Univ. Utah biologist (the amazing Talia Karasov) wins seed grant to deepen research into tailocins, the weapons microbes use on each other. attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... @hypothesisfund.bsky.social @utah.edu

Please check out my interview on the Out of Patients Podcast with @oliverbogler.bsky.social. We chatted about the hidden curriculum and my experience starting @ucdavis.bsky.social, feeling like a failure, and being supported by the Life Science Editors Foundation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Very excited to share the most recent review from our lab, available online and soon in #BiochemSocTrans! This review covers an area of ongoing research in the lab: the role of TAM receptors in the spread of non-enveloped viruses portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...

The Bisson Lab at IU (bissonlab.com) is hiring makers/builders/engineers across all career stages to join our team in one of the most exciting and crazy projects I've set to work on. Candidates can email us: [email protected] More info in the thread [1/3]

I’m honored to join the Scouts of the Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social and help bring beautiful, hard-to-categorize, and easy-to-underestimate biological questions to the fore. Excited for this!

Meet new #HFScout Cigall Kadoch, whose pioneering research has fundamentally changed how we understand chromatin remodeling – the regulatory machinery that controls which genes🧬 get turned on and off. 1/

Say hello to #HFScout Denise Okafor (@cdokafor.bsky.social), who combines powerful computer simulations + experimental approaches to study protein-ligand interactions–which has wide-ranging implications for metabolic diseases, reproductive conditions, & infectious diseases. 1/

Welcome #HFScout Kay Bidle, a molecular microbial oceanographer whose pioneering research on marine phytoplankton-virus interactions, ocean physics ⛈️, and ecosystem dynamics 🪼 is transforming our understanding of the Earth’s carbon cycle. 🌎 1/

👋 Meet #HFScout Orit Peleg (@oritpeleg.bsky.social), trained as a physicist + computer scientist whose research combines theory, computation, experiments, & field biology to study how groups of organisms sense, decide, & build together, e.g. the fascinating collective behavior of honeybees🐝. 1/

🤩 We’re thrilled to announce 4 new Hypothesis Fund Scouts - congratulations and welcome to Orit Peleg, Kay Bidle, Denise Okafor, and Cigall Kadoch! Follow along today to learn more about each new Scout and join us in celebrating them! 1/

New paper out today with Karinne Tennenbaum, @karlycohen.bsky.social, and Chas Bissell! We show that Cyclothone (most abundant fish in the sea) have unique teeth & they appear in the Earliest Eocene >40 million years earlier than their oldest body fossils. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

The gentle reminder I needed to continue to show up authentically in science! Grateful and overjoyed.

I’m so honored to be included in this Hypothesis Fund cohort and grateful for this investment in our research! 🥲

📣 Bold science alert! We're thrilled to announce our latest awardees who are pushing the boundaries of research in aging, regeneration, and bacterial resilience. bit.ly/HFAwardees Hear from the #HFScouts who championed these talented scientists👇 in our 🧵: 1/

New publication out @natcomms.nature.com! We identify novel viruses that actively infect highly productive chemoautotrophs, and reveal key trophic interactions and virus-host dynamics that impact microbial carbon cycling in aphotic environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I also had the great pleasure of meeting the visionary leader behind @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, who joined my research talk and had great advice afterwards on people to connect to who get excited about similar scientific questions!

How do words arise from human neurons?🧠💬 In his #NAS163 research briefing, Edward F. Chang (UCSF) will reveal how thousands of neurons encode speech at cellular resolution, linking brain activity to phonetics, word structure & language itself. Register: nasonline.swoogo.com/NAS163_resea...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the brilliant women in our Hypothesis Fund community who are taking the intellectual risks to pursue bold ideas, supporting one another, and transforming science together. You inspire us every day. 💫 #IWD2026

STARS in our pockets! Check out our shiniest research to date!

Evolution navigated billions of challenges to get to us to where we are today. Directed evolution compresses this to a 1D axis. Imagine if you could sample 200 dimensions at once, with data to boot 📈 First @chorylab.bsky.social PACE preprint on our new system to tackle this: bit.ly/turboprance

New paper from @adjiep.bsky.social on viral impacts in groundwater at Nature Comms. Congratulations Adjie and team! Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #viruses #viromics #groundwater

Big congrats to HF Awardees @stevenbanik.bsky.social and @herdelineardona.bsky.social for being awarded Sloan Research Fellowships! 🤩

Congratulations new Sloan Fellow @stevenbanik.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social 👏

Zheng Kuang is uncovering how gut microbes may influence which gene isoforms our cells use. Supported by a new grant from @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, his work could reveal new links between diet, the microbiome and disease, opening doors to novel RNA‑based therapies. 🧪 #Biology #MolecularBiology

📣Announcing our first awardees of 2026🌠, who are setting out to uncover new knowledge about microbes in extreme environments, host-microbiome interactions, & bacterial defenses. bit.ly/HFAwardees Hear why our #HFScouts recommended these talented scientists👇 in our 🧵:

Hear about Devaki Bhaya's work on cyanobacteria in last week's @scifri.bsky.social episode! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/lig...

Our lastest publication on a new killer toxin produced by a yeast isolated from a fungus-growing ant garden! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I'm immensely grateful for Hypothesis Fund support! For years, we've speculated about "rules" for mixotroph metabolic flexibility. This funding will allow us to integrate new mol & cell bio tools with our modeling optimization approaches. Thank you 🙏 to scout Ginger Armbrust for finding us!

This is a huge honor and we’re so excited to get started on this new direction for our group stemming from the work of William McLaughlin, a Ph.D. Candidate in our lab! Major thanks to our scout, Paul Turner and Hypothesis Fund for seeing the potential in this project! Time to get to work! 🧬🧫🧪

✨Announcing our newest awardees, who are taking scientific leaps to uncover new knowledge across microbial ecology, marine microbiology, and mammalian genetics. Learn about their projects: bit.ly/HFAwardees Meet our awardees and hear from their #HFScouts in our 🧵/1

Our next extraordinary biologist is Manu Prakash, plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference, who was recently interviewed for @jcellsci.bsky.social. #100biologists @prakashlab.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners—including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom: bit.ly/4oCwZtq

🎉 Big news! We've been awarded the 2025 @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for The Leap, our audio documentary that features the scientists behind some of the biggest breakthroughs of our time. sjawards.aaas.org/news/2025-aa... 1/

It was lovely speaking to @harmitmalik.bsky.social for @dmmjournal.bsky.social Infectious Disease Special Issue. We chatted about his work on host-viral evolution, the importance of blue-skies research and his approach to creating a supportive lab environment journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

The ocean’s got rhythm — and so do its viruses. With the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series (BATS), we dove deep — every 4 to 12 hours — to see how viral populations swing through day and night.

🤩Say hi to #HFScout Dipti Nayak, whose pioneering work on methanogenic archaea (a special group of ancient microbes) is transforming how we understand early life on Earth 🌎 and informing new strategies to address climate change. 1/

👋Meet #HFScout Roseanna Zia, whose research on colloids (small particles suspended in fluid) has reshaped our understanding of complex fluids, soft matter physics, and the physics of life itself. 1/

📣Exciting day at the @HypothesisFund! We’re thrilled to recognize two new brilliant scientist Scouts: Roseanna Zia and Dipti Nayak! 1/

Congrats to @zjahed.bsky.social on receiving a seed grant from the @hypothesisfund.bsky.social to explore mechanisms of aging in cells that don't divide, like those in the brain and heart. Her work could shed new light on the progression of many age-related diseases. today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

🌟New awards alert!✨ We're thrilled to announce new awards in the diverse disciplines of materials science, aging, and RNA biology. Meet these talented scientists and hear from the Scouts who recommended them below!

Learn more: bit.ly/HFAwardees 1/

Big congrats to HF Awardee @sciencekyle.bsky.social for being awarded the prestigious NIH DP2 award to continue his work on engineering immune cells to tackle cancer. So incredibly proud to have supported the early stages of this groundbreaking science -- go Kyle! 🥳 news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Big congrats to #HFScout @sullivan-lab.bsky.social for receiving an ASM award for his contributions to environmental research! 🎉

🚨 New tool for viral genomics! Meet CLAE: a high-fidelity Nanopore sequencing strategy that pushes accuracy to Q30, boosts throughput >800 Mb/100 pores, and recovers full-length viral genomes from complex samples 🌊🦠 👉 [https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202505978] #viromics #nanopore #genomics

While on an expedition in the Arctic❄️, #HFScout @prakashlab.bsky.social made a fascinating discovery about ice diatoms. Check out his new manuscript! (To learn more about Manu's quest to see every organism on earth, revisit his episode of The Leap: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/man...)

We turned 3⃣ this year! Our founder & CEO David Sanford reflects on the incredible science we've enabled, and the people who made it possible. Read about our journey: www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-...

I am excited to share that I received an award from the National Science Foundation! I'm considering candidates for up to two postdoc positions - reach out by Aug 28th for full consideration. sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...

Congratulations to @bendeskylab.com on being awarded a @hypothesisfund.bsky.social seed grant! He’s asking why some of an animal’s genes are switched on and others off, depending on which parent the genes came from. And how evolution shapes this phenomenon, called genetic imprinting. 🧠🧬

Incredibly honored to receive support from the Hypothesis Fund!

🤩 New awards announcement! ✨ We're excited to announce our latest awardees who are tackling bold research that spans immunology, plant biology, and genetics. Learn more about these talented scientists below! Discover our full portfolio: bit.ly/HFAwardees 1/

🚨New Marlin Lab publication✨ app.jove.com/v/67112/prof... In this #JoVE, we share a method for extracting meaningful, uninstructed behavioral readouts from constrained video recording environments (🧵1/2) Led @brimcr.bsky.social & @AmirLawen, a @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social collab w/ @ItamarKahn.