The architecture of carriers formed by AP3:ARF1 for lysosomal membrane protein transport: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Work from @jggkaufman.bsky.social, in collaboration with @dgershlick.bsky.social and David Owen. @mpibiochem.bsky.social @thecimr.bsky.social

New OA Article: "In situ architecture of plasmodesmata in Physcomitrium resolved by cryo-electron tomography" rdcu.be/fjjiK Plasmodesmata are gated by cell wall remodelling; helical protein assemblies scaffold internal membranes; implications for molecular filtering.

FYI

Top Gun (probably the Navy's best recruiting ad) was released 40 years ago on May 16th, 1986. Now I feel old.

This has been rattling around in my brain as I set up collections...

Super happy to see the final version of our paper out now 🎉🎉🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Proud of PhD student Rupesh @rupeshjayachandran.bsky.social and postdoc Erwan for doing really nice work on this 😊

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Wow - this is just amazing. Hui Guo and colleagues from John Briggs’ lab use cryoEM helical reconstruction to discover how filamentous influenza virion assembly is directed by multiple conformations of M1 - explaining how NA is concentrated at the proximal pole. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!!! The Rutgers IRACDA program is phenomenal: 70% of postdoctoral fellows land faculty positions. Martha Soto (LinkedIn below) is the amazing director and leader of this program. Please apply or reach out if you have questions. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

Roughly 36 Scaramuccis.

Excited to share that I will be opening my lab this fall at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social in the Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences! I am looking for postdocs interested in plant biology, stress biology, and single-cell technologies. #PlantBiology #SingleCell #Epigenomics #Postdoc

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Wonderful opportunity to hear about the latest progress in fluorescent probe technology ⬇️

📣 New preprint from our lab! How does the cell place septins to actin or microtubules (MTs) with septins being ~10-100 times less than actin/tubulin? We found a phosphorylation switch controlled by GSK3 that makes that call 🧫🔬🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723191v1 1/7

Born #OnThisDay in 1900 was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. In her doctoral thesis she concluded stars are primarily composed of hydrogen & helium, an idea dismissed by the establishment of the day. It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy."

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Nice Good News Story for the weekend #ImmuneTherapy #OvarianCancer www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

TFW I re-learn how to do something, find a much easier way to do it, and kick myself for not trying that way first.

I need a job asap. Who's hiring?

Hi folks! @bu-biology.bsky.social is hiring two (!!) lecturers in Cell and Molecular Biology. It is a sweet gig in an awesome department. Come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32034

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Plant Molecular (and Cell) Biology // Leiden University euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/434542 Are you an academic in plant molecular (and cell) biology ready to strengthen and advance the plant research and teaching at the IBL? #BotanyJobs

Did you know that Pierre Chambon's laboratory was the first to use the term "nucleosome" in 1975 ? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

These viruses have been known problems in Korea for so long that there’s literally a M*A*S*H episode about them. People work their whole careers on viruses most people have never heard of…so that you never have to hear about them.

The cool thing about defunding science and ignoring basic health protocols is that the universe is gonna keep on doing its thing, and it *really* does not give a shit what you believe

Someone asked a bunch of kids what the first thing was that cane to mind when they thought about Trump. Their answers are priceless. Check out the video.

The Cimini lab is hiring for both postdocs and interns! The postdoc role will cover bioimage analysis projects and educational material creation; the intern will be working on our Bilayers project for helping distribute and access deep learning tools for bioimage analysis. Click below to learn more!

Rutgers as well

First, we denigrate, tariff, and threaten other countries. Next we deploy a thuggish state paramilitary force to arrest anyone they think looks foreign, frequently violating basic rights. Then we make travel a lot more expensive with a war of choice we can’t fix. Hey, why aren’t you coming here?

In case you missed it, the second Plant Imaging Workshop organized by @plantcellatlas.bsky.social is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytH... In this session, you will learn how to get started with MorphoGraphX to do 2D and 3D segmentation. #plantmicroscopy #plantimaging

🌱🦠🧫 Together with @natcomms.nature.com, @natplants.nature.com and Scientific Reports, we invite manuscripts that investigate plastid biology or explore the fundamental principles governing plastid origin, integration, and diversification across the eukaryotic tree of life. go.sn.pub/z7b5je

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Finally, here it is: after 12 years, and driven by the incredible hard work and innovation of two Ph.D. students, Bingyan Hu and Maria Prusicki, with biomathematical support from Katarina Stahlmann (UKE) — "A cytological framework of female meiosis in Arabidopsis". academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Today is Red Dress day, a time for us to reflect on the fact that: -3 in 4 Indigenous women experience violence in their life, and that although we make up 2% of the population -40% of trafficking victims are Indigenous women. -murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Native ♀️ #MMIW #MMIWG

Imagine being a scientist investigating vaccines in the U.S. After years of research and millions spent, your study is blocked from publication because your data doesn't support RFK's and the FDA's battle against vaccines. This is why people like me were forced to leave.

Hey y’all 👋 repost magic appreciated. The Solecki lab is recruiting multiple postdocs at St. Jude for a chromatin imaging project at the edge of live-cell imaging, neuronal cell biology, chromatin regulation, and quantitative image analysis. Ever dreamed of touring chromatin like this? We CAN 🔥

Still time to apply for one of three joint virology PhDs @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social, including one with myself and the fantastic @peacockflu.bsky.social! Informal enquiries welcome by e-mail (including re the primary location of ours, which is negotiable), deadline 8th May

it's going to date me, but I remember when some of my friends in elementary school started getting access to computers & word processors at home (hello Bank Street Writer) and the teachers despaired w/ teaching spelling and penmanship. Ultimately the settled on 2 grading scales. This is way worse.

Become ungovernable.

This demonstrates that investments in curiosity-driven, basic and blue skies research are urgently needed in order to build the foundation for future breakthroughs with societal impact. (2/2) #BasicResearch #Funding #Academia #Science #Chemistry

Casually posting this one for no particular reason! #MayTheFourth

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

8 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... "Multiple large observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%." #VaccinesWork!

Top 4 infectious disease fears: Prions Hantavirus Rabies Multidrug-resistant bacteria

I'm so happy to hear of new NIH & NSF grant awards! YAY! @pratted.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @snickclunk.bsky.social If you have good news, please share! It gives me hope.

everyone who cares about the health of Americans should read this but at root, the question is how we as scientists, physicians, and allied professionals deal with puppets — the present day equivalents of Petain in Vichy France — who had no qualms about their subservience against people & country

🌾 RESEARCH 🌾 🔬 Chloroplast envelope-localized OsHMA7 is involved in Cu transport into chloroplasts in rice. Disruption of OsHMA7 expression leads to defective electron transport, reactive oxygen species accumulation, and severe yield loss - Ren et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Pope Leo picks formerly undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...