Steven Sloan

Washington, D.C., United States

Deputy Washington Bureau Chief at Associated Press

Deputy Washington bureau chief @AP. Overseeing coverage of US politics, elections and democracy.

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A Punk Rock Legend Comes to T-Town

2 weeks ago | toledocitypaper.com | Steven Sloan

To certain crowds, Gregg Turner needs no introduction. With his time writing for the legendary rock magazine, CREEM, and his role in founding the first-wave punk outfit, The Angry Samoans, Turner has left an undeniable imprint on rock music. In the years since, he has slowed things down a little bit, trading punk rock fame for a professorship in Mathematics in New Mexico.
Porchfest Comes to the Old West End Festival

3 weeks ago | toledocitypaper.com | Steven Sloan

One of Toledo’s very best traditions, the Old West End Festival, is almost upon us. But, its 52nd iteration is bringing with it another excellent event – the celebration of music, architecture, and community that is Porchfest. Founded in Ithaca, NY in 2007, Porchfest has made its way into more than 150 North American cities, and its roots are remarkably similar to the OWE Festival’s.
Listen Hear: Record Store Day 2025: Exclusive Vinyl & Events in Toledo

2 months ago | toledocitypaper.com | Steven Sloan

April may be mired in the holiday doldrums between St. Patrick’s Day and Memorial Day, but for vinyl fans it’s the most wonderful time of the year. This year April 12th the annual, international recognition of independent record stores, aptly named “Record Store Day” – RSD, for short.
Gourmet Ghosts: Haunted Dining in Toledo

Oct 25, 2024 | toledocitypaper.com | Steven Sloan

The days are getting shorter…The evenings darker earlier…And the ghosts and specters of Toledo… hungrier. And those apparitions have many local choices, because Toledo has more than its fair share of haunted restaurants, coffee shops and bars. With Halloween creeping ever nearer, we thought we’d offer you a guide to some of the spookiest spots in the Glass City. Spaghetti Warehouse – Spooky with a Chance of Meatballs? 42 S. Superior St. 419-255-5038.
Primary cilia shape postnatal astrocyte development through Sonic Hedgehog signaling

Oct 17, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Rachel Bear |Steven Sloan |Tamara Caspary

AbstractPrimary cilia function as specialized signaling centers that regulate many cellular processes including neuron and glia development. Astrocytes possess cilia, but the function of cilia in astrocyte development remains largely unexplored. Critically, dysfunction of either astrocytes or cilia contributes to molecular changes observed in neurodevelopmental disorders. Here, we show that a sub-population of developing astrocytes in the prefrontal cortex are ciliated.
Empowerment From a Byrd’s Eye View

Oct 12, 2024 | toledocitypaper.com | Steven Sloan

“Photography is art and it’s important.” That’s what Ambershaun Byrd told me when I asked what she wanted people to know after reading about her and her photography studio, AByrdseyePhoto. It was the first time she said that out loud, but it felt like a perfect distillation of our conversation to that point. Clearly, Byrd loves the medium of photography and the power it can have to change and empower people – both the clients of her thriving business and herself.
Mia Dessert Bar: Stellar French Pastry From an Unassuming Source

Aug 27, 2024 | toledocitypaper.com | Steven Sloan

There’s something special happening at Mia Dessert Bar. Nestled discreetly in a Sylvania strip mall – look for the adorable logo adorning the window just to the right of the Papa John’s – Mo Smaili’s Mia Dessert Bar is a modest bakery on the inside. But, don’t let that fool you. The bountiful french pastries on display in their two cases are some of the best you can get in the Toledo area.
Gliomas: a reflection of temporal gliogenic principles - Communications Biology

Feb 5, 2024 | nature.com | Steven Sloan |Caitlin Sojka

AbstractThe hijacking of early developmental programs is a canonical feature of gliomas where neoplastic cells resemble neurodevelopmental lineages and possess mechanisms of stem cell resilience. Given these parallels, uncovering how and when in developmental time gliomagenesis intersects with normal trajectories can greatly inform our understanding of tumor biology.
Author Correction: Machine learning reveals bilateral distribution of somatic L1 insertions in human neurons and glia - Nature Neuroscience

Aug 30, 2023 | nature.com | Xiaowei Zhu |Bo Zhou |Steven Sloan |Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier |Laramie Duncan |Alexej Abyzov | +1 more

Correction to: Nature Neuroscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00767-4. Published online 11 January 2021. In the version of the article originally published, Eric Courchesne was incorrectly listed as a contributing member of the Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network. This has been amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. About this articleZhu, X., Zhou, B., Pattni, R. et al.
Identification of ligand–receptor pairs that drive human astrocyte development - Nature Neuroscience

Jul 17, 2023 | nature.com | Steven Sloan

The factors that regulate astrogenesis during development are not completely understood. Here the authors propose a data-driven framework to leverage transcriptomic data to identify ligand-receptor pairs promoting astrogenesis and validate their effects in human cortical organoids and fetal progenitor cells.