Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Continuing on that steep downward slope to destroying higher education in the US. This will create immense issues for life sciences PhD students - very very few if any finish in 4 years.

"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Not AI, no filter and not Photoshopped. Wildfires in Canada making everything look like the the end of the world here

I saw fireflies (plural) in my front yard in my fairly urban neighborhood today and I have no more life goals.

Absolutely beautiful work from the Bradke lab here. As an aside, I'm also genuinely stunned to see fundamental neuronal cell biology like this in Nature! An intrinsic cytoskeletal oscillator establishes neuronal polarityhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10755-6

Huh - many of the 'comments' in favor of OMB's thing use the same language. So hoping these will all be lumped together. Here's an excerpt from mine- couldn't help going on a mini-rant.

🎉 New/updated preprint! From 🌟 GS Kirsten Judge + Most neuronal cilia form during development. Can adult neurons rebuild damaged cilia? Are functions restored? Does regrowth use different pathways from ciliogenesis? Answers (in C. elegans): Yes, yes, and partly. 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is so weird to me, coming from developmental / cellular / molecular neurobiology - where you have to actually physically *do* experiments…

How did octopuses evolve novel traits? Rishav Mitra, Richard Han, Trey Scott, et al serendipitously discover a unique ribosome adaptation that increases the accuracy of protein synthesis and evolved alongside their elaborate nervous systems vs deep sea relatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lab apparently has a new emoji on lab Slack. "One of the younger people in lab made it". That's me in a lab coat - I put it on one time last year to help with an EMS screen. Wonder what they are using the emoji for on their own channels. Hmmmm......

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

Something nice to look forward to in these apocalyptic times. T-shirts for our lab's 30th anniversary reunion ordered and on their way! Cannot wait to see so many lab alums coming in from all over the world (despite reliable intel that apparently I am in for some ribbing).

Sadly, I am too ancient for this but what a great opportunity. Apply!

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

Quick 🧪 and law note. The SCOTUS decision in Slaughter today has *profound* implications for US science, cancer cures and the economy. Sotomayor dissent: “Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government… shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands”

This is the NIH grant screening disfavored words list published by Nature: media.nature.com/original/mag...

Pro-tip. Never ever re-read a grant that has already been submitted (and awaiting review).

All I can say is that if Ann Patchett wrote a grocery list, I’d drop everything to read it.

Please share this gift article from The New York Times with friends, family, sceptics, and People who think that studying weird things is a waste of money. Then follow up with meaningful discussion about what I call 'free range science'. Free without subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

How ancient are the building blocks of animal sensory systems? Key components of animal sensory systems evolved before animals. We find that choanoflagellates possess diverse & spatially segregated TRP channels, pointing to ancient origins of sensory specialization. doi.org/10.64898/202...

We are everywhere. In this case, the 1870 version in the historic Stabat Mater library of the fabled and fabulous Bologna Archiginnasio.

Just a few light snacks on our trip. Interspersed with miles of walking thankfully. (Pics courtesy of F1)

Important new work from Chia-Hsiang Chang, @nachury.bsky.social and colleagues identifying the composition of neuronal cilia in an unbiased way. Lots of surprises herein: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Far from the madding crowds

“In all cases, NIH recipients should report foreign co-authorship to the funding Institute or Center as soon as they are aware of it to determine what steps, if any, need to be taken.”

Only two more weeks to submit abstracts for the FASEB Cilia and Centrosomes. Abstract submission deadline is June 8. Submit an abstract and come share your exciting science with the community! events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

Are you fascinated by microscopy? Love beautiful images? Enjoy image analyses and quantification? Like working with a great group of people? Then please apply for the position of Manager of our fantastic Light Microscopy Facility. brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/j...

“The drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment. Taxpayers funded the research and the clinical trials. This country made a long bet on science, and I’m alive because it paid off.” www.ms.now/opinion/canc...

College graduation in New England spring.

If their goal is to choke off economic advantages from the US’s university system it’s hard to think of a more effective way. Scientists and other academics come to the US to study— then stay in the US often via green cards, to start companies, do unique work, and contribute to the US economy.

I was asked to list any international people I would collaborate with in the next two years. I don’t even know where our science will go next month. Do these people have any fucking clue about how science works??!!

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I've been just a wee bit swamped and so haven't managed to bleet/skeet about a few preprints we've posted lately. Will do soon. But in the meantime, please check them out. Lab's been on a tear! #cilia #thermosensory doi.org/10.64898/202... doi.org/10.64898/202... doi.org/10.64898/202...

So sorry to hear this. Scientists are resilient—we are selected for the ability to deal with a lot of rejection—but we are watching the whole system collapse under intentional pressure. No one is coming to save science. If this makes you angry, organize, find your community, and act.

The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.

Those of you submitting for the May 27th NIGMS MIRA deadline, are we supposed to or not supposed to include a myBibliography link in the Biosketch? The regular directions say No but the MIRA NOFO (PAR-26-121) says Yes. Which is it? Don't want this bounced for this reason.

You want to see the best grants get funded? Serve on study section and make it happen!

Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

He was born before the Great Depression, came of age in WWII, and is still making wildlife documentaries. Brits call David Attenborough a national hero, as he celebrates his 100th birthday. n.pr/42ngiIV

Please come join me in Washington, DC August 2-6th for the FASEB SRC on Cilia and Centrosomes meeting! Over 40 talks will be selected from abstracts. We are also excited to launch our first North American Ciliopathy Summit, held at the same venue on August 2. events.faseb.org/event/cilia-...

Faculty photos are Dorian Gray in reverse. Our faces age and our hair goes silver but we remain permanently 35, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in our headshots.

This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?

Excited to see our paper describing a stereotyped receptor map for smell (led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social ) out in the world! See below for short thread with open access link to paper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

oh god NIH - stop changing every form around with a one month deadline to start using them. how about you expend that energy getting $$ to people instead. #IrritatedandExhausted

The Developmental Origins of Behavioral Individuality - great review by Benjamin de Bivort www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

My spouse is famous! (Spouse is Chad Nusbaum in the article). And truly obsessed with open water swimming. Longest one he did was 6 miles 🤯. I cheer from the beach. www.savebuzzardsbay.org/news/why-i-s...

Gail's lab was right next to ours at UCSF (ie the Bargmann lab when I was a PD there) in one big open lab space. She was always kind and available to chat and had a great group of trainees. Amazing role model. RIP.

Such an exciting time to be in neuroscience. To study how animals do the amazing things they do: from collective behaviors to navigation, camouflage and more. How can we define the constraints of a sensory system if we don't study diverse animals and their behaviors? Oh and #fundscience.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."