Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

A new perspective/review article on the role of Synthetic Biology in realizing bio-based economy, shout out to @andrea-garza-e.bsky.social for the heavy lift! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Just announced! The NSF-NIST Bioeconomy Standards Scholar-in-Residence Initiative offers researchers the opportunity to spend time at a NIST lab developing expertise in standards development for AI-ready data, workflows, machine readable code, calibration objects, and more. tinyurl.com/44cuz94u

opinion: we should be saying upstrand and downstrand instead of upstream and downstream 🧬

As #Halloween approaches, adults stalk the aisles of stores, looking for their favorite gummy candy. Chemists can tweak many ingredients in search of the best bounce or bite, but one of the largest differentiators is the molecule that creates the gel: cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪

procrastinating on writing the reviewer response + needed some art for the office walls = "organizing the freezer" acrylic on canvas 😂

RNA RNA RNA !!!

Explore plant synthetic biology with Stanford’s Jenn Brophy @jennbrophy.bsky.social on EBRC In Translation. We discuss engineering genetic circuits in plants & microbes, lab sustainability, fostering the next gen of synthetic biologists, and championing diversity in science! tinyurl.com/473b4dky

The next @ebrc.org panel hosted by the Student and Postdoc Association is Sept 25! Re-post/share! 🧬 Are you a grad student thinking about pursuing a postdoc? 📺 Attend our panel to learn more about postdoc life and how to make the most of it! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/FQLTRcP8wR2h...

Establishing an RNA sensor with high sensitivity and dynamic range utilizing a signal amplifier platform https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.675666v1

My most successful outreach effort by far is the "Friends Don't Let Friends Made Bad Graphs" repository. It has 6.8 bookmarks on GitHub. That's just people with a GitHub account, not counting those who have used it but don't have a GitHub account. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Don't miss this opportunity from @nasonline.org! The Biotechnology Regulatory Fellowship Program provides hands-on professional development and skill-building to address future regulatory challenges posed by novel biotechnology products. Learn more and apply: biotechfellows.nationalacademies.org

We're hiring! Do you have experience engineering yeast and using CRISPR? Jose Avalos and I are hiring a joint postdoc to work on an exciting fast-paced DARPA project with a great team at Neochromosome, Fermeate, and @joepeterslab.bsky.social puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Happy pride month! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

1/10 Today in @science.org in collaboration with the Liu group we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells. drive.google.com/file/d/1I-Ub...

Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/

Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6 t.ly/a8k9O

Some Gboard emoji combinations I'll be using to express my feelings in the lab, a thread

Congratulations! 🎉

‪Do you like #Plant #Synthetic #Biology - and do you want to learn more? Then have a look at www.eventbrite.com/e/plant-synt... We are hosting this short training event to bring you up-to-date on the latest things in Plant #SynBio and also with practical training !!!

If you are (or would like to become) a member of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, I would appreciate your vote for me in the Board of Directors election! Also consider @drksolomon.bsky.social as well!More info here: www.simbhq.org/2025/02/27/2...

Rice research team creates universal RNA barcoding system for tracking gene transfer in bacteria #NBTintheNews via @riceuniversity.bsky.social news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

RNA GANG 🔥🔥

Excited to share our work in Science Advances! TLISA is a plug-and-play cell-free protein biosensor system developed by @meganmcsweeney.bsky.social. We hope this technology is a stepping stone to expand protein detection at the point-of-care! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

Just released! Our latest report, “Strengthening a Safe and Secure Nucleic Acid Synthesis Ecosystem,” puts forth best practices and recommendations for advancing security across the synthesis community. Thank you to all workshop participants and our partners at NIST. tinyurl.com/ebrc25

sending this to my parents and asking what they're gonna get me in celebration, just like i do for children's day lol

The next @ebrc.org SPA panel is Jan 28! Please RT/share! 🧬 Are you an undergrad or Master’s student and applying to graduate school or thinking about it? 📺 Attend our panel to learn about interviews and choosing a program/lab! 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/YTPvQ8ZewGc9...

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

With JSPG, EBRC is co-hosting a panel of experts this Thursday, Jan 9 @ 3-4 PM ET, to discuss how engineering biology can push policy boundaries. This event is free for anyone to attend! Register: bit.ly/EngBioPushingPolicyBoundaries

🚨 New In Translation episode! @theicechol and @wgrubbe_ sit down with @JefBoeke, a trailblazer in synthetic genomics. From retrotransposons to Sc2.0, Jef takes us through his scientific journey and the effort to build the first synthetic yeast genome. ebrcintranslation.buzzsprout.com/1581817/epis...

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This is super neat!