I enthusiastically recommend 'The Last Class,' which pays tribute to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Professor Robert Reich and highlights our duty to educate future generations. It is showing in various cities. www.thelastclassfilm.com/where-to-watch Directed by ‪@elliotkirschner.bsky.social‬

Congrats to Thomas D. Pollard (Drubin Lab) who received the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science! 👏🧪 @drubin.bsky.social ctcase.org/thomas-d-pol...

After the success of our 2023 Imaging Cell Dynamics conference, we’ll be hosting a second #JCSImaging meeting in 2026, organised by @franbottanelli.bsky.social, @guijacquemet.bsky.social‬, @drmichaelway.bsky.social‬ & Giulia Zanetti. To register your interest: www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia. Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease? Find out more and apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Cell biologists, join FASEB for a new level of collaboration on dynamic cytoskeletal systems research! Noted researchers @drubin.bsky.social and @ivatolic.bsky.social are the keynote speakers at this inaugural conference. Will you be there? View the full agenda and save your space: buff.ly/Bz0Dyxh

Congrats to my fantastic coauthors on this work with a surprising conclusion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Barack Obama on what universities should do: “We'll stand up for what we believe in and we'll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we'll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium...because academic freedom might be a little more important." + www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Ew6cot/

The funding for these long COVID research grants was given back bc disability activists urged us to contact our reps persistently, in high volume, and we did. Remember that these tactics work the next time someone tries to get you to passively react instead of taking an active part in organizing!

ERC doubling funding to lure researchers to the EU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

New info on NIGMS training page Trans-Departmental Basic Biomedical Sciences: The goal of this program area is to broaden the scope, institutional and geographic distribution of NIGMS basic biomedical research training programs. Info at the bottom of this... www.nigms.nih.gov/training/ins...

Very useful information from UC about your rights re: search and seizure of your electronic devices at the US border. TL;DR: the “border search exception” to the 4th Amendment gives the CBP broad discretion, but there are some limits. security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

Come start your lab in beautiful Strasbourg 🇫🇷 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.” That drama dates back 25 years.

If you still doubt that the Trump administration is out take down universities, check out Vance’s 2021 speech in which he declares that “The Universities are the Enemy.” youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...

I'm so lucky to be a (minor) part of this project! arxiv.org/abs/2503.12593

20 years of bitching about woke humanities departments and the first thing they do is defund STEM

HLB destroyed the Florida citrus industry because one person on a flight from China managed to land in Miami while the Ag Inspection team was understaffed. I cannot state how devastating to our nation's agricultural industry a reduction in force across the country would be.

"If [Galileo] had had grant funding and a website, the Catholic Church would have suspended the former and scrubbed the latter" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From Nobel Laureate Jochim Frank www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

The modified announcements say that up to 15% of doctoral, and 20% of postdoctoral, awards can be held by international scholars.

Her research grant mentioned ‘hesitancy.’ Now her funding is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Former NIH Director Harold Varmus did an excellent job today explaining on Science Friday what is at risk with the cuts to NIH. www.sciencefriday.com

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

This man is charged with looking after “the health and well-being of all Americans.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

Welcome Berkeley MCB to blue sky! @berkeley.bsky.social

“We would like the entire scientific community to know that attacks on some of us are attacks on all of us. Our collective ability to pursue meaningful research, of any kind, depends on the social and political institutions that support scientific inquiry.”

Unbelievable: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Another Sunday in which the country's major research university presidents could have been all over the news <setting> the National Conversation™️ on the existential higher ed funding crisis rather than quietly <reacting> to it & totally ceding the public/political narrative to the authoritarians 🤷‍♂️

Thank you Needhi Bhalla for making this happen!! www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Multiple group leader positions in developmental biology in @ibdm.bsky.social Marseille, at an institute that produces some great work.

I’m sure there’s a national picture, but I gotta tell you that I know an awful lot of Minnesotans - including my wife- who love target, who think of target as their favorite store and always have, cause it’s a Minnesota company. And they just haven’t shopped there since target caved on DEI.

Born on this day in 1904, Dr. Seuss, who's best known as a children's author and illustrator. He also produced many political cartoons, several of which were massively racist (the anti-Japanese ones especially). But here are two about the rise of fascism in the US, published in the early 1940s...