Today’s the day. Join us at noon PT to watch @alicekane.bsky.social discuss new insights into frailty and women’s health across the menopause transition, shedding light on the biological drivers of aging. This event is free and virtual. Register now! isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"what could explain the University’s eagerness to embrace one, and only one, special form of diversity? Fundamentally, this hiring push is part of a broader effort to diminish the authority and autonomy of the faculty."

Join us Thursday, April 23rd, from 11:00-12:00pm for Marc Hellerstein's seminar titled "Advances in Metabolic and Protein Fluxes and Fluxomics: Translation to Human Disease" #seminarseries

As some of you may know... we're down $5m and may or may not ever claw any of it back. So, we're writing new grants. If anyone would be willing to share a funded application for - NSF CAREER or NIH DP2 that is 100% dry lab-based - NSF BIO Capacity: Infrastructure I will owe you a coffee forever!

Join us for Jess Davidson's Ph.D. thesis defense on April 16! Davidson's research in the @judisimcox.bsky.social Lab explored how lipids are regulated under conditions of metabolic stress, such as cold exposure and disease. Learn more: ipib.wisc.edu/2026/03/30/i...

I love this essay by @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social I try to be very honest with students about some of the many (MANY) “lottery-winning” moments in my career trajectory. Here’s just one: 1/

Dear Conference Organizers, Please for the love of all things, provide an easily printable agenda. These weird web interfaces to build your own and apps are just not it. I'm sure you could find better ways to spend our conference fees. Maybe on more coffee? #AcademicSky

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

In case anyone doesn’t know why, there are varied positions held within CSR. SROs disagree with each other and with management. Policy is argued. Ppl need support for their positions. So we need to be loud and constant for the ones who think as we do.

NIH watchers, you will be mostly unsurprised to see that the triage line will continue at ~one third past the first two rounds that were promised. I seen credible intel on that recently. In context that suggests this will be permanent. Ie CSR loves the results and the honoraria cost savings.

🎉 Congrats to 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble of @uwbiochem.bsky.social! Her work has built an entire field and inspired generations of scientists through her mentorship and leadership. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/0yzHXvk

CSR has already been broken. Advisory Committee disbanded (members included Donna Ginther), Noni Byrnes gone, chaos from delayed reviews. The death of expertise proceeds anon. It seems clear the "leadership" isn't interested in scientific review.

It is very cool to see this piece from a former student of mine, @mnicolen.bsky.social, in Nature's Career Feature section: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On March 6, ASBMB members convened in Washington, D.C., for the society’s Capitol Hill Day. They met with lawmakers & staff to call for increased federal investment in basic science via strong funding for the agencies that power U.S. scientific innovation. www.asbmb.org/asbmb-... #ScienceServesUsAll

Our newest paper is out online! An Open-Source Code to Analyze Mitochondrial Intracellular Distribution from Fluorescence Microscopy Images Congrats @giologia.bsky.social! portlandpress.com/bioscirep/ar...

🚨 excited to share our latest preprint on bioRxiv, led by the soon-to-be Dr. Guy Kunzmann! We tackle a striking case of conditional dependence on UFMylation, a UBL modification pathway whose contributions to cell fitness have been a bit of a "black box." 🧵

We built the first complete genome for the common marmoset, fully resolving regions that were previously missing: centromeres, acrocentric short arms, and more. A new reference genome for anyone working with marmosets. This was an awesome collaborative effort & I’m grateful to all my co-authors! 🧬

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

1/ Hot take: deep learning is overkill for 90% of bioinformatics problems. I've watched teams spend months building neural networks that get outperformed by XGBoost trained in an afternoon. Here's why simpler models keep winning.

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

New Article! Live-cell imaging of RNA dynamics using bright and stable fluorescent RNAs

Fundamental research powers innovation. FASEB advocates are urging Congress to provide $11.89 billion for #NSF in FY 2027 to support groundbreaking research across STEMM. Learn more: buff.ly/c0y1Z9h #FASEBOnTheHill

Investing in research = investing in our nation’s health. FASEB scientists and advocates are calling on Congress to provide $51.3 billion for #NIH in FY 2027 to advance biomedical discoveries and support the next generation of scientists. Learn why this investment matters: buff.ly/c0y1Z9h

Despite Congress’s bipartisan support, funding for scientific research has not kept pace with scientific opportunity, risking our nation’s competitiveness. Check out our recommended FY 2027 funding levels for federal research agencies. buff.ly/c0y1Z9h #FASEBOnTheHill

Nice shout out for the @dogagingproject.bsky.social - lovely paper in GSA Journals of Gerontology from the DAP crew @academic.oup.com

Jeff Coller, RNA biology professor at Johns Hopkins University, says federal maneuvering on messenger RNA (mRNA) has forced companies to "shelve promising potential therapies" and is having a "chilling effect on the research ecosystem."

Happy to share our new paper from the #dogagingproject. academic.oup.com/biomedgeront... It turns out that metabolite predictors of mortality in dogs overlap significantly with those in humans. @smacklab.bsky.social

Online Now: Do metabolic fluxes change with age? #trends #endocrinology #metabolism

Readworthy Letter in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social on new-approach methods 👇 "NAMs enhance and synergize with, rather than replace, studies in intact organisms. Animal research remains indispensable for most integrated, chronic, or behaviorally anchored questions." www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

Working on a NIH multiyear funding tracker... This looks at the amount of multiyear funding (grants having a budget period 366 days or longer) for new and competitive renewal awards divided by the total amount of new and competitive renewal award funding over the same period. 1/5

Please share with junior faculty working on HIV/AIDS cure topics: researchscholars.gilead.com/hiv_us/about

🧵on a second potential mechanism for the sharp decrease in NIH grant funding in 2025 — namely return of unspent same-year funds to the Treasury and unspent future-year funds to NIH triggered by grant cancellation unclear whether NIH ever reallocated the $$$ or forfeited them at the end of FY2025

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Because of overwhelming demand, NIH has new links for the Strategic Plan webinars March 16, 2026 12:30 - 1:30 pm | www.scgcorp.com/strategicpla... April 8, 2026 2:30 - 3:30 pm | www.scgcorp.com/strategicpla... NOTE: YOU HAVE TO RE-REGISTER IS YOU REGISTERED BEFORE

A short Bluetorial on plots of NIH application success rates as a function of percentile. 1/20

Behold the inner channel of the nuclear pore complex in all its messy glory. New high-def microscopy is revealing its intricacies like never before. @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

the most annoying shift in my academic career

One more day left to vote! Share with your friends and colleagues! 🔥🧪

Build a paper model of the HIV capsid using this template from PDB-101 #ASBMB2026 #ASBMB26 pdb101.rcsb.org/lear...#ASBMB2026

Hill Day is a wrap! Huge thanks to all our members who joined us on Capitol Hill to advocate for strong federal support for basic research. #ASBMBAdvocates #ScienceServesUsAll

I was on Capitol Hill today with @asbmb.bsky.social urging lawmakers to support strong federal investment in scientific research and training. Also to support : predictable and sustained funding. #ASBMBAdvocates #ScienceServesUsAll

My colleague, who is part of our Capitol Hill team with ASBMB advocating for basic science, keeps running into students that she trained in her classroom who are here advocating for the American Medical Association! So fun to see the impact of her training in real 3D! #ASBMBAdvocates

Great day of science advocacy! #ASBMBadvocates #ScienceServesUsAll @asbmb.bsky.social @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social

Thank you to our Wisconsin senators and representatives staffs for meeting with us! #ASBMBAdvocates

Next up: 120 meetings with congressional staff on Capitol Hill to discuss why strengthening federal support for basic research is essential for U.S. competitiveness. NIH and NSF investments drive innovation! #ASBMBAdvocates #ScienceServesUsAll www.asbmb.org/advocacy

Folks from @rnasociety.bsky.social advocating for basic science research funding #ASBMBAdvocates @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social @cassandrahayne.bsky.social