Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. Story by Ben Mueller & @irenatfh.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ctOSqM

Polls are open until 7pm for the VA referendum today 4/21. Find your polling place here, and dont forget to bring your ID! #vote www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ba...

A nice depiction of the problem.

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Our latest #abscission paper is online at MBoC www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... . We looked at what happens when there are stochastic abscission failures in a polarized epithelium in vivo. 1/6

Reposting today since Bluesky was weird yesterday. Also for #fluorescencefriday image of green cilia on apical membranes of neural stem cells. See our new preprint for details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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From MBoC… Now accepting submissions for the Cell Biology of the Nervous System special issue. Share your research on nervous system cell biology with the community: https://www.molbiolcell.org/nervous-system/

Our preprint about Togaram1 mouse knockout brain phenotypes is on bioRxiv! This is a model of Joubert Syndrome ciliopathy caused by loss of Togaram1 (aka Crescerin1 aka FAM179B). Primary #cilia defects in neural stem cells. Neurogenesis, mitotis, apoptosis, morphogenesis phenotypes! #cellbio

Another Society journal doing the right thing! @socdevbio.bsky.social confirms that upon acceptance in @devbiol.bsky.social authors can upload the accepted and unformatted version of your manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission system, satisfying NIH and making it available to all

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science? The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro.... Thanks for reposting!

We have a postdoc position available. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.

SDB is sad to announce the passing of Gail R. Martin (1944-2026) after a short illness in San Francisco. Martin served as SDB President in 2007 and was the recipient the Conklin Medal in 2002 and the @FASEBorg Excellence in Science Award in 2011. bit.ly/4aIfu5d

Amen. So many non-specific antibodies, so much wasted money and time.

Worth reading for possible explanations and their suggested experiments in Discussion. Note that peer review time was defined as the time from submission to acceptance, so includes time spent on revisions. Would have liked to see that separated out.

Happy to announce that our latest paper is now out! Have you ever wondered how neural tissues control their size? In this paper, we show that cell division orientation is critical in both the cortex and retina. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com. Check it out! #cilia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Murphy Lab did our annual retreat this week. This year's theme was using AI (what it's good and bad for). I wanted to be open-minded to make sure we are not missing something we should be using it for, so we did a few exercises to test, and had presentations.

Important editorial in #eNeuro about paper mills using AI to generate fake or plagiarized papers. Anyone else worried about having your preprints or unpublished results taken, AI-rearranged, and scooping you? @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

Great session and wonderful questions, thanks for organizing it Pleasantine! @cilialab.bsky.social‬ #UKCilia2026

Excited to be sharing our work on Togaram1 mouse knockout and brain development in this e-Symposium Tuesday, January 13, 2026! 10:00 AM EST in the US = 15:00 GMT #cilia #centrosomes #devbio 🐭🧠🧪

Just over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1

By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations. Read our new NASA article in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble. One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Enjoyed the sessions at #SfN25? Have an idea for a session, event, or professional development workshop? #SfN26 Call for Proposals open Thursday, December 5. Discover how you can contribute to the scientific dialogue & networking opportunities at Neuroscience 2026. 🔗 vist.ly/4fchn #neurosky

Are you a postdoc or assistant professor on the job market? Reminder that our department is hiring! We are a scientifically diverse department looking for a colleague that is excited about science, teaching, and potential collaborations! Please apply by 12/5/25!

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Bringing my umbrella to #SfN25!! ☔

I'll be here: Satellite social at #SfN25 to honor the legacy of Dr. Dennis O'Leary, Mon night 7pm. SAT37 - "Nature and Nurture in Neural Development" www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

See you at #SfN25! Our poster by Hayley Dingsdale: genetic mosaic loss of Cep55 and Kif20b. PSTR 053.20 / A18 - Cellular context matters: Use of a genetic mosaic mouse model to identify autonomous and non-autonomous effects of cytokinesis gene mutations in the developing cortex. Sun Nov 16, 8a-12p

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 NIH Study Sections Rescheduled Triaging of ~70% of applications for next 2 rounds

Thank you UVa for being the first places asking for grad school recomendations that did not include ANY of the silly ratings questions

Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together. Happy reading! #cilia #flagella journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

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 🙏

🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠 Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892 #Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA

Restricting visas to 4 years would be yet another way to strangle innovation in science. Please comment TODAY. Average PhD length in biomedicine is 5-6 years in USA. Here is what I just posted. Direct link to add your comment: www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

Our new preprint 😅 ! We show cytokinetic abscission completion is important to maintain polarized epithelial structure, and p53-mediated apoptosis guards the structure when there are failures of abscission. In vivo in brain. #cellbio #abscission #devbio #cilia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Math + Cake = Yum! Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! 9-16-25! 😎📐🍰

Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Apply for this Assistant Professor position in UVA Biology by Oct 15, 2025!

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12. Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists bsky.app/profile/scin...

Don't miss this opportunity to be our colleague! Very exciting initiative here at UVA!

Chair Search for our Department of Cell Biology at UVa! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Did Axons Evolve by Activating Cytokinesis During Interphase? A Hypothesis on the Origin of Neurons https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40737258/

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Investments in NIH and NSF give huge returns to our economy. They're basically money-multiplying-machines. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...