Super proud of Joe - he's done fantastic work in the Ingolia lab. His paper last summer was a tour de force dissecting real functional constraints on disordered protein regions. A yeast paper, with just two authors, in Nature!

That’s terrifying

Gold is for the mistress – silver for the maid" – Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade!" "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, But Iron – Cold Iron – is master of them all." Kipling, 1910.

Check out the latest paper from the Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis lab using CRASP-seq, an RNA-coupled #CRISPR screening platform, to uncover novel #splicing regulators.

AI based framework for RNA modif detection using nanopore #RNAbiology

🔥 THIS IS HUGE! Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger. Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.

#1 movie when you were ten is how your 2026 going to go

very unusual - a tRNA regulated anion channel

My "News & views" was published today @natmethods.nature.com Thanks @ritastrack.bsky.social for the invitation to write it and Allison Doerr for the editing after Rita left... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A mechanism for controlling mRNA localization to neuronal projections: Daniel Dominguez, Matthew Taliaferro @jmtali.bsky.social and collaborators implicated ALS-linked TDP-43 as inhibitor of mRNA accumulation in neurites, possibly by promoting their decay link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Download our large database of funding opportunities for early-career faculty and researchers Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 433 funding opportunities.

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When your PI presents your work

One has to assume that 2025 was also also a tough year for this raccoon

My talk from the latest RNA Collaborative Seminar Series is now available on YouTube. The second talk in the session was given by Rachel Braun (Sara Cherry’s lab) on TTP and its role in regulating antiviral immunity. youtu.be/2Aj-xbi3dPI #RNAsky #RNAbiology

Why Grandma, what big emdashes you have

Postdoc opportunity with Michel Goedert and myself to work on #cryoEM/#cryoET structures of #amyloids. Feel free to email me with any questions you might have. mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

Movie you've watched more than six time with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

GTPBP1 is a GTPase implicated in neurodevelopment. Our cryo-EM maps show GTPBP1 delivering tRNA to ribosome. Due to delayed GTPase dissociation, mRNA decoding is more stringent than with bona fide delivery factor eEF1A. Congrats to Denis Susorov and collab with Pestova lab! tinyurl.com/3smdvt3v

We mapped the whole human fallopian tube in 3D and at single-cell resolution via our CODA workflow. More about this work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Is it too much to ask that Outlook should stop autocorrecting “oligos” to “olives”?

Teaching people how mRNA vaccines actually work protects against misconceptions about mRNA vaccination changing the recipient's DNA, without the need to repeat the false claims, according to experiments with over 3,500 participants. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/sVwH50Xzutc

Who would have thought? 🤨

We as a family must have visited every state park in the 200-mile radius

👇🏻 that’s literary talent

And finally: pecan pie, chocolate peanut butter cheesecake, and cranberry curd cake

A spiced and superjuicy turkey with butter and maple syrup glaze per @nigella.bsky.social

Hot apple cider 😋

It’s being made clear to me I’m not permitted to work today #thanksgiving

#RNAsky #RNAbiology

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We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Finally out in @nature.com! We uncovered a mechanistic framework for a general and conserved mRNA nuclear export pathway. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 1/

The bioRxiv and medRxiv sites are currently inaccessible because of an issue with the Cloudflare cybersecurity service. This is affecting many sites but we’re told it’s being resolved.

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

This is Fendi. He is seen here demonstrating the internationally acknowledged sign language for politely requesting uppies. 13/10 would pick him up immediately (TT: isthat_jojo)

We are seeking postdoctoral researchers to study viral RNA and macromolecular complexes using X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, and biochemical methods. Structural biology experience is required. Interested candidates should send a CV, a brief research statement, and 2–3 references to [email protected].

MISO: microfluidic protein isolation enables single-particle cryo-EM structure determination from a single cell colony. Or from a single dish of HEK cell culture in the case of two membrane proteins. Out in Nature Methods now! lnkd.in/gpyBSceg Wonderful collaboration with the Efremov lab.

Multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill! We seek creative scientists working in fundamental molecular, cellular, and computational areas. Basic and translational cancer research, all ranks. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/309...

RESEARCH PAPER: A kinetic ruler controls mRNA poly(A) tail length By Gabs et al. and Matti Turtola ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/21-22/1377.full #RNAprocessing #mRNA #polyadenylation #ribonucleoprotein #CPAC

A #VeteransDay walk along the Monocacy Battlefield, Frederick, Maryland.

Tremendous paper from Narry Kim’s lab identifying a sequence element that recruits cellular factors to exogenous mRNAs to ‘rejuvenate’ their poly(A) tails leading to a huge boost in output. Significant implications for therapeutics. Now, I wonder what the factor X is… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Establishing benchmarks for quantitative mapping of m6A by Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing. #DirectRNAseq #Sequencing #RNAmodifications @nanoporetech.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#RNAsky #RNAbiology

Very proud of our recently published work in @narjournal.bsky.social led by senior PhD candidate Julia Warrick. #RNA academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

I’m perfectly fine with journals conducting reviews by their editors. What we, as a scientific community, need to learn is how to decouple journal titles from assessments for hiring or promotion.