"The plan would reduce funding for U-M and Michigan State University by a combined 62%, according to a House Fiscal Agency summary of the House-passed bill." 😱 @umich.edu thesuntimesnews.com/proposed-u-m...

Great news! 🥳 The ERC Scientific Council has considered the concerns raised by the scientific community regarding the new restrictions on resubmission after rejection and has decided to revert to the previously applied resubmission rules (for most of the grants).

Gas prices. NIH & NSF are being dismantled and are incapacitated. Technology, innovation and science are at a standstill. Tens of thousands of jobs lost. China has surpassed the USA in its investment in biomedical research. Why are Democrats talking about the price of gas?

Many thanks, @depaceraffa.bsky.social! I am deeply honored by this recognition and grateful to all who made it possible. 🙏

Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.

A group of health organizations just finished a massive 36-country effort to vaccinate 18 million children who were missed during Covid. Most of those children had never received a single vaccine before We can still do good things www.who.int/news/item/24...

New work from Niccolo Mencacci @feinberg.northwestern.edu et al., with contribution from @depaceraffa.bsky.social in our lab at the NIH, identifies pathogenic variants in BORCS5, encoding a subunit of the BORC complex, as a cause of a severe neurodevelopmental disorder. www.jci.org/articles/vie...

MoMA New York Installation by Refik Anadol #art

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Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

I was truly impressed with the breadth of topics, quality and numbers of undergrad research posters yesterday at the UM UROP and UM Program in Biology&Neuroscience poster sessions. A great reminder of the impact of hands-on research experience in education! @umich.edu

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

Working on a grant rebuttal, how do you rebut a review that says on one hand that compelling preliminary data support *specific* hypothesis, but that a major score driving weakness is that the claims of *specific* hypothesis exceed strength of the evidence?

Many of us have actually lost the struggle already. My lab is closing in June, and I'm not the only one. By far.

Some mid-air junco battles from the other day. They do these amazing, spiraling aerial battles. It's taken some practice to be quick enough to catch them. Most of my shots are of empty sky :) #birds 🌿

In my experience, for some proteins, expression from frozen transformed BL21(DE3) stocks is highly variable. Less so with fresh transformants. So I just got in the habit of using fresh transformants cuz

Did anyone else learn that you have to do expression transformations fresh if you want them to work? Is this still a thing?

We have a nice new garbage can with a lid that we can’t use anymore because our town gave us another new garbage can that we have to use instead. So what does one do with a nice big garbage can?

Thinking about this more, the 2 and 3 year bans are real career killers… who’d hire a tenure track candidate, or an (associate) professor that has one of those hanging around their necks?

plz repost 🙏 we are looking for a technician to start this summer/fall for 1-2 years to work with me at Cornell in the labs of @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and Andy Clark, in collaboration with @corriemoreau.bsky.social on flies & termites 🪰🐜🧬🔬 Ithaca is gorges! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

Another fantastic #GolgiTime paper from the Glick lab!

@joachimgoedhart.bsky.social & #microscopy friends, we're using ymScarlet-i3. It's the best general purpose red FP we've tried in budding yeast. But in our hands it photobleaches really fast when exposed relatively low-intensity *488 nm* laser light (~20 W/cm^2). Have you seen this? Thoughts?

We did it!! Our first IHC in Bath!!! Cora captured this gorgeous image of Alcian blue+ goblet cells, as well as PCNA+ epithelial cells in an adult gut. We still have fine-tuning to do, but these beautiful/simple views of such a complex structure will always make me smile.

Twenty years ago, thanks to the CNRS’ ATIP programme (www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/atip-avenir), I had the opportunity to embark on this wonderful human and scientific adventure. Thank you to all my colleagues and to the funding agencies for making this possible.

I'm looking for #NewPIs (<3 years as lab heads) in the gene regulation/functional genomics space. If you are one or know one, please comment below! 🧪

NWS confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down near Maple Village and lifted near 4th and William in Ann Arbor at 1:45am on 4/15/26. Thank goodness it lifted or it would have gone right through downtown/central campus!!

Ok. It's finally time to do a deep reading of the summary statement for my latest reviewed grant. It was available before my vacation and I glanced at it, but since I was going on vacation and I knew I wasn't going to be able to act on it, I just set it aside.

So excited to be back in beautiful York! Thanks @yorkyeast.bsky.social for inviting me! Looking forward to great science discussions tomorrow! I like I am also getting the proper weather experience ☔️

At last, a pan that my girlfriend and I can *each* cook with! Having to have two completely separate sets of kitchen items has been taking up *so* much space!

😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱

Got my second shot a couple of weeks ago after seeing the dementia research. Just do it.

Hey Ann Arbor ppl, Looks like MDOT is going to do something about the commuting disaster that is Washtenaw from I-94 to South University. Proposals for bus or bike lanes (sadly not both). Get your comments in online or in person! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MID...

Just look at this graph (Fig 5A,B from Koeber et al). Amazing. Congratulations to the Pollard lab and all authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wonder how much of this dynamic is also: - the drastic reduction in exposure to lead even compared to the ‘90s - the decline of childhood malnutrition - the progress made in child psychology and efforts to protect children vs. familial and societal abuse (caning, for example)

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

I dreamt of the beach (1/4)

jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

🎮 Sphingolipid control center: #Yeast ceramide synthase assembles into regulated complexes that modulate ceramide output. Protein oligomerization serves as sophisticated regulatory mechanism during biosynthesis perturbations 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Incredibly niche request but if anyone has recommendations for a good wig or hair piece store in South Florida that work with cancer patients can you let me know? My Mom just finished chemo and is getting jerked around by the place she’s been going to. Thank you!

There are still spots available (get them while they last) for the 2026 Lysosomes and Endocytosis GRC (June 14-19, 2026). APPLY NOW if you are interested. Newcomers to the field or old friends, everyone is welcome! www.grc.org/lysosomes-an...

This is not a drill! THE KILLING MOON by N.K. Jemisin is right now just $1.99 in digital! Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-killin... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

I am so happy to see @stedhammer.bsky.social last thesis chapter taking the shape of a publication. We looked into the role of the elusive GGAs cargo sorting adaptors. Alex‘s works hints at a role in the modulation of the binding of AP-1 adaptors to its clients #membranes #trafficking #CRISPR

Not to hijack your thread, but we wrote an article about this sort of stuff a few years ago that you might like: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Actually now Addgene's hiring for multiple roles! Please share, and if this looks like you - apply! 🧬 Senior Research Scientist: addgene.applytojob.com/apply/RjIwJ3... 📝 Senior Science Communications Manager: addgene.applytojob.com/apply/6q7Pr6... 🧪 #scicomm #hiring #sciencejobs

I recall the Purge of the Hotplates. And how we kept finding them for years because people squirreled them away out of the refusal to toss anything. Research Hoarding Behaviors, I tell you hwut.

Incident report here: ehs.berkeley.edu/news/lab-fir... I'm not about shaming people who make mistakes. A culture of learning requires that we acknowledge them, learn from them, and keep each other informed and safe.

I have been tasked with creating an evolutionary biology course. I was wondering if anyone has done the same recently, and has advice. Thank you.

🍺 Perfecting nonalcoholic beer: Study compares maltose-negative #Yeast strains with arrested fermentation approach using high-gravity brewing. Strategic yeast selection + glucose oxidase treatment= ⏫ flavor & ⏬ ethanol 🧬 #YeastResearch 🔬 #SGD 🧪 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights

On NOFOs and funding. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...