Karen Robbins

Let's learn about horseshoe crabs (family Limulidae).

In a few nights, a female can lay over 100,000 transparent eggs.

The fertilized eggs hatch within 2-4 weeks, having gone through 4 embryonic molts within the egg.

During this time, they're sometimes called "trilobite larvae."

It’s totally baffling !

Sending prayers to her family. She was an extraordinary young woman.

If you haven’t, read her superb essay in @newyorker.com about her journey since her cancer diagnosis. A remarkable person. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase: The missing piece of many puzzles Twenty-five years ago, two Cell papers reported the key missing functional piece in three molecular puzzles. The genetic swapping of immunoglobulin constant regions, the mutational fine-tuning of anti...

AID's role in class switch recombination & somatic hypermutation was published in @cellpress.bsky.social 25 years ago, a tour de force combo of mouse gene discovery & mechanistic work (Honjo lab) and human genetics (Durandy, Fischer et al).
What a privilege to write this with Sidonia & Masamichi

Immunology is back in the spotlight! The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to research on TReg lymphocytes.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

#NobelPrize

A really nice overview of key Treg discoveries relevant for today's exciting Nobel announcement
www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

A still from a TikTok video featuring a blond woman with long hair (Dr. G, M.D). The text reads: Since everyone wants to “do their own research” these days, don’t forget to complete your CITI training modules!!

Only those victimized by clinical research will understand

"It is critically important that we raise our voices in support of innovative cancer science and medicine." AACR President Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR, calls on the #AACR25 delegates to stand together and call on Congress to make cancer research a national priority.

🙌

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Federal layoffs have forced the NICHD to end the
Safe to Sleep campaign. Are babies DEI? Is preventing SIDS and suffocation during sleep too woke? MAGA doesn’t care about anything or anyone.

It's more of a comment than a question

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

I wish :((

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

After my fist summer at a NSF-REU site (Colorado State Univ Chemistry) I knew I wanted to become a scientist and began to believe in myself. This is a travesty for the next gen of scientists

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

sadly having to refresh on a few old things…

Friday 3/07/25
#Medsky #Pedsky
standupforscience2025.org

Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪

There are estimated to be more than 300 people with measles infections in west Texas right now, cases have shown up in eastern New Mexico, and there are new cases in New Jersey, Alaska and at least a couple southeastern states. This is a national problem and there is no federal infrastructure for it

ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant?

RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ...

ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.

Until today.

Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment - Nature Mitochondria with mutations in their DNA from cancer cells can be transferred to T cells in the tumour microenvironment, which leads to T cell dysfunction and impaired antitumour immunity.

This is wild 🤩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.

Why care? 🧵

Oh!! Oh!! 🙋🏼‍♀️

Stained glass art of Bishop Budde

“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

Very informative, thank you!

Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.

#MedSky #PublicHealth

“A year-long bipartisan Congressional investigation into two private equity-backed 🇺🇸hospital systems found that patient care deteriorated at both systems as their private equity owners reaped significant payouts.”

TL;DR greed kills.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I totally get it. Squealed when I saw this on my fiddle leaf the other day…

About to go on a run to burn off half a bag of mint Milanos 🤦‍♀️