Just watched Trump's UN speech in its entirety. My God.

The Department of BioSciences at Rice U invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position to begin July 1, 2026. We seek candidates with research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience, including candidates 1/2 apply.interfolio.com/172558

Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

Huntingtin protein bound to actin filaments. I didn’t know it could do that! Nice one @schurlab.bsky.social and friends! 🧪🧶🧬 #TeamTomo

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

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Julian apple pie box or Goldilocks cake box

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A molecular-resolution look into the near-native architecture of the spinach chloroplast🌱. This one was a long time in the oven, but we're happy to finally share our "version of record". What long-standing debates did we settle? Check back for a short thread🧵 on Monday. #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾

This just awesome - having started the basics of cryoET, I am doubly appreciative of the work and effort - spinach thylakoids at the molecular level

Cool. Cool cool cool. #nutmegsky #AcademicSky

From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

Glad I'm on the east coast now!

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 Ugalde & Meyer ✍️ Multiple redox-related retrograde signals from organelles to the cytosol and the nucleus can be monitored in living plants with high temporal and spatial resolution using genetically encoded biosensors. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Just did a fact check on Dr. Susan Monarez for Senator Mullen (R, Liar). Intelligence: correct Scientific knowledge: correct Integrity: correct Truthfulness: correct Personality: correct Overall Dr. Susan Monarez rating: CORRECT

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

We are hiring! Please share the news. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Bacterial Pathogenesis See link below for details. We are a vibrantly growing department with friendly colleagues and supportive environment. Bonus: year-round sunshine in Tampa, FL 🌤🌴 Job Ad: tinyurl.com/USF-Microbio...

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

#Botany2026 in Tucson AZ is going to be a great meeting! If you want us to help organize a symposium/colloquium on your favorite topic in plant phys, ecophys, ecology or macroecology, let us know!

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I had forgotten the joys of meeting your neighbors when the fire alarms go off in your apartment building and everyone evacuates. (Someone forgot a pot on the stove - lots of smoke but no serious damage - but 5(!) firetrucks on scene).

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

SciSky: what’s your favorite software or algorithm for designing siRNA? Bonus points if we can use it to add mismatches to improve allele specificity!

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

People should celebrate your life, not your death

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

"No regulator took action against JPMorgan. No executives lost their jobs. Dimon remains one of the most powerful bankers in the world.: TAKE NOTE: This is really how America rolls.

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PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE: Everyone six months and older can now get a COVID-19 vaccine in NJ thanks to the New Jersey Department of Health. Learn more: www.nj.gov/governor/new...

I once had a student explicitly argue that he was the customer to be catered to. I explained that, if we *had* to use the customer framing, he wasn't the customer but the product. He was being given an education & then a degree that future employers would see value in. My job? Quality control.

🖼️ Part of the Chancellor’s Traveling Exhibit of Vanderbilt Trailblazers, a portrait of Susan Wente is now located in Eskind Library. Wente was the first female department chair in cell and developmental biology. www.vanderbilt.edu/trailblazers...

His economic plan is BRILLIANT

2400 grants left behind because of funding shenanigans at the NIH

The NIH Loan Repayment program is ongoing. NIH will repay 25% of eligible education debt, up to a max of $50,000/ yr for individuals qualified by higher degree status and US citizen, national, or resident status. Eligibility, subcategories&application guide/link: grants.nih.gov/funding/fund...

We are going to see an exodus of professors from states like Texas, Florida, Utah, Idaho, and more because of stuff like this. I already know of positions that are going unfilled for long periods of time because they are having difficulty attracting talent.

Yup. “It’s all intertwined” is also a concept MAGA is too fucking stupid to grasp when it comes to climate change, healthcare and any number of other issues.

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

“Numbers always tend to benefit the left” is kinda a stunning admission. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984

Our cryo-EM is beginning installation. It sat in crates for a long time because funding cuts made it so we couldn't renovate the intended room. We found a place for it with minimal renovation needs. Now hoping we can hire an expert instead of LM people trying to do it...

Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!

It's a pretty campus - come be my neighbor!

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

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