Lavinia Sheets

"I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange."

Orange and white cat floating in space with wide eyes and open mouth with the caption "My God, it's full of stars" in reference to the character Dave Bowman's final words in the movie "2001 - a Space Odyssey"

Fig. 1 Gen Z selfie ☺️
Fig. 2 Gen X attempt at Gen Z selfie 😭
#ARO2026 #AROMWM2026 🇵🇷

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Macrophages and neurons respond to excitotoxic injury in a dynamic way! Want to see how? Go see poster T207 this afternoon to find out #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026

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Cisplatin at sub-lethal doses—hair cells survive, but at what cost? 🤔 Turns out, it triggers permanent changes in mitochondrial morphology and dynamics.
Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026

What Happens When Science Is Asked to Pretend This Is Normal In our All-Hands meetings before I left NIH, our leaders were always trying to think of ways to accommodate the new leadership, pitching ideas they thought would fit the “MAHA” agenda.

"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers."

This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Racism packs a punch for those enduring it over a lifetime Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis find evidence that elevated stress exposure and its inflammatory correlates may contribute to Black-white racial disparities in mortality risk.

More about heightened burden of chronic stress and its associations with inflammation, which may drive the elevated mortality risk among Black Americans, compared to white counterparts. source.washu.edu/2026/01/raci... #PsychSky #NeuroSky #MedSky 🩺 From lab of @ryanbogdan.bsky.social

a lot of stuff feels really bleak right now...gotta find community and hope where we can

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A beloved STL community institution is rebuilding, which makes me feel happy & hopeful ❤️🎶 #SupportLoveofcrstl

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Lysenkoism Against Genetics: The Meeting of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of August 1948, Its Background, Causes, and Aftermath This article reviews the ideological, political, economic, social, cultural, personal, moral, and ethical factors that determined the conduct of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences session in August 1948, as well as the immediate... ...

A super interesting historical review in Genetics, chosen completely at random:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

they're both pretty great

Aww - my hometown 💚

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Celebrating another year of amazing research with this great team 🎄 ❄️

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wow 🤩

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bring back the old ways

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Your auditory nerves are super resilient! They survive damaging noise exposures and repair synaptic connections (until they don’t) 💥

Does calcium signaling play a role in their survival and repair?

Check out Poster 120.02 (Board K4) today and find out more! 🐟

1-5 pm #SfN2025

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Your brain sends inhibitory signals to your ears to optimize sound detection and protect against loud sounds 👂💥

What happens to sensory cells and behavior when one of the receptors for that signal is absent?

Check out Poster 120.01 (Board K3) to find out 🐟

1-5 pm #Sfn2025

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If I can find it 😅

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sunny autumn #caturday

Copy/paste to a doc before logging back in saved my 🍑 during my last round of reviews

Also saved those docs as back ups in case something glitches before study section (hopefully) reschedules 😬

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