senior media relations manager @ Stellate Communications
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Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
This week we’re at @NASAKennedy preparing human brain tissue models for space, just in time for #WorldSpaceWeek! 🚀
Follow along to see how microgravity & radiation affect interactions across 6 brain cell types, with insights for astronauts and for neurodegeneration on Earth.
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Stellate is a 2026 Top Agency! 🎉
@PRDaily's Top Agencies Award is the industry's most competitive recognition program, honoring the agencies & workplaces shaping where public relations & communications are headed next.
See the entire list: ragan.com/awards/events/top-…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Blood vessels in the brain deteriorate in Alzheimer’s, especially in APOE4 carriers. But what drives this damage?
Our new study, out now in @CellPressNews , uncovers a mechanism linking APOE4 to vascular fibrosis and amyloid accumulation in the brain. 🧠🧬
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Funding call is out from Intercept, tech-funded effort to prevent respiratory viruses. Goal: an invention that will stop 75% of infection w/ path to >60% uptake in population.
Ha ha. I think it's called "masks." But they are def interested in drugs.
interceptfund.com/apply/broa…
An aseptic ambition? Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI Foundation fund $500 million effort to stop the common cold--plus other respiratory infections. technologyreview.com/2026/06…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Has AI been a net positive or negative for survey research?
In episode 1 of The Signal, Dr. David Rothschild (@MSFTResearch, @AAPOR AI task force Co-chair) joins @andrew_j_gordon on where AI helps, where synthetic data breaks down, and why transparency beats standards.
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
The human brain is largely inaccessible as diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s develop, limiting our ability to understand the mechanisms that drive neurodegeneration.
To address this challenge, we created a multicellular integrated brain tissue, or #miBrain 🧠
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Using a multicellular human brain model, our latest study, now published in @CellStemCell, identifies APOE4 astrocytes as key drivers of α-synuclein pathology, uncovering a new mechanism linking genetic risk to neurodegeneration.
cell.com/cell-stem-cell/full…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
New website for the @SuthanaLab at Duke. Neuroscience in motion — built by @stellatecomms to match the ambition of the science.
suthanalab.com
stellatecomms.com/creative-p…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
The 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge has begun! Submissions and the leaderboard are now open.
This year's task: multi-context generalization and zero-shot prediction. Models will need to predict perturbation responses in cellular contexts with no Challenge-specific training data.
arcinstitute.org/news/virtua…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Excited to share our new preprint identifying THAP12 as the first transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial ETC Complex I and expanding the diseases that may benefit from hypoxia therapy. Led by the amazing Brandon Desousa and coadvised by @KampmannLab biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Complex I is the largest complex of the electron transport chain and the entry point for electrons that power ATP production. New work from Core Investigator @ishahjain and team identifies THAP12 as a dedicated transcription factor controlling how much Complex I a cell builds.
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Brain-computer interfaces implanted long term could help researchers unravel the mysteries of speech.
By @claulopezneuro
thetransmitter.org/brain-com…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Start assembling your team because the 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge officially kicks off on Thursday, August 20.
This is round two of our global competition to understand and predict how cells respond to internal cues and external stimuli.
Expect a new problem to solve, a wider range of metrics, and a $100,000 grand prize.
We look forward to sharing more details at launch.
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
The project is “aimed at making respiratory infections like the common cold and flu a thing of the past” time.com/article/2026/06/24/…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
People spend ~5% of their lives sick the with cold & flu.
Intercept — a $500M philanthropic initiative spearheaded by @stripe — aims to make respiratory infections a thing of the past.
We're proud to have helped usher Intercept into the world today 🚀 interceptfund.com/
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Intercept, a new nonprofit, will focus on countering the common cold and the flu. trib.al/WIGGohZ
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @_TheTransmitter has learned.
By @callimcflurry
thetransmitter.org/community…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Early research suggests that some mental health conditions could stem from metabolic disorders. If so, the findings could change how we treat mental illness
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Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most.
Please repost & share! 🧠
ALT Preston Lab, University of Texas at Austin. Now recruiting 1–2 postdoctoral researchers in learning, memory, development, and flexible behavior. Methods: behavioral experiments, fMRI, computational modeling, and naturalistic stimuli. Apply with CV, research statement, and 3 references to [email protected]. Photos show the lab group smiling together, members working at a table, and members at a celebration.
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
I have long written and spoken about the many ways US immigration policy harms international students and scholars. This has been true for as long as I can remember, including when I first came to the US on a single-entry student visa more than 20 years ago under a process formerly known as muslim registry program.
But the current administration has gone much further, through arbitrary policy changes, travel bans, and broad visa processing pauses that leave folks unable to work, travel, or train.
These policies affect a minority of scientists, and in the current state of the world they can be easy to overlook. But we should not let that happen.
I wrote about the quiet loss of Iranian scientific talent in US labs for @TheScientistLLC:
the-scientist.com/the-quiet-…
Angie Voyles Askham retweeted
Lesion network mapping (LNM) has been powerful in linking symptoms and brain functional circuits, but ongoing debates highlight that it is still hard to isolate symptom-specific effects. We came up with a new method, robust LNM (rLNM) — a unified framework combining null models and selective specificity to reveal reliable, symptom-specific networks from background structure. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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