Ashutosh Dharap
@dharap.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, RNA Biologist, Traveler, Nature-lover, Technophile | Asst Prof in Mol Med and Primary Investigator at the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of South Florida. Studying stroke and vascular dementia. www.dharaplab.com
Hey @bsky.app why is my 'Discover' feed full of cat posts? What made your algorithm think I love cat posts? Clicking on 'show less like this' does not seem to do anything. Does that feature actually work?
May 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hey @bsky.app why is my 'Discover' feed full of cat posts? What made your algorithm think I love cat posts? Clicking on 'show less like this' does not seem to do anything. Does that feature actually work?
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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
May 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Yup, groceries have definitely been getting freakin expensive in #Tampa! Has been so for at least 2-3 years now and seems keep going up and up 🙄
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Tampa Bay grocery prices see highest spike in continental U.S.: study
Grocery prices in Tampa Bay saw the highest spike in the continental United States over the last year, according to a recent study by SmartAsset.
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April 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yup, groceries have definitely been getting freakin expensive in #Tampa! Has been so for at least 2-3 years now and seems keep going up and up 🙄
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
When we built our new home we planted an Alphonso mango sapling (Mangifera indica; first pic). 5 months later, the sprout's grown like a champ and we already have several fruit growing.. Wow! 😮 😍 Looking forward to enjoying some wonderful homegrown mangoes in July!
April 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When we built our new home we planted an Alphonso mango sapling (Mangifera indica; first pic). 5 months later, the sprout's grown like a champ and we already have several fruit growing.. Wow! 😮 😍 Looking forward to enjoying some wonderful homegrown mangoes in July!
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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
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Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...
www.federalregister.gov
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a “package to support my research for 20 years.” Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!🧪🧠
I expect that most academic biomedical researchers have considered leaving the US—if only in theory for now. What a colossal mess! Our representatives need to hear this. Please amplify so they know this matters. @levin.house.gov @repscottpeters.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov
“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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February 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a “package to support my research for 20 years.” Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!🧪🧠
All those years swimming, fishing, and sailing lake Mendota.. who woulda thunk what lay beneath!
Fascinating article on >10 dugout canoes found in Lake Mendota (WI), a lake I grew up fishing every summer at least a few times so I know the depth contours by heart.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:08 PM
All those years swimming, fishing, and sailing lake Mendota.. who woulda thunk what lay beneath!
December 25, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Welcome to Bluesky @benakis-lab.bsky.social! Hope things are well!
December 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Welcome to Bluesky @benakis-lab.bsky.social! Hope things are well!
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Logged into Bluesky after months and wow is it active! Glad to see.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Logged into Bluesky after months and wow is it active! Glad to see.
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...that humans (Europeans, specifically) infected 'dillos with leprosy no more than 500 years ago.
The legacy of Columbus is creating the only animal reservoir of leprosy.
And now they give it back to us, about 15 cases per year can be traced to contact with 9-band 'dillos.
The legacy of Columbus is creating the only animal reservoir of leprosy.
And now they give it back to us, about 15 cases per year can be traced to contact with 9-band 'dillos.
October 9, 2023 at 1:29 PM
...that humans (Europeans, specifically) infected 'dillos with leprosy no more than 500 years ago.
The legacy of Columbus is creating the only animal reservoir of leprosy.
And now they give it back to us, about 15 cases per year can be traced to contact with 9-band 'dillos.
The legacy of Columbus is creating the only animal reservoir of leprosy.
And now they give it back to us, about 15 cases per year can be traced to contact with 9-band 'dillos.
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
March 24, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
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So the airline incident that Musk, Fox News and others implied was caused by DEI granting untermenschen access to high paying jobs might have been a result of corporate malfeasance that was actually criminal, an apt metaphor for why elites embrace racist pseudoscience www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...
F.B.I. Tells Passengers on Alaska Flight They May Have Been Crime Victims
Letters sent by the bureau’s Seattle office are a sign that the Justice Department’s investigation into Boeing, the maker of the plane whose fuselage panel blew off, is ramping up.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2024 at 9:38 PM
So the airline incident that Musk, Fox News and others implied was caused by DEI granting untermenschen access to high paying jobs might have been a result of corporate malfeasance that was actually criminal, an apt metaphor for why elites embrace racist pseudoscience www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...
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The Instagram ad that just popped into my stream, next to what my phone’s camera happened to be pointing at😟
March 5, 2024 at 1:37 AM
The Instagram ad that just popped into my stream, next to what my phone’s camera happened to be pointing at😟
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OMG--This is the best ever--Great to see a federal agency with such an exquisite sense of humor 🧪
I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
February 22, 2024 at 3:04 PM
OMG--This is the best ever--Great to see a federal agency with such an exquisite sense of humor 🧪
Lovely day in St. Pete today. A perfect 75F and sunny. #FloridaLife
January 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Lovely day in St. Pete today. A perfect 75F and sunny. #FloridaLife
Delicious Friday dinner.. Vada pav and margaritas! Home made.
January 27, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Delicious Friday dinner.. Vada pav and margaritas! Home made.
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This is a very cool paper-thanks for sharing. 14% of the encoded genes in this protozoan are derived from pandoraviruses, viruses with bacterial size genomes! The more broadly we look across the tree of life, the more crazy things we see 🧪
First major work fully made in the laboratory is out in @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... DNA methylation allows recurrent endogenization of giant viruses in a #protist 🦠 closely related to animals, an unprecedented example of virus and eukaryotic host genomic mixture.
DNA methylation enables recurrent endogenization of giant viruses in an animal relative
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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January 26, 2024 at 11:45 AM
This is a very cool paper-thanks for sharing. 14% of the encoded genes in this protozoan are derived from pandoraviruses, viruses with bacterial size genomes! The more broadly we look across the tree of life, the more crazy things we see 🧪
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Just because, I want to talk about Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, who is the founder of bioinformatics. Also (and that’s how I came to know her) the inventor of the one-letter code for amino acids so, for example, ...Asp Glu Ile Ala Lys... becomes DEIAK...
www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/pe...
www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/pe...
Professor Margaret Dayhoff | Biographical summary
The life and works of Professor Margaret Dayhoff
www.whatisbiotechnology.org
January 23, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Just because, I want to talk about Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, who is the founder of bioinformatics. Also (and that’s how I came to know her) the inventor of the one-letter code for amino acids so, for example, ...Asp Glu Ile Ala Lys... becomes DEIAK...
www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/pe...
www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/pe...
🚨 Want to participate in exciting science with access to ample resources and a supportive PI in a really nice beach town? Apply today! #AcademicTwitter #postdoc #neuroscience #Tampa #Florida
Want to live and work in a fantastic place? Come to Tampa! #PostDocOpportunity in the Thinakaran Lab at Byrd Institute. Apply spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and a lot more to explore the mechanisms of genetic risk factors in AD.
#neuroscience @USFHealth @jobRxiv @PostDocsForum Please RT.
#neuroscience @USFHealth @jobRxiv @PostDocsForum Please RT.
January 19, 2024 at 11:17 PM
🚨 Want to participate in exciting science with access to ample resources and a supportive PI in a really nice beach town? Apply today! #AcademicTwitter #postdoc #neuroscience #Tampa #Florida
December 31, 2023 at 8:05 PM