Excited to share another 2025 publication from the lab. doi.org/10.1093/data...

The Univ. of Nebraska’s Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has established a webpage soliciting the community’s help in saving their program. Their hearing in front of campus admin is next Friday, Oct 10th. Please consider sharing why they’re essential! eas.unl.edu/save-earth-a...

Position #4! A tenure track faculty position in Algebraic Methods is available in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Position #3! A tenure track faculty position in Behavioral Neuroscience is available in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Position #2! A tenure track faculty position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience is available in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

A tenure track faculty position in Quantitative Systems Neuroscience is available in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Position #4! A tenure track faculty position in Algebraic Methods is available in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Position #3! A tenure track faculty position in Behavioral Neuroscience is available in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Position #2! A tenure track faculty position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience is available in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

A tenure track faculty position in Quantitative Systems Neuroscience is available in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY. Feel free to contact me for any information and please spread far and wide! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

what

An R1 without languages programs isn't a research university, it's a joke.

This is a remarkably terrible suggestion. thedispatch.com/article/scie...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

It's apparently now a career goal for faculty members to have significant financial conflicts of interest that need to be disclosed before seminars.

Report: Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI A new survey from the @aaup.org shows that a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3H0mcZp

Good news: grant renewal was scored Bad news: this is the worst score I've ever received

I would like the Study Section gods to be kind over the next two days.

It's New Foods at the Minnesota State Fair day, and there's some solid innovations in the Fair Food space here www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/

beyond parody

TIL that my credibility as a critic of @colossal and @BenLamm has raised "questions of professional misconduct in research communication" on reddit: reddit.com/r/AskAcademi... Let's take this as an opportunity to discuss misconduct in research communication! 1/n

Hey, another manuscript acceptance. Congrats team. Sneak peak: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spending the weekend reviewing NIH fellowship applications. Hoping for some positive karma.

Targeted p63 isoform switch corrects dominant mutations in AEC syndrome without disrupting epidermal homeostasis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.661308v1

Congrats to Dr. Abby McCann on her successful dissertation defense this morning! This is an amazing scientist. Reach out if you're looking for an adaptable, efficient, and motivated molecular biology/genomics expert for your lab or company.

Do I have any BlueSky folks who might help advise me on how to generate a graph genome from dbSNP or 1000 Genomes data? Or advice on how to do variant-aware TF motif calling?

What a fun week for PhD student, Abby McCann. Her second manuscript was just published in Molecular and Cellular Biology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... AND, she defends her dissertation this week! Join us in D'Ambra Auditorium on UAlbany's Uptown Campus at 11AM on Thursday, June 26th!

Manuscript accepted! A sincere thanks to our peer reviewers and editors. Most of the work is already on posted @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, but the updated version should be available shortly. I'll give a nice rundown of the work later when it is "in print".

I have never felt so excited and so fearful for the future of "my lab". Here's why:

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

Congrats to our most recent PhD grad, Dr. Dana Woodstock!

Is anyone looking for postdocs? I have a really great graduate student looking to start as early as August 1st (and as late as January 2026). Area is flexible! Expertise in molecular biology, cell line engineering, gene regulation, cloning. Feel free to reach out here if you've heard anything!

If you too are experiencing mental health issues due to the ongoing shitshow, please DM me or Signal me at ziadadina.19, I am trying to build a community to help each other. Y'all, please repost and help me out, this is serious stuff

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.

I would just teach Physics I and Physics II, beginning to end.

Ugh, I expected this but kept hoping it wouldn't happen. UAlbany just got a MARC award, and two undergrads in my lab are supported from this award. In my limited experience, it's been a great way to engage undergrads in research who may otherwise not have the opportunity. A shame...

Some colleagues hate when I point this out, but for tenured/tenure-track faculty, peer review is already compensated work. It is part of the 20% of our jobs that account for service (in 'standard load' positions).

This will be my resignation letter.

Just had a lovely visit to Stony Brook University and the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. I met a ton of great scientists doing fun science, and even ran into a former student I taught in two courses now pursuing her PhD. Fun stuff! Thanks to @dadapisconti.bsky.social for the invite!

A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab

sigh

regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:

For everyone interested in science and preventing cuts to science funding: a fantastic article by Joachim Frank, a Nobel Prize winner for work done right here in the Capital District. www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

Symposium on ‘Enhancer Sequences’ at beautiful @collegedefrance.bsky.social in Paris, by April 11th. Open and free, no registration. Come to relax listening to facts #TherapeuticEffects #VillageGauloix Final programme below. Tell your friends! 🙏🤘

Federal funding cuts are devastating to universities, careers, the economy, and the generation of knowledge. Even worse is the continued demonization of higher ed and the demographic cliff. Student tuition pays almost everything at MOST universities. We need to show students this is worth it.

One of my students just got into an unbelievable summer undergraduate research program. More details to follow, but finally some good news amongt all this bad news and chaos.

The realignment of research in our group @fmiscience.bsky.social is beginning to bear fruit. Proud of our captain @merleskribbe.bsky.social and the whole team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...