This has been many years in the making. We wanted to do it right—not simply get it done. Our goal was to contribute, however modestly, to an academia that genuinely strives for inclusivity. May the AWoP—small as the step may be—help move academia toward greater inclusion. 🤝🫂🌈🍉🏳️‍⚧️✊⚖️♿🦮🌐

Let's get ready for a full month of training in image analysis in @pasteur.fr , this summer! Are you interested in learning how to do bioimage analysis? For light microscopy? for cryo-EM? And for cellular cryo-EM? Stay tuned, Pasteur offers access to THREE courses, this June. 👇🎓

A little late now for the Americans but we are curious 🧐 How does your facility approach Daylight Savings Time? Small gradual changes or a big one-off? #AskZebrafish

And listen your Granny lied for your Granddaddy's ego, but US census data doesn't give a damn about his feelings. Women have always worked because that's the norm.

Happy to spend my bday doing what I love: sharing the good news of the TCA cycle

I've got some time lapse movies that have a little stage drift and jiggle in them. Is there a Metamorph or FIJI/ImageJ tool to correct this sort of thing in a semi-automated way? I don't want to manually align things frame-by-frame.

Ok. Last figure done. Finally analyzed the expression data for table #2, time to write this manuscript! Step one, decide which journal that might want a mostly observational study on an AP1 knockout cell line and won't cost me much because we're running on fumes and the funding forecast looks bad.

Now would be an excellent time for cities to try out free public transport, expanding transit lines, carpool/bus lanes, and expanding active transport infrastructure to help people combat the increased gas prices.

A Cinderella story: raising CLIP-tag from the ashes to shine in fluorescence labeling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We noticed something interesting (and frustrating) this winter because we had a number of cold spells here in Florida - when humidity drops, the food in our cages loses moisture and therefore weight, artificially increasing our food consumption measures. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?

🧬🧠📈🧪🧫 Is anyone looking for a highly talented research assistant? One of my students, Duy Manh Nguyen, will be graduating in May'26 with a dual degree in Biological Chemistry & Statistics and 6+ years of research experience (wet lab, genomics, clinical). His dream is to pursue an MD/PhD.

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Does anyone have experience overwintering baby lemon trees inside? I have questions

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

Since I moved to @mrclmb.bsky.social I’ve been trying to answer this: Why are some mammals active at night and others in the day? Today our answer is out @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... If you’re interested in circadian biology, evolution or how timing shapes physiology, take a look

Write every day, February mission accomplished! Managed to write* at least 30 minutes every workday. Mostly on a pair of manuscripts, one in revision, one to go out this month. *write in my definition includes making figures

Seattle is the first city in the nation to test a new type of bike lane barrier made from recycled tires! 

Today is #RareDiseaseDay & we are celebrating by highlighting the invaluable work of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)! Formed in 2020, it aims to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. In this thread, we will highlight their use of the #zebrafish model. 1/5 🧪

Another round of damn, I'm feeling feverish, am I getting sick? Nope, my office is trying to kill me.

Dziurdzik, Sridhar, Conibear et al. identify a conserved adaptor that recruits BLTP2-like proteins to ER–plasma membrane contacts by binding helical projections on their lipid transfer channel to maintain #lipid homeostasis. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #MembraneContactSites #ER_literature

🧪Science Photoshop question. I have some Photoshop files from a collaborator, and I would like to change the color scheme of micrographs. Is there a simple way to do this without the source image files? The micrographs are embedded as layers.

🧬 Streamlined DNA extraction for #SyntheticBiology: New cost-effective EASY-C method efficiently isolates mini-chromosomes and plasmids from diverse #Yeast species including Sc2.0 & nonconventional yeasts, accelerating construct validation 🧪 #YeastResearch 🔬 #SGD www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Firkin new 2-factor authentication is not compatible with i-watch. FML.

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A bit of a last-minute post, UM has a fantastic opportunity for new or soon-to-be PhD grads looking for a postdoc opportunity. Our postdoc preview funds a two-day visit to our campus. The deadline to apply is February 28! medschool.umich.edu/programs-adm...

Here's our paper showing that collagens contribute to the final shape of the reproductive system in C. elegans doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

🌋 Ring of power: Seven exocysts form a flexible ring structure that pulls #Yeast secretory vesicles to the plasma membrane. Vesicles move stepwise from 45nm to 5nm to the PM in three metastable steps, revealing the mechanics of exocytosis 🧬 #YeastResearch #SGD www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

FWIW The docudrama was “Breaking The Mould” (www.imdb.com/title/tt1434... )

IIRC, that case (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_... was in a wonderful docudrama about Florey et al ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_... ) trying to turn penicillin from a petri dish curiosity, into an actual medicine. Unfortunately at the time they couldn’t produce enough to save Alexander.

I'm very excited to share our newest preprint, where we show that long, linear bifunctional molecules like PROTACs can bind within the narrow ubiquinone-binding tunnel of mitochondrial complex I, leading to off-target mitotoxicity. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... (1/4)

I am looking for a post/doc! Are you motivated to study the fundamental questions in autophagy? Have a look!

I am finally getting around to discussing our preprint "Septins mediate cell-cycle-dependent exclusion of Cdc42 GAP Rga4 from growth sites in fission yeast" by a very talented grad student Justin McDuffie in the Das lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/

Does anyone happen to know what Debs might be talking about?

Congratulations to Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan (@pskcellbio.bsky.social) for winning the USU Henry C. Wu Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research!

FCHo2, not talin, enables inside-out activation of integrin ɑvβ5 in curved adhesions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 How does #Yeast optimize protein secretion? SEC72 deletion reshapes cellular functions including iron homeostasis and cell wall assembly, boosting secretion of proteins with strongly hydrophobic signal peptides 🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #CellBiology #Biotechnology www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

We are starting Bay Area Chromatin Club up again in 2026! Fist event March 5th at UCSF Mission Bay! Details and registration HERE: If you like to nominate a person for a talk- DM me. It's been a great experience in the past. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

I am looking for examples of a 2-3 hour lab activity for a course that would allow college students to get some experience connected to environmental DNA studies (e.g., e-DNA, rRNA/ITS PCR, metagenomics, etc). Ideally this would have some DNA extraction and some follow up processing / analysis.

🩺 From #Yeast to human disease: Reseach shows metabolic pathway disruption causes amino acids to self-assemble into toxic amyloid structures, providing new insights into inherited metabolic disorders and potential treatments 🔬 #YeastResearch #SGD #DiseaseModeling www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Did you know melons have to get married in really big weddings? They cantaloupe.

'The regularization effort underway in Spain actually began as a citizen-led initiative endorsed by more than 900 nongovernmental organizations, including the Catholic Church, and it has the support of business associations and trade unions alike.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

I actually just went over HIV in my Gen Micro class and the gp41 fusion mechanism seems evocative of SNAREs. Are there mechanistic similarities?

Lipids challenge ligands to control receptors The behaviour of a receptor protein can be influenced by the presence of certain lipids in the membrane it is embedded in. 🔗 buff.ly/G1Zl6cZ

Postdoc job alert in the Crick Institute in London. Are you interested in the actin cytoskeleton? I am looking for a postdoc to examine the cellular, developmental or physiological role of Arp2/3 iso-complex driven actin polymerisation. Multiple aspects available. crick.ac.uk/WayPostdoc2026

If you're afraid to ask someone for a recommendation, please don't be. It's part of the job of being a mentor, editor, teacher, advisor, former boss, etc. to write recommendations or politely decline. (I wish I could go back in time and tell my former self this.)

Am I the only one who is always somewhat relieved whenever I see my review for a manuscript is almost identical to the other reviewers' reviews?

What is a “citation?” I thought it said you could list author and title, etc. So that’s what I did.