Tabrez J. Siddiqui

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omg this title, this paper

@DingchangLin @Nature Remarkable work.

🚨 Today in @Nature, we report GEMINI—a genetically encoded intracellular memory device that writes cellular dynamics into tree-ring-like fluorescent patterns within cytoplasmic protein assemblies.[1/n] nature.com/articles/s4158…

@DrJKhokhar And they want to bring in more people to Canada to fight over a shrinking pie. Canadian science funding is becoming a joke.

2 of the Behavioural Neuroscience review panels (BSA and BSC) were both at 11%. So many of the neuroscientists with grants in these panels (that I have spoken to) are between grants and in real fear of having to close up shop! If we keep funding 4/35 grants, labs will close!

@CIHR_IRSC 11% funding rates will slowly destroy our health research ecosystem. We continue to hire more researchers, and we want to do so, of course, with so many brilliant minds around, yet funding remains the same or decreases.

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0% 📉. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data). Thread 🧵.

The really galling thing about the Acetaminophen thing is that the observations of a potential link between its use in pregnancy and autism WERE taken seriously, and WERE studied using "gold standard science", and found not to be there. The same thing is true of the link to vaccines. The only gaslighting that's happening here is repeatedly pushing disproven theories that will help no one, and harm many. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

@choekatr Congrats, Katrina. Beautiful work.

Thrilled to share our lab's newest paper 🧠✨ bit.ly/46Rk28s In this study we used SHIELD brain clearing and lightsheet imaging to compare oxytocin neurons in two KO mouse models of autism-risk genes: CNTNAP2 and FMR1. So what did we find?🧵

This Thursday!

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E4D has done the work. Check out the Party Platform Analysis: docs.google.com/document/d/1aY… @E4Dca #VoteScience

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This is huge. Congrats, Melanie.

To insult two highly respected and free thinking politicians like this is disgraceful. It just shows how far standards in society have fallen. Anyone reposting this insulting photograph should feel utterly ashamed. 😡

More fentanyl was dispensed by Trump’s White House doctor per the pharmacy logs from his first term than what is crossing the border from Canada.

@caromenard666 @KatarzynaAnnaD1 @NatureNeuro @BrainCanada @CIHR_IRSC @FRQS1 @universitelaval @CERVO_ULaval Congrats, Caroline. Very cool

So excited to share the work of the fantastic @KatarzynaAnnaD1, 1st PhD student of my lab 🧠, out in @NatureNeuro 🥂🥳 Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @BrainCanada @CIHR_IRSC @FRQS1 @universitelaval @CERVO_ULaval nature.com/articles/s4159…

Join us Feb. 27th!

Beautiful story.

The power to repair in a tiny fish! Taking regenerative medicine to new heights at the University of Manitoba! @UM_RadyFHS @umanitoba @um_HACS_GSA @StemCellNetwork @manitobaneuro @can

A huge advancement for our multidisciplinary neuroscience research capabilities in Manitoba! winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video/c3032267…