Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days? It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."

Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Please support our Bridge to the Baccalaureate program. While NIH funding is gone, we are raising funds to support students in the lab! #give2ucsc give.ucsc.edu/schools/Univ...

Today is Giving Day and we’re celebrating 10 years of collective impact at UC Santa Cruz. Please support our Bridge to the Baccalaureate program. While NIH funding is gone, we are raising funds to support students in the lab! #give2ucsc give.ucsc.edu/schools/Univ...

IDBac: an open-access web platform and compendium for the identification of bacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682631v1

How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells? Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells. @ucscscience.bsky.social

⏰ Just 7 days left for our Glycopeptide Renaming Challenge! 💡 Share your best name idea and win 500€ 👉 More info and submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ym9... #secmet #NaturalProducts #Antibiotics #NamingChallenge #Glycopeptides @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social @marghesosio.bsky.social

Spatial Metabolomics Reveals the Role of Penicillic Acid in Cheese Rind Microbiome Disruption by a Spoilage Fungus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674932v1

Our very own, @joann-trejo.bsky.social, on the Nature Careers Podcast! Dr. Trejo is featured in this eight-part Changemakers series and she speaks to the importance of mentorship in science careers! 🧪 🎉 👏 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from @UCLA would devastate the nation’s best public university, cut off life-saving care, halt tech and economic growth and reduce educational access. Stand with UC to protect our vital mission: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Having a blast #ASP2025 refreshed after catching up with friends and celebrating science

Some good news from @asm.org about their efforts to fight unlawful grant terminations, such as MOSAIC asm.org/press-releas...

Seeing between the lines: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging advances for microbial interactions -in Curr Opin Microbiol from @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social #Microbiota_thematic_issue www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the Ziemert Lab’s new YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@ZiemertLab We’ve uploaded short tutorial videos on how to use our tools for genome mining and natural product discovery. Thanks Semih, @martinaadamek.bsky.social @turgutmesut.bsky.social ! #GenomeMining #SecMet #naturalproducts

🔓Read a #OpenAccess review by @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social‬ et al. from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social‬ in our MS Metabolomics themed collection covering mass spectrometry approaches for high-throughput directed evolution screening of natural product enzymes #secmet #natprod

#chemsky 🧪 ISU Department of Chemistry is hiring a scientific glassblower. Thrilled we are hiring for this position given the impending retirement of our current glassblower. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Tenured! It’s been a remarkable six years at UC Santa Cruz full of many unexpected obstacles but even more triumphs! I’m incredibly proud of the phenomenal team that we’ve assembled and am excited to have the continued opportunity to grow and share our collective successes!

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Two good follows for this evening @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Two of the leaders at NIH who wrote the #BethedaDeclaration and are standing up and speaking out for all of us. @standupforscience.bsky.social

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 4 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs

Hope everyone made it home safely after #ASMS2025. Thanks all for making it another fun conference. Planning for #ASMS2026 San Diego started at 7:30am this morning. Don’t forget to fill in the post-conf survey when you get it. More ice cream and fruit? @asms.org

2nd Annual #RCSAFellows Conference is underway in Tucson! Congrats to 2024 & 2025 Fellows, and thanks to our speakers, Facilitators & advisors for giving their time and advice so generously to help prepare these outstanding postdoctoral scholars for the faculty search process and the professoriate.

UMN Medical school meeting with grim news from President Cunningham; federal grant pullbacks will result in 100’s of job losses. U will try to facilitate “respectful transition” but the losses will be in the 100’s 😳 This will be a dark 4 years for universities

Congrats Carli and Jason on your #ASMS2025 awards!! 🥳😎🤩 @ucscscience.bsky.social

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dr Luu did a great job sharing our recent collaboration with @robbieshepherd.bsky.social check out the preprint for separating constitutional isomers from #MSImaging #Timaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ASMS2025

You should check out Owl Bar if you get a chance!! It’s right around the corner from Brewer’s Art (I lived a block from Brewers Art in grad school). Owl Bar is an old speakeasy!

Thanks for the social media recommendations @willfondrie.com we had our group dinner at Brewer’s Art last night! Excellent brews and tasty food 😋🤤 #ASMS2025 #Sluglife

While vibes are lower than normal at science conferences these days, its still nice and refreshing to catch up with friends. Introduced the lab to their Grandpapa #ASMS2025 #Sluglife @nlkproteomics.bsky.social

Group dinner @asms.org #sluglife #asms2025

The Spaceflight MS display at #ASMS2025 is so cool!

Wow, a record breaking number of the Nesvizhskii lab members attending #ASMS2025! 9 posters, 3 evening workshops, and one Bioinformatics Hub on #FragPipe. Plus multiple collaborative posters with other groups. See you in Baltimore! PS. Below is our recent group photo, including all those attending

Check us out at #ASMS2025 at our posters, Carli is also speaking during the Tuesday Night Young Mass Spectrometrist workshop @ucscscience.bsky.social Find me if you want a sweet Sanchez Lab logo sticker

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Congrats to Dr. Austin Hopiavuori for giving a masterful dissertation seminar today and being McKinnie lab PhD #2! Austin has done phenomenal work on biosynthetic non-heme iron enzymes and helped quarterback our inaugural CURE lab last year. Incredibly proud of you Dr. Hopiavuori!

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Huge congrats to Dr. Jackson Baumgartner for completing his PhD dissertation seminar this afternoon! Jackson was an inaugural lab member and has done a phenomenal job exploring VHPO enzymology! Incredibly proud of all your achievements Dr. Baumgartner and thanks for being PhD #1 from McKinnie lab!

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

🚨 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

Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because "We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I just emailed my state representatives to support Newsom's new budget for UC. If you agree that this economic and social engine for California needs robust state support, please join me. universityofcalifornia.quorum.us/campaign/sta...

@robbieshepherd.bsky.social did some excellent #TimagingMS on coproporyrins in bacterial-fungal cocultures

If you're new to MassQL - definitely checkout the research briefing that describes how MassQL enables scientists to precisely express and reproducibly search for mass spectrometry patterns in large datasets: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and find the full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am thrilled to share after years of work/procrastination that the MassQL manuscript is finally published in @natmethods.nature.com - "A universal language for finding mass spectrometry data patterns". This was an team effort from all co-authors that helped shape MassQL and how it could be used.

🚨 Breaking: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions 1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders 2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight 3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying

New Notice on No Cost Extensions (or lack thereof) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

@ucscscience.bsky.social at #CBBADay2025 #Sluglife #noknownpredators thanks for hosting Cal, great day of chemical biology and professional presentations!