🚨🚨🚨 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👇

This is so cool!

Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !

Very excited to share our new paper out now in @MolecularCell. We show how U1 snRNP -a well-known splicing factor- regulates the activity of alternative promoters in human cells www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

The timeline of co-transcriptional #mRNA processing and #modification may have to be revised: cleavage, termination, and #m6A deposition may occur earlier than most #splicing! Potential textbook changing study in bioRxiv by edueyras.bsky.social & Rippei Hayashi labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This sounds really really fun and useful.

This is SO useful for the community. Models for PD, SD, and more at the end of a click. Thanks Jax and all the people that made this possible!

Why can a human tolerate a drug that globally inhibits transcription? Why do transcription inhibitors not cure cancer? Our first paper of 2025 may help explain (some) of this! So incredibly proud of @tobiaswilliams.bsky.social & Ewa Michalak who led the work! www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

I can’t be more proud of our team of amazing scientists. We had a great conference with science talks, career panels, and networking sessions! We got RAs, students, postdocs, Pis, and scientists working in academia, industry, and policy. I am inspired, proud, and energized (and also tired ;)

And on other news. My first contribution to science as a postdoc with @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social is out! We discuss the knowns and unknowns of post-transcriptional splicing. It was really fun to write with the great @karinechoquet

It’s so nice to see this work finally out! It developed so much since its early days. The idea of long lived RNA as experience decoys is huge. Still a lot of work to be done but this is a great first step forward. Happy to have been part of it!

@evapillai.bsky.social and I had fun writing a brief comment www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (originally featuring an enlightening comparison to a soufflé au fromage that unfortunately disappeared from the final version per Science house style)

💫 New preprint from the lab: Comparing great ape cerebral organoids, we found that human-specific morphoregulatory signatures in basal radial glia characterise neocortex evolution. Fantastic work from super-talented PhD student Theresa Schütze! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So so cool

Metascience and AI Postdoctoral Fellowships Grants of up to $250,000 (USD) over up to two years will be awarded to social sciences and humanities postdoctoral researchers who study the implication of AI for Science. Deadline: April 10, 2025 @sloanfoundation.bsky.social 🧪 sloan.org/programs/dig...

Excited to share the work of Jonathan Perr where he uncovered a surprisingly common feature of cell surfaces - the presentation and clustering of RNA binding proteins with #glycoRNA. Critically support by #NIH @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Sign-up for the next round of the rainbowR buddies scheme is open until Mar 2nd! Pairs will be introduced on Mar 3rd 🌈👯‍♂️ If you're LGBTQ+ and code in #RStats, and want an opportunity to connect with someone else in the community (through a random pairing), this is for you 😃 rainbowr.org/buddies

HHMI Science Department is hiring! We are looking for an outstanding immunologist/ cancer biologist to join our senior leadership team. Remote work eligible, 24 weeks a year onsite, possibility of running a small lab with HHMI support @hhmi.bsky.social hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Valérie Hilgers and co-workers @hilgerslab.bsky.social @mpi-ie.bsky.social and @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de show that the conserved #neuronal #protein Pumilio differentially binds to mRNA 3′ UTR isoforms to regulate localization of synaptic proteins. #neuroscience www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

It's @scipyconf.bsky.social submission time again! This year I am running the Bioinf/Comp Bio/Neuroscience track, covering how Python is advancing science and problem-solving in those fields. Let me know if y'all have questions, and looking forward to the submissions!

😊🔬 Happy to share our preprint manuscript from my PhD! This study sheds light on stimuli specific activity-dependent gene expression and its changes during neuronal development in vitro. Looking forward to discussions and new perspectives!

Cool science with great people. Recommend!

Latin America and open access

#paperalert! In our new study, we ask the question: Can we predict RNA stability across conditions and protocols, based solely on experimental and/or computationally predicted RNA binding protein target sites? Read the paper to find out ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Big thanks to @odedrechavi.bsky.social and @ethanewe.bsky.social for the Dispatch in @currentbiology.bsky.social on our amyloid inheritance paper. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A #datascience for #socialjustice group I co-founded in Argentina is holding an amazing event about housing crisis this weekend in my home University. Help us spread the word!! And if you are in Buenos Aires, consider attending. It will be great!

🚀 New Event Alert! 🚀 Join us for an exciting session with Yanina Bellini Saibene (@yabellini) on using GitHub Copilot with R! Don’t miss this hands-on demo & insightful talk! 👉 RSVP: www.meetup.com/rladies-rome... #AI #GitHubCopilot #RStats #DataScience #WomenInTech @fgazzelloni.bsky.social

🧪 🍎 📍 🌊 🦑 pathwaystoscience.org Paid Summer 2025 Undergraduate Research Placements; financial support in graduate school; tips on applications and other resources; opportunities in ocean sciences and engineering

This approach has a well-known consequence: it's called the minority tax that faculty of color often face as we're called upon to address inequities in the larger system. I just want to make sure we don't keep adding to that tax. 4/4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

We have updated and expanded our database of fellowships for POSTDOCS in neuroscience/neurology/cog science. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link, and eligibility criteria. Download our database freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... pic.x.com/eEhXhlOzEj

Filmmaker brings into focus life of pioneering transgender, women's rights neuroscientist Ben Barres. www.bizjournals.com/... Archive: archive.is/ZJZuV#sel...#sel... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Hi everyone. We are building a Latinx trainee group at HMS! Please write to me if you are interested in participating :) and help us spread the word!

So excited to promote the BRIDGES virtual conference! We have a fantastic lineup for four sessions across two days (Jan 31 &Feb 1st, 2025) to focus on broadening research and instructional design for greater equity in STEM. Register through the QR code or the posted link below.

This is so cool.

I still remember seeing Sheq talk on O-MAP in CSHL 2 years ago during my PhD and thinking: This is so smart, I have to try it on circRNAs! And now it is finally out!!

Women researchers and science journalists in Spanish! Amo este starter pack.

I am latinx so I love Rolling my RRRss. This is cool.

Download our database of 313 different postdoctoral fellowships. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download our database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Amazing opportunity to work with great people doing super cool RNA science.

Check it out! The RNA Society 2025 Meeting Site is now live! Registration will open in January RNASociety Note the fabulous artwork by former EmoryBCDB student Dr. Carly Lancaster- make your plans now to join us in San Diego May 27-June 1, 2025

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And another one :)

Great to get started! Thanks @catharineaquino.bsky.social !