So stoked for another year with the best crew in the Art of Neuroscience exhibit at #SfN25! Thank you @artologica.net for compiling all the artists in one digital space for all to peruse!

I encourage trainees to apply next year!

I second that!

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

Given the role of syntaxin in membrane fusion, and the fact that Stentor apparently heals its membrane rapidly which must somehow entail fusion of vesicles, the obvious hypothesis is that the syntaxin RNAi impairs membrane fusion

For example, you can cut a huge gash and pull out most of the cytoplasm in Stentor and it will flow back in pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24378633/

and bro, bro, PYTHAGORUS? insanely talented bro

My awesome advisor @wallaceucsf.bsky.social summarizes our new #preprint on a syntaxin that’s important for #healing wounds in the ciliate #Stentor!

I was a UC PPFP fellow when I was a postdoc at UCSD. This program is invaluable--aside from support for two years of my postdoc, I received excellent mentoring from faculty at the UCs. This fellowship set me up for success and gave me a cohort of fellow postdocs who are now UC faculty. 1/2

this is devastating for so many reasons and honestly, shame on the UC. Was hoping to keep the high going after Mamdani's win only come to falling back to earth and register that this country does not want us to succeed. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

It was great to finish off #UNCResearchWeek by seeing Sherry Hsu’s beautiful image on display in Bondurant Hall! 🔬🔬🔬

Almost show-time at the Bay Area Science Festival. Come see how cells can learn! If you can’t make it, you can find out about the super-powers of time organisms at the Nature’s Tiny Marvels web site: sites.google.com/view/natures...

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

After talking to tech barons, Trump tells Mayor Lurie he's "calling off" a "surge" of feds to SF. It's not clear if this applies to ICE/Border Patrol or just to the Nat'l Guard. It's not clear what will befall other area cities. missionlocal.org/2025/10/ice-...

If National Guard troops are deployed to the Bay Area they would not be able to make immigration arrests. But they could offer “cover” for ICE agents who are doing so. This has already taken place in other cities: missionlocal.org/2025/10/how-...

My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

I’m excited to share that my PhD work is out in @jcb.org! Big thanks to my amazing mentor @stephgupton.bsky.social and inspiring collaborator @coronin.bsky.social!!!!

Last year, we helped 100 students save $31K in grad school app fees, giving students from underserved communities the freedom to apply widely. This year we lost 16 partners = $8.2K setback = 110 fewer dreams. 🎓 You can change that. 💸 Donate to open 110 new doors. givebutter.com/supportCL

No more press pieces lauding ML/AI companies allowed until one of them turns the Outlook email app into something approaching useful and usable

OSU spent many thousands of $$ on booth registrations for SACNAS earlier this year. Now they said they would rather take the financial loss than let us recruit at this meeting of >6000 scientists.

Consider donating to a hardworking non-profit that seeks to keep doors open into STEM higher ed and academia 🎓💜 www.cientificolatino.com/donate

An abysmal development for Hayes Valley residents who don't believe AI will save humanity (me) sfstandard.com/2023/01/13/w...

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026. Deadline: 20 December 2025 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton#cytoskeleton#research#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Are you in/near the SF Bay Area? Do you like Science? What about Festivals? Then you might want to check out the Bay Area Science Festival Oct 25. I’ll be there showing how single cells can learn! www.bayareasciencefestival.org

Become a Theory Fellow @hhmijanelia.bsky.social 🧪 Work alongside experimentalists to test and refine theories 🎯 Receive mentorship from leading computational scientists 🔁 Contribute to Janelia’s cross-disciplinary research environment Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

Vaccination and health mural by Diego Rivera, 1932, painted to highlight how science helped fight disease (Detroit Institute of Art)

Don't make me tap the sign Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔 Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

Oh hey, it’s Hard Pass by WTF and Nope with a foreword by That Fucking Guy

"engagement can help bridge disagreements"

What you're looking at is a brand new protist species! 🤯🔬 Isn't it beautiful? This image is just a glimpse of what's to come. We can't wait to share our full findings soon, in partnership with Guifré @beaplab.bsky.social @luisjagago.bsky.social. Stay tuned! #NewSpecies #protistsonSky #diversity

I broke some shells of Galeripora artocrea, to look at their algal hostages...and accidentally created Pac-Man amoebae. #amoebae #peatlands #ProtistsOnSky

The @alleninstitute.org is organizing an "Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education" workshop on the Friday before the Cellbio25 meeting in Philadelphia. Check out this link for more information and to apply. alleninstitute.org/events/open-...

If we can just degrade the status of a targeted group a little bit more, I’m sure we can back away from the cliff edge of fascism

Excited to be giving 4 lectures in Paris in October at the Collège de France. Free and open to the public!

Jay Bhattacharya was nominated by Trump to spread lies to help the right’s political project. Because that’s what Bhattacharya did for four years after 2020. Authoritarians and their lackeys need lies. Truth is: **Bhattacharya and RFK** politicized science, then and now.

why do the bananas need to move around

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

Cells can form patterns within themselves just like embryos do. How? Connie Yan's new preprint shows how the anterior-posterior cytoskeleton pattern in Stentor is dictated by regionalized scaffolding proteins www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yogi Jaeger kicking off the Venice Summer School in Emergence and Evolution

An indigenous woman in San Francisco immigration court today spoke neither English nor Spanish. She seemed not to understand the proceedings, & even DHS agreed to postpone her hearing. It didn't matter. ICE agents arrested her in the hallway anyway. missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-i...

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

200 days in, checking in on HHMI funding opportunities: Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program - not accepting applications Gilliam Fellows Program - not accepting applications Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program - not accepting applications Investigator Program - not accepting applications

Ok here's the thing. Me personally, I'm gonna ask an FAQ.

Representing mitochondrial dynamics with abstract algebra Explore new NITMB-Supported Research from Wallace Marshall (Professor, University of California, San Francisco) and Moumita Das (Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)! Learn more at www.nitmb.org/supported-re...

New KITP Program! #MORPHO26 Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants Dates: 7/20/2026 - 8/20/2026

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