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Assoc. Prof of Cell Bio at Emory. Fan of centrosomes, RNA, legal egalitarianism.
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Sam Wang
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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!
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U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry
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A huge congratulations to Brenda Bass
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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."
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New content on the lab website: a dedicated “positions” page!
www.leritlab.org/positions
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Positions — Lerit Lab
https://www.leritlab.org/positions
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Mark Histed
7 days ago
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
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Crystal Rogers, PhD
14 days ago
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...
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Index of Inspiring Black Scientists | Wiley
The Inspiring Black Scientists Index is a curated database celebrating diverse contributions to science. Join us in promoting education and collaboration.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/research/index-inspiring-black-scientists/
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F31 coming back to NIGMS in FY27?!
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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).
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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...
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Matthew Freeman
17 days ago
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 🧵
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Aww, my little guy knows what’s up 😝
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VIB Technologies
22 days ago
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
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This video is everything. 😂 Amazing team - give them a raise! 👏🏽👏🏽
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Robin Bisson
21 days ago
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...
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Piali Sengupta
23 days ago
Our first 2026 paper is out
@currentbiology.bsky.social
! 👏 to
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(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...
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Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity
Harris, Dutta, et al. find that experience-dependent plasticity in the activation threshold of the AFD thermosensory neurons is mediated by modulating warm and cold thermoreceptor levels at the sensor...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901707-5
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When your grad student tries qPCR for the first time… and it looks fantastic!
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Ken Vogel
24 days ago
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.
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After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/after-donations-trump-administration-revoked-rule-requiring-more-nursing-home-staff.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlA.LWpF.vrt019HUzWKq&smid=url-share
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As a scientist, I can appreciate this level of accuracy! (Look at how many significant digits are in these
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The American Academy of Pediatrics
25 days ago
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
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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✅
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Winship Postdoctoral Fellow Recruitment Event
https://apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/6605
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The New York Times
27 days ago
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.
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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.
https://nyti.ms/4sZEOMm
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Erin Maye Quade
27 days ago
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
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Robert McNees
about 1 month ago
We are currently in the first S4 Solar Radiation Storm since the big one over Halloween of 2003. Keep an eye out for aurora!
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S4 (Severe) Solar Radiation Storm in Progress, January 19th, 2026 | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/s4-severe-solar-radiation-storm-progress-january-19th-2026
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Jens Rister
about 1 month ago
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
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Drosophila Neurobiology: Genes, Circuits & Behavior
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-dros
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Jen Bendery
about 1 month ago
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...
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Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fed-powell-golden-globes-2026_n_6964c61ee4b0b3be67eb8c89/liveblog_6967f35de4b0141cc9b21166
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derek guy
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Marco Rubio, June 2012.
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 1 month ago
NIH funding underlies all of these advances--support fundamental science, and the bridge from there to the clinic 🧪
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The Washington Post
about 1 month ago
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.”
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Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward someone shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/13/trump-ford-factory-heckler-detroit/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Evelina Tutucci
about 1 month ago
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!
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Science Magazine
about 1 month ago
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
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Appeals court agrees that NIH cannot reduce overhead payments to academic institutions
Judges uphold injunction by lower court against a 15% flat rate for indirect costs
https://www.science.org/content/article/appeals-court-agrees-nih-cannot-reduce-overhead-payments-academic-institutions?utm_campaign=Science%20Magazine&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=bluesky
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Clint Smith
about 1 month ago
"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."
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A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/deadly-shooting-minnesota/685541/?gift=JORs3BlPb0E7W_6BAebCaBzOnZRvzai4KjztQ71BlMA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Erik Svensson
2 months ago
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
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Dave Levitan
about 2 months ago
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
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NGL, I had to look it up. Let’s go!
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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!
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✅ watered plants ✅ flipped fly stocks ✅ set OOO message ✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work Happy holidays ☃️
about 2 months ago
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A work of art! Bonus: little guy thinks the cookie tastes good.
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2 months ago
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Go big or go gingerbread home.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
2 months ago
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) 🧪
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
2 months ago
I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....
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Joey Tidei
2 months ago
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
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Aman Batheja
2 months ago
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
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H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.
H-1B holders who returned to India this month to renew their visas had consular appointments canceled, stranding them far from their homes and jobs, lawyers said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/19/india-h1b-visas-skilled-workers-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY2MTIwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3NTAyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjYxMjA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImE3Njk1YmFmLTNiM2QtNGQ5Ni04OTE3LWJiMmFkNzU3YTM1OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDI1LzEyLzE5L2luZGlhLWgxYi12aXNhcy1za2lsbGVkLXdvcmtlcnMtdHJ1bXAvIn0.7XPxQsfVwzgDIBZS-Db4ciXuH7Gzv45PvyNhNx62va0
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The Washington Post
2 months ago
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.
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Government admits failures by Army and air traffic controllers in DCA crash
The Jan. 29 collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport killed 67 people.
https://wapo.st/4s4zEy5
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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! 🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁
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Yasin Dagdas
2 months ago
Please RT‼️
#TenureTrack
position
@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de
one of the best
#proteostasis
research centres in the world.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668
The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a Tenure Track Professors...
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12850668/tenure-track-professorship-w1-with-tenure-track-to-w3-in-molecular-biology-f-m-d-/
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Join us in Porto for the forefront of RNA localization & local translation research! Registration is live!
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Matthew Taliaferro
2 months ago
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!
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Julia Sero
3 months ago
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
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Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
https://youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
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"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/...
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Celebrating Women in Academia and Addressing Underrepresentation | Molecular Biology of the Cell
The barriers limiting the number of women appointed, retained, and promoted in academia are well documented. Addressing these barriers is key to increasing participation in STEM, which in turn is esse...
https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E25-09-0418
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It’s another reply all to the reply all. How long before someone replies all asking people not to reply all? 🥸
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ASCB people who like F1… the finale is Sunday at 8 am 🏎️ 🤩
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