New Year's Day is a Discover Pass Free Day, with no pass needed Thursday to park at state public lands.

Rides will be free on New Year's Eve on King County Metro and the Water Taxi, the Seattle Streetcars, Sound Transit, Community Transit, Everett Transit, and Pierce Transit.

Tell your members of Congress NCAR is key for: • Safer airline flights • Accurate forecasts • Safety in severe weather • Supporting national defense • Detecting smoke • Computer resources • Developing LIDAR to map terrain & detecting solar activity that disrupts GPS • Training future engineers

We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!

Did you know we offer one-on-one mentoring, including peer-to-peer mentoring, at the Annual Meeting? Learn more and sign up to be or have a mentor at #bps2026

Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove

very cool and novel stuff from @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social and brilliant postdoc Caitlin Cornell! She's one to watch (and hire).

Study finds manager scores for employee performance correlated to employee self-evals. Women and ppl of color tended to give themselves lower marks. Women of color rated themselves the least favorably and got the lowest scores from managers. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...

For everyone who missed it: My BPPB talk is now available on YouTube! If you're curious how we propose to think about ternary lipid mixtures in the presence of membrane asymmetry—including differential stress!—then this is probably a good place to start! 🧪

Wait... two people whose work I admire deeply, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social and @vesiclesmasher.bsky.social are in touch with each other and have exchanged a cat-themed drum kit??! You can find Sarah's outreach at squidfacts.bigcartel.com and Aurelia's lab at sites.google.com/a/lehigh.edu...

Cool idea!

Thank you Senator @murray.senate.gov. I am a voter in Washington State, and I appreciate your actions to support the NIH and other federal science agencies such as the NSF, NOAA, NWS, and NASA

Hey, @drdavidhu.bsky.social, I thought you'd like this one

Dear biophysics friends — the APS DBIO elections are now open! If you are a member, check for an email from directvote.net with the ballot. Please take a moment to vote — our community thrives when we show up. Candidate statements and bios are on the ballot (and I’m on it for Vice Chair).

The Pardicolor Team doesn’t have a Bluesky yet, so I thought I would share this wonderful small grant opportunity. Check out the work they do at www.pardicolor.org Parent organization - wildlifeasia.org.au #wildlifeartists #pardicolor #artivism 🦑 🪶 🐡 #wildlifeconservation #biologicalillustration

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Multiple-Awesome-Colleague Alert! The first is Fred Heberle (not on bsky). His group made a series of 3-component vesicles (high-Tmelt PC-lipid, low-Tmelt PC-lipid and chol) and varied only the high-Tmelt lipid. Then they measured liquid-liquid phase transition temperatures (Tmix) of the membranes 🧵

Hey UW Colleagues! Want an easy way to help our community (and a way to get kid stuff like board books and infant car seats out of your house) @uwchemistry.bsky.social has big collection bins for food to the UW Food Pantry, for warm clothes to Aurora Commons, and for kid stuff to Westside Baby

I love being able to fill out my ballot at home and then drop my ballot in a box while biking to work. Big thanks to all of you across the U.S. who will be standing in lines tomorrow to vote. Even little elections can have big impacts. (When they come with free Molly Moon's ice cream, even better!)

Let's goooo, Seattle! I filled out my mail-in ballot and will put it in my local drop box tomorrow... I hope you'll join me! If you haven't seen the videos at @theseattlechannel.bsky.social, they are marvelous. The audio feed of our city council is (unfortunately) real, and the puppetry is hilarious

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Me: Happy Halloween! Girl 1, with her friend: We’re from the same movie! [Pause] Girl 1: Harry Potter!! Girl 2: But I don’t come out until Book 5

Protein-protein interaction networks can be highly sensitive to the membrane phase transition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685611v1

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why tf did they let him drive if they knew he was sick

Lime is offering two free 30-minute rides with the code VOTE2025 in the app for voters to get to and from their nearest polling location or drop box. www.instagram.com/stories/lime...

Double vaccinated for flu & Covid today! Even better, I was right behind Julie Theriot (pictured) & Beth Traxler (the photographer), so we to got to say "hi" before heading off to our respective labs. Feeling great so far. Thankful to UW for making it easy to be healthy (and network with colleagues)

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Deleted the Spotify app from my phone. OK, yeah, I wasn't using it anyway because of how poorly they pay artists, and I didn't have a paid subscription, but it was nice to choose a time to delete it that had the possibility of sending a message

PSA: There's a relatively new and super useful Gmail feature: a "Manage Subscriptions" tab in the lefthand menu under More. It instantly shows you all the email lists you're subscribed to, including spam, and allows you to unsubscribe from most with the click of a button

Fascinating data! The article below is Open Access – anyone can read it. I've included a higher-resolution image of the authors' key data showing that when retakes are offered on physics exams, women's scores increase on the FIRST try to be equal to men's. Implications for course design are huge

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

This year my new charity is Pro Publica. I had been already meaning to donate & the blurb nailed it: "ProPublica's mission is to expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform"

Are you employed by Washington State like me? Last year we donated ~$4.5 million to charity! The new Combined Fund Drive has started. I just donated to the UW Dept of Chemistry @uwchemistry.bsky.social. Bonus: if you give $5 to a new charity or increase $5 by 21 Oct, and you'll get $5 toward coffee.

Awww, shucks! ☺️

Budin Lab et al. FTW yet again! @ibudin.bsky.social

Called my members of Congress tonight to tell them what I think they should do ... y'all have too, right?

I want to vomit. “Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors… citizens were among those detained ...agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers” www.wbez.org/immigration/...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Thank you @cantwell.senate.gov, from a member of your district

Awww, dang. I finally got around to buying myself tickets to the X and @loslobos.org show, but had missed the news that nearly the whole tour is cancelled. I hope all the members of the bands are OK and know I love them so. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Best part of all about this position? You'd get to work closely with @markusdeserno.bsky.social! Apply!

Great job, Washington State and @doh.wa.gov ! It is awesome to see COVID vaccines available and advertised again on the doors of this pharmacy. I've booked my appointment for my dual flu/COVID vaccination and am looking forward it!

US colleagues: we've got 4 days to submit comments! It's easy! Clear steps for writing an impactful public comment are compiled by a group of scientists: publiccommentproject.org/how-to. Amending 8 CFR 214.2 imposes a bad 4-yr cap, and students can't follow you to change programs if you change jobs

Hurrah! Congratulations @hawa-racine.bsky.social!

Thank you, @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social! This announcement makes me proud to be a member

Hooray! Congratulations @veatchlab.bsky.social!