Junior RNA Scientists, tomorrow April 22nd at 10AM ET is the RNA Collaborative Seminar Series hosted by the EMBL & Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia - RNA Technologies Flagship! Join us to hear about emerging RNA research. Sign up for zoom registration here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

Heads up all Junior RNA Scientists - March 31st is the deadline for poster abstract submission and early bird registration for the 2026 Annual RNA Society Meeting in Montreal! Don't miss out, we have an exciting panel and fun events planned!

Excited to share our new preprint on gnomAD v4! We present the full analysis of 730,947 exomes — new constraint metrics, improved LoF annotation (LOFTEE-2), LLM-based literature curation, and a unified framework for gene discovery and rare disease diagnosis. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

🆕 ADVANCE ONLINE 🆕 RESEARCH PAPER: A brain-specific microRNA, miR-1000, regulates lipid homeostasis via neuropeptide-like precursor 1 in Drosophila melanogaster By Verma et al. and David Van Vactor ➡️ https://ow.ly/sCFM50YyTsG Harvard Medical School #Drosophila #lipid #metabolism #lifespan #miRNA

My lab released a new preprint today. The work is the culmination of a long term project led by Peren Coskun, Ph.D., who investigated the biological role of the C. elegans glp-1 3'UTR in its endogenous context. Please join me in congratulating Peren! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Modulating the cleavage and polyadenylation site: from research tools to therapeutic opportunities #RNAbiology #CRISPR bit.ly/4cwUlxf

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

👏👏👏 Great defense!! Congratulations, Dr. Amruta!!

🐟 We are hiring a postdoc! Interested in RNA regulation, gene expression, and zebrafish embryogenesis? Join the Bazzini Lab at @stowersinstitute.bsky.social www.stowers.org/labs/bazzini... Please share! Details below 👇 #Postdoc #RNAbiology #zebrafish #devbio #Genomics

Segar et al. explore the diversity and distribution of a type of Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) RNA, uncovering examples that may reveal mechanistic variation and host species adaptation bit.ly/3OhYlaW

Join us on Wed March 11 by 10am EST/9am CST for the RNA Collaborative Seminar. The RNA Junior Scientist Reps will share how they can better support trainees. Register through this link - bit.ly/RNAJRegister  Submit questions or suggestions here - forms.gle/aM5BNzvRWPNW...

Are you or anyone you know looking for a #postdoc to study #metabolism and metabolic disease? I am a newly minted #biology PhD looking for #postdoc positions in the European Union and the United Kingdom. I defended my thesis in #circadian biology and metabolism earlier this week.

meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna3 To all 3' end (and RNA, in general) enthusiasts. I'm organising a great conference in Oxford 7th-11th Sept with @lapassmore.bsky.social and Christine Mayr. The lineup of speakers is brilliant! Registration closes 4th May. Please consider it!

Please check out our latest #preprint to study #ACTIVELY TRANSLATING #tRNA populations and their dynamics upon #stress :) This was an wonderful collaborative effort between @novoalab.bsky.social @immagina.bsky.social and #Soares teams - thank you for making this possible!

Calling all Junior RNA Scientists. On March 11, the RNA Society Junior Scientist Representatives are hosting a Town Hall as part of the RNA Collaborative Seminar. Join the conversation and share how we can better support trainees. Register through this link - bit.ly/RNAJRegister

Excited to have started my new lab in Human Genetics at Pitt Public Health! We study wound healing in diabetes & aging using adult zebrafish. Check out this movie showing neutrophil dynamics after injury. Now recruiting research staff, grad students, and postdocs. DM me if interested.

Reminder, today is the deadline for signing up for the RNA Society Mentoring Program! This is a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of as a trainee in the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social

Mammalian cells form hibernating disomes akin to those in bacterial cells - but connected via ribosomal RNA www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... co-first with: @andschwarz.bsky.social with: @lea-dietrich.bsky.social, @sgiando.bsky.social, @erin-schuman.bsky.social and many more 🧵 0/6 #MolBio 🧪

Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Fragments of aberrant cytoplasmic mRNA pair with nuclear RNAs to augment transcription @science.org @jswlab.bsky.social @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Junior RNA Scientists, tomorrow Feb 11th at 10AM ET is the first RNA Collaborative Seminar Series of 2026 hosted by the University of Rochester Center for RNA & the Bay Area RNA Club! Join us to hear about emerging RNA research. Sign up for zoom registration here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Junior RNA Scientsts - the @rnasociety.bsky.social Mentoring Program deadline is now Feb 20, 2026 ⏰ Get 1-1 guidance on career decisions, research planning, and academia vs industry. More mentors than mentees apply, so do not miss this opportunity. Details are in the email from the RNA Society 📧

I am thrilled to share our paper introducing RBPscan, a novel approach to profile RNA–protein interactions in living cells. Free access link at the end ⬇️ 🧵 1/ www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Want to interpret DNA sequence-to-function models to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms? Then this is a must read!

Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]

I’m stoked to share my postdoc work with @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social, a collaborative effort with @metabailism.bsky.social & Brian Goldspiel, aided by many valued collaborators: Environmental Amino Acid Sensing Regulates the Rate of ASC Translation and NLRP3 Inflammasome Assembly. Some big takeaways:

Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

I am very excited to share the first Accorsi lab publication: a collection of detailed protocols to maintain an apple snail 🐌 colony and generate stable mutant lines. The video is coming soon @ JoVE! We hope this will be a valuable resource for the community. app.jove.com/t/69267/the-...

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Heads up RNA Society Trainees!! Do not miss this opportunity to use your artistic skills to design an RNA infographic (more details below) with a chance to win one of 5 cash prizes!! 🎨 🤩 Deadline is Jan 31st 2026, link here: www.rnasociety.org/rna-society-...

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word! tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Are you a #devbio postdoc planning to go on the job market in 2026? Then this is the initiative for you! Offering training, networking, mentoring and profile-raising components, Development's PI Programme can give you that extra support you might need while navigating this challenging time...

Lin, Deng, Gao, Tan, Zhong, Tan, Tan, Virshup, Bosch, Perrimon and Wang (2026) Microproteins Simba1 and Simba2 activate Wingless signaling during the reactivation of neural stem cells in Drosophila. Nat. Comm. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-66727-3. PMID: 41298547

With @burgesslab.bsky.social, not one, but TWO freshly caught T2T zebrafish reference genomes for the Tübingen and AB strains 🎣 🎣 🎉

We are pleased to announce a new preprint by @mlweilert.bsky.social: “Widespread low-affinity motifs enhance chromatin accessibility and regulatory potential in mESCs” (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). See summary and longer recap below: (TLDR; low-affinity motifs matter as pioneers!)

Happy to share that my PhD project is finally published!🪱✨ Selfish genes are found across the tree of life. They can disrupt inheritance patterns and at the same time act as units for molecular innovation. Here we tried to answer one big question: how do selfish genes emerge in the first place?

Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Registration is open for "The complex life of #RNA" 2026 @embl.org in Heidelberg! Excellent invited speakers and 30 short talks and even more flash talks selected from the abstracts!

A bittersweet acceptance: Between a manuscript and grief Stefanie Williams @sillysciencelady.bsky.social shares the story behind her paper on the synaptonemal complex, including a tribute to her supervisor Scott Hawley, who passed away while Stefanie was completing the research.

First time on Bsky and first big announcement! I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature. Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Our new manuscript, led by Emily Corrigan, examines inhibitory neuron diversity across approximately 160 million years of evolutionary divergence, as part of BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) developing brain atlas package: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats =Dani!!! Amazing Defense 🤩 👏 👏

Check out our work on RNA structure in introns! Testing >100k base pairing patterns, we found that RNA structure can predictably tune gene expression. Just by changing intron sequence, we see a dynamic range of regulation comparable to messing e.g. with promoters. @karlaneugebauer.bsky.social

Check out the latest work from our lab, led by Daniel Lin and Lara Elcavage: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/3)

mRNA 3′ UTRs direct microRNA degradation to participate in imprinted gene networks and regulate growth. #miRNA #miRNAdegratdation #3UTR @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don’t miss your opportunity to apply to become a RNA Society Jr Sci Rep! 🧬Applications close midnight tonight (PT) 🧑‍💻

Attention Junior RNA Scientists - The deadline to apply for RNA Junior Scientist Representative positions with the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social is midnight tomorrow! We are so excited to review your applications and to recruit the next cohort of Jr RNA Scientists Representatives 🤩

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/