NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Some studies suggest that the Earth is flat, but many experts are skeptical

My quote of the day Masha Gessen

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Dosage responses of aneuploid autosomal chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677044v1

✨Thanks to amazing students @tobiaskletter.bsky.social, postdocs @biswashere.bsky.social & collaborators @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ & ALMF @embl.org ✨ 👉Cytoplasmic material properties control spindle architecture and scaling 👉 out today @natcellbio.nature.com rdcu.be/eqPr8

Our chromatin scaling paper is now out in its peer-reviewed form! 🎉 We added some controls, statistics, and a new introduction to better contextualise our findings. Overall a much-improved version we hope! (see my earlier thread for the preprint background) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the important benefits of @reviewcommons.org is having a peer-reviewed preprint, which to an increasing number of funders counts as a published paper @embo.org Saves important time for trainees to have their work recognized.

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

Very harmonious and inspiring collaboration with Niels Gehring, @volkerboehm.bsky.social and team at Uni Köln, and colleagues at @mdc-berlin.bsky.social . Rapid UPF1 depletion illuminates the temporal dynamics of the NMD-regulated human transcriptome: Molecular Cell www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Rodrigo Dueterte is literally in The Hague for this headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Creating a force that can kill people at will almost anywhere on the globe and then giving control over that force to one person with no operable constraints is a way to make very bad things happen. Intentionally killing non-combatants without trial is one of those.

Facts are unfolding but while Trump officials have claimed that the Venezuelan boat was carrying drugs, independent and verifiable proof of the cargo has not been publicly provided. Even if true, then arrest and fair trial are the right response, not the death penalty. 11 were killed.

🚨🚨🚨 Please RT! We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets. Deadline: 30/09/25👇

Three-Year Funded Postdoctoral Position to study organelle architecture in mammalian oocytes – Terret-Verlhac Lab, CIRB, Collège de France (Starting 2026). For more information, please contact: [email protected]

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

1/n Dear friends, in light of the current events in Palestine and to help spread awareness, a large number of filmmakers have made their FILMS about PALESTINE AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE FOR FREE Below, we are sharing links to films that you can watch and share to spread our message to the world:

Excited to announce I recently highlighted another preprint for @prelights.bsky.social. In this preprint, @r-pantier.bsky.social and co-authors from the Chambers Lab at the University of Edinburgh find that the TET proteins act together to help mammalian cells specify into somatic lineages.

Many proteins bind RNA, yet we still don’t know what RNAs most bind because methods map one RBP at a time. In @cp-cell.bsky.social, with the Jovanovic lab, we describe SPIDR – a method for mapping the RNA binding sites of dozens of RBPs in a single experiment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Biomolecular condensates at the nuclear pore basket maintain global chromatin organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665545v1

See? There's money! What would be great, instead, is to increase the budget for the existing schemes, though 🧪

A humorous take on what we do to ourselves!

With proposed 15x funding increase, and pressure from Miller for immediate results, seems likely that ICE will try to scale up by using bounty hunters and reducing training requirements for agents. Result seems less like secret police (surveillance, research) more like death squads or kidnap gangs

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

News these days are hard to take. They drag you down. But after reading this thread, I have a big smile on my face 😀

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

27/27 As always, thanks for reading to the end! We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. The full paper is open access here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... 🧪🔬

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING in which @rory-stewart.bsky.social and I discuss all things France, Europe, state of world and life and times with @gabrielattal.bsky.social - gets a bit spiky with Rory. You have to listen to end of debrief to hear my theory as to why 1/2

A few days earlier, Trump had given his definition of peace: "unconditional surrender". Apotheosis of the law of the jungle and the primacy of pure force instead of international law- now a vestige of the past www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

This would be a summer blockbuster on par with Barbie

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

Finally - Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

Loved the Q&A, but the essay linked within is essential reading. Please click away

Super excited to post our new publication on the role of MOS/MAPK signaling in maintaining the egg transcriptome. Great collaboration with Britt Goods lab! rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...

19th century buildings had urine-deflecting skirts installed to discourage men from pissing on them (doing so results in urine all over your pants and shoes). www.exploringgb.co.uk/blog/9th-cen...

Even putting the moral arguments aside, this idea of customising your baby is a fantasy, scientifically speaking, though I'm sure some people will pay for it...

So creepy it's off the charts. Polygenic prediction and pre-implantation embryo selection for smart kids is now a commercial consumer service.

david lynch once said “get me six singing black dancers, an Eurasian with a monkey on her shoulder, nastassja kinski, a lumberjack, and a beautiful one-legged girl” and someone actually delivered. at least once in a lifetime may we all have LYNCH SUMMONING POWER

Kinetic control of mammalian transcription elongation cc @triggerloop.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hot off the press for your Friday morning! 🔥 Our new (and highly revised!) preprint is out. It significantly expands on our previous work, unveiling exciting new data on how CBP's intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) regulate genes. Link to preprint: tinyurl.com/5npjkyps #IDRs #condensates #CBP

“… RNA-only multimeric nanocages with diameters larger than the ribosome” 😱 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is very clever www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why we love it at the Vienna BioCenter–hear it directly from our fellows! The VIP³ call is open–16 fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowships in an interdisciplinary environment. Apply now: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.