Another silver lining to 2026! Please check out our study now published @genomeresearch.bsky.social on the tracking of human brain transposable element large and small RNAs during aging and in two neurodegenerative disorders: Huntington's and Parkinson's Disease genome.cshlp.org/content/36/6...

For anyone who is a scientist or has benefitted from basic research on model organisms (that's EVERYONE), please take the time to leave a comment about priority 1 here: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6998c3a23e... by the deadline May 28! I know I wouldn't be here today without modern medicine

At last! Please check out our study now published @natcomms.nature.com on the #virus small #RNAs profiles across Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes from labs and around the world: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sure, it's snowing on April 7 today, but will it be TACO Tuesday tonight?

#Dros26 was so great last week to only think of Flies and forget all the world's messes. Bonus to witness @lucksmith.bsky.social and @tarafinegan.bsky.social great performance of "Don't you know that the Fly is fly!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tht-...

thanks @lucksmith.bsky.social 15 years after your key paper with Nelson Lau showing the abundance & widespread nature of piRNAs from 3' UTRs, we now start to get the logic. dissecting how the Yb protein reads out U-content, and talks to the Upf1-related SF2 helicase Armitage, will be interesting.

Will Venezuela beat Canada for becoming the 51st U.S. state?

Klingon Bond – Today is a Good Day to Spy! Klingon Sajak – Today K is a Good Letter to Buy! Klingon Chong – Today is a Good Day to Get High! Klingon Miyagi – Today is a Good Day to Yell Bonsai! Klingon Borg – Today is a Good Day to Comply!

Salient that the late Sir John Gurdon's seminal Nobel-prize discoveries of pluripotency was accomplished with Xenopus frogs, another model organism whose NIH funding support has massively declined as much as its invertebrate brethren.

The moose out front should have told you… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This guy's shirt I saw walking to work sums up today's Oval office Dunning Kruger-esque press briefing on ASD.

Real Slim Shady in Boston?

That is some nice luciferase activity!

Welp! Sitting in dark office, entire lab building on emergency power since 3pm. Whole chunk of downtown Boston without power!

Michael, so sorry! You have alot of fans of your research, myself included. Keep fighting and thank you for this brave post! Hope HMS backs up you and your lab to fight another day!

Happy Dog Day, Chester the Tennis Pug!

If Spongebob Squarepants can find these two planes, he can help fund 60 biomedical research labs on land for at least 5 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...

"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Why NIH/NIGMS funding of basic research matters with our latest work now out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social sky.social. We solved a >30-year-old mystery of what transcription factor drives the Flamenco piRNA cluster required for female Drosophila fertility. /1 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Before the ChatGPT Hyphen was derided, we @bartellab.bsky.social alumni were already trained in the ways of the em dash, amirite @shechnerlab.bsky.social ? wapo.st/4co1WvY

Been listening to the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein Show, and wowed by this episode that quotes my friend @johndoench.bsky.social about NIH progress reports! If my PO follows me, yes I'm working on my RPPR now! Just hope I can still get my Non-competing funding, please please🙏?

@lucksmith.bsky.social will enjoy this HA-Tag. Hemagglutinin HA? or Funny HA?

Hopefully this will backfire and stop future institutions from caving. The admin has now shown (as anyone with half a brain already knew) that appeasement won't save you.

Also great to see Faculty peers here at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Bill Theurkauf @rti-umasschan.bsky.social and @remlehmann.bsky.social Mitch McVey, Norbert Perrimon, Welcome Bender are here, Standing up for NIH funded Drosophila Research!

The Attack on Science in the USA is so bad right now, this moderate independent was compelled to protest at @standupforscience.bsky.social BOSTON! Good turnout with my colleagues from @bostonu.bsky.social !

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Will be there! Hope to see a crowd size that trumps Trump's @standupforscience.bsky.social

So sorry to learn of Scott Hawley's passing. I only had email communications with Scott and received some of his fly strains, but I was touched by his grace. When I wrote him about a sequencing error, he thanked me for reaching out instead of dismissing me as an inexperienced junior PI. RIP.

Thanks @baym.lol for giving a great seminar at the BU Genome Science Institute! Hope you liked the tapas! Plasmid ecology is wild!

Pairs well with my startup of point-of-meal sequence verification of soups and sauces: Nanoporridge Technologies.

Hey now, Icon! @lucksmith.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Chester!

I hope Bluesky is a fun place to talk Science and share goofy posts too.