Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👨‍🔬Considering a career in cancer research, pharmacology, and/or prevention? Join our team in the fight against cancer as a phD student! 📚🔬 Applications for Summer 2026 are open through December- we'd love to meet you at an upcoming info session! tumorbiology.georgetown.edu/phd/admissio...

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪 1/12

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department! I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad. 12/12

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

Congratulations @needhibhalla.bsky.social !

Bridging the Gap between Genomics and Social Determinants: Melissa B. Davis, Brittany D. Jenkins-Lord, and Michelle J. Lee addressed this topic in an #AACRdisp25 plenary session chaired by Christopher R. Flowers. @MeliD32 @ChrisRFlowersMD

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Biobanking Resources to Improve Cancer Research Outcomes for All: W. Douglas Cress, Heather A. Lankes, Joshua C. Denny, and patient advocate Alia Graham addressed this topic in an #AACRdisp25 session chaired by Jennifer B. Permuth.

Elena Martinez, Kemi M. Doll, Erica T. Warner, and Tanya D. Agurs-Collins discussed "Obesity and Cancer" in an #AACRdisp25 plenary session chaired by Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano and Lauren E. McCullough.

Breast Cancer in Young Women: When, Why, and How? Melissa Troester, Kornelia Polyak, and Sherene Loi will address this question in an educational session at #SABCS25 (December 9-12). Learn more: buff.ly/OB6T5Xs @loisher.bsky.social

I want to start a new global movement: Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

Glioblastoma depends on the amino acid serine as a fuel source & serine-deficient diet slows tumor growth in mice @nature.com @dnagrathlab.bsky.social @lyssiotislab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My guy wrote an op-ed and it's really good. Send it to your advancement officer, your dean, your grandmother, your neighbor. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/02/o...

New Opinion out today in @chicagotribune.com "The Bio10 is an academic powerhouse." "The health of our society depends on generations of young students equipped to embrace, and succeed in the face of, uncertainty." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/02/o...

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

My research area is hiring! Very excited for new colleagues.

Big day for our team: our pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) organoid paper is now up on bioRxiv! This was a tour de force across 6 institutions, 37 authors, building patient-derived organoids from 35 PPGL patients /🧵 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can peer review be done faster, without compromising on quality? Biology Open has embarked on an exciting experiment to find out - Editor-in-Chief Dan Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt5h...

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Yes please!! #edusky

My dear friend @duncan.dev put some math behind the bandwidth of my zipping 400TB across the country: duncan.dev/link/bwj-400tb

Those of us in STEM must vocally affirm that the humanities are our allies, and no department is expendable. Arguing we can survive by cutting whole disciplines isn’t just inhumane, it’s nonsensical. The humanities tell us why we’re here in the first place, and what to do about it! This isn’t hard!

The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a day to officially become a chartered study section member

This preprint from Helen Sakharova is one of the coolest things to come out of my lab: “Protein language models reveal evolutionary constraints on synonymous codon choice.” Codon choice is a big puzzle in how information is encoded in genomes, and we have a new angle. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We're recruiting a lab technician to assist with our ongoing liquid biopsy projects. Please encourage those with relevant experience to apply. Feel free to contact me with questions! tinyurl.com/prattlabtech

Congratulations @mathcancer.bsky.social @fertiglab.bsky.social and team for a beautiful publication! 🧪🧬

Being an academic right now feels like riding in a car that has the check engine and low fuel light on, and you know you there isn't a gas station for at least the next three years. How long before it stalls in the middle of the rode? How long before you get off? How long before we all get off.

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

The federal workers I've spoken with emphasize it isn't just their substantive work that's suffering - basic organizational functions like payroll and IT are breaking down. This comment from a recent NYT article haunts me. "It was only when he left that we truly realized his value..."

“The role of luck and path dependence in science is maybe larger than I’ve completely appreciated.” It’s huge, actually, not at all surprising to many, and we need to be v frank about that, esp w/trainees.

We thank John Newell-Price, MD, PhD, for his term as President of the Society. Read @endocrinenews.bsky.social to learn more about the accomplishments he has achieved during his service: bit.ly/4ei7QQd #ENDO2025

We welcome Carol Lange, PhD, to her term as President of the Society! Learn more about Dr. Lange in @endocrinenews.bsky.social: bit.ly/46cYeEG #ENDO2025

Thoughtcrime and the NIH funded scientist drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...

Both spectacular leaders and endocrine champions! We are lucky to have each on board #ENDO2025 Good luck to Dr Carol Lange in the upcoming presidential term. 🍀

Dr. Ilmatar Rooda @ki.se shows really lovely integration of single-cell & spatial transcriptomics to define + map cellular subpopulations of cells within ovary, eg refining types of stromal cells and types of oocytes and how composition changes over age. #ENDO2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39168975/

Cancer deaths linked to obesity have tripled in the United States over the past two decades, according to a study presented at #ENDO2025. #endocrinology #EndoSky endocrinenews.endocrine.org/obesity-asso...

Receiving an @endocrinesociety.bsky.social Early Career Investigator Award has been a highlight of my year. Thank you to the #Nicholaslab and all of my supporters, especially my gradschool and postdoc PIs. #ENDO2025 is my scientific home and I look forward to sharing our progress each year

Huge congrats to Early Investigator Awardee @quinascience.bsky.social! So pleased that someone so dedicated to @endocrinesociety.bsky.social is being recognized as a star in our field. #ENDO2025

If you're wondering, yes, @endocrinesociety.bsky.social will use your pictures for promo material 😂 #ENDO2025 Pretty cool to have @nrimpact.bsky.social folks featured: @profriggins.bsky.social @zmadake2.bsky.social @ayeshashafi.bsky.social @cittellylab.bsky.social Drs Cordoba-Chacon & Treviño

Some amazing programming about to happen at #ENDO2025 !! @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

We look forward to sharing your #ENDO2025 insights, @driramhussain.bsky.social!

New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

I, a very fancy professor at the state flagship university with a named lil mini endowment, teach in a room where my only option is to use chalkboards or a quite old manual projector and I must bring my laptop from home because there is no computer in the room. But sure, do this.

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure) C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

ENDO 2025 Fun Run/Walk | Register to join us Sunday, July 13 at 6:00 AM PT for a scenic run/walk along the iconic Embarcadero waterfront. Advanced registration is required for this event: bit.ly/3I99uYG #ENDO2025 #endocrinology

June was a whirlwind for our post-bacc program. The grant that funds us was terminated 😣 But we had an amazing symposium & celebrated our scholars going to grad school🎉 🎓 Now the Ten Simple Rules paper authored by our scholars is finally published 🙌🏾 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...