Massive and important positive news... #NSF #GRFP awards are out. 2,599 awards! + 1,440 Honorable Mentions. A significant boost from last year. Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)! & many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible. www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings doi.org/10.7554/eLif... I'm really happy to see this one out @elife.bsky.social. Awesome Cara Glynn and I describe and reflect on a year-long, low-cost practice that transformed our group meetings. #researchculture #ECR #labmeetings

This preprint from Helen Sakharova is one of the coolest things to come out of my lab: “Protein language models reveal evolutionary constraints on synonymous codon choice.” Codon choice is a big puzzle in how information is encoded in genomes, and we have a new angle. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our @natprot.nature.com paper on using RNA proximity labeling to map subcellular RNA transcriptomes. We’ve been working in this area for a while and wanted to create a resource paper to guide the uninitiated reader. rdcu.be/fblvI

Check out our new preprint on IRES studies (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...). We show a recently proposed IRES “toolbox” results in mRNA annotation errors and false-positive IRES activities. We provide an alternative set of robust approaches. (1/4)

Awesome representation from @uwmadscience.bsky.social at the @asbmb.bsky.social #ASBMB2026 meeting in DC! #ScienceServesUsAll

We are delighted to announce our next RNA Society Member Spotlight! www.rnasociety.org/joel-mcmanus... Dr. Joel McManus @mcmanuslabrna.bsky.social is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

These are amazing stories. Lucy Shapiro is one of my scientific heroes, Steve McKnight has made such fundamental contributions to many fields, and triple drug therapies for CF represent an amazing story in chemical biology and protein folding and I often teach this to undergrads.