Please re-post! Two Clinical Research Assistant position openings in the Neuroscience of Risk and Development Laboratory! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Grateful to The Scientist for listening to my story and amplifying our concerns regarding bans on NIH communication and govt funding. www.the-scientist.com/freeze-on-ni...

Please help us advertise this new opening 🧠 in our research group. I am happy to answer any queries about it.

Reposting for a Monday morning!

An amazing opportunity for an early career scientist looking towards industry. Some of my former colleagues are looking to hire a Ph.D. with experience in membrane proteins (broadly speaking, so channels, receptors, transporters, etc. all considered. 🧪 #biotech www.linkedin.com/posts/magdal...

Happy Birthday to Flood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tQ...

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2 PhD positions in ion channel research! I want to share our latest job offers - maybe something to think about over the holidays? Have a look (english text below the german version)! www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... #phd #science #academia #ionchannels

As the family food procurer and preparer, I need to recalibrate the situation as the 18.5 yo, college athlete is home. #whoops #hangry

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me (ion channel biologist): Oh, that's the medicinal chemists trying to improve solubility without tanking potency.

I've noticed something kinda similar in talking with PhD students as they want to move to industry. There's a lot of focus on skills and techniques (and rightly so for a incoming scientist position) but if we're looking for a PhD level person we expect something more.

It was the summer of 2017 I think and we were long into backup compound work doing a ton of patch clamping for IC50s. My research associate and I listened to the radio feeds of all 30 MLB teams, tracking multiple parameters on a spreadsheet. Hamilton was a stand out - this is well deserved!

The other problem with so many subfigures due to large number of panels is that the narrative in the Results that describes the experiment is downplayed to a huge extent. So many times I'm left making my best guess as to what the authors actually did in the experiment.

This is great and was revealed to me as I became more a consumer of scientific literature rather than a producer. The disregard of the reader in so many papers is frankly shocking. #oldscientistrant

Patch clampers of Bluesky...unite and take over

Sometimes I go down the rabbit hole on a lot of program/project management literature and think, "it's all Deming cycles with different scopes and rituals for group buy in" and then I wake from my fever dream and shudder.

here are only 38 patch-clampers on this plattform!?! Who else? 🧠 🔬 🧪 go.bsky.app/RuCRCgX

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Watch as this year’s Tree for Boston arrives on the Boston Common from Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🎄

Oh I definitely remember: struggling for ~month trying to average over a bunch of use dependent currents until Bruce was like, "just take one or two", to my first draft that was a "very good start", replete with red pen, to the reviewer who asked, "what's new here" (that paper has ~500 cites).

I rise today, as a veteran radio journalist, to give my annual lecture on why Les Nessman was the only one at WKRP who did his damn job and did it well at the WKRP Turkey Drop on that legendary day in Cincinnati. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...

The pace difference was one of the biggest adjustments I had to make when moving to small/startup companies in industry. Holy crap we gotta move fast!

Speaking of helping bridge the academic-industry gap, last week I got to to talk to UCONN trainees from Mol Cell Bio and Physiology + Neurobio depts about industry, what life as an industry scientist is like, and how to make the transition - courtesy of Alex Jackson, not on Bluesky! (1/n)

Time to fire this feed up a bit with a confession. Despite the handle I haven't patched as cell in over 6 years. Instead I've been doing anything and everything needing doing on the biology side in early drug discovery programs targeting ion channels and receptors (and some unmentionable stuff).

Folks! It's the final countdown! Symposia submissions are due soon for Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience #MMiN2024! Even if you're still working on your proposal, please go ahead and make a profile on the conference web page in case there are technical difficulties! Pls repost