Love finding new places in a city I’ve been to dozens of times 😁

Frankie’s fun park with friends and now date night! #weekendvibes

Triangle friends: Next Saturday 9/27 is the amazing Fall Plant Sale @ncbg.bsky.social . They'll start the weekend with over 120 species of southeastern native perennials, shrubs, trees, vines, ferns, and carnivorous plants. 1/2 ncbg.unc.edu/2025/08/22/f...

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

My college kid in Boston spent the day with my friend in Boston who’s been looking out for her. She and I are both professors who grew up poor and made it, and I love that we are now looking out for one another’s kids. This is the kind of moment I dreamt of 🙌🏾

Listening to Shelley Earp reflect on his overall experience as a scientist following several Nobel Laureates and inspiring scientists speak about how he impacted their career. I don’t care about accolades: this is the type of legacy I aspire to have, to have uplifted so many 🤩🪜

At a symposium honoring 50 years of excellence at our Cancer Center, and a scientist that is one of my greatest inspirations let me know that they are passing the baton onto us. There are things happening now that endanger our progress in cancer, but we won’t stop working. Challenge accepted.

This job is such that I did not get a single thing done on my main to do list this week, and yet I worked almost nonstop.

Come be my colleague! We are hiring a full-time Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. If you are interested in teaching/curricular development & pedagogy this is a great position for you! Review of applications begins 10/6/25 Happy to answer any questions! Full details here: tinyurl.com/vcorganiclec... 🧪

In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Treehouse at the top of the steps 100/10!

Our view for the weekend 😍

Dropping your child off to leave for college really doesn’t get any easier 🥹

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

Hey #Microsky where are you?!?! Let's get some students to ABRCMS!! abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Biochemistry takes the lead! 🎉🙌🏾 But in reality, the real goal is to ensure students in ALL disciplines are celebrated, so let’s keep the momentum going!!! Donate here for ABRCMS student awards: abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Use the link below to make a nomination for the 2026 Rising Stars in Biological, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry! Those early career researchers selected will be invited to submit to ACS Bio & Med Chem Au. #ACSBioMedChemAu americanchemical.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists! #HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

NIH MOSAIC word cloud, emphasizing the important SCIENCE impacted by terminations.

Happy to share the my lab's latest preprint, where we investigated sensorimotor circuit formation in the developing spinal cord. We show that proprioceptive axons target motor neurons in neighboring spinal segments to give rise to intersegmental reflex responses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Went walking with a friend this morning and we saw so many deer!

Guess what? We have an awesome seminar lined up for next week! Very excited to host Jess @unc-bcbp.bsky.social

Science is fun, but Academia.. needs work

C’mon Neuronerds, we can hit this goal. Next best thing if you can’t attend.

A loss for: - Cancer research - HIV research - Vaccine research - Chronic disease research think heart disease, dementia, obesity, diabetes etc. All of this compounded by the brain drain of young researchers losing hope in the viability of careers in research & science. apnews.com/article/supr...

Students & early-career scientists—don’t miss out! ✈️ #ASCB Travel Grants can help you get to #CellBio2025. Apply today: 👉 www.ascb.org/grants/ascb-... #CellBiology

The damage to science is irreparable. Scientists who are valuable are leaving now. This offered some hope, but now it’s clear reason has completely gone out the window. A sad day for science.

This makes me so happy! Let’s keep this momentum going and donate using the link below! CompBio is still rocking the lead! 🙌🏾 t.co/2pYnlaY7fz

Let’s make this a friendly competition! To my @asm.org #microsky @genetics-gsa.bsky.social & @entsocamerica.bsky.social colleagues, join me in donating to support our ugrads attending ABRCMS!

Asking my #DevBio @socdevbio.bsky.social & #Neuroscience @sfn.org colleagues to join me in donating to the ABRCMS conference poster award fund. I am sure there will be 🤩 posters on these topics @ ABRCMS 2025 in Nov, let's make sure there is award $ to recognize their work! abrcms.org/donate/stude...

Join me in donating to ABRCMS. For many of us early in our careers (and for many of us now), this is THE conference. Let’s make sure future generations get the same experience. I was told if each poster judge donated $25, their goal would be quickly met, but I think we can do better! 🙏🏾💪🏾

Just talked to a group of high school students interested in research and medical professions. Always one of my favorite things: to hear their curiosity and enthusiasm always reignites the flame! 🔥

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

1) Dr. Bhattacharya states the #NIH mission, "Turning Discovery Into Health." By ignoring personalized and precision medicine, we fail to meet that mission. In every intervention, I expect PIs to measure heterogeneity of treatment effect.

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions

Moving day! 😁🎉

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The UAW/ACLU/APHA are seeking details on NIH grant applications that were delayed or withdrawn. The previous deadline of August 4 has been extended to August 25. I’ll include screenshots of FAQs in the replies. Please share widely! www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform

Good morning!

“Bridging science and society is a problem everywhere...As someone passionate about science and society, I want the scientific workforce to reflect the diversity of the country, and these executive orders are going to stop that.” @jpflores.rbind.io www.aaas.org/membership/m...

So honored to be a part of this years HHMI Gilliam Fellows cohort! Thankful for my amazing mentor @lmkdassama.bsky.social and all of those who’ve supported me. Excited to join the community!

Update: We have been in a stable place and are moving into a home next week. Mostly, I just want to say THANK YOU! The support we’ve received has been overwhelming. I will send out individual thank you letters soon, but I wanted to say this broadly (picture of gifted items stored at a friends) 🙏🏾

So proud of my trainee, @ericjordahl.bsky.social , for being selected as an HHMI Gilliam Fellow! Your dedication to outreach and your relentless pursuit of inclusive excellence are unmatched! You are so deserving of this honor!!!!!!! www.hhmi.org/programs/gil...

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/

Please join us in welcoming our newest postdoc, Dr. Steven Moran! Dr. Moran comes to us from Cornell University, but he's a NC native who started his research journey as an undergrad at Methodist University doing work at UNC's Institute of Marine Sciences!