Dan Tracey
@Hoosierflyman
Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience. Interest in somatosensation, behavior, and molecular genetics. Cycling. Personal account, not-representing IU. he/him
Great Tweetorial on our paper from first author @lydiaborjon! She did every experiment in this study with the exception of the mouse work done by our collaborators in @IUgillinstitute. Lydia is on the job market and she’d make an AMAZING colleague!
Our paper on Velvet Ant venom is out at Current Biology! “Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom” sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Velvet ants are among the most painful of all stinging insects. What makes them so painful? We used fruit fly larvae to find out 🧐 1/5
This is about the current budget of the NIH. So we are swapping funding biomedical science (eg cancer and neurological disease) for…more thugs on the street carrying out inhumane BS. Good job America.
I don't think we're talking enough about how this Big Dumb Ugly Bill expands ICE by a factor of 20. ($2.2B to $45B) That's 20 times more agents. 20 times more arrests, plus illegal detention centers. Trump is using the bill to create his own paramilitary gestapo.
One of best public universities on one of the five most beautiful campuses in the country. Decimated. bloomingtonian.com/2025/06/30/ind…
He should go to a grocery store.
Hassett says Trump's vibes are bringing prices down: "Americans because of President Trump's leadership have recognized that when they buy an American product, they not only get a better product most of the time, but they're also making their communities stronger. There's a lot…
Just left Florida’s Everglades immigrant detention camp. 750 humans in cages. Not allowed to speak to detainees. No walk through of occupied areas. Immigrants without criminal records. $450 MILLION in no-bid contracts for GOP donors. I am ashamed. Shut this facility down now.
I am now officially “I put my wallet in the lower pocket of my cargo shorts” years old.
Did you know that NIH funded the development of 354 out of 356 drugs that were approved from 2010-2019? Only 2 were privately funded. The same NIH with a proposed 40% budget cut. What are we doing to medical innovation? Gift article link below…🎁💉 nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Brain drain commences. Congratulations to my friend @jing8wang! scmp.com/news/china/sci…
It wasn’t written for the “elites,” you say?
The One Big Beautiful Bill wasn’t written for the Democratic party, the elites, or the media. It’s for hardworking Americans. Democrats are focused on performing. Republicans are focused on results.
This was where it began michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
Sometimes I wonder how many bot AI accounts are trolling other bot accounts without realizing that it’s just two algorithms fighting with each other.
Republicans in Indiana are quickly turning one of the country’s premiere research institutions - Indiana University - into a regional technical college. Scores of programs eliminated. For example, IU is one of the best places in the world to study Asia, especially Asian…
Looks like Indiana just nuked from orbit one of the great research universities of the world. Sickening
We report dual-defense system through ecdysteroid-DopEcR axis against toxic food. In the nervous system it triggers toxic food aversion and in the midgut detoxification. A novel role of molting-inducing hormone, ecdysteroid, was identified! cell.com/current-biolog…
One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known. A thread of some examples: Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:
Lawmakers were assassinated and wounded by a right-wing, religious extremist pretending to be a police officer and yet this story has completely faded from the national media.
Melissa, Mark, and their Golden Retriever Gilbert will lie in state on Friday, June 27 from 12-5pm. The Capitol will be open for members of the public to pay their respects. A private funeral for Melissa and Mark will be held on Saturday, June 28 at 10:30am.
The IU corpse flower (Wally) is blooming! Take a look via the live web stream and consider supporting our greenhouse: Excitement is in the air – and soon an unforgettable scent today.iu.edu/iub/live/news/…
Where’s the warrant? Where are the gang members Trump said they were going to get? These men are bounty hunters. KIDNAPPERS! This is Santa Monica, California…
Bondi crashes out in response to Merkley's questions about Trump's crypto corruption
The NSF’s proposed FY26 budget request includes a staggering 50% reduction in funding. It’s alarming that leaders can’t- or won’t -grasp the long-term damage this will do to our research, innovation, and the future of America’s scientific workforce.
Q: Your intel says there’s no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. Trump: Well, then my intel is wrong. Who said that? Q: Your Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Trump: She’s wrong. 1/
1. I don’t mean to be *that guy*, but someone has to. Someone has to say things are not getting better, no matter how low Donald Trump’s polling numbers go, no matter how stupid his birthday parade was, no matter how many people (4-6 million) protested him last weekend.