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."

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

NGL, I had to look it up. Let’s go!

Checking in on my flies, keeping the plants alive. This beauty is over 20 years old! (Yes, Lewis, but also this Christmas cactus gifted to me by a former boss from one of my ugrad jobs) Happy 2026!

✅ 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 🏎️ 🤩