A month without F1 😢

How many times I gotta send FedEx this fake invoice to import a reagent? I uploaded it when I made the label, sender had a copy with the package, already emailed it to them, now they’re calling. Guys, get it together.

I'm deeply honored to be included (with many distinguished others) in the 2025 class of Elected Honorary Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! www.aaas.org/news/aaas-we...

You can hear from Hehnly Lab PhD Graduate, Favour Ononiwu, in a first person @biologyopen.bsky.social interview about her recent study. Check it out here: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

The podium at today’s F1 race! Love to see it @f1tv.bsky.social

Very happy to have contributed to this mastodon of a paper by Yinan @yinanwan.bsky.social. Whole-mount spatial transcriptomics in zebrafish y'all 🐟🧪

If you didn’t have to save and reupload the same figure then rebuild the PDF 4 different times, did you even submit a paper?

FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live! There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org for details.

The Hilde Mangold Prize of the German Society for Developmental Biology is awarded to Maik Bischoff (@maikbischoff.bsky.social) at #GfE2026 for his research on "Mesenchymal sculpting as a driver of chiral organ development" in Drosophila.

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Join us in beautiful Portugal for the best & most comprehensive meeting on RNA localization and local translation! > 30 talks will be selected from abstracts. Held for over 30 years, this meeting is small enough to meet leaders in the field, yet big enough to cover a breadth of cutting-edge science.

Congrats to BCDB grad student Anna on passing her PhD qualifying exam today 👏🏽 Brava! 🥳 And thanks to the exam committee for their helpful direction.

Our postdoc Martin Kovačik received a Fulbright fellowship and is heading to the USA for 5 months at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge) with Prof Mary Gehring. Barley seeds&parental conflict mech @pecinka-grp.bsky.social @kovacik.bsky.social @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social

Our department at Genentech is hiring. We're looking for a freshly-minted PhD (0-3 years) protein biochemist / structural biologist to join as a Sr Scientist. A rare opportunity to join our group leader job family at a more junior level than we usually hire.

When they revise the draft figures and say they incorporated “all of your edits,” but the data you asked for is still missing

Registration and abstract submission are now open for the SDB 85th Annual Meeting being held July 23-26 in Las Vegas! Submit your abstract by April 15. Travel assistance is available. Free t-shirt to the first 250 registrants! Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg #2026SDB

Reminder: the entire NSF budget is 9B and NIH like 47B. And they have 500B that they don’t know how to spend.

Incredibly honored for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology by the Biophysical Society. @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorybiochemistry.bsky.social

Can someone please ask the SCOTUS where I file to get my tariff payments returned to me?

In New Jersey, it takes close to a thousand signatures to be sure of being on the ballot. I have great canvassers. Every 100 is an accomplishment! Be part of the next batch! Tomorrow 9:00-11:00am - Sunday - I'll be at Small World Coffee at 254 Nassau Street in Princeton. That's near Hoagie Haven!

A huge congratulations to Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social for her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social! She is being recognized for her "groundbreaking discovery of A-to-I editing and outstanding contributions to this field."

New content on the lab website: a dedicated “positions” page! www.leritlab.org/positions

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

F31 coming back to NIGMS in FY27?!

NIGMS Open Council: recognizes FY2026 appropriations bill. About 1% increase in funding for NIH and 0.8% increase for NIGMS. Increased investment in undergraduate research, especially for institutions with limited NIH funding (BURT).

Did you know this #EMBOrnaLocalization workshop has been continuously held for over 30 years? Come see why people come back again and again. Learn more and register here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵

Aww, my little guy knows what’s up 😝

The VIB BioImaging Core (Ghent) team has really outdone itself this time. Meet the full crew and take a tour through their light microscopy (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) suite in a seriously dope MTV Cribs–style video. 🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4xjmgxAdYM

This video is everything. 😂 Amazing team - give them a raise! 👏🏽👏🏽

The MRC has asked each of its grant review boards to recommend no more than 3 applications for funding, RPN has heard from multiple sources Normally, boards recommend an average of 12-13 bids, so the success rate this year will be tiny This affects applicant-led calls which closed in 2025...

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! 👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity www.cell.com/current-biol...

When your grad student tries qPCR for the first time… and it looks fantastic!

SCOOP: Nursing home companies donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug-Sept. Their executives landed a lunch in Aug. with Trump at his NoVa golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect. His administration revoked the rule a few months later.

As a scientist, I can appreciate this level of accuracy! (Look at how many significant digits are in these @legogroup.bsky.social measurements!)

Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations. bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

Hitting the postdoc search? Consider applying to be part of the Winship postdoc recruitment cohort @winshipcancer.emory.edu apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/... Eligibility requirements and participating faculty are listed in the link✅

Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

We are currently in the first S4 Solar Radiation Storm since the big one over Halloween of 2003. Keep an eye out for aurora!

Can't wait to serve again as co-director of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course this year! 🧪🪰👀 Application Deadline: March 27 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlcourses.bsky.social

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

NIH funding underlies all of these advances--support fundamental science, and the bridge from there to the clinic 🧪

President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”

Happy to share that the our manuscript "Cyclin CLB2 mRNA localization and protein synthesis link cell cycle progression to bud growth" is now finally out in its final form @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Below a short🧵 with the key findings!

In another legal win for U.S. universities, a panel of appellate judges has upheld a lower court ruling blocking the National Institutes of Health from sharply reducing the funding it gives institutions to cover the overhead costs of supporting their NIH grants. https://scim.ag/45C2KLt

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot."