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The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Like many myths, trusting in universal honor was never a real thing - certainly not if anything of value has been on the line. In the end, it’s the honest ones that get the raw deal. Good riddance to hollow ideals.

Yet another nail in the coffin for recruiting foreign talent.

The Cowboy State Daily is the best damn reporting on the planet.

A relatable story and one reason for rising tuition costs…

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

Did none of these rave participants watch Sirat???

We are happy to share our new bioRxiv pre-print on A-P axis patterning. A great collaboration with Felix Zhou (UT Southwestern) & the Yeomans group (Physics, Oxford) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just wondering, what was the greatest thing before sliced bread?

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

We are searching for a research technician to join our lab for a year 🔬🧬🐟 Please see the ad below and spread the word!! #ZebrafishRock

Keeping a lab going isn’t particularly easy, but when you get together with former lab members who are doing well it feels totally worth it. And I’ve really appreciated students, like Gab and Raf, who’ve gone on to careers in medicine. They were great in the lab and I would trust them with my life.

Science leads to amazing breakthroughs. Immigrants lead to amazing science.

I have a position open for a Research Associate - Postbac opportunity. For those with curiosity and tenacity, a chance to delve deeply into a project, learn new techniques, and publish papers, all in a friendly environment. Suited for recent college (BS) grads with prior relevant experience.

Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines "As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust."

plz repost 🙏 we are looking for a technician to start this summer/fall for 1-2 years to work with me at Cornell in the labs of @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and Andy Clark, in collaboration with @corriemoreau.bsky.social on flies & termites 🪰🐜🧬🔬 Ithaca is gorges! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

yes this seems right

🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth — theonion.com/hospital-dec...

Glad to attend No Kings again and good turnout overall, but the age distribution is not representative of the population as a whole, and it’s the under-represented age groups that have by far the most to lose. Likewise, the silence of campuses in response the Iran War is…

Well put! “Against the slow off-gassing of rage coming across the airwaves — the sex trafficking, the elementary school bombing, the painful erosion of dignity and competence — Diggins has given us an important antidote all these years.”

This report seems encouraging and points a way forward. Nothing is perfect, but any progress is better than none.

Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not? In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death. This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan. 🧵

Saw Sirat in a theatre this weekend and appreciated the impromptu group therapy session with random audience members that followed. 😳

The #NIH comprises less than 1% of the federal budget. 80% of that is allocated to universities and research institutions. That $$ ($36B) yielded $94 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025.

@queenscollegecuny.bsky.social scientists at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally today!

I am grateful for any and all opportunities to speak with my state’s representatives about the importance and value of the NIH both nationally and to researchers and students across our state.

So I’d imagine that I’m not the only one looking into switching my (low level) paid account from open.ai to Anthropic. Any thoughts about which performs better for your average academic scientist?

Although “preference” might not be the most accurate word choice, an interesting finding.

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26 @flybase.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @geneticssociety.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Are you interested in Comparative Developmental Biology? Great opportunity for grad students and Postdocs to take this 2 week course at the MBL in October 2026.

Homeostatic maturation programs drive human cDC2s into a tolerogenic state @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist: 1. Trust the data.. especially when it’s not what you expected, 2. Trust the data.. allowing it to change your direction, 3. Trust the data.. but not too much: test with new data at every turn.

Hey now, they didn’t say the review will be fair.

Life saving medicines with a positive economic impact for the US. Completely nuts.

Here's another paper in our ongoing collaboration with Greg Odorizzi's lab at CU-Boulder: AP-3 and the V-ATPase Modulate CTP Synthase Assembly Through Spatial Association at the Yeast Vacuole www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I was diagnosed with locally advanced colon cancer at age 46, one small step from metastatic cancer. At the time, screening started at age 50 and I had no known family history. Colon cancer (and other cancers) are increasingly common at younger ages. Get checked out. Get more time.

Our uncorrected spoof, I mean proof! More forays into lipids and sensors and the intricacies of membrane trafficking. Thanks again to three reviewers for authentically helping us make this a better manuscript. Peer review is essential. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Advice for a friend: When one gets a tenure track offer, at what stage would be best to bring up a possible spousal hire in negotiations? At first conversation? After first offer? In this case it'll be first a conversation with the chair who is a go-between w/ the dean. Advice would be welcome.

🎉 LEE LAB PAPER ANNOUNCEMENT for this month's issue of #GENETICS! We're celebrating from both coasts, bc after defending her MS in 2024, Deepshi's now a biotech researcher in the Bay Area. tl;dr: nucleosome remodeling is necessary to repair germline DNA damage 🧬 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

I would like to think @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social for describing the Sledgehammer Approach (to research) in WormBook. It is invaluable advice that I share with every trainee.

I was feeling somewhat guilty about saying No to many recent requests but then I re-read the “children’s book”, The Giving Tree. Felt better. Apparently some people interpret the tree’s hyper accommodating behavior as a positive example! I’m pretty sure that was not the author’s intention!

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

For the same reason that Indiana, which is virtually the same size as Massachusetts received nearly $349 million last year in farm subsidies, while Massachusetts got only about $9 million, 1/39th of Indiana’s boon.

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

I have an answer. He’s just another self promoting D-bag who traded in legit credentials for cash.

One reason to have kids is that they sometimes do clever things. (Note the signs on the side of the trail)