Sinatra has gone woke

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

Yes, choosing just 500 was a near-impossible task. Here's 1-100, which spans from January through February:

How I'm leaving 2025...

(OK, I know this is not how I'd do it from the start, but I'm not doing it from the start) Anyone know of a pipeline that uses nanopore reads to call SNPs in a bacterial genome. Kind of like breseq but nanopore (guessing there's way to do this with minmap etc... looking for something benchmarked)

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Universities are places where the best and brightest researchers from the United States and around the world collaborate to *make each other more productive* They create knowledge jointly, each bringing unique contributions to the collective enterprise. Nothing like assembling a widget.

Every once in a while I like to look for postdocs/ technician positions involving plants and microscopy.

My family knows me too well - women in science both the tshirt and sweatshirt

A super detailed protocol + video on Cryo-ExM - Cryo-Expansion Microscopy, led by the labs of our former postdocs @marinelap.bsky.social & @ebertiaux.bsky.social. Clear, practical, and very useful for anyone doing nanoscale imaging 🚀 app.jove.com/t/68595/expa...

As an anthropologist, I believe art can only be understood in context. This music belongs on the list of best Christmas music. This performance, in this particular time and place…all the feels. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and even if you don't, may it be a peaceful day.

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. - One image analyst - one biologist interested in working on lymphatics! Reach out if you are interested 👍

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Want to do great science and beautiful microscopy with a great guy? @maikbischoff.bsky.social is recruiting a PhD student for his new lab! #cellbio #devbio #microscopy #bioimaging

TIL Black Sabbath's War Pigs matches up perfectly with Deck the Halls...

Are you very busy but still want to learn what Aphelids are and why they are important to understand the evolution of Fungi? Then check out our “Quick guide” on Aphelids published in collaboration with @deemteam.bsky.social, Sergey and Guifré. #protistsonsky doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

The Reck-Peterson lab at Weill Cornell Medicine is seeking a technician or staff scientist to work on Aspergillus projects. Broad background in fungal biology and techniques required. Bioinformatics skills preferred. Find out more at: reckpetersonlab.org.

View from my apartment window right now.

6:50 AM and the fire alarms in my apt go off - and it’s snowing outside. (First snow of the year).

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast - And Was Forgotten Because It Worked voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/13/f... #WomenInSTEM #STEM #CompilerOptimisation #ProgramAnalysis #ParallelComputing

Kage Baker was right

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

KJ Muldoon, at less than a year old, was the first known person to receive a personalised CRISPR-based genome-editing therapy He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/4j1uI95

Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point Action USA COO, was one of 11 fake electors who were indicted in Arizona, then pardoned by Trump. Heritage Action is the group that tweeted threats to Indiana state senators. Indiana Republican state senators did not cave to extortion-type tactics.

Who invented non-reflective glass? American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938. It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES). Vancouver, Canada. #plantscijobs #plantscijob botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

I think stress is either going to make me shatter or produce a diamond.

New online: Atomic models of the Toxoplasma cell invasion machinery

Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

We use #cellulose everywhere–yet don't fully grasp how nature spins its architecture. With an #ERCCoG, Yu Ogawa will uncover this mechanism & rebuild it to blueprint cellulose manufacturing from scratch, testing structures that nature can’t form. @erc.europa.eu #MatSci #ChemSky tinyurl.com/463hdp6a

What I can’t get over is how some folks like Fuentes and other terrible human beings can be so absolutely cynical enough to leverage social media structures to cause pain and chaos purely for the clout. It’s this sociopathy that makes them so awful.

Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak has spent his life circling one of the oldest questions in science. How does life begin. Not as metaphor, but as chemistry that somehow learns to copy itself and change. @nationalacademies.org @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social More: explorers.com/jack-szostak/

BTW, if anyone knows what species is this please let me know. #PlantScience (We are going to amplify the ITS and sequence it and all that, but still.)

Microscopy Bat signal! I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n

Check out our poster #ASCB2025

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

If we can magically find $12B for an agriculture bailout caused because of made up tariffs, we can find funding for trains, libraries, & clean energy. Btw the annual budget of the EPA is $9B. The whole thing! About the same with the National Science Foundation. Cut bad stuff, triple good stuff.

My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA buff.ly/Pc1KOaC

As part of @aries-dtp.bsky.social we have a fully-funded #PhDproject with @neilhall.bsky.social and @rowenahill.bsky.social, in collaboration with @rbgkew.bsky.social, exploring functional diversity in root #symbiotic #fungi. 📅 Apply by: 07 January 2026 #genomics

Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.

Super happy to be part of 2 papers either out in pre-print or print www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/11... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.