Avital Rodal
@rodallab.bsky.social
📤 1217
📥 520
📝 42
Dances with endosomes, frolics with fruit flies. Speaking for myself.
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Harmit Singh Malik
5 days ago
Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
1
74
152
reposted by
Avital Rodal
@LaBonneLaB
27 days ago
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-...
loading . . .
Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11
Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-maddox-1
6
73
49
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Moira Donegan
29 days ago
Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
add a skeleton here at some point
55
5971
1477
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Carolyn Bertozzi
about 1 month ago
A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.
0
258
92
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Piali Sengupta
about 1 month ago
Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏
0
46
48
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
about 1 month ago
With apologies to
@xkcd.com
add a skeleton here at some point
2
26
9
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD
about 1 month ago
🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism
www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a...
via
@statnews.com
loading . . .
The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism
“The current political establishment and their supporters have consistently pathologized difference,” particularly when it comes to autism, a professor of medicine writes.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/autism-tylenol-rfk-jr-trump-ableism-eugenics-pronatalism/
0
2
3
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Nick Kodama
about 2 months ago
Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula
add a skeleton here at some point
19
1068
197
reposted by
Avital Rodal
The Onion
about 2 months ago
Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving
85
7664
1135
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Mark Histed
about 2 months ago
The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
24
918
257
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Randall Munroe
8 months ago
Lungfish
xkcd.com/3064
96
11971
1404
Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
0
7
6
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Felix Campelo
2 months ago
Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first
#FocalPlaneFeatures
together with our
#membranetrafficking
community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here:
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...
1
15
15
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Sonhita 🌞
2 months ago
Highly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼
#sciencecareers
#scientificediting
#journaleditor
#careersoutsidescademia
add a skeleton here at some point
0
6
8
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Casey terHorst
2 months ago
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
loading . . .
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program
6
344
295
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Wayne Maddison
2 months ago
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
6
396
142
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Shashank Shekhar lab
3 months ago
📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to
[email protected]
. More info:
www.shekharlab.org
0
36
33
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Ardem Patapoutian
3 months ago
Of course I signed this! Please join us.
add a skeleton here at some point
1
17
7
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Harmit Singh Malik
3 months ago
It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!
8
333
125
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Alexey Veraksa
3 months ago
We are hiring a lab technician! Join our group studying signaling networks in
#Drosophila
, with a possibility to carry out a research project. Please RT. Job posting:
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
Veraksa lab website:
www.faculty.umb.edu/alexey_verak...
loading . . .
Page Up - UMass Boston
https://employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us/job/528061/laboratory-technician-i
0
2
7
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Genetics Society of America
3 months ago
Know an outstanding early career scientist in Drosophila neurogenetics? Nominate them for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Lecture! Winner gets $5K, conference travel, & a talk at
#Dros26
. Self-nominations welcome. Due Nov 6, 2025.
buff.ly/5PqSXHw
0
6
6
reposted by
Avital Rodal
scaryr🩻
3 months ago
Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!
7
31
47
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Kristian G. Andersen
3 months ago
Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
add a skeleton here at some point
18
502
319
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Ilana Witten
3 months ago
We're looking for a research assistant to work in our neuroscience lab at
@princetonneuro.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
where we study learning and decision-making circuitry. Apply here:
research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21001/r...
Pls share w/ anyone who might be interested!
0
39
37
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Paul Hünermund
3 months ago
Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
13
433
152
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Heavily Into The World Of Magnets
4 months ago
Spamming you with this knowledge of a tariff waiver for scientific instrumentation which you can apply for retroactively!
bsky.app/profile/sara...
add a skeleton here at some point
4
35
21
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Shefali
4 months ago
#FlyCROSS
mentee surveys are open for
#earlycareer
#Drosophila
scientists. If you're a
#gradstudent
#postdoc
or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by
#mentor
of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs.
@flybase.bsky.social
loading . . .
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD6zM0NKEOc-CditdoX36TnAhPrbu4IZQWQPbmvKEdUUNeAw/viewform
1
19
22
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
4 months ago
few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
add a skeleton here at some point
14
806
352
reposted by
Avital Rodal
New England Society for Microscopy
4 months ago
A
#NESM
Save the Date for
#MicroscopyMonday
! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University
@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
November 6th & 7th. We're looking for
#poster
and oral presentations and
#abstract
submission opens soon!
www.nesmicroscopy.org
0
5
4
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Jeremy Berg
4 months ago
Post Sunday morning shows Bhattacharya email...
2
110
37
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Lerit Lab
4 months ago
Our lab is looking to recruit a new postdoc to join our team. You can visit us at
leritlab.org
to learn more and submit applications here:
faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/149999/...
(or scan the QR in the ad below!) Review will commence in early August.
0
5
7
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Dominique Baker
4 months ago
"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted
add a skeleton here at some point
1
84
20
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Biljana Ermanoska
4 months ago
Honored that our work with
@rodallab.bsky.social
and Jonathan Beats has found its final home
@jcb.org
. We identify a presynaptic actin core at the Drosophila NMJ—a long-lived, NMII-dependent structure that may help synapses withstand mechanical stress. 🧵 1/5
loading . . .
Nonmuscle myosin II regulates presynaptic actin and neuronal mechanobiology in Drosophila
Neurons and muscles must maintain structural contact despite mechanical strain. Ermanoska et al. identify a presynaptic actomyosin core at Drosophila neuro
https://rupress.org/jcb/article-abstract/224/9/e202501211/278115/Nonmuscle-myosin-II-regulates-presynaptic-actin?redirectedFrom=fulltext
2
14
4
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Kai Johnsson
5 months ago
Finally out in Nature Chem Bio: SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you Steffi and Veselin.
loading . . .
SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling - Nature Chemical Biology
SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labeling protein for bioimaging. Now, Kühn et al. report SNAP-tag2 with increased labeling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-025-01942-z
2
174
79
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Mathew Kiang
5 months ago
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
loading . . .
Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
https://ki.se/en/about-ki/jobs-at-ki/join-a-global-community-of-excellence
1
279
293
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Maureen Barr
5 months ago
Extracellular vesicles in the nervous system! With keynote
@erikaholzbaur.bsky.social
! So many great speakers and chairs, to name a few
@rodallab.bsky.social
@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social
. Lots of slots for ECR talks. See you in Montreal!
www.isev.org/2nd-isev-sym...
add a skeleton here at some point
1
15
6
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Stand Up for Science!
5 months ago
What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the
#NIH
heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our
#NIHLove
letter here! -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
loading . . .
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/add-name-bethesda-declaration/
6
879
322
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Jason Stajich
5 months ago
Two tenure-track positions at Amherst College
www.amherst.edu
.
apply.interfolio.com/168795
(molecular genetics and biochemistry)
apply.interfolio.com/168794
(molecular/cellular neurobiology)
loading . . .
Home | Amherst College
https://www.amherst.edu/
0
25
40
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Sebastian Kadener
5 months ago
But this is happening to people around us: foreign professors, teachers, students, postdocs, neighbors. And sometimes much worse. Please don’t assume this can’t happen where you live. And if you witness it, say something. Silence is complicity.
1
30
9
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Sebastian Kadener
5 months ago
Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵
1
42
15
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Elias Spiliotis
5 months ago
Let's give mega flowers to the NIH and NSF POs, and admins who are doing their best to keep "business-as-usual". They are the true heroes right now, and we are more than ever grateful for their support and any of the NOAs that manage to muscle through. We see you and we owe you! Thank you 🙏
0
4
1
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Genetics Society of America
6 months ago
Researchers from
@biozentrum.unibas.ch
developed a new method to phosphorylate endogenous Myosin in a light-inducible manner that achieves specificity and precise temporal control. Learn more about this
#optogenetics
and proteomics
#Drosophila
toolbox in
#G3journal
:
buff.ly/jlINw2g
0
6
4
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Adam Sternbergh
5 months ago
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
add a skeleton here at some point
619
35444
8430
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Stuart Neil
6 months ago
‘…Bhattacharya was “basically just trying to create an environment where lies can be treated the same as scientific truth and he and his cronies can like, jam through bullshit studies and then he can try to scream academic freedom.” Total shitshow
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
loading . . .
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
https://www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his-depth-sold-his-soul-clueless?r=cbt0&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
0
66
29
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Jeremy Berg
6 months ago
Proud to sign on this this open letter. Join me....
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
loading . . .
Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
https://www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-in-support-of-science?source=peertopeer
2
161
59
reposted by
Avital Rodal
post malone ergo propter malone
6 months ago
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
158
9777
2528
reposted by
Avital Rodal
MrOntology
6 months ago
No reason? Obliterating the systems and methods we use to determine truth in order to protect the wealth and power of those who depend on lies is certainly evil, immoral, and the antithesis of weal, but it is a reason.
0
12
1
reposted by
Avital Rodal
Nancy Padilla-Coreano
6 months ago
This interview with the neuroscience legend Dr Eve Marder is absolutely worth your time.
add a skeleton here at some point
0
58
20
Load more
feeds!
log in