Lisa Julian
lisaj456.bsky.social
Lisa Julian
@lisaj456.bsky.social
Neuroscientist studying how stem cells build our brain; rare diseases; cell stress; hPSCs; organoids; tuberous sclerosis; Ataxia, Batten Disease, EDI. Ast Prof. @SFUscience
@AirCanada you cancelled my Sunday morning flight and just 1 hour later told me there are no options to rebook me within 3 days on any airline. That my only option is reimbursement. It’s a lie. I see many flights available. They’re just $$. You’re obliged to rebook me - do it!
August 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Seems like there are a lot of new folks here. Sharing a starter pack I made - Biomedical scientists in Canada 🇨🇦🧪. Let me know if you'd like to be added!
July 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Congratulations to #SFU Molecular Biology and Biochemistry distinguished professor Fiona Brinkman who has received a @genomebc.bsky.social Award for Scientific Excellence from Life Sciences BC! www.sfu.ca/science/news...
July 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Congratulations to @sfubiosciences.bsky.social Dean's Convocation Medal recipient Brett Hodinka. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction ow.ly/lWqx50W5PNw #MySFUGrad
Dr. Brett Hodinka receives Dean’s Convocation Medal
2025 recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal from Faculty of Science. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction
ow.ly
June 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Welcome to sky please follow us
Hello from the Biology Department!
Follow us for news, research highlights and a peek into the life sciences✨🌱
June 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Trump’s NIH cuts aren’t just numbers. They are delayed cures, abandoned treatments, futures stolen, lives that will be lost. This is why we Stand Up For Science.

#StandUpForScience
#SummerFightForScience
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
June 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Horrific. Hard to believe this is the world we now live in.
May 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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love Tim Walz
May 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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SFU invites applications from world renowned researchers for the prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 Competition. Please see the ad to see if you qualify. In Vancouver, BC
www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...
Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 Competition
www.sfu.ca
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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"A growing reluctance to hold scientific conferences in the United States “will have an impact on the cities that have established themselves as conference hosting cities”." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.
www.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Thrilled to receive positive reviews on our newest paper in Cell Reports Methods this morning (Pre-print here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! And after just returning from a great few days with colleagues in Montreal. Often in research the exciting things cluster together 😀
A bioprinting approach for high-throughput production of micropatterned neuroepithelial tissues and modeling TSC2-deficient brain malformations
In vitro human pluripotent stem cell-derived models have been crucial in advancing our understanding of the mechanisms underlying neurodevelopment, though knowledge of the earliest stages of brain for...
www.biorxiv.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This is what happens when you support Science& scientists
May 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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May 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud, Too

He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too
He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
newrepublic.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Wonderful work by @nataliabaumann.bsky.social & the @djabaudon.bsky.social team showing how progenitor metabolism regulates region-specific neurogenesis! Glad our group could contribute, thanks to Eleonora Conti & Roberto Sansevrino.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Regional differences in progenitor metabolism shape brain growth during development
Brain-wide birthdate mapping reveals that while hindbrain neurogenesis is transient, forebrain neurogenesis is temporally sustained through spatiotemporal regulation of progenitor mitochondrial functi...
www.cell.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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All of this, right here… 👇

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?! 🤚

Hope so. 😎✨
April 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Honestly, this would literally drive Cdns (namely me) crazy for the next four years. I really need calm and a sense of peace that Captain Canada (namely Mark Carney) would provide. A daily diet of anger and anxiety under a Poilievre gov is unimaginable. #Cdnpoli
#NeverPoilievre #ElbowsUp
Conservative Campaign summery:

Be afraid, and be mad. Hate Liberals.

#cdnpoli
April 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Reminder to Canadian scientists who'd like to sign this open letter to party leaders to increase tricouncil funding. It has over 1800 signatures and you can still add to it (link is in the PDF). acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Adobe Acrobat
acrobat.adobe.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The election in Canada 🇨🇦 is a big deal - advance voting now over, election day is April 28th. Big possibility to elect a rational and capable Prime Minister. Please remember to vote in a week - don't assume the outcome is guaranteed, polling is getting tighter. And consider strategic voting. 🇨🇦
April 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Presidents have one job.

“Preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. “

This post is Donald Trump fully and publicly admitted he is incapable of it.

Congress must enforce the 14th amendment and remove him.
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Hoping the inscription resonates with some 🙏
April 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM