Vedrana Mikušević
vedmik.bsky.social
Vedrana Mikušević
@vedmik.bsky.social
Protein biochemist dedicated to science, social justice, and resisting tyranny. ❤️
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December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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A recent model suggests the #Parkinsons risk factor protein TMEM175 is primarily a proton-conducting channel. Riederer et al. @upenn.edu demonstrate that TMEM175 does not mediate a lysosomal proton leak and is not responsible for preventing lysosomal over-acidification. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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A recent model suggests the #Parkinsons risk factor protein TMEM175 is primarily a proton-conducting channel. In @jcb.org, Riederer et al. demonstrate that TMEM175 does not mediate a lysosomal proton leak and is not responsible for preventing lysosomal over-acidification. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy 35. Jahrestag der Deutschen Einheit! 🖤❤️💛
October 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I am proud to have helped organize this.

Please join me in signing- and share in your networks.

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Civil Servants Demand an End to Executive Overreach
Join federal workers from across the federal government as we urge Congress to pass nothing less than a continuing resolution (CR) that reasserts Congress's constitutional powers, upholds our democrac...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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#DonaldTrump, #RussellVought, #RFKJr & #JayBhattacharya are shutting down the war on cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease and all the rest. As the #NIH is destroyed research on ALL diseases goes with it. There is no coming back. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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September 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence.

Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures
September 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Syma Khalid. PhD representatives of the IRTG board organised a week of talks & events. Syma shared her expertise in MD simulation, science communication & insights into her own research career. Thank you for such inspiring days! @sykhalid.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Schaut nicht auf die Militärparade von Donald Trump, schaut auf die, die sich gegen seinen autokratischen Umbau wehren und es richtig einordnen.
June 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Hot off the science presses! The largest map of the brain's wiring and activity to date is featured on the cover of @nature.com.

🧠📈 Check out 'Cortex in Context' at: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
April 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Diese Datenvisualisierung des Klimaforschers Zeke Hausfather. Beeindruckend wie besorgniserregend zugleich.
April 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Der Satz "die #AfD zu emulieren stärkt ausschließlich die AfD und schadet so der Union und dem ganzen Land" benennt ein Faktum. Die Unfähigkeit des rechten Flügels der Union, das zu akzeptieren, ist das innenpolitisch größte Problem der jüngeren Vergangenheit und nahen Zukunft.
April 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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"Ich will jetzt nicht dokumentieren, was die sich da ausdenken, aber ich glaube, bestimmte Dinge, die vielleicht im Wahlkampf und in der letzten Legislatur noch, sagen wir mal, kontroverser diskutiert wurden, werden jetzt immer wichtiger, nämlich strategische Investitionen in die eigene Wirtschaft."
April 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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As some of you may know, I've been working on a history of politics and public health. The manuscript isn't quite done, but I'll be giving a sneak preview at George Washington University tonight. Join us!
March 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Fixed it.
March 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM