Lavinia Sheets
@olybinewski.bsky.social
TFW your Spotify 80s playlist includes the 1880s 🙃
September 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
TFW your Spotify 80s playlist includes the 1880s 🙃
Incredibly thankful for our NIH peeps 💚
August 18, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Incredibly thankful for our NIH peeps 💚
My dept. posted this on the other site and it’s not getting any ♥️, so I’m posting it here 🦋
Excited to work with lead PI Artur Indzhykulian (Harvard/MEE) and co-I Marcos Sotomayor (University of Chicago) on this important study & grateful to the Ushers Syndrome Society @washumedicine.bsky.social
Excited to work with lead PI Artur Indzhykulian (Harvard/MEE) and co-I Marcos Sotomayor (University of Chicago) on this important study & grateful to the Ushers Syndrome Society @washumedicine.bsky.social
August 2, 2026 at 12:19 PM
My dept. posted this on the other site and it’s not getting any ♥️, so I’m posting it here 🦋
Excited to work with lead PI Artur Indzhykulian (Harvard/MEE) and co-I Marcos Sotomayor (University of Chicago) on this important study & grateful to the Ushers Syndrome Society @washumedicine.bsky.social
Excited to work with lead PI Artur Indzhykulian (Harvard/MEE) and co-I Marcos Sotomayor (University of Chicago) on this important study & grateful to the Ushers Syndrome Society @washumedicine.bsky.social
Happy Return of the Living Dead day to all who celebrate🧟♂️ 🧠🧟♀️
July 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Happy Return of the Living Dead day to all who celebrate🧟♂️ 🧠🧟♀️
As someone currently serving as a member of an NIH study section, I have similar thoughts, and feel a huge amount of gratitude to our POs, SROs, and staff for the incredible work they do 🙏
I just completed my service in my NIH study section. Some thoughts - with the disclaimer that these are personal, subjective impressions and do not reflect the opinion of any official body. Other than the one attached to my head. (1/10)
June 6, 2026 at 11:48 PM
As someone currently serving as a member of an NIH study section, I have similar thoughts, and feel a huge amount of gratitude to our POs, SROs, and staff for the incredible work they do 🙏
Quick question for my #hearingresearch peeps — has there ever been a community effort to breed transgenic BL6 mice into Ahl-corrected strains? 🐀
I keep running into studies that don't account for the deafness mutation and it's disheartening 😓
Asking for a friend (me) 😘
I keep running into studies that don't account for the deafness mutation and it's disheartening 😓
Asking for a friend (me) 😘
Mouse Howl: EEEEEEEE!!!
Alt: Mouse howling EEEEEEEE!!!
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June 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Quick question for my #hearingresearch peeps — has there ever been a community effort to breed transgenic BL6 mice into Ahl-corrected strains? 🐀
I keep running into studies that don't account for the deafness mutation and it's disheartening 😓
Asking for a friend (me) 😘
I keep running into studies that don't account for the deafness mutation and it's disheartening 😓
Asking for a friend (me) 😘
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My kiddo felted the best Mother’s Day gift ever 🥰
May 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
My kiddo felted the best Mother’s Day gift ever 🥰
5th percentile R01 score feelz right now 🎉🥲
a woman says it could be a good thing in front of a purple background
ALT: a woman says it could be a good thing in front of a purple background
media.tenor.com
April 21, 2026 at 6:33 PM
5th percentile R01 score feelz right now 🎉🥲
Gen Xers tonight on Bsky
a man is sitting on a couch with the words can we not do this
ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words can we not do this
media.tenor.com
April 14, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Gen Xers tonight on Bsky
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I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
March 24, 2026 at 12:19 PM
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Reposted by Lavinia Sheets
them: bro why aren't you posting on linkedin
me:
me:
March 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
them: bro why aren't you posting on linkedin
me:
me:
"I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange."
February 24, 2026 at 1:07 PM
"I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange."
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Macrophages and neurons respond to excitotoxic injury in a dynamic way! Want to see how? Go see poster T207 this afternoon to find out #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026
a cartoon pikachu with its mouth open and a surprised look on its face
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media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Macrophages and neurons respond to excitotoxic injury in a dynamic way! Want to see how? Go see poster T207 this afternoon to find out #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026
Cisplatin at sub-lethal doses—hair cells survive, but at what cost? 🤔 Turns out, it triggers permanent changes in mitochondrial morphology and dynamics.
Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026
Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026
a cartoon of a cat holding a cell phone with the words check it out written above it
Alt: a cartoon of a cat holding a cell phone with the words check it out written above it
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Cisplatin at sub-lethal doses—hair cells survive, but at what cost? 🤔 Turns out, it triggers permanent changes in mitochondrial morphology and dynamics.
Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026
Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026
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"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers."
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens When Science Is Asked to Pretend This Is Normal
In our All-Hands meetings before I left NIH, our leaders were always trying to think of ways to accommodate the new leadership, pitching ideas they thought would fit the “MAHA” agenda.
elizabethginexi.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 PM
"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers."
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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More about heightened burden of chronic stress and its associations with inflammation, which may drive the elevated mortality risk among Black Americans, compared to white counterparts. source.washu.edu/2026/01/raci... #PsychSky #NeuroSky #MedSky 🩺 From lab of @ryanbogdan.bsky.social
Racism packs a punch for those enduring it over a lifetime
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis find evidence that elevated stress exposure and its inflammatory correlates may contribute to Black-white racial disparities in mortality risk.
source.washu.edu
January 26, 2026 at 10:48 PM
More about heightened burden of chronic stress and its associations with inflammation, which may drive the elevated mortality risk among Black Americans, compared to white counterparts. source.washu.edu/2026/01/raci... #PsychSky #NeuroSky #MedSky 🩺 From lab of @ryanbogdan.bsky.social
A beloved STL community institution is rebuilding, which makes me feel happy & hopeful ❤️🎶 #SupportLoveofcrstl
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January 20, 2026 at 9:53 PM
A beloved STL community institution is rebuilding, which makes me feel happy & hopeful ❤️🎶 #SupportLoveofcrstl
www.radiostlouis.org
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A super interesting historical review in Genetics, chosen completely at random:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Lysenkoism Against Genetics: The Meeting of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of August 1948, Its Background, Causes, and Aftermath
This article reviews the ideological, political, economic, social, cultural, personal, moral, and ethical factors that determined the conduct of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences session in August 1948, as well as the immediate... ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM
A super interesting historical review in Genetics, chosen completely at random:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Celebrating another year of amazing research with this great team 🎄 ❄️
December 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Celebrating another year of amazing research with this great team 🎄 ❄️