Why don't humans have tails? A genetics study finds that a mobile genetic sequence inserted into a gene for tail development contributed to tail loss as early apes evolved. go.nature.com/3Te8t4C

💥Our new preprint! Transposon ADDICTION in development! Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development Study led heroically by Sylvia Ni & Jonathan Wells This work has transformed my view of transposons, no less! 🧵1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really pleased to have this out! It was a huge blast to write this with my friend and amazing colleague Bess Frost!! annualreviews.org/content/journa…

The number of people congratulating this former PI really speaks to how deep the misogyny in academia runs. Scientific contributions should never outweigh the duty to moral and scientific integrity. Second chances shouldn’t be given at the expense of past and future trainees

A new preprint shows virus-like #Arcprotein may mediate #synapticplasticity. Next, researchers must confirm the find with complicated labeling, imaging & electrophysiology experiments, writes The Transmitter. We ask, are the needed antibodies up to par? thetransmitter.org/synaptic-plast…

In honor of the first day of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth I’d like to remind y’all that iron is a required cofactor in the synthesis of dopamine and serotonin. And almost 40% of 12-21 yo females are deficient. tinyurl.com/FeJAMA

Another qualifying exam down!! Congrats ⁦Lulu Schulz⁩ ⁦UT Health SA Grad School of Biomedical Sciences⁩ ⁦Sam & Ann Barshop Institute⁩

Very excited for my mentor to lead the way to new breakthrough discoveries in Alzheimer’s research at Brown, and also very grateful she is bringing me along for the ride as I finish out my PhD training!

Got to present my work on Arc and ERV-derived viral-like particles in tauopathy at the Brown University MCB Retreat today! So excited to be amongst such cool interdisciplinary science 🥺

Very helpful! But consider colorblind-friendly color palettes 🎨 ggpubfigs only supports colorblind-friendly color palettes, so it is something users don't even need to think about :D github.com/JLSteenwyk/ggp… x.com/tangming2005/s…

The NIH's research integrity scandal involving neuroscience chief and #Alzheimer’s/#Parkinson’s scientist Eliezer Masliah is of an extraordinary scale. It might be useful to follow one thread of the investigation involving the experimental drug prasinezumab from Prothena Corporation.

Got off this plane in tears. Not even sure what I was feeling. In awe of the cancer survivor who I met who was sitting next to me. Turns out his entire family had succumbed to lung cancer and he had survived. He noticed I was a cancer researcher as he saw me working on data. 1/

TRISCO A solid step closer to 3D #SpatialTranscriptomics 😎 Optimized probe-based 3D RNA imaging in whole organs isHCR Tris 500 mM 4'C Validated probe list in Table S1 Whole brain: mouse/rat/guinea pig Brain Hemisphere: human fetus Heart Lung Kidney: mouse Shigeaki_Kanatani

Not just increased TE expression but increased insertions!

After a ban on diversity programs and a communications freeze at the National Institutes of Health, neuroscientists are left worrying about the future of several funding programs. By Angie Voyles Askham and Claudia López Lloreda thetransmitter.org/funding/neuros…

A driving assumption behind the admin's proposed restrictions on grants & aid seems to be that any use of "DEI" signals a political agenda that is antithetical to conducting good research. Let's unpack that. Why would DEI language be used in a grant?

It’s an honor to be awarded the The Rainwater Charitable Foundation 2025 Innovative Early-Career Scientist award! My team and I are excited to continue pushing the envelope to unravel mechanisms underlying tau toxicity and to translate our discoveries into therapeutic strategies to combat tauopathies.

Metabolomic study by Afaf Saliba UT Health San Antonio Research unveils toxic tryptophan metabolite that links kidney decline to toxic brain milieu. insight.jci.org/articles/view/… UT Health San Antonio UTHealthSA Nephrology

The more jargon you have in your paper the less citations you'll generally get.

Article covering a few key examples of how NIH funding cuts are affecting research on #Alzheimers disease: The social cost of federal cuts to Alzheimer’s research universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…