Personally, I do things not because they’re easy, but because I incorrectly thought they’d be easy

Me making a poster for a conference that requires air travel: “This is such a cool story. I really hope I actually get to present it.”

This is complete hogwash

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.

In addition to money donations to food banks & food aid for people, please also consider donating money or food & litter to pet food pantries. Many people who rely on SNAP to feed themselves will now need to redirect $ to buy groceries that they would have spent on pet food before.

If you have the resources to spare, now more than ever would be a good time to help out your local food bank. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Are you experiencing administrative delays due to the ongoing federal government shutdown? ASBMB is offering a deferred payment option for #ASBMB26 abstract submissions. Submit your abstract now & complete payment once normal operations resume. ➡️Details: www.asbmb.org/annual...#ASBMB26

12/10 Excellent content.

The correct answer is linguine. I will not be taking any questions.

🎃We are ready & excited for the new #FragileNucleosome seminar session tomorrow with @alicelaigle.bsky.social and @seungsookim.bsky.social ! How about you ?

Apropos of absolutely nothing, when I make unauthorized changes to my rental, I lose my security deposit.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll

University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration:

“Share the rejection: Talk about it with peers, students, colleagues. When failure is demystified, it becomes less isolating.”

👀Next Wednesday, Oct 22nd, at #FragileNucleosome seminar, we are excited to host @alicelaigle.bsky.social and @seungsookim.bsky.social to tell us about amazing work they are doing! 🗓️Register here for upcoming session and the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Lest we forget…

Accurate. #academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

I don’t want to brag, but the institutional biosafety committee chair just said “your lab is the poster child for OCD.”

Still got our latest preprint bookmarked in an unread tab of your browser? We got you. @afederation.bsky.social presenting @talusbio.bsky.social's work-in-progress on Wednesday! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 #MassSpectrometry #Proteomics

*Deep sigh* This is all such a waste of everyone’s time, but aside from that, the damage that has been done by this confusion is going to cost lives. Are people who have written off getting the vaccine because they “didn’t qualify” a week ago going to realize things have changed? Maybe. Probably not

What an exciting opportunity! Setting up a new lab with the great @madalenamrp.bsky.social at one of the best institutes around. Apply! 🧪🐟🧬

Chromosome architecture affects virulence and competitiveness in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Before people panic, I will note that this banner is standard fare during government shutdowns.

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

The fiscal year is over. So how was the NIH appropriation committed? A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

Geology (especially petrology/volcanology) people: What's the significance (if any) of basalts being shoshonitic?

NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT 💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead #ResearchMatters

So uh…I looked up the NSF GRFP deadline for kicks and giggles and…what’s the over/under on how screwed this year’s students are gonna be? 🙃🙃🙃🙃😬

Thousands fewer projects will be funded so success rates for grant applications hit all-time lows. “That is extremely demoralizing,” says ex-extramural chief Mike Lauer. “We want people to be excited about being in science. This will do even more to chase people away from doing science in the US.”

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Quick Drosophila question: I’m planning to integrate a construct on the second chromosome but would like to avoid the attP40 landing site. Any suggestion for a good alternative attP site on chromosome II? It’s for a skeletal-muscle–related project. Thanks! 🙂 Rui

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

Many of you have asked about gifts to us during a shutdown, mainly doordash types of things. No. Instead, donate to local food banks like Manna in MoCo, Capital Area Food Bank in DC, Find Food in PGC, and Food for Others in Fairfax. These serve everyone. Please repost. #fedstrong #shutdown

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph. www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Disappointed to report that eRA Commons does in fact send you email notifications for significant developments and that obsessively logging in three to five times a day is probably a waste of time. Probably. (I will learn nothing from this.)

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year) (Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

New funding opportunity from the BRAIN Initiative! Applications due Oct 28! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

How would your lab and research be impacted if F and J visas were changed to a fixed period of time instead of the entire duration of studies in the US? Please share this link and leave comments by Sep 29. You can comment anonymously as well. www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

@darthbluesky.bsky.social Hey Darth I got to hang out with this very good polar bear Dottie

Other people at conferences, morning edition: “let’s go running! I’m going to do five miles before talks start!” Me at conferences, morning edition: “where is the closest place I can get a coffee the size of my *entire* head?”

I’m meant to be packing for a work trip…unexpected item in bagging area…

This is Steve. He's at the vet to get shots. Which the vet could do, but there could be a mighty fine Yelp review in it for them if they just pretend to. 12/10 (TT: adachofcream)

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

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