Congratulations on your re-election, Mayor Wu - the best mayor in America. You proved once more that Boston can't be bought and won't be bullied.

Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together. Happy reading! #cilia #flagella journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r... (Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)

What a loss. Instead of welcoming talent from around the world, we are kicking them out and embracing the cult of stupidity and ignorance. As an immigrant myself - this really resonates. I am sorry Wei -we will miss you. I wish you the very best in your life and am sorry it couldn't be here.

Exciting new work from Mike's lab! #ProudExPI

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development. Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Neuroscientists say No Kings

Good crowd here in Waltham

As a person here on a visa, there are clear signs that my rights won’t be honored (or don’t have rights for that matter), so if you are going to the protest tomorrow, be loud and clear on my behalf. It’s so important that citizens practice their rights and speak truth to power. 🙏

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏

I'm looking to recruit a post-doc to help push forward our growing interests in insect ecotoxicology. Apply here by Nov 30th! (thanks for reposting) career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

PREACH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

my group is recruiting a senior pre-award grant administrator. @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social is a mix of research university and liberal arts college which makes the work new and different every day. Come work with us! brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobs/job/Bra...

MIT stands up. Proud of my PhD alma mater orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Interested in metabolism? So are we! My lab has been exploring the cell biology of energy metabolism in the nervous system, and we are looking for postdocs. Cool sensors and microscopy, great work environment. Please help me spread the word!

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

his speech. It's like me as a college freshman summoning Seymour Benzer and Sydney Brenner to lecture them on neurogenetics.

Happy to share the inaugural paper from the lab. We describe a molecular mechanism for the activation of outer dynein arm motors that power the vital motion of cilia. Open access link below: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a cool animated summary

Hey Dorks! We are working really hard to fight for science and democracy…and it’s working. Last week, we got a commitment to write articles against RFK Jr. @standupforscience.bsky.social is punching above our weight! Chip in to keep us fighting here: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Here are three photos of places that have been described as "war-ravaged": Ukraine, Gaza, Portland. See if you can guess which city someone is lying about.

Picking worms in Micronesia. I am clearly doing the absolute wrong kind of worm science. Super interesting study tracing the spread of Caenorhabditis from Hawaii to Asia.

Just when I think that things could not possibly get any stupider, they do.

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday. He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired. We will miss you, Ed.

Immigrants, particularly on H1Bs, are the lifeblood of American innovation. If you wanted to hurt US competitiveness in the next century, I can think of few more effective ways than a move like this Even when found illegal, the mere intent will have irreparably harmed our future

So can I ask for all reviewers who don't like my papers to be fired? Or nah?

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures. @nachury.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Moving into a cabin deep in the woods and going totally off-grid is sounding awfully attractive right now. Anyone want to join me?

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

New review on how changes in cell type composition in and outside the brain contribute to the evolution of behavior. 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lihM,LqAZ...

New preprint! How are developmental cycles coordinated across cell types? It turns out that, like Geppetto's cuckoo clocks in the GIF below, individual cell types are each performing their own little crazy routine, but all in sync with each other.

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

Farmers offering fantastic fungi

Harvard wins lawsuit regarding withheld grant funding [Gift Link] wapo.st/47tdz4A

If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.

Thing is, the Noem & Homan Show has yet to come to a city that's just terribly designed. We give your GPS nightmares. We love a sudden dead end. We have like 19 Washington Streets & none of them have street signs bc fuck you. You took a left? Surprise, motherfucker, you're at Logan Airport. Forever.