Linda Barlow
How come taste is so reliable? Colorado is a great place to live but don’t tell anyone. Amateur mushroom hunter. Away from office = somewhere in the outdoors.
Prof at University of Colorado SOM | Cell & Developmental Biology
Taste homeostasis Stem cells
- Reposted by Linda BarlowNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowIf you know any senior undergraduate students or graduate students interested in my Arctic field course this year please have them reach out. ryan.brook@usask.ca Course starts and ends in Churchill, August 11-25. Hands on research. Connecting with Indigenous knowledge keepers. Walking the land.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowFintastic news for (your inner) fish fans everywhere! 🐟
- Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSeems 💯 accurate.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSight in San Francisco (from a friend)
- Reposted by Linda BarlowThis is the winter of our rage. Bless the protesters in Minneapolis.
- @artingerlab.bsky.social some hopeful news?!
- Will he get to push supplements as a cbs contributor?
- This is who they murdered
- Longer version I just found here: bsky.app/profile/badi...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowNEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowAlex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
- The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Coloradans pay attention and defeat this evil shit
- Reposted by Linda BarlowAlso, as of 12:45: “Dozens of federal agents climbed into unmarked vehicles and have departed the scene of this morning's fatal shooting in south Minneapolis. With federal agents gone, the scene has grown suddenly quiet.”
- Absolutely essential
- NIH needs statutory protections against partisan politicized decision-making - especially around grant terminations. This bill is a solid start to achieving those aims. degette.house.gov/media-center...
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- Reposted by Linda BarlowTomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
- Jesus fucking christ
- Reposted by Linda BarlowIncredible work, cell biology of cuticle nanopore formation. Check out the video summary (second post in this thread)
- An extensive ER network develops in the olfactory hair cells of Drosophila. Inagaki et al. @riken-bdr.bsky.social report that the transmembrane protein Gore-tex controls a novel ER to the plasma membrane trafficking pathway essential for the cuticular nanopore formation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
- Oh it all makes so much more sense now…
- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Can any of this get more stupid or dangerous?
- Reposted by Linda BarlowIt is widely thought that 🕷️ mostly experience the world through their tactile and vibratory senses. However, vertebrates and invertebrates like insects can smell, so what about spiders? This comparative study identifies putative glomeruli in 🕷️👃🤨! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowThe best
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- A favorite place…
- Mayflower Gulch #Fallback to July 11 🌿
- Reposted by Linda Barlow“To this day, grants continue to be ‘realigned’ with administration priorities, a clear form of ideological coercion.”
- Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3
- Reposted by Linda BarlowWe are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. to.pbs.org/45BmT4l
- Reposted by Linda Barlow25 Years Later, Xenbase Still Supporting Scientific Leaps @cincyresearch.bsky.social scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/25-years-lat... www.xenbase.org/xenbase/ academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowAs a friend points out: Turns out Nicholas Maduro’s biggest crime was being more newsworthy than the Epstein Files
- Reposted by Linda BarlowCongrats Simon Han & @brugmannlab.bsky.social on your publication @cincyresearch.bsky.social A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSo many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them. Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
- Reposted by Linda BarlowI'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
- Well heck.
- Reposted by Linda Barlow🤞 that this pans out. Also, of course, none of this would have been possible without #NIH funding.
- In preclinical models, treatment repaired brain pathology, restored cognitive function, and normalized Alzheimer’s biomarkers (in HUMAN models as well). • case.edu/news/new-stu... The study has been published in Cell. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🧪🧵⬇️
- Reposted by Linda BarlowEdward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowThe plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowOrganelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
- Organelles harbour pH gradients biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Linda BarlowNow @thenode.bsky.social #SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSuch a tragedy Will miss you, Meathead...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowAnd let's not forget they're also glow in the dark (thanks @chemzymes.bsky.social)
- By request of @stripplab.bsky.social : Lecture was on amino acids and had a quick excursion on D-amino acids which are featured in platypus venom, of course. Because why wouldn't platypuses add another layer of weirdness
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSome funding good news for a change (from AAAS policy alert) The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.
- Comparative analysis of human and mouse ovaries across age www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowLest we forget the heroism of Dorie Miller on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSnow on Sumida River - Tsuchiya Koitsu
- Reposted by Linda BarlowApplications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
- Reposted by Linda Barlow"Scientific Reports likely to generate >$100M this year...When a journal publishes 45K articles...some bad papers will be published. The big unknown is whether [the now infamous “Factor Fexcetorn” paper] is the visible tip of a research integrity iceberg" newsletter.journalology.com/p/another-on...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowMultiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowWhen the data are so beautiful it hurts 💔
- Reposted by Linda BarlowSAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT
- @fantauzzolab.bsky.social you’re on a roll!!
- New paper alert from the lab: "Additive effects on craniofacial development upon conditional ablation of PDGFRa and SHP2 in the mouse neural crest lineage" published in @devdynamics.bsky.social: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....
- Beautiful work! Congrats to all @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social @hejcell.bsky.social
- Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀 Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!
- Another developmental biology model systems short course is in the books. So immensely grateful i get to teach this fun class with @mckey-lab.bsky.social
- Tim Hutton-actor, Steve Bernstein -Sex Mob, Peter Apfelbaum-Heiroglyphics
- Reposted by Linda BarlowA bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
- Reposted by Linda BarlowDid you know that there’s only one lake in the world where you can find wild axolotls? Venture into the race to save them: buff.ly/noVVMWB
- Reposted by Linda BarlowNeanderthal DNA enhances our understanding of face development This Research Highlight showcases the work from Hannah Long @hannahlong.bsky.social, Kirsty Uttley @kirstyuttley.bsky.social, Hannah Jüllig @hannahjuellig.bsky.social and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- Reposted by Linda BarlowGood luck to all of the folks submitting NSF GRFP applications today! If you have been able to keep up with their constant changes and get all of your letters submitted, documents written, formatted, and uploaded on time you have already accomplished so much! Good luck to all.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowJacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
- Don’t forget health insurance company shareholders…
- Why do we pay so much for healthcare? Hint, it's not Obamacare deanbaker22.substack.com/p/why-is-hea...
- Not. The. Onion.
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- Reposted by Linda BarlowLet’s talk about ICE. This post is long, but it’s worth reading to understand how to protect your right to privacy. It might sound extreme, but everyday Americans may soon want to consider face coverings for reasons far beyond health or fashion.
- Happy Halloween from the Barlow lab
- Reposted by Linda BarlowIt just keeps getting better.
- Nature Communications will publish ~10K papers in 2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22Natu... That's ~$70M in revenue, while many of the non-profit journals that used to occupy that slot in the journal hierarchy have seen a precipitous decline in submissions in the 15 years it's existed.
- This is so gorgeous
- Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo
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- Reposted by Linda BarlowThe Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
- Reposted by Linda BarlowUS PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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