STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science. www.statnews.com/careers/stat...

Live shot of me making lunch

Hey Bluesky geologists 🧪, we've had about 60 earthquakes over the past few weeks in a pretty small area in the hills between Riverside/MoVal and Redlands (including a few >3.0 that I've felt in Riverside). Is there anything interesting going on here?

Gratitude to @greatdismal.bsky.social from whom I learned about Tokyu Hands

If anyone needs me, I'll be in...

⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today! If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

"All the President's Men" is my all-time favorite movie. Lots of interesting tidbits and trivia about the movie in this thread:

Super cool - looked it up here: AVATAR (a virtual astronaut tissue analog response) to study increased radiation and microgravity science.nasa.gov/biological-p...

Woo hoo #microfluidics on Artemis II!

Our latest out today in the journal Analytical Chemistry: "Disintegration Fingerprinting" uses a $4 optical sensor (meant for use in toy robots!) to identify substandard and falsified medicines, which are a massive problem in many parts of the world. [1/4] 🧪#chemsky

Very cool work. When life gives you layer-line lemons, make microfluidic lemonade!

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The experience of browsing for a rental in Reel Video on Shattuck in Berkeley was 1000% superior to anything I've ever done on a computer in my entire life.

I know it's a scam but I also want pancakes...

Today, on World Cancer Day, we're launching EveryDoseMatters: a global cancer safety campaign that aims to help patients and healthcare providers prevent, detect and respond to fake cancer medicines. Are you a healthcare provider or cancer patient? Visit everydosematters.org for resources & info!

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 114 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Check out our *incredible* online event this Thursday: the 2026 Virtual Eaton Symposium! Panelists include speaker Ken Liu, some UC Riverside alumni & current doctoral students, incredible librarians + book lovers + authors + editors, and THEE Sheree Renee Thomas! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...

We've got 4.5 hours to go until midnight and @riversiderecord.bsky.social needs 27 more first-time donors! I know y'all can help get this little newsroom of mine over the finish line so we can secure an additional $1,000 in funding. Donate here: riverside-record.fundjournalism.org/newsmatch/

The twins really got into @tmbg.bsky.social’s music this year, so you know what that means they’re getting for Christmas:

We are hiring a lab manager, for our research group, the Synthetic Neurobiology group (aka Boyden Lab) at MIT/HHMI (on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA)! Please apply if you're qualified and interested, and spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

I'd never heard the term "Groverhaus" before today, and as a Grover, I'm 49% peeved to have something like this associated with my name, and 51% admitting that "trying to build a DIY addition to my house that breaks every possible code" is totally the kind of thing that I would do. 🫣

Exciting opportunity to join @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov as a Scientific Engineering Associate, focusing on self-driving labs. Link below: lbl.taleo.net/careersectio...

Quick heads up - there will soon be a job posting for a Staff Scientist / Senior Staff Scientist in our lab in Copenhagen to support all our mass spec proteomics adventures! Great colleagues, lots of cool projects… and you’ll get to work with me 😅 Please DM if you’re interested!

Good morning from Riverside, where a blanket of fog made Mt. Rubidoux and the Jurupa Hills look like islands in an inland sea.

Japanese-style sandwiches at 7-Eleven in the US? I'm intrigued... The egg salad seemed pretty accurate, though the bread was maybe not as sweet and soft as the Japanese version. Anyway 7/10 and much cheaper than a flight to Tokyo

I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6

I would have loved this assignment as an undergrad: Learning how an instrument works by taking one apart 🧪

Days like this provide a rare insight into how much of our technology runs on Amazon’s infrastructure.

Excellent reporting by NPR's @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social about the latest case of poisonous diethylene glycol in cough syrup in India. Listen to the audio - it's a captivating 3-minute crash course on why this keeps happening:

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs. To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

My favorite Robert Redford movie, though lately it feels like a relic from a time long gone.

❤️❤️❤️ these posters in the Geology building at UC Riverside ❤️❤️❤️ Seriously, why aren't we putting messages like these everywhere? I'd happily chip in some pro-NSF and pro-NIH billboards? 🧪

Happy to share our new pre-print using microfluidics to look into flow response of Hydra.

Our latest preprint on medRxiv: Identifying counterfeit medications using a $4 optical sensor meant for use in toy robots. 🧪💊🤖 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

😍😍😍 Physical controls instead of touchscreens, and I'm confident it won't try to shove AI down my throat. 😍😍😍

"The Weight of a Cell" by Niko McCarty in Asimov Press 🧪 (Includes a project I was involved with back at MIT 15 years ago)

Queen Anne Cottage at the LA County Arboretum

Plumeria at LA County Arboretum

The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Guess how I found out that a pecan log looks just like a block of plastic explosives on an airport security scanner?

Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Thanks to @shabbirsafdar.bsky.social and @safemedicines.bsky.social for having me on the Partnership for Safe Medicines podcast! I had a great time chatting with Shabbir about my lab's work developing tools for fighting fake medicines. Listen to the episode here: www.podbean.com/media/share/... 🧪

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for students to join your lab as a PhD student? I made a Starter Pack to help PIs and potential PhD students connect! If you would like to be added to this pack, please let me know! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi