What people think a Ph.D. is: Work, Sleep, Social life. What it actually is: Lab, fear, crying, failed experiments, existential dread-and maybe a paper. #PhDLife #GradSchoolProblems #PhD #chemistry #AcademicTwitter #ScienceHumor #PhDStruggles #ResearchReality #ChemTwitter

The muscle-brain axis has untapped potential in mental health.

1 in 3 PhDs never finish their thesis? I almost became one of them until I discovered what examiners look for While everyone warns about the PhD journey being tough, few share the practical blueprint for crafting a thesis that impresses examiners

Caught in action: an #eosinophil releasing #ExtracellularTraps captured by scanning electron microscopy! #MicroscopyMonday #ETosis #EosinophilicDiseases

💡 Cancer cells don’t just mutate—they reorganize their DNA in 3D space. Our new study shows how the genome’s folding pattern shifts as tumors progress, cell by cell 🧩🧬. It’s the first 3D genome atlas of cancer progression. Thread 👇

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How to Write a Better Thesis Download link in the comments! If you think this book will help, write "Thank you' in the comments to motivate me to post more! 😊 & retweet

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Making a heatmap is an essential skill for a bioinformatician. But you probably do not understand heatmap. 7 reading resources to understand heatmap! 🧵

Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor signaling in oligodendrocytes increases the weight-loss action of GLP-1R agonism dlvr.it/TMtRJV

Researchers were able to freeze learning in mice. This great recent work shows the striatum is required for skill learning but not skill use (through optogenetics). Understanding the memory-making mechanism helps understand the core idea. Here is my toy model and notes:

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9 Podcasts PhDs, Postdocs and Researchers should follow Drowning in research? Need help with your career? Here's a lifeline for PhDs, researchers, and academics. Transform your workout, coffee break, or commute into powerful inspiration

Viral effectors trigger innate immunity across the tree of life "prokaryotic and eukaryotic immunity share conceptual parallels, and some immune components even emerged in prokaryotes and were conserved in eukaryotes over the course of evolution" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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New! Online now: Mitochondrial dysfunction reveals H2S-mediated synaptic sulfhydration as a potential mechanism for autism-associated social defects dlvr.it/TMvKgn

Save this review for your weekend. 🔖 The article details how immune-organoid co-cultures can model mucosal immunity at each stage of a functional inflammatory response. 🔓 More in Cell Reports: bit.ly/4mXsjxy