Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

4. A new publication in @natsmb.nature.com from ACS postdoctoral fellow Dr. Eric M. Smith and past ACS grantee Dr. @iaincheeseman.bsky.social at the #WhiteheadInstitute revealing two newly identified, unique subunits of the RNase MRP complex. Read the paper here: lnkd.in/eTNkJhBW

I'm honoured to be working with some very smart people at #WhiteheadInstitute! Research from @iaincheeseman.bsky.social, @jimmy-ly.bsky.social and co. shows proteins from the same gene can act very differently - shaping health and rare disease in unexpected ways. #Genetics #CellBiology #ResearchSky

From an accidental discovery of hidden biology to a new framework to understanding and diagnosing rare disease. Thrilled to share the most recent work from our lab and the amazing Jimmy Ly. wi.mit.edu/news/alterna...

Personal good news alert: I’ve been promoted to associate professor and it’s time to update the ol’ bio! Launching my lab at UCSF has been a privilege + I’m so grateful to my team and community here. More exciting science ahead! 🚀

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

A short Bluetorial on the dismantling of the National Center of Research Resources A demonstration that my email's to Director Bhattacharya is not new behavior.

This was not the first example of writing to my bosses or other leaders to express my candid views that they were making or were about to make a serious mistake (nor will it be the last). As a leader, I have also appreciated it when others did the same to (for) me. /fin

To be honest, just use Perplexity.ai - faster, mostly accurate citations, and it uses the "best" model for the task (or tries to). I still stand by cross-validation using multiple LLMs if you are going down this road. In the end, expert knowledge of the user is the best filter...

Will definitely check out Claude with pubmed integration. This might actually help Pubmed survive... i.e. if AI projects see it as important training data.

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22. biochem.weill.cornell.edu/join-our-fac...

Check out the latest work from our lab, led by Arash Latifkar @ara-latifkar.bsky.social , www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

An epic story and a must read. This is really beautiful work to understand the most amazing monthly regeneration event - menstruation. The authors reconstitute this process in mice (which don’t normally menstruate) allowing important new insights. Will also be a powerful model for future work.

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Congratulations to Drs. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi, recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Brunkow and Ramsdell—cell biologists by training—prove once again: it’s all about the cell.

Honoured to receive the IMP Birnstiel Award this year! So grateful to my mentor @iaincheeseman.bsky.social for all of his help and encouragement!! Very thankful to the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social community and the wonderful collaborations within the institute—especially @bartellab.bsky.social 😊🥳

New preprint! Graduate student Océane Marescal leverages quiescence - proliferative hibernation - to reveal unexpected dynamics for “constitutively”-localized centromere proteins. To understand the logic of cell division, you need to consider non-dividing cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Unprompted, the 14yo told me she has a deep hatred for Comic Sans. I love that kid so much.

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

I got a nice gift from stellar Cheese lab graduate student Matteo Di Bernardo from his travels - who knows my love of tea. But I'm trying to figure out whether there is a message in that this tea promotes cognitive function. A little help never hurts, I guess. :-)

Another paper bluetorial! Today: how does the spatial location of genes influence their function? (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Led by @katiecorker.bsky.social, ASAPbio is currently working on several exciting initiatives. We hope new board members will help us to be even more effective in developing these initiatives and realizing our goals! @gautamdey.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social

I was a @asapbio.bsky.social boardmember until 2023. It was a powerful opportunity to work with an incredibly thoughtful group of people committed to expanding what communicating and assessing scientific research could look like. If this sounds like your jam, definitely apply!

A genuine opportunity to make a positive difference for science - accelerating discovery and communication in the life sciences. Apply to join the @asapbio.bsky.social board.

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Jimmy Ly, a graduate student in Whitehead Institute Member Iain Cheeseman's lab, has received the Porter Prize for Research Excellence from @ascbiology.bsky.social. Congratulations, Jimmy! www.ascb.org/society-news... (@jimmy-ly.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social)

I am incredibly grateful and honored to be recognized with the Keith Porter Prize 🥹🥳 — thank you, @ascbiology.bsky.social and @iaincheeseman.bsky.social for being the best mentor!! Congratulations to the other awardees and I am looking forward to meeting everyone in Philly

Thrilled to see Cheese lab graduate student @jimmy-ly.bsky.social recognized by this award from @ascbiology.bsky.social. Jimmy has done amazing and creative work and is also truly kind and supportive to everyone around him. A great human and amazing scientist. So well deserved. Congratulations!

We're hiring an IT Project Manager at #WhiteheadInstitute in Cambridge, MA! Join a collaborative team and help our remarkable scientists make paradigm-shifting discoveries and unlock the potential of tomorrow. If you're a problem-solver and team-builder, we encourage you to apply! #Hiring #ITJobs

Beautiful work by Katya Khalizeva from @iaincheeseman.bsky.social lab, uncovering a surprising feedback loop to globally suppress mRNA decay during mitosis! This helps explain how cells maintain their transcriptome during a mitotic arrest without new transcription! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! We solve a mystery you didn't know existed. Mitotic cells lack new transcription but require ongoing translation. Interphase mRNA half life is only 2-4 hrs. So how do cells arrest in mitosis for hours without depleting their transcriptomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What does the Vienna BioCenter offer - Hear it directly from our fellows! Sounds good? Apply now to join our Postdoc Program. The VIP³ call is open–16 fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowships in an interdisciplinary environment: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

We're recruiting junior team leaders @mrc-lms.bsky.social This time we're looking for those working in human metabolic disease. It's a great place to start your lab. Fantastic colleagues, exciting science, world class facilities. Join us! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026!

Are you an MIT postdoc in the life sciences? Come join my new initiative, the KendallSqBio Postdoc Symposium on Sept. 10, 2025! ✅ Present your science ✅ Connect with other postdocs ✅ Build your community Abstract deadline July 11th! forms.gle/iXMTYfqgLKWR...

At my daughter’s 8th grade graduation. The beautiful ballon backdrop keeps rotating to read SOS 5 instead of 2025. I can’t think of anything more on brand to represent this year thus far.

New pre-print! Ryan Kim et al distinguish the roles of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint as a surveillance pathway only triggered by mitotic errors vs a mitotic timer that is required in every cell division. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Optical Pooled Screening has transformed large-scale cell biology, but lacks robust end-to-end computational strategies to process these Tb-sized datasets. New from Di Bernardo et al (@mat10d.bsky.social‬): Brieflow. A game changer for OPS + new biological insights www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Whitehead Institute celebrated the legacy of its Founding Member and Former Director Gerald Fink, who is known not only for his pioneering work in yeast genetics, but for his mentorship to scientists whose discoveries have reshaped a range of scientific fields. wi.mit.edu/news/whitehe...

Thrilled to join the amazing Boettcher community and be named a 2025 Boettcher Webb-Waring Investigator! @cuanschutz.bsky.social

MIT folks! I’ll be speaking on Tuesday at Whitehead Institute/MIT at my postdoc advisor Gerry Gink’s retirement symposium. Check out the livestream: web.mit.edu/webcast/wi/s...