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?

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

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

I am on a glide path to retirement. So my colleagues are looking for a new physical/analytical chemist. I have had a terrific 40 year run at Bryn Mawr…and will miss the students a ton. #chemsky #womeninSTEM apply.interfolio.com/170426

Last night at the Hollywood Bowl, watching a 76-year-old Bugs Bunny cartoon that was set at the Hollywood Bowl:

The twins have started buying "antique robots" (i.e. from my childhood) on eBay and fixing them. Here's Robie the Robotic Banker, who I fondly remember playing with at Radio Shack back in the '80s.

It’s a good time to learn (and teach) the history of the Scopes Trial, as attacks on science and expertise are on the rise again. 🧪 #scicomm #scied

📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills! Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization! More info below👇

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Development of a low-cost, versatile, #Arduino -controlled #OpenSource #gas #chromatography system for #teaching #analytical #chemistry: - cost: < US $100 - #Python #GUI doi.org/10.1021/acs.... #DIYbio #DIYchem #lab #instruments #education #STEM #MINT #school #EDU #GC

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 open rank position in Biochemistry apply now: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01995 #ChemSky do your thing, repost please!

Why does the air pressure inside my freezer drop (then rise again) whenever I open and close the door? Using a smartphone to explore gas laws, thermodynamics, and energy efficiency in a MS or HS STEM classroom: groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2025-... @phyphox.org #STEM #SciEd #NGSS 🧪

My heart's with the protesters in my hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee. Protesting Trump in the rural South takes guts.

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

There's still time to apply - the deadline for the Amon Award is June 13! If you're a grad student pursuing life sciences or biomedical research outside the U.S., apply to win $1,000 USD. The award honors Angelika Amon's passion for discovery science. buff.ly/F7s94vW

My latest in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I love how every rural community probably has a version of this. For me it was growing up in rural eastern Tennessee and hearing people talk about how crazy Knoxville is...

some words on richard feynmans chalkboard at the time of his death in 1988 now 310% more haunting in the age of blindly-trusted 1 trillion+ parameter models

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/