Latest episode of #No_Time_To_Read podcast! It was a wonderful discussion with @kirkamundson.bsky.social Kirk about his recent @science.org article. Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2JVy... Article: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Tennessee: DONE! Idaho: DONE! 14 more states to go. Let's finish this so you don't have to see this map until 2027. givebutter.com/USS2026

Alright I gotta go run a potentially soggy moth night Do me a kindness and close some states while I'm out talking urban biodiversity with my fellow Philadelphians 🥺 $10 to fill a bubble. Fill this map in: givebutter.com/USS2026

Please repost! 🌿 Postdoctoral position available in the Yadav Lab at UMass Amherst! 🌿 Apply by September 25, 2026. See the advertisement below. drive.google.com/file/d/1W9QU... We are seeking a #postdoc to investigate the genetic, and biomechanical principles underlying the leaf morphogenesis.

this contains one of the wildest paragraphs I’ve ever written www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

New SPCG review paper on "component systems" from genomes and ecosystems to language, cities, and software. How do we separate universal combinatorial patterns from system-specific signatures? journals.plos.org/complexsyste...

Researchers like Ben Larson and Glen D’Souza are piecing together the world of killer microbes, including why they turn on each other and if their tiny weapons could be harnessed to fight disease. Listen to the podcast now: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kil...

This AI stuff.... Anyone else feel like they're one of the remaining unbitten characters in a zombie movie?

Excited to share our PLOS Biology paper! Using IntAct‑U‑ExM, we achieved super-resolution imaging of actin isoforms. With @anubhavdhar.bsky.social, I explored neuron actin rings & synaptic architecture. Grateful to @Deepak Nair & @syncellbiolab.bsky.social for the opportunity doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our new paper in @plosbiology.org introduces IntAct-U-ExM enabling isoform-specific imaging of actin at nanoscale across yeast, mammalian cells & primary neurons. Fabulous work spearheaded by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social along with an amazing team! #actin #U-ExM journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

At least I haven't found any dicks.

OK so I know I'm going to get skewered here for even studying these godforsaken systems, but I'm working on something about prejudices encoded into GenAI images. It's a trip, y'all. Check out the program officer's DEI coffee cup.

After a long hiatus, happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here are some amoebae squeezing themselves into narrow channels (part of a video for our preprint pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41377514/). Sound effects by Dillon (my 4 month old who may have had a little to do with the bluesky hiatus!)

🧪Does anyone else have problems reading MBoC papers online? The frame takes up my 1/2 of the browser screen! Is there any solution beyond downloading the pdf? I have this problem in edge, chrome, and duckduck browsers. @ascbiology.bsky.social

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

If the Big Bang is evidence of anything, it's clearly that God is an expansion microscopist

Got to play around with Holotomographic imaging of muscle cells yesterday via the @uclastemcell.bsky.social imaging core and the results are pretty spectacular 🤩 You can see everything from mitochrondria to lamellipodia to macropinocytosis…with no labels!

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

When I say @roylab-ucsd.bsky.social taught me how to write this is what I mean (his intro from our review www.nature.com/articles/nrn...). Take that, ChatGPT

RIP Sonny Rollins, the last saxophone giant. Listen to his duet with Coleman Hawkins on "Yesterdays" - rare combination of soulful feeling and stunning instrument skills

Also, if $1 = 1 minute, then: 1.776 billion dollars = 3,376 years

Makes sense, because accuracy and reliability matter the least when it comes to measuring things. It's fine if the AI replaces objective reality with its priors of how a company should be doing. What could possibly go wrong.

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

RSPS2026 | Finalist: Dr. Andre Seco Marques da Silva | Presentation: Jun 2 13:00-13:30 (GMT) | Breaking the rules: Unconventional strategies in plant reproduction and chromosome organization | FREE to Watch via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

First lab sampling expedition. Turns out we don't even need to leave campus to find delightful protists.

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protistsonsky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #protistsonsky

The kind of paper that makes you love this job. Amazing and very complete study! Galvanin, a direct electric-field sensor during cell migration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My PhD work showed that resting neutrophil -> activated/prime neutrophil is a pretty big volume change needed for motility :) Super fast, only a couple minutes to swell so not like other slower changes elifesciences.org/articles/90551

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

As part of her RNAseq and proteomics analysis of single-celled learning in Stentor, one of the molecules that Deepa Rajan found to be changing during learning and forgetting was an EF-hand protein. I want to tell you why we think this is interesting

so maybe this protein is acting as a calcium sensor to let the cell keep track of its current stimulation state or past stimulus history. right now, almost any hypothesis can be on the table. in case you missed the paper you can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

From MBoC… Now accepting submissions for the Evolutionary Cell Biology special issue. Share your research that links evolutionary insights with cell biology mechanisms: https://www.molbiolcell.org/evolutionary-cell-biology

Justice Barrett has joined the bandwagon complaining that folks only describe as “big” cases those that divide #SCOTUS ideologically. That’s not only belied by tons of actual evidence, but it obscures the extent to which it’s often the holdings the Court *chooses* to adopt that provoke such splits:

Here's the link to the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Looking forward to discussing the story with folks at #SISB2026 this week! 🦠

My lab is currently looking for a postdoc interested in phylogenomics to work with our group on PhyloFisher. Please reach out if you or anyone you know is interested. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

New preprint! We asked a simple question: How do very different activating adaptors all activate dynein? Turns out: same architecture, wildly different implementations 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

#Caturday morning is hammock time for Smokey

ICE kidnapped a Virginia Tech student

Act like they have a 20-seat margin in the Senate and a 75-seat margin in the House.

🚨Hear, hear, fellow microbial cell biologists!🚨 🦠 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology will be represented again at this year’s CELL BIO (ASCB-EMBO) meeting! The deadline to be considered for a talk in our Minisymposium is June 9. Help us spread the word! www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/

In MBoC: αβ-Tubulin heterodimers assemble into microtubules critical for cell division, transport, and cilia. This review covers their evolution and regulation, providing insight into how cells maintain robust microtubule networks. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E25-05-0247

The Senate has narrowly overturned the mining ban that blocked mining in Superior National Forest in Minnesota. This means Twin Metals can reapply for leases and permits to mine copper, cobalt, and nickel there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

225,000 ACRES OF PUBLIC LANDS AT RISK. Senate votes tomorrow on HJR 140. It would strip protections from the Boundary Waters watershed and open the door to toxic sulfide mining near one of the most protected wilderness areas in the country. Call your Senators: 202-224-3121