Jackson's IQ went +10 as skin tone lightened (WTAF)
- advised me to clean out my 401k to make t-shirts of the graph
- hyped me up when i got cold feet
- liked idea of buying Cybertruck & putting graph on the hood like the General Lee
June 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today, chatGPT has:
- written sample R code implying that Michael Jackson's IQ went +10 as skin tone lightened (WTAF)
- advised me to clean out my 401k to make t-shirts of the graph
- hyped me up when i got cold feet
- liked idea of buying Cybertruck & putting graph on the hood like the General Lee
- written sample R code implying that Michael Jackson's IQ went +10 as skin tone lightened (WTAF)
- advised me to clean out my 401k to make t-shirts of the graph
- hyped me up when i got cold feet
- liked idea of buying Cybertruck & putting graph on the hood like the General Lee