It's #WorldAutismAwarenessDay. A 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis found that approximately 31% of autistic individuals exhibit joint hypermobility, and about 39% of people with #EhlersDanlosSyndrome or HSD meet diagnostic criteria for #autism. www.ehlers-danlos.com/autism-accep...
The Zebra Alliance logo with the Ehlers-Danlos Society EDS & HSD Awareness profile frame.
MAY IS EDS & HSD AWARENESS MONTH
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As many of you know, research funding is being stripped away, so orgs like @ehlersdanlos.bsky.social need our support more than ever! Help us help them reach their $100,000.00 Fundraising Goal 🙏 Learn More: www.ehlers-danlos.com
#EDS #HSD #ehlersdanlossyndrome
This story seems almost unbelievable. Yale Law School suspended Helyeh Doutaghi, an international law scholar, because an AI-powered news site claimed she had ties to terrorists, which she denies. How is an AI-powered site able to dictate the employment status of someone at a leading university?
Solidarity with Helyeh Doutaghi who was fired by Yale Law School for speaking unequivocally for Palestinian liberation. Shame on her Yale colleagues for their silent cowardice and complicity. May you fall with the fascist institution.
I don’t share New York Times pieces lightly but this is too wild not to share. This woman, Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian lawyer, was maligned by a Zionist AI run news site, and began to receive hate messages, and was suspended at a cowardly Yale that caved to the pressure. Unbelievable. Link below.
5/ and in neurons of the fly brain.
Images from the ongoing MI-SIM demo for #FluorescenceFriday: COS cells labeled for actin, mitochondria or microtubules. The mosaic function is quite nice for 2D-SIM acquisition of large fields of view!
It's not a repost if it's a new platform, right? right??
Lattice light sheet movie of actin in mitosis. Blebby.
A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy, nicknamed the Bullseye, is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes.
Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: bit.ly/4hcX52n 🔭 🧪
I will always support DEI. My business STEM Factually is a one person show, ha, but I will freely talk about the importance of DEI & how we need to support women & minorities in STEM. I have always sought out outreach opportunities to support DEI & hope there are others that still will. 🧪🥽🍎👩🔬🧬⚛️
Science is Real
Black Lives Matter
No human is illegal
Immigrants Deserve Protection
Gender is a Spectrum
Queer and Trans is Beautiful
Accessibility is for Everyone
Women's Rights Are Human Rights
Equity and Social Justice For All
I always knew Bluesky should be the home of science social media and I am so glad it's happening! 🧪 🌱🩺🕷️🔬🪲🦠
Love this from @edyong209.bsky.social 👇
A new study that looks at uncredited contributions of #WomeninSTEM to genetics research was inspired by the film "Hidden Figures". How scientists are portrayed in society matters; the stories we tell matter.
#WomeninScience #scicomm #movies 🧪
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
My heart hurts for our country. Healthcare encompasses my whole life & I have lived it: Survived cancer 2x, living with Lupus, chronic pain & chronic illnesses. I take 38 meds annually. I've done EVERYTHING in my power to help others have ACCESS to healthcare & I will NEVER GIVE UP fighting for YOU!
You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant.
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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Trans rights are human rights. Intersex people exist and deserve bodily autonomy. Systemic racism is real. The social model of disability is useful. Difference is not a reason to hate. Wealth and power are not signals of virtue, intelligence, or any other beneficial trait. Trump is a convicted felon
A pair of COS cells, one in interphase and one in mitosis for
#FluorescenceFriday. Tricky 4-channel overlay made possible by @kwolbachia.bsky.social LUTs! Microtubules 🟣 vimentin 🟢 mitochondria 🟠 clathrin 🔵, deconvolved Apotome.
Validating the existence of my Bluesky account with a #FluorescenceFriday of the second? best organelle
Mitotic immunofluorescence image
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🌟 Here’s a 4x expansion microscopy image with hoechst(🧬) and a NUP marker. The denaturation step made NUP marker non-specific, but also gave me a really cool image! #Mitosis #Microscopy
As a scientist, I know progress thrives on diversity & inclusivity. Now is the time to advocate for those whose voices are silenced, especially in the lab. Black, Brown, queer, trans, immigrant, undocumented, disabled, & Indigenous communities matter. We deserve to be here.
