I swear by my Loop Earplugs. Best money I've ever spent.

Wow, what an amazing thread. Pass it on to the aspiring scicomm-ers in your life. Thanks for sharing this, Erin! #scicommjobs

Deep gratitude to Mutha Magazine for the Pushcart nom on my hermit crab piece "The Act of Breathing: A NICU Glossary." To be seen and to know that my words have built a connection with others is everything 💙🙏🏽 muthamagazine.com/2022/08/the-ac…

A new one-time base-editing treatment for spinal muscular atrophy — a neuromuscular disease that is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality — restored motor function and extended lifespan in a mouse model. broad.io/SMAbaseediting

If you are interested in developing gene-based therapeutics for SMA and other neurological diseases, join our lab at the Translational Neuroscience Center Boston Children's Harvard Medical School! We are recruiting all positions, visit arbablab.com for more info. Please RT

Had to hop back on my personal Twitter to give a huge shoutout to Mandana Arbab & Żaneta Matuszek today because this work is ✨beautiful✨, and I had so much fun witnessing its progress behind the scenes. Also, a shoutout to Mary O'Reilly for her work on the figures! 😍

Hello! I am a trans synthetic biologist and biochemist teaching undergrads at Williams College. I'm nonbinary and agender and am a proud member of The International Society of Nonbinary Scientists #TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility

So proud of my love Fernanda Graciolli for sharing her story on (racemic) #ketamine. Is it a perfect drug? No. Does it works for everyone? No. Is it risk free? Also no. Did it save her life in the face of unrelenting suicidality? 100% yes. To me, that is everything ❤️

Let the puns fly as Pairwise launches the first food introduced in the U.S. that uses CRISPR gene editing—in this case, to disable some of the genes that make highly nutritious raw mustard greens too spicy for most people to eat as a salad. In grocery stores this summer.

A great article from Victoria Woollaston on the ongoing debates around the ethics of gene editing technologies (and some great quotes from Ruth Garde with which I most wholeheartedly agree): eandt.theiet.org/content/articl…

Oof—good news wrapped up with incredibly terrible news. To know that there might be a treatment that could save your life *if only you could afford it* is a special form of hell 💔 Treatments should be accessible to all. #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness #HealthEquity

As students, especially historically marginalized ones, are making their grad school lists, I implore you NOT to chose programs solely based on how “prestigious” the institution is. Talk to Black and Brown, queer, disabled, etc people who are currently in, graduated from, or

Influencer /ˈinflo͝oənsər/ (noun): A person who shares his magic and brings out the very best in others. 🪄 [See also: every person who has ever had the opportunity to work with him] ✨ Happy 50th David R. Liu!!! 🥳 🦄✨

This #acwri thread is 💯 spot on. Point #5 is esp critical (to me). As an editor, my goal is to improve your doc(s), yes, ✨AND✨ to help you understand the rationale behind my edits so that you grow more empowered as a writer.

I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed. Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

David would never do this on his own behalf, so I'm taking it upon myself to share and amplify. He's been nominated to "The World’s Top Thinkers 2024," and you can vote for him here👇 prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/63099/25…

Calibri: why art thou?

If you are a Hanna Gray Fellow with wisdom or insights regarding the interview process, please share! I'm hoping to help out some well-deserving trainees through the preparation process.

The idea of putting a number on “How powerful is your story?” sounds somewhat absurd, BUT here are the two (and only two) narrative metrics I’ve found to be useful, intuitive, robust, accurate, and meaningful. abtagenda.substack.com/p/the-two-narr…