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Martha Bhattacharya

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Neuroscientist doing cell bio/genetics/genomics in Drosophila/mouse/iPSC neurons @ U of Arizona. Wife and Mom of 2. Love endorphins, learning new things, and sunrises.

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Report to the editors. This needs to be dealt with.

11.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks at sky high gas prices and ponders what could have been if we had only invested in safe bike infrastructure, public transit, and massive rebates for e-bikes

08.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

As the world gets hotter, you may want the sun to go down earlier. Sincerely, Arizona (who has permanent standard time, no daylight savings).

04.03.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Watch the movie Idiocracy, it will show you a society where people get dumber and dumber until no one can do anything except stare at screens all day. Let’s not get there.

25.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ rΓ©sumΓ©s

19.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 9351 πŸ” 2127 πŸ’¬ 219 πŸ“Œ 185
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Alex Pretti memorial bike ride. Tucson, AZ

31.01.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I have seen this sometimes in years past for proposals in neuroscience or other biology fields; we could never get answers from NSF about why and didn’t make sense given their list of fields

29.01.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pho Grand, in St Louis!

19.01.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope there is an ACLU class action lawsuit on behalf of the hundreds of US citizens and others with legal papers being unlawfully detained and incarcerated. If ICE operations become a financial liability to the government, it might exert pressure to stop this insanity.

18.01.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Ira's 56th Birthday Symposium
Ira's 56th Birthday Symposium YouTube video by Ira Herskowitz memorial

Learned this from the master, Ira Herskowitz: youtu.be/5xgLuHy3cFU?...

23.12.2025 20:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is good advice!! As a mentor of PhD students, I am also trying to follow the same advice (taking acoustic guitar lessons!). You sound great!! Keep it up.

23.12.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. Exactly.

21.12.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a reasonable idea. We have university library staff who help researchers with all sorts of things related to refs and data, this might make some sense (and maybe they could get their student workers to help).

21.12.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure who needs to hear, but this is NOT how you support the arts in the United States.

19.12.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I realize this is a tough ask on editors. But it also should not fall to reviewers. So the dilemma is, who will fact check the AI? If it ends up being on reviewers, they need to pay us. :)
Sorry this happened to you; its quite alarming.

19.12.2025 21:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It should be on the editors that if they send a manuscript our for review, they have done a basic quality check that the refs exist. If not, editorial rejection, full stop.

19.12.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I will go get tacos with you Tim!

14.11.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe a great holiday gift for your science-interested friends!

11.11.2025 15:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

And probably the duration of employment will be about 2 weeks as well.

07.11.2025 22:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friendly Nick's Butcher (Fort Collins CO), my brother’s shop, will be offering free meat (beef, pork, chicken, eggs) to anyone who is losing their SNAP benefits or furloughed/working without pay. All free, just show your EBT or Federal ID card.

Please share! #foco #snap #shutdown

30.10.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Wow. It’s already really tough for my seniors, who are applying to WAY more schools that I would normally advise. (And that is also expensive!!)

22.10.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congressman Steve Scalise Representing the 1st District of Louisiana

Action you can do today: call members of US house leadership and insist that they seat our elected, certified Tucson House rep Adelita Grijalva. Say you are calling for your friends in Tucson who do not currently have representation (me). Steve Scalise (house maj leader) Tom Emmer (house whip).

22.10.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ§ͺπŸ§ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬πŸ’ͺ #nokings #tucson #swearinadelita

19.10.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree.

18.10.2025 00:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is my district. We elected Adelita by a huge margin. We want representation NOW.

15.10.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

πŸ§ͺπŸ§ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

10.10.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

01.10.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 10373 πŸ” 3074 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 75

And this is why we need to keep going with corporate pressure. Next up: groundavelo.org. #rightsmatter

23.09.2025 02:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The website is throwing up roadblocks and screens that prevent me from seeing my profile so I can cancel. Any thoughts?

19.09.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ§ͺπŸ§ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ Hey, check it out! New research from our lab with lots of collaborators! We found a new genetic cause of common neurodevelopmental syndromes (thin corpus callosum, developmental delay and seizures) and explain why they happen!

03.09.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0