The more we learn about #glycotime, the more dramatic will be our revisions to textbooks on such basic principles as protein trafficking and organelle privileges www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A wonderful day for outrigger canoeing around Alcatraz to Angel Island. #SFBay

Waymoland..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TING!!! How can you go wrong with a bit of sun and a Mitchell’s ice cream cone? Great choice, Ting!

Saturday I had the opportunity to attend Netball Australia's Adelaide Thunderbirds vs Queensland Firebirds PLAY4PINK round, raising money for breast cancer research together with principal charity partner The Hospital Research Foundation Group, and speak on a panel with Ali Clarke and Paul Flynn.

I've been fortunate to have @marcoenriquez18.bsky.social a #materialsChemist in my team. Cytoskeletal elements are often studied on their own but in reality, the #cytoskeleton is biopolymer network that is intricately intertwined. (#Award winning movie Light Microscopy Aus). @aibnatuq.bsky.social

Incredible paper from Max Krummel's lab showing macrophages can sample cellular content from living cells for presentation to T cells pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42056510/

Has anyone figured out how to 'easily' convert traditional (Word) NIH Biosketches into ScienCV formatted versions without spending hours on the clunking web interface? I spent a couple hours on the ScienCV website, but there must be a better way, especially for a many PI T32 submission. Thx 🧪

Excited to share our ‘Evolutionary characterization of lung cancer metastasis’ in #TRACERx & #PEACE, published today in @nature.com in collaboration with @charlesswanton.bsky.social @nickymcgranahan.bsky.social @zaccasimo.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk & @crick.ac.uk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Don’t be afraid to ask difficult questions and to take that leap of faith, because even if your idea is only partly correct, there’s still important knowledge to be gained" @rushika-perera.bsky.social giving the 2026 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/04... #UCSFProud

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

Headed to #AACR26? Leading cancer researchers from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social will present talks and posters on environmental and genetic determinants in cancer development, precision cancer treatment w/ radiotheranostics, overcoming drug resistance, and more. cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2026/04...

Whenever I’m starting a project I’m like “wont it be so great to discover something mysterious and be in the Uri Alon cloud” And then it happens and I’m like “oh actually this is unpleasant I have no idea what’s happening “ www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/alon/sit...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94 billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪

UCSF’s GradSlam! The judges will be hard pressed to choose winners.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

New preprint from the lab! Close collaboration with Silvia von Karstedt @vonkarstedtlab.bsky.social and her lab. We find that #SCLC cells are strikingly dependent on exogenous cysteine #LungCancer #CancerMetabolism #Ferroptosis 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.27.714827v1

The kleptoplast, Mesodinium distinguishes between prey of differing “nutritional” value. That is, they choose to eat prey whoes photosynthetic machinery they can co-opt. It’s waaaay out of my feild and I have a disclaimer - my offspring is the first author!

going to be controversial and say that beyond 3 cheeses you're really entering into the realm of diminishing returns

Trust me--read this. You'll be glad you did. and thank you Dr. Bennet for writing it. 🧪

A great tribute to a pioneering researcher who discovered fundamental insights into signaling, gene function and cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

Devastated to learn of the passing of the great cancer pioneer J. Michael Bishop. Mentor and friend, it was only a few weeks ago we celebrated his 90th birthday. He taught us that the seeds of cancer lie within us and spent his career combating cancer. 🧪 @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Exciting new study from the one-and-only @andre-rendeiro.com lab: 🔬 LazySlide can unlock the hidden secrets of your H&E slides generating new biological insights from tissue architecture. Cudos to @yimin-zheng.bsky.social & thank you for including @EvaChrenkova.bsky.social & my lab!

I am excited to share our latest preprint showing that systemic hypoxia suppresses solid tumor growth: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This has been a tremendous collaborative effort in the labs of Isha Jain @ishahjain.bsky.social and Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social.

Really excited to present the latest publication from our lab. Outstanding work by Ton Montoya who really conceptualized and led this project. He finds that MYC-driven liver cancer uses alanine as a fuel. Implications for new treatments for #HCC 🧪 @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

I needed to read this chapter from "The Inequality Machine" today. Because here at UCSB, we're done telling students not to bother trying. And the most important mission of my career, "to actually teach them calculus," begins next Fall. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 3.191/n #year3

Friday 3/20 at 4pm: Friday Cancer Center Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | James Fraser, PhD @fraserlab.com presents "You can't avoid the AVOIDOME: how to speed drug discovery with ML." Info: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Applying for Foundation Awards - Perspectives from Recent Awardees | March 16th - panel discussion w/ three recent UCSF faculty who have received foundation grants. Open to @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social senior clinical fellows and early career faculty More info: calendar.ucsf.edu/event/applyi...

Today is National #StandUpforScience day. Here is my failed contribution. You have to zoom way the $&@#% in.

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Our Office of Community Engagement has a handy list of resources on colon cancer: linktr.ee/UCSFCancerCe... #ColorectalCancerAwareness

Alamere Falls in the Pointe Reyes Sea Shore. One of a handful of waterfalls that cascade into the Pacific. Happy Birthday @girlsinscience.bsky.social The best 35+ years.

Pinchy on the hunt 🩵 (lit only by black light)

Bought a hand-held UV light for spouse’s birthday to explore our backyard in San Francisco. Found a bunch of these cool millipedes. Anyone know anything about this species?

Help! We're struggling to choose between these two images of #Mesodinium #karmachamaeleon and its cryptophyte prey, one more "documentary" and one more "action shot," as cover image submissions (to a society journal). If you were an editor, which one would more likely catch your eye? #protistsonsky

My vote is for this one - I’ve had it framed in anticipation! It’s my birthday present from one of the authors’ dad.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Features the Works of Bay Area Cancer Patients @ucsfhealth.bsky.social [SLIDESHOW] www.cancerhealth.com/article/san-... via @cancerhealth.bsky.social

omg did you see the sequencing they're doing? It's so Last Gen

Amazing

Power lures people to abuse young girls no matter IQ, gender or nationality. The Epstein files reveal - scientists are not immune. Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

In the spirit of #ColorectalCancerAwareness Month, the @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is delighted to share an invitation to special screenings of the acclaimed new documentary #AndréIsAnIdiot at the Roxie Theater in SF calendar.ucsf.edu/event/andre-...

Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes | ScienceDaily - goo.gl/alerts/bjpE31 #GoogleAlerts

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A Heavenly Invention For Farmers: Haryana Start-Up Develops 'India's First' Hydrogen-Powered Agricultural Drone www.etvbharat.com/en/bharat/a-...

Meeting alert! EMBO workshop about molecular and physical principles in evolution in Portugal, 2-5 June 2026. Deadline for registration is March 1st. Check out the website it should be a fun and informative workshop bridging evolutionary biology and physics of life meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel...

Pacheco & @drericabiophd.bsky.social discuss new study from @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) which reveals the distinct force-generating mechanisms used by epithelial and mesenchymal cells during collective cell migration rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#SuperbOwls San Francisco

Methionine metabolism and the NOP2 methyltransferase are essential for MYC-Driven liver tumorigenesis. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702329v1

Some of the latest work from our lab from outstanding scientist Sensen Lin @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social We find MYC- driven #livercancer are dependent on methionine metabolism. This includes a dependence on the ribosomal rRNA methyltransferase NOP2 that is a MYC target. 🧪

Each Friday night, I write about what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Year 2, Week 6: Feb 6 - civil servants face Schedule F - NSF disappoints on pre & postdoc research fellowships - Oklahoma ends tenure - Dept of Ed Civil Rights Office fails & much more - buttondown.com/liminalcreat...