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/

1/ Excited to share our new study with @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social, out in @natbiotech.nature.com! P-bodies selectively sequester RNAs encoding cell fate regulators, often from the preceding developmental stage. Releasing these RNAs can drive changes in cell identity. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Applications to the @stowersgrad.bsky.social #PhD in #Biology are open! Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI

Calling all Jr RNA Scientists: We are recruiting 2 new RNA Society Jr Sci Reps to lead existing and new initiatives for engaging junior members over the next two years! Details for submitting applications below. @rnasociety.bsky.social

New article @natneuro.nature.com by @yaleneuro.bsky.social Suzhou Yang & @kavliatyale.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow @zhenlei.bsky.social, highlighting studies by @frattalab.bsky.social Gitler & La Spada labs on the role of TDP-43 on mRNA 3' end in ALS @yalerna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to have contributed to this big story. We present new genome assemblies, genus-wide complementation and allele-specific expression analyses in hybrids between zebrafish and closely related Danio species with divergent pigment patterns. A vertebrate model genus for basic comparative biology.

Our most recent study shows that stem cells in Schmidtea mediterranea do not rely on physical contacts or fixed structures to maintain their identity and regenerative potential. @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

In this study, Gallicchio et al. describe how cleavage factor II (CFII) components serve as a mechanistic switch that controls alternative mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation during spermatogenic differentiation. Learn more here: ➡️ tinyurl.com/gd351649

Check out the latest work from our lab, led by Arash Latifkar @ara-latifkar.bsky.social , www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So excited to see this out in @natgenet.nature.com! An amazing collaboration with @gagneurlab.bsky.social, I am happy I was (a small) part of. Nucleotide dependencies can capture regulatory elements, including #RNA structures! Congrats to the whole team! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!

Get your Zoster vaccine! @naturemedicine.bsky.social A consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia in 100M US adults after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics, with zoster vaccines reducing risk of dementia in dose-dependent manner www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Giant DNA viruses taking on translation factors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today in @nature.com, we present our work leveraging functional genomics and human blastoids to uncover a human-specific mechanism in preimplantation development driven by the endogenous retrovirus HERVK. Special thanks to the reviewers whose comments improved our manuscript a lot! rdcu.be/eI3tD