Noelle Dwyer
Neural Developmental and Cell Biologist. My lab studies how neural stem cells build the brain. Cell division, cilia, cytoskeleton, neurogenesis. Mom, feminist, curious person. Opinions are my own.
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerHappy to announce that our latest paper is now out! Have you ever wondered how neural tissues control their size? In this paper, we show that cell division orientation is critical in both the cortex and retina. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerCilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com. Check it out! #cilia www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerThe Murphy Lab did our annual retreat this week. This year's theme was using AI (what it's good and bad for). I wanted to be open-minded to make sure we are not missing something we should be using it for, so we did a few exercises to test, and had presentations.
- Important editorial in #eNeuro about paper mills using AI to generate fake or plagiarized papers. Anyone else worried about having your preprints or unpublished results taken, AI-rearranged, and scooping you? @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...
- Great session and wonderful questions, thanks for organizing it Pleasantine! @cilialab.bsky.social #UKCilia2026
- What a great way to kick off 🎉 2026 🥳 ! Our 54th @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium this afternoon drew an audience of 371 attendees live, from Ireland to India, Canada to Chile! #UKCilia2026 1/8
- Excited to be sharing our work on Togaram1 mouse knockout and brain development in this e-Symposium Tuesday, January 13, 2026! 10:00 AM EST in the US = 15:00 GMT #cilia #centrosomes #devbio 🐭🧠🧪
- Just over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerJust over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerBy 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations. Read our new NASA article in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerHoly moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble. One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerRe-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Bringing my umbrella to #SfN25!! ☔
- PSA: it’s gonna rain at #sfn25! @krissylyon.bsky.social tried to warn me, but I’d already left my house without a rain coat 🙀
- I'll be here: Satellite social at #SfN25 to honor the legacy of Dr. Dennis O'Leary, Mon night 7pm. SAT37 - "Nature and Nurture in Neural Development" www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
- See you at #SfN25! Our poster by Hayley Dingsdale: genetic mosaic loss of Cep55 and Kif20b. PSTR 053.20 / A18 - Cellular context matters: Use of a genetic mosaic mouse model to identify autonomous and non-autonomous effects of cytokinesis gene mutations in the developing cortex. Sun Nov 16, 8a-12p
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerFunders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerDespite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏
- Reposted by Noelle Dwyer🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠 Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892 #Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerHere's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share
- Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
- Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Math + Cake = Yum! Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! 9-16-25! 😎📐🍰
- Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!
- Important:
- ICE and DHS have proposed capping F and J visas at 4 years, threatening international students and postdocs who drive U.S. research. Share your comments to oppose this harmful policy: www.ascb.org/science-poli...
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- Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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- If you use novel mouse models in scientific discovery research, please complete this survey:
- Investments in NIH and NSF give huge returns to our economy. They're basically money-multiplying-machines. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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- Congratulations to our very own Ray Keller from UVA, and all the new members of the National Academy! 🤩 www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
- "A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in research and development accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerNIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
- Can we please just call it Artificial Dumbness instead of Artificial Intelligence?
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerThe trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
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- Good box turtle news!
- Hoo boy. This is worse than the fake dire wolves. But a funny piece. youtu.be/z_CoMShIaV4?...
- The NIH fellowship study section I'm on that was supposed to meet this week got postponed. ☹️ It's not clear why. The SRO is heroically trying to reschedule it for next month.
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerIf you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...
- Every $1 we give to NIH (National Institutes of Health) returns average of $2.56 to our economy! And that doesn’t even count the long term benefits of new inventions, lives saved, health preserved! www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerNew report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
- PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THOSE WRITING NIH GRANTS: the word "inclusive" in your grant, even if referring to equipment, can get it flagged and delay the notice of award. Not kidding. This just happened to a scientist I know. It's absurd. It's Orwellian. It's Newspeak.
- Stand Up For Science event in Charlottesville, VA, March 7 at 5pm! cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
- Wow, congrats Pleasantine! Bravo!
- We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill! bsdb.org/2025/03/05/2...
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerHere are the data for non-competitive renewals, downloaded today. The last awards in NIH Reporter are on 2/22. Given the lag in posting in Reporter, I think this pause is real and this is supported by inside sources who indicate that folks are being told not to issue NoAs.
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerExtending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications. The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerGood resource about your state... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerFrancis Collins is leaving NIH www.npr.org/sections/sho...
- Please sign this petition started by Tom Maniatis: chng.it/28kNz52QRz
- Obit for my former postdoc mentor Dennis O’Leary (1954–2024) written by many lab alumni. "O’Leary’s work over two decades established a conceptual framework for cortical arealization...and topographic mapping in the visual system". We miss you Dennis! ❤️🧠⚾ #devneuro www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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- Great use of a cumulative frequency plot to illustrate the slowed pace of NIH grant awarding this year:
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerCheck out this fantastic new review on lysosome resilience mechanisms from a highly respected lysosomologist!
- We've been studying mechanisms of resilience that protect lysosomes from damage and wrote a review on the topic. We consider lysosomal stress and damage on a spectrum. Please help me share as this is my first post 😀 and I don't have many followers! 🙏 Open Access: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerSfN joins 600 organizations & more than 3,500 people across the country in @researchamerica.bsky.social's coalition letter urging Congress to protect vital NIH funding. Read the full letter: bit.ly/3XhgFCJ #NeuroSky #NeuroAdvocate
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerATTENTION The Washington Post is collecting data about funding issues. Please consider contributing. thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerPlease share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerYo-we can't buy your products if you don't labor to reverse the funding freeze, and you'll have to close your plant in Mebane NC @milliporesigma.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerA large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerDear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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- Reposted by Noelle DwyerVaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.
- Reposted by Noelle DwyerNIH-funded research is at risk. Cuts to federal funding could harm science and the economy. Contact Congress now to protect research. Every call matters. Find your reps at govtrack.us and speak up today. #FundScience www.ascb.org/science-poli...
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