While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Spotted at 9th and Washington in South Philly. Abolish ICE. 🚫🧊

If you’re in #Philly the Rousseau exhibit at the Barnes is worth a visit - thru Feb22.

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

It can happen here - in Pa. coal country I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Every American needs to watch this:

Just another morning of waking up to the latest racist BS from this administration. 🤬

(gift link) share.inquirer.com/nihOpt?utm_s...

Devastated to see what’s happening at a place that I loved because it was the writing home of so many people I loved. what a gutting week

Take a guess at what you're looking at here. Clue: This is an SEM image at about 375X magnification. (Power and Syred, Science Photo Library)

Powerful. Truly unreal how Shakespeare, from over 400 years ago, manages to speak to our current moment.

Every American must watch Aliya Rahman’s testimony. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

The Centre for Research in Cellular Biology of Montpellier @crbm-montpellier.bsky.social is recruiting Junior/Senior Group Leaders. Check out the details on our cell biology jobs board: focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...

This is incredibly powerful testimony. Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly. Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...

👉 2nd aECM club on Feb 10th 10-11:30 am NYC 4-5.30 pm Paris #aECM trafficking and processing program sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl... 👉 join our Slack forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pD...

How does evolution turn a harmless bacterial feeder into an active predator? Our new study led by @marianneroca.bsky.social and published in @pnas.org explores how sensory systems were rewired to enable prey detection and predatory behaviour in nematodes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵below!

Jenna Norton (@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social) is an inspiration—she is extraordinarily brave & principled in speaking out against the disgusting, damaging, draconian, & terrifyingly authoritarian policies of Trump, RFK Jr, & Jay Bhattacharya 🎁 Link 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Philly is a special place hyperallergic.com/artists-stre...

Excited to join ASCB leadership as the chair of the Public Policy Committee. Science advocacy is so important right now and I am excited about the team we have to take on these efforts! www.ascb.org/about-ascb/l...

As the Trump Administration works to erase public art around Philly’s Independence Mall that reflects our country’s history of slavery, let’s look back at this temporary 2024 project by Sonya Clark for Monument Lab. (1/2)

Probably about thousand people at a short-notice anti-ICE march in 11 degree weather here in Philly. Pretty good!

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

How does a predator sense its prey? 🪱The nematode Pristionchus pacificus preys on other nematodes, but how it detects them in its environment? That is what we have been exploring : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

One of my favorite members. But I am truly not sure what “we,” “action” or “now” mean in terms of elected Dems and ICE.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Congratulations to Aishwarya Pawar (@aishwarya2510.bsky.social), @cambupenn.bsky.social PhD graduate from our lab, for the 2025 Kadesch Prize in Genetics. This award, in honor of Tom Kadesch (former chair of @penngenetics.bsky.social) honors graduate student excellence in research & citizenship.

The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Lipocalins and Scavenger Receptors affect the luminal matrix that prevents narrow tubes from collapsing - now in press in Development! #aECM #Celegans journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Endoplasmic reticulum patterns insect cuticle nanostructure. New study from Sachi Inagaki, Shigeo Hayashi @riken-bdr.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... 🎦 See video summary by Sachi Inagaki 👉 youtu.be/50JRPysrTNU #Drosophila #ER_literature #Development #Organelles

Take a minute to guess at what you're looking at.⌛ This is a scanning electron micrograph of rat epithelium ('outer surface') from the bronchial tubes. The round-top cells are goblet cells that secrete mucus, the hairlike projections are ciliated cells which beat to move the mucus... (🔬: Hitachi)

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

RNA-binding proteins function through network effects, coordinately binding and weakly regulating many transcripts – or don’t they? Read our new preprint on how LIN28 controls developmental timing through only two targets, one mRNA, one miRNA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

I hope all in the US take the time to view this statement from Minnesota Gov Walz. It clearly lays out the issues & how we need to respond. When I was growing up this would be playing on the nightly news on every channel, but since billionaires bought our media....1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGTs...

The Murphy Lab did our annual retreat this week. This year's theme was using AI (what it's good and bad for). I wanted to be open-minded to make sure we are not missing something we should be using it for, so we did a few exercises to test, and had presentations.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

@indivisible.org #iceoutforgood #philly I ❤️ my city.

Really interesting non-political discussion of the NIH grant system, with former NIH insider Mike Lauer

Happy to announce the publication of our foray into studying what happens to the transcriptomes of nuclei when cells fuse to form a syncytium. More to follow in the coming few years. One really wonderful thing about the Company of Biologists is that's it's free to publish there for my university!

👉unofficial guidelines for CNRS application in cell biology, development or evo-devo c3n-cn.fr/section-24-w...

How do cells fabricate nanoscale extracellular matrix structures? Inagaki, Hayashi et al. @riken-bdr.bsky.social show that the ER network stimulates complex remodeling of the plasma membrane, thereby patterning nanoscale cuticular pore formation in insect sensilla. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

Vote worm! by @wormkaiden.bsky.social Kaiden Power in our lab .. although I've got to say those Malpighian tubules are looking sharp too!

Another great resource for the worm pickers.

#CellBio2025 Note that the app won’t list you as an attendee unless you manually add yourself to the list using your Profile link (under the little wheelie tool) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social

#aECM at #CellBio2025 On Sunday, the Sundaram lab will have 2 posters on #Celegans aECM - boards 223 and 225