Nelson Lau Lab
@nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social
Piwi and piRNA and pugs enthusiast. Tennis on occasions. http://laulab.bu.edu
Klingon Bond – Today is a Good Day to Spy!
Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy!
Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High!
Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai!
Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!
Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy!
Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High!
Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai!
Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!
There's a fun game I want to share.
Try to keep it going (or not🤷♀️), here or IRL.
Klingon fast food cooks "Today is a good day to fry!"
Klingon spinners "Today is a good day to ply!"
Klingon infants "(in a baby voice) "Today is a good day to cry."
Klingon desiccants "Today is a good day to dry."
Try to keep it going (or not🤷♀️), here or IRL.
Klingon fast food cooks "Today is a good day to fry!"
Klingon spinners "Today is a good day to ply!"
Klingon infants "(in a baby voice) "Today is a good day to cry."
Klingon desiccants "Today is a good day to dry."
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Klingon Bond – Today is a Good Day to Spy!
Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy!
Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High!
Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai!
Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!
Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy!
Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High!
Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai!
Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!
Salient that the late Sir John Gurdon's seminal Nobel-prize discoveries of pluripotency was accomplished with Xenopus frogs, another model organism whose NIH funding support has massively declined as much as its invertebrate brethren.
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Salient that the late Sir John Gurdon's seminal Nobel-prize discoveries of pluripotency was accomplished with Xenopus frogs, another model organism whose NIH funding support has massively declined as much as its invertebrate brethren.
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The moose out front should have told you… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH
grants.nih.gov
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The moose out front should have told you… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
This guy's shirt I saw walking to work sums up today's Oval office Dunning Kruger-esque press briefing on ASD.
September 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This guy's shirt I saw walking to work sums up today's Oval office Dunning Kruger-esque press briefing on ASD.
Real Slim Shady in Boston?
August 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Real Slim Shady in Boston?
That is some nice luciferase activity!
June 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
That is some nice luciferase activity!
Welp! Sitting in dark office, entire lab building on emergency power since 3pm. Whole chunk of downtown Boston without power!
May 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Welp! Sitting in dark office, entire lab building on emergency power since 3pm. Whole chunk of downtown Boston without power!
Michael, so sorry! You have alot of fans of your research, myself included. Keep fighting and thank you for this brave post! Hope HMS backs up you and your lab to fight another day!
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Michael, so sorry! You have alot of fans of your research, myself included. Keep fighting and thank you for this brave post! Hope HMS backs up you and your lab to fight another day!
Happy Dog Day, Chester the Tennis Pug!
May 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy Dog Day, Chester the Tennis Pug!
If Spongebob Squarepants can find these two planes, he can help fund 60 biomedical research labs on land for at least 5 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier | CNN Politics
Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, four people familiar with ...
www.cnn.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
If Spongebob Squarepants can find these two planes, he can help fund 60 biomedical research labs on land for at least 5 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
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"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
jamanetwork.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Why NIH/NIGMS funding of basic research matters with our latest work now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social sky.social. We solved a >30-year-old mystery of what transcription factor drives the Flamenco piRNA cluster required for female Drosophila fertility. /1
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Traffic Jam activates the Flamenco piRNA cluster locus and the Piwi pathway to ensure transposon silencing and Drosophila fertility
Rivera et al. discover Drosophila Flamenco piRNA cluster enhancers bound and activated
by the Traffic Jam transcription factor. Traffic Jam also binds many follicle cell
genes including activating mul...
www.cell.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why NIH/NIGMS funding of basic research matters with our latest work now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social sky.social. We solved a >30-year-old mystery of what transcription factor drives the Flamenco piRNA cluster required for female Drosophila fertility. /1
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Before the ChatGPT Hyphen was derided, we @bartellab.bsky.social alumni were already trained in the ways of the em dash, amirite @shechnerlab.bsky.social ? wapo.st/4co1WvY
Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree.
Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.
wapo.st
April 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Before the ChatGPT Hyphen was derided, we @bartellab.bsky.social alumni were already trained in the ways of the em dash, amirite @shechnerlab.bsky.social ? wapo.st/4co1WvY
Been listening to the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein Show, and wowed by this episode that quotes my friend @johndoench.bsky.social about NIH progress reports! If my PO follows me, yes I'm working on my RPPR now! Just hope I can still get my Non-competing funding, please please🙏?
Listening to this in advance of reading their book Abundance.
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social are so spot on.
I am hopeful this helps people crack the code on pragmatic and effective progressivism.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social are so spot on.
I am hopeful this helps people crack the code on pragmatic and effective progressivism.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Origins of Abundance
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/21/2025 · 1h 13m
podcasts.apple.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Been listening to the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein Show, and wowed by this episode that quotes my friend @johndoench.bsky.social about NIH progress reports! If my PO follows me, yes I'm working on my RPPR now! Just hope I can still get my Non-competing funding, please please🙏?
@lucksmith.bsky.social will enjoy this HA-Tag. Hemagglutinin HA? or Funny HA?
March 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@lucksmith.bsky.social will enjoy this HA-Tag. Hemagglutinin HA? or Funny HA?
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Hopefully this will backfire and stop future institutions from caving. The admin has now shown (as anyone with half a brain already knew) that appeasement won't save you.
Trump: "You see what we're doing with the colleges and they're all bending and saying, 'Sir, thank you very much, we appreciate it.' Nobody can believe it, including law firms that have been so horrible. Law firms that nobody would believe and they're saying, 'Where do I sign? Where do I sign?'"
March 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hopefully this will backfire and stop future institutions from caving. The admin has now shown (as anyone with half a brain already knew) that appeasement won't save you.
Also great to see Faculty peers here at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Bill Theurkauf @rti-umasschan.bsky.social and @remlehmann.bsky.social Mitch McVey, Norbert Perrimon, Welcome Bender are here, Standing up for NIH funded Drosophila Research!
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Also great to see Faculty peers here at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Bill Theurkauf @rti-umasschan.bsky.social and @remlehmann.bsky.social Mitch McVey, Norbert Perrimon, Welcome Bender are here, Standing up for NIH funded Drosophila Research!
The Attack on Science in the USA is so bad right now, this moderate independent was compelled to protest at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Good turnout with my colleagues from @bostonu.bsky.social !
March 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Attack on Science in the USA is so bad right now, this moderate independent was compelled to protest at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Good turnout with my colleagues from @bostonu.bsky.social !
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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
2025 Study section tracking
docs.google.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Will be there! Hope to see a crowd size that trumps Trump's @standupforscience.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Will be there! Hope to see a crowd size that trumps Trump's @standupforscience.bsky.social
So sorry to learn of Scott Hawley's passing. I only had email communications with Scott and received some of his fly strains, but I was touched by his grace. When I wrote him about a sequencing error, he thanked me for reaching out instead of dismissing me as an inexperienced junior PI. RIP.
Feeling very lost today with the news of the passing of my undergrad advisor Scott Hawley. He had a huge impact on the field and on me personally. He was the first person to see me as a scientist and gave me the confidence to apply to grad school. I am so grateful to be a part of his legacy.
January 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
So sorry to learn of Scott Hawley's passing. I only had email communications with Scott and received some of his fly strains, but I was touched by his grace. When I wrote him about a sequencing error, he thanked me for reaching out instead of dismissing me as an inexperienced junior PI. RIP.
Pairs well with my startup of point-of-meal sequence verification of soups and sauces: Nanoporridge Technologies.
Finally my startup to do point-of-meal sequence verification of fish cuts has a name.
Fillet MinION
Fillet MinION
December 3, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Pairs well with my startup of point-of-meal sequence verification of soups and sauces: Nanoporridge Technologies.
Hey now, Icon! @lucksmith.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Hey now, Icon! @lucksmith.bsky.social
Happy Birthday Chester!
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Happy Birthday Chester!