✅ watered plants ✅ flipped fly stocks ✅ set OOO message ✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work Happy holidays ☃️

A work of art! Bonus: little guy thinks the cookie tastes good.

Go big or go gingerbread home.

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....

I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

WaPo: “Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later” per three immigration lawyers

Breaking news: The government has admitted fault in the Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River, opening the door for the families of the 67 victims to pursue a monetary settlement.

The lab did a great job getting us in the running for our department’s door decorating contest! Very creative theme: Rudolph the red-eyed fruit fly! 🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁

Please RT‼️ #TenureTrack position @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de one of the best #proteostasis research centres in the world. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Join us in Porto for the forefront of RNA localization & local translation research! Registration is live!

Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

"When... diversity, equity, and inclusion are rebranded as discriminatory, how do academic institutions respond to the challenge...?" Check out this perspective out now in MBoC. Co-written w/ Dr. Powers, the last woman in my dept to obtain tenure (now retired) www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

It’s another reply all to the reply all. How long before someone replies all asking people not to reply all? 🥸

ASCB people who like F1… the finale is Sunday at 8 am 🏎️ 🤩

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! 😍

I loathe a jack n Jill bathroom. Get your own damn bathroom.

We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩

Breaking News: The death toll rose to 13 in a fire that engulfed several apartment towers in Hong Kong. Firefighters were struggling to contain it. Follow live.

A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's cases against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor who led them was unlawfully appointed. Here's what to know about her. n.pr/4pw4Kwo

Deeply saddened by the passing of my colleague, Prof. Meng-Chao Yao, a remarkable scientist and mentor. He left an indelible mark on all of us fortunate enough to know him. His legacy in molecular and ciliate biology will endure. Rest well, my friend. 1/ obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/men...

If you’re going to put up your holiday decorations this early, then I’m going to make myself a pie the week before Thanksgiving.

Decided not to go to SfN this year. Mostly because I don’t study neuroscience.

From MBoC… Dorothy Lerit (Emory University) shows how cells choreograph RNA delivery to their division centers—keeping the process of cell division precise and on time. 🔗 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10....

New preprint 🥳! We made photoclickable HaloTag ligands to precisely control protein labeling on living cells. With it, we can do some cool multicolor stuff. Huge congrats to Franzi and all co-authors! Check it out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One of those days slash years. No, it’s not ok. Yes, that is a clone helmet on my kitchen table.

I had no idea that as many as 1 in 8 Americans relied on SNAP ONE IN EIGHT I'm sick over my students, kids' classmates, & neighbors who are hungry right now But I'm furious that we live in a society where *1 in 8 need food assistance as our status quo*. That this is our normal is APPALLING

From an accidental discovery of hidden biology to a new framework to understanding and diagnosing rare disease. Thrilled to share the most recent work from our lab and the amazing Jimmy Ly. wi.mit.edu/news/alterna...

🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026! If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

You never know which post will get you fired, so just throw up a GIF and leave it open to interpretation?

Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Predawn view from the office

After a long break from social media, I’m finally on Bluesky and have a preprint alert from my lab! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Are we all just assuming our study sections will not meet? I realize SRO cannot email us, but also no update to federal register. Hmm…

Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists! ----- We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system. hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

Reviewing grants and some of these folks could benefit from attending our graduate level grants class, especially the presentation on figures. I’m seeing lots of examples of what not to do. Poor legends, missing legends, images or text too small. Fun. 🫠

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91. Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

remember when the most stressful part of our day was having to insert a figure into MS Word?

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.

Our new technician starts in less than 2 weeks! Welcome, Mona 👏🏽

On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

We’re opposing DHS’s misguided proposal to restrict the length of international student visas – making it harder for students to successfully complete their degree.   America is stronger and more economically vibrant when we attract the best and the brightest students from all over the world.