Joshua Johnson

Only passing sideways…in the opposition box. 🔴⚪️

Good time to share the Reproductive Sciences starter pack
🧪 #Reproduction #Pregnancy #ObGynSky #MedSky

go.bsky.app/R19Temj

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

Just incredible…. Long ago in men’s over 40 league my team won against a much better team…who scored three unbelievable own goals to their two actual goals…

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Zzzz….

Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.

Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social

"Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain"

We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth

www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

Luis Diaz good lord

A somewhat psychedelic linocut of a hare

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

MERS Bars

Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) employ diverse and distinctive mechanisms of cDNA synthesis to protect bacteria against viral infection. However, much of DRT family diversity remains ...

1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ribonucleotide incorporation into mitochondrial DNA drives inflammation - Nature Imbalanced nucleotide metabolism leads to age- and mtDNA-dependent inflammatory responses and senescence-associated secretory phenotype in senescence.

Ribonucleotide incorporation into mitochondrial DNA drives inflammation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to the Langer lab @mpiage.bsky.social, Amir, and the rest of the team!

This is a lovely angle for the Martinelli goal, Eze Pass...

Via Arsenal [IG] 🔴⚪

Are you looking for a lectureship in biochemistry, molecular genetics, or bioinformatics? Come and enjoy the greatest place for kayak fishing and a fun research+teaching career.

*there are other fun things to do here too.

youtu.be/M91esmqLfTc?... Shaq saw the future!

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Very interesting study published in nature this week. Using a murine model the authors show that respiratory viral infections like flu & COVID-19 do more than inflame airways, they may awaken dormant breast cancer cells in the lung.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

an FTL parody of the "just leave" meme with a Kestrel model ship in the background Just walk out, you can leave! Pulsar Zoltan thing Phase 3 Abandoned sector Giant alien spiders Slug light cruiser Playing stealth b 16 mantis if you're quick Auto scouts with 200 evade Friend ships If it sucks... Hit da bricks!! Real winners quit

can't believe someone made this lmao

Poster-style infographic depicting a blue-white-brown lovebird (Agapornis) laying on her back, with her reproductive organs illustrated on her belly. Around the bird, different stages of egg formation from fertilization to shell formation are illustrated and explained.

The reproductive system of birds is an evolutionary marvel. Their only functioning oviduct is a fantastic conveyor belt of weirdness, of which parts are still mysterious. An illustration made for a pet bird magazine.

You can read more on my Cara page: cara.app/post/e9f92d4...

Undermining Women’s Health Research — Gambling with the Public’s Health | NEJM The benefits of women’s health research haven’t been limited to women. But actions by the Trump administration threaten to dismantle the hard-won progress in this area.

Hard-won progress in women's health, achieved over decades, is being unraveled in weeks. The ripple effects will be felt far beyond laboratories & clinics but in communities for generations to come, and not just for women but for men, children, and families.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Episode 12: Jordan Carroll, Science Fiction, the Alt-Right, and 'Speculative Whiteness' Utopian and Dystopian Fictions · Episode

I enjoyed my conversation Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right on the Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast.

The Meatrix

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Sequential and independent probabilistic events regulate differential axon targeting during development in Drosophila melanogaster Nature Neuroscience - The developmental origin of behavioral individuality is unclear. The authors show that a temporal sequence of genetically encoded stochastic mechanisms explains variation in...

Hot off the press:
The excellent Maheva Andriatsilavo and colleagues show how a temporal sequence of stochastic molecular mechanisms allow the emergence of stereotyped individualised neuronal circuits. Just published in Nature Neuroscience:
rdcu.be/ek010

Modeling the extension of ovarian function after therapeutic targeting of the primordial follicle reserve AbstractBACKGROUND. Women are increasingly choosing to delay childbirth, and those with low ovarian reserves indicative of primary ovarian insufficiency ar

Here’s a link to our new paper with Drs. Telfer and Anderson in Edinburgh. We 1) summarize strategies in development that promise to extend the duration of ovarian function and 2) provide an interactive tool to explore how they are likely to perform: academic.oup.com/humupd/advan... #ovary #aging

On modeling ovarian aging and menopause timing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.07.647646v1

Both Declan Rice free kick goals together

⭐️ Please Fwd. Are you in Paris on 16th May? See👇 poster of symposium on « Information processing in biological systems » @collegedefrance.bsky.social Fantastic line of speakers 🤩.
It is free, w/o registration, and it will be exciting.m!
Follows from my series of lectures at CdF last fall.

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...