KATMAP infers splicing factor activity and regulatory targets from knockdown data - @daspliceisright.bsky.social go.nature.com/47ycrMJ

"TOMORROW @yaleneuro.bsky.social @kavliatyale.bsky.social Yale present #SYNAPSES, our senior postdoc symposium! 🙌 Hear from four incredible researchers 👩‍🔬🥼 as they share their latest discoveries and insights! 🗣️ You won't want to miss it! 🗓️"

Check out the latest work from our lab, led by Arash Latifkar @ara-latifkar.bsky.social , www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share our work on transcription initiation and termination being spatially coordinated out today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you’re interested in exploring the relationship between chromatin organization and epigenetic memory using chromatin tracing microscopy, my group is recruiting a talented PhD student 🥳

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out in Cell Genomics: A comprehensive analysis of the cell-type-specific effects of CHD8 loss of function on gene expression in the embryonic and juvenile mouse cortex. Thread 🧵: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

How are RNAs sorted for export vs. degradation in the nucleus? In collaboration with @heick.bsky.social’s lab we (@clemensplaschka.bsky.social and @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social labs) discovered a direct mechanistic link between the export and decay machineries: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/x)

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Registration and abstract submission is open for the 10th annual Danish RNA Society meeting 🇩🇰 - this year in Aarhus! Deadline is October 1st danish-rna-society.nemtilmeld.dk/8/

As part of this grant, I have a vacancy out for a PhD student to join our super nice team. It closes on September 9 (Tuesday). If you are or know a good prospective PhD student, excited about studying transcription, please (suggest them to) apply here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Thrilled to be one of the ERC StG awardees this year! It will allow my team to further delve into the puzzle of what regulates the fate of RNA Polymerase II during early elongation: will it terminate early, or elongate happily ever after?

JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social! register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

shocking to read over and over the stories of close colleagues who can't run their lab anymore. I know Karen well and it's heartbreaking. Also #PIinthelab! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

NIH: After review, we note that you have a large unspent balance on your grant. Please explain immediately. me: well, uh, yeah, one reason we're not spending on that grant is because NIH terminated it in May along with all the rest of federal funding to Harvard, maybe you don't remember

New paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

The Vlaming lab is expanding! If you are or know a good prospective PhD student, excited about studying transcription, please (suggest them to) apply here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... My biased opinion: exciting topic, super nice colleagues, and great research environment in a lovely city.

🧑‍🔬I am thrilled to share I am starting my lab as an asst. prof. in the Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the University of Cincinnati. 🔬We will be hiring soon, so if you're interested in Mechanisms of Transcription Termination, watch this space 👀 🥳 www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-juan...

📢 Save the Date! The 13th Yale RNA Center Annual Retreat returns this fall: 🗓️ November 7, 2025 Join us for a full day of cutting-edge RNA science and community. Stay tuned for details on speakers, sessions, and registration.

Final call for postdoc positions in Aarhus, Denmark. Sorting of gene expression and beyond. Please get in touch for further information or apply using this link: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

There's just a few more days for RNA Society members to get your artistic entries in!! 🎨 🧁 Don't miss the chance at some nice cash prizes, sponsored by GenScript 🤩🤩🤩

Happy to have contributed to work by the Hildebrant lab @bostonchildrens.bsky.social $ @harvardmed.bsky.social on de novo variants in the splicing factor PRPF8 found in CAKUT (congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract) patients www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share this paper! We uncovered that good 5' splice sites protect against ZC3H4/Restrictor's promiscuous role, and that its role is to suppress elongation and indirectly cause termination. Looking forward to learning more about this protein in the future!

We are seeking speakers for the upcoming academic year! Contact us if you are interested! @cambiochem.bsky.social #CambridgeRNAClub #RNAClub @rnasociety.bsky.social

Excited to share that our latest story on Restrictor is out now in @genesdev.bsky.social!! Big thank you to my fellow co-first author Hanneke, Karen @adelmanlab.bsky.social and co-authors Nathalie and Allison!

NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! Check out the new Outlook, Review and Research Papers online now at Genes & Development. Click on the link for more: ➡️ genesdev.cshlp.org/content/curr...

Please RT! The oncology department & McGill is hiring an Assistant professor for a lab to be located at Lady Davis Institute (where I am!). McGill and the Lady Davis are fantastic places to do research and Montreal is great city to live in. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

This is an excellent article on the termination of all federal funding at Harvard. This visualization shows all of the terminated programs that were supposed to train the next generation of scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Do you or someone you know have an exciting new chromatin/transcription story that you'll be ready to talk about in the Fall? Then fill out or share this form to speak in the @fnucleosome.bsky.social seminar series! All models, organisms, and complexes welcome 🧬🧪🔬

FN is taking a summer vacation 🏖️, but we'll be back in September with more exciting talks on chromatin and transcription! If you've got a new story you'd like to share with the FN audience this fall, fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us next Wed, for three amazing ECR researchers_ @fueyoraquel.bsky.social, @kaiamattioli.bsky.social and Laura talk about their work in #FragileNucleosome seminar series! In case you haven't joined any of the previous 2025 sessions, here is registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you @ the late stages of your postdoc ? Want to pursue a PI career ? Then this 👇👇 is for you ! Apply for a spot @ our Talent Forum www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/stem-cell... Peer-networking / Career orientation and more !!! Please distribute :) 🙂

New preprint in the lab combining what we like best: insects, love, chemistry and the olfactory system! 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey BlueSky! Want to learn more about some almost literally mind-bending brain research being done by @noonanlab.bsky.social? Check out the story below for one scientist's perspective on the importance of basic scientific research and the pursuit of open-ended questions about what makes us human.

Breaking News: A judge blocked a Trump administration move to bar Harvard University from admitting international students, hours after the school filed suit.

📣 BREAKING NEWS: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom. “Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Our June issue is live and includes an editorial on RNA splicing (go.nature.com/3SdWVgk) that acts as a foreword for a new joint collection by @natrevgenet.nature.com‬ and ‪@natrevmcb.nature.com‬ on this topic (go.nature.com/3H0vEvp)

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

🧬 RNA folks at Yale! Our annual PI–Postdoc Social is coming up 🥂 🗓 May 22 | 4–6 PM 📍 Rose Garden (SHM) 🔗 RSVP required (Institutional email) PIRCs Mentorship Matching Program — a way to build connections+get matched with a faculty mentor Postdocs/ARSs: Don’t miss it Students: Tell your postdocs!

🌸 May RNA Club is here! 🗓️ Tuesday, May 13 | 9 AM 📍 Bass 305, Yale Science Building Join us for great RNA science, coffee ☕, and bagels 🥯 Add to your calendar: 🔗 medicine.yale.edu/rnacenter/ne...

ALERT The expiration dates for the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for the PARENT F30, F31, and F32 awards have been changed to May 8, 2025. To my knowledge, no new NOFOs have been posted. 1/n

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join us to explore telomerase regulation by histones. Please get in touch if this may interest you.

Lawyers for Harvard University said the school will not comply with a new list of demands sent by the Trump administration on Friday.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Thrilled to see my postdoc work at Adelman Lab @hms-bcmp.bsky.social on Integrator(INT) now out @cp-cell.bsky.social. We found that INT deficiency allows immature+unlicensed RNAPII to precociously enter genes. This immature RNAPII can transcribe short genes but terminates prematurely in long genes:

SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1