Gotta take time to appreciate the small joys in life, like samples getting delivered at 8:30am to @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social and results getting emailed to you right at noon!

Our department is hiring a conservation ecologist! See the job posting here & please share: jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

In #GENETICS, Grace Duke and Robert V. Skibbens report on novel gene deletion combinations with implications in cohesion activities and show their requirements in #yeast cell cycle progression and cell viability. Read more: buff.ly/Fa2FAfQ

Grad student Gayathri Muthukumar investigates how the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM), a hub for signaling proteins, helps regulate mitochondrial function. Her research aims to uncover how changes in the OMM’s protein makeup can fine-tune the behavior of individual mitochondria. #Sciencein60

Crick researchers have shown that the ‘pacemaker’ controlling yeast cell division is located inside the nucleus, rather than outside it as was previously thought. This research was led by @nitinkapadia.bsky.social and Paul Nurse. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-06...

Hopped onto the tenure track today! What were your favorite purchases when you started your lab? We're doing genetics and biochemistry in yeast 🧬

Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study 1. initiation of DNA replication. 2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance. Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists. Deadline 3 August 2025. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal. scim.ag/4l9MO8Y

Especially in file names Please, mentees, I am begging you

The NIH has said it will implement a "new award stucture" by October. But researchers say it is absolutely senseless and reckless to cut off funding without an alternative in place. I spoke to nine affected researchers. This is their story.

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.

Re-upping this: I curated a YouTube playlist on molecular biology. I use it to train undergrads and new grad students. I usually have them watch the playlist first before showing them how to do in the lab. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

Our country is under attack by our own President. He wants everyone - persons and institutions alike - to tremble in fear of saying something that he dislikes. These attacks are not only wrong and contrary to the highest U.S. ideals, they are unlawful viewpoint based conditions. 1/x

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

definitely worth checking surplus lab equipment vendors — some items are barely used or even brand new — as a way of getting around the tariffs

an exciting time to receive your start-up funds 💸

Wow.

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Excited to be jumping onto the tenure track at Oberlin after a couple of years as a visiting prof!! www.oberlin.edu/news/oberlin...

“In essence, the EPA is proposing to roll back the clock on environmental protection and allow industry to release tons more toxic pollutants into the air we breathe,” Gillian C. Goobie, MD, PhD. Read more about the impact of the EPA’s announcement to reconsider over 30 EPA regulations:

Our top health official thinks castor oil cures measles, while his bosses cut funds to much of the most important medical research in the world. The toll in disease and death is beyond our ability to imagine. And the goddamned eggs still cost $9 a dozen. Gift link: www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Many of these grants are fellowships and training grants supporting smart young people interested in bettering the world through their research. It is sad to see NIH funding used as an indiscriminate tool of retribution.

In #NextGenSequencing news, China now outright bans the imports of Illumina $ILMN machines in US Retaliation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

More NIH intramural news... As part of the new Executive Order IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT'S "DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY" COST EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE, NIH staff are advised not to use their NIH Purchasing Cards. If this get any more efficient, they will not be able to so anything...

This is a straight ban on purchasing at #NIH — for cancer trials, treating patients, and developing cures. @chrislhayes.bsky.social Almost all purchases at NIH are made on govt credit cards. It’s clear what’s happening: Trump/Musk are blowing up the govt using devious… 1/ www.forbes.com/sites...

🥳Just published @nature.com. Over 25 years after the discovery of SPO11 as the enzyme responsible for initiating meiotic recombination, we finally succeeded in reconstituting its DNA cleavage activity.🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When I looked for jobs, I avoided TX and FL who seemed to be hostile toward higher education. Now, Ohio is jumping on the bandwagon and trying use govt overreach to destroy higher education. Can you join me in writing a letter? actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

We’re here at the Ohio Statehouse to testify in opposition to Senate Bill 1! 210 people are scheduled to testify - an enormous turnout. And there’s more of us her to protest the bill. We’ve already filled the hearing room and one overflow room and now they’re sending people to the basement to watch

"Such an unforeseen and immediate hit to the budget doesn’t leave the institutions with many options to make up the difference. They likely will have to cut other academic programs as well as raise revenue by increasing tuition fees and squeezing philanthropy for more donations. "

My op-ed yesterday in the Columbus Dispatch against SB1. Please read and circulate. And write your own op-ed’s. And get ready for opponent testimony, probably next week. Keep an eye on @osuaaup.bsky.social www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

It represents an unprecedented attack and aim to micromanage public higher education in the state, regulating speech on "controversial topics," prohibiting faculty strikes, ending all DEI...Stop SB1 in Ohio - send your testimony, turn out, Tuesday at 2pm at the Ohio Statehouse @osuaaup.bsky.social

For those wondering what this program was, here it is in the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20241228...

If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing

Are you a CDC scientist affected by the order to pull back submitted papers containing terms including the following? Find me today on Signal. Time-sensitive. Confidentiality promised.

Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at [email protected] or on Signal: meredithwadman.13

What's this all about @hhmi.bsky.social ???

Impressive how private foundations such as HHMI @hhmi.bsky.social are jumping into cutting funding for inclusive programs now that DEI "is no longer cool". Without federal support, this is when we needed them the most.

Your Action Is Needed! Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy www.ascb.org/science-poli...

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Imagine if you're a graduate student who knows they are funded on a federal grant, but doesn't understand the distinction between disbursed and undisbursed funds. You might reasonably think you won't get paid next week even if there is a year or more of your support in a university account already.

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

University of Chicago is asking researchers to halt purchases, starting new experiments, and travel in light of the federal pause on grants

Who here orders custom peptides? Looking for recs for peptide synthesis companies!

I am excited to share that our study has just been published in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We uncovered a “dark side” of base excision repair of oxidative guanine damage at telomeres. 🧵⬇️

We have 7 projects available for undergrad & master students interested in #AI, #chromatin and #epigenetics. 🧬The Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetics Lab, led by @robertife.bsky.social, will host an intern during this summer. 🤩Do you want to be her/him? 👉 www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/epigeneti...

When even the WSJ Editorial Board has this to say www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...