Here is the link for Helene's preferred charity. Family requests donations to the fight against pancreatic cancer in lieu of flowers letswinpc.kindful.com

Helene was so giving to others about her battle, and went through to make it into maybe the top 1% of survivors of pancreatic cancer, before succumbing Dec 19, 2025 all while losing her father to it. She supported @letswinpc.org and the family asks for you to consider supporting them as well.💔

Some absolutely beautiful artwork here! Really love to see #yeast #cerevisae representing so well in yet another category: #fineart 🍻🥖🩺🔬🧪🧬🎨 #YeastResearch

Great Bluetorial thread by Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social on preprint “Organelles harbour pH gradients” recently published by her lab!

@authorbillsullivan.com Unfortunately, we will be traveling Wednesday night and will have to break our tradition of live watching the #Survivor49 finale. BUT, we should still make our winner predictions - you get first pick!

Old Man vs the SEA

Our membership drives ends THIS MONDAY, December 15th! Don’t delay in getting new sign-ups! Winners will be sent discount codes following this date.

Holy cow the Zhou lab at UCLA is cooking with Isonet 2 - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Averaging-free direct visualization of ribosome translational state! #teamtomo #cryoet

I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others. Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP. Please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...

Happy to see our News & Views is out! We highlight two landmark papers demonstrating the potential for therapeutic targeting of FSP1 and #ferroptosis in in vivo cancer models. Beautiful work from @ubellackerlab.bsky.social, Thales Papagiannakopoulos, and colleagues. 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Schuldiner lab’s most impressive (or at least cutest) library yet!

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

How’s the #yeast community closing out 2025? SGD is saying a heartfelt farewell, revealing new Resource links, announcing a simple way to support the #Database you rely on, and more. Read our December newsletter: www.yeastgenome.org/blog/sgd-new... #SGD #science

If you're at #CellBio2025, please join us tomorrow at 9AM in Room 122 for a fantastic speaker lineup at the #EndoplasmicReticulum Minisymposium! Immediately following our session will be the keynote presentations by Eva Nogales & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz! @ascbiology.bsky.social

Congratulations to lab member Katie, whose Ball State Aspire Undergrad Research Grant was funded today! I'm proud of how Katie persevered through writing - & rewriting - her proposal! Looking forward to the work she will do to continue unraveling the genetic requirements for ER PQC!

#CellBio2025 Note that the app won’t list you as an attendee unless you manually add yourself to the list using your Profile link (under the little wheelie tool) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social

Hope to see you all at 10AM today!

Another wonderful undergraduate poster session at the Mentored Undergraduate Research Showcase at #ASCB #CellBio2025. Bravo! And if you are at the meeting in Philly, check out those folks' posters at the main poster sessions!

Wonderful panel on what we can do about science denial at ASCB 2025 with Ken Miller and Michael Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

#CellBio2025 This Wednesday, Dec 10 at 9:00 AM in Room 122 Please add it to your schedule!

2025 Rubenstein Lab Holiday party! ⛄🎄 I am so fortunate to work with such a hard-working, collaborative, and fun team of student scientists. 🔬 Of course, Basil thought the lab party was all about him (honestly, any party Basil is at *is* all about him). 🐾

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

New preprint out! We show that PROTAC-induced ubiquitination can bypass canonical ERAD to degrade ER membrane proteins. Wonderful collaboration w/ @dannomura.bsky.social and huge credit to grad student superstar Sydney Tomlinson! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On this #GivingTuesday please consider ABRCMS, one of the most significant and effective conferences to propel scientists toward PhD programs and careers in science. Support the ABRCMS 2026 Student Travel Award Fund! @asm.org abrcms.activehosted.com/p_v.php?l=3&...

Thanks to my Gen Z students and their newfangled slang, I am now very confused reading emails with subject line "It's Giving Tuesday"

If you’re going to be in Philly, don’t miss this session!

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Super excited for the upcoming #cellbio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social @embo.org meeting in Philadelphia! Check out the Special President's session on "The Rising Tide of Science Denial" on Saturday at 1pm!

I don't like the web portals and loathe the menu-based ranking systems used by too many programs, but I LOVE writing letters of recommendation for great students.

I'm teaching a literature based class next semester and plan to share a method for reading a paper focused on note taking. I think many graduate students don't take notes when reading research articles and consequently don't retain information well. I'd love to hear what people think. 1/🧵

Just one week away until #CellBio2025! Please plan to join us for a sUPeR speakER lineup at the #EndoplasmicReticulum Minisymposium! Dec 10 at 9 AM @ascbiology.bsky.social

How cool is this!?

Things I currently think you should be considering in your proposals. Although this thread will be NIH-centric, my guess is that some of this applies to NSF, etc. Much is synthesized from public information. Much of this is what we've advised all along, just with, um, more emphasis. Here we go:

🧪Ok sciencers, specifically yeast biochemistry ppl. What's your go-to protease-inhibitor mix? We're blowing the budget with protease inhibitors.

Live look at NIH SROs today….

Check out our @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 Minisymposium on ER Homeostasis. With THIS speaker lineup, this event will be as dynamic, transformative and productive as the ER itself! So don’t 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 yourselves over and join us to 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 in world of the ER. (All PUNS intended.)

Note for my academic friends- your University is almost certain to have a food pantry. They will make good use of your cash donation.

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

We extend our deepest appreciation to Dr. Samina Akbar for her outstanding service as IAS President over the past year. Her leadership and continued service to the academy are paramount to our success!

The WSJ is confirming what I’ve always said about my alma mater: “Ball State is the Harvard of Muncie, Indiana.”

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Fall 2025 Rubenstein Lab. I am blessed to get to work with a great team of students. Looking forward to what we will learn together this year!

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Bittersweet to say farewell to Emmanuel Akoto, who defended his MS thesis & graduated this summer. Emmanuel made outstanding contributions to several projects & contributed to the growth & well-being of others around him. I'm excited to watch him continue to grow in his new role at Eli Lilly!

Congratulations @maliramanlab.bsky.social!! Happy to have contributed to this study.

Science in America is Dying. We Need Your Help to Keep it Alive. America can’t be great without support for the sciences. medium.com/p/99f78ab122ee

Type 2 diabetes is often considered a protein misfolding disease. But where are these toxic proteins found? 🤔 🚨In new work out today in @natmetabolism.nature.com, we show that mitochondrial protein misfolding (yes mitos🤯) leads to beta cell damage in T2D. 🚨 nature.com/articles/s42... 1/n

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

The Meselson and Stahl experiment demonstrated in 1958 that DNA replicated semi-conservatively. Meaning, each of the two strands of DNA serves as a template for a new copy to made of the complementary strand. Foundational finding, elegant experimental design.

Not a good look for Indiana Humanities education is super important to a thriving civilization and economy www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...