Excited to share I successfully defended my PhD a couple days ago!!! 🥳 thanks to everyone who’s supported me along the way and for being on this wild ride with me! As Kobe said: “Job’s not finished!”

Beaming with pride after watching @jpflores.rbind.io defend his dissertation yesterday! Now officially Dr. JP Flores. 🍾💃🏼 His passion for science, and equity within science, continues to inspire me. Could not actually imagine a more perfect human to represent science. So glad to know him. ❤️

It was literally the best defense I’ve ever seen! I can only hope to be 1/10 as impactful and productive as DR. @jpflores.rbind.io 🩷 Congratulations! 🎉

Congratulations to GeneBites Senior Editor @jpflores.rbind.io for successfully defending his PhD 🎉! JP’s thesis work focused on how a type of cellular stress impacts the 3D structure of chromatin. You can read a preprint from his thesis work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #GoodNews #PhD

Such a great day in the lab, having a dissertation watch party for @jpflores.rbind.io, good news for one of our trainees (embargoed), and one of my favorite traditions the annual lab egg hunt! The more you experiment or restock, the more eggs you collect. These nerds already found most 👩‍🔬🧪

I concur, congrats Dr. Flores!! @jpflores.rbind.io

Oh my goodness, congratulations on defending @jpflores.rbind.io !! ✨💪🏽🤩

Today i attended one of the most interesting PhD defenses of my career. JP Flores' (@jpflores.rbind.io) combination of scientific achievement & acumen, activities in mentoring, science communication, & advocacy, & creativity in presentation made it virtually unique--look our for him in the future!

You did such a terrific job!! Congratulations 🎉

For my defense tomorrow what if I just rapped, will that suffice

ChromSMF preprint is out!🚀 tinyurl.com/ChromSMF We often piece together chromatin regulation layer by layer from separate assays. But this can be limiting! In @arnaudkr.bsky.social's lab, we developed a method to directly study multiple layers on the same DNA molecule! 🧬 What does this unlock? ⬇️

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

A new paper suggests that grant terminations from the NIH over the past year may have further punctured the so-called "leaky pipeline" because women were more impacted by grant terminations than men www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

When we talk about science or the history of science on this app, can we at least use language that is understandable to people who don’t think about science everyday lol

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So excited to present on a panel at SciTalk with my amazing fellow SNAPpers @alexlando.bsky.social David Ramotowski @eselland.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social! If you're attending, stop by the SNAP posters too! Cael Dant @disha-patel3.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io

phew 😬😮‍💨

How do pairs of DNA loci - such as enhancers and promoters - find each other inside the nucleus? 🤔 Most models assume the random forces driving locus motion are independent in space New preprint by @janniharju.bsky.social: this assumption fails in living cells 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Finally got my NOA, guess I’m gonna get to stay in science after all

Always a great day when @jpflores.rbind.io is on my feed!

🧪 Pathways for future scientists are becoming scarce, threatening a strong and innovative workforce: “We are not simply shrinking budgets. We are shrinking who gets to imagine themselves in science at all.” @jpflores.rbind.io hechingerreport.org/opinion-path...

Finger on the pulse: “Embedding communication and policy fluency into STEM training is not about adding polish. It is about responsibility. Students should graduate knowing not only how to generate knowledge, but how to explain it, contextualize it, and respond when it is misunderstood or misused.”👏

It’s tradition for labs to make the defense posters for the students defending! Huge shoutout to mine for hitting the nail on the head lol. Interested in what I’ve been doing during my PhD (both science and non-science!)? Message me for the Zoom link or come in-person if you’re in the area 😊

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Check out my new piece in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social ! “We’re Training Scientists for a World That No Longer Exists” sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/18/w...

Check out this piece from @bdavisbio.bsky.social & Becca Blyn. Fantastic colleagues w a fantastic piece for @snapcoalition.bsky.social !

It’s #blog post day! SNAP members Brendon Davis (@bdavisbio.bsky.social) & Becca Blyn talk about the 🧪🔬 science programs 🔭🛰️ most impacted by the rollercoaster 🎢 of #FederalFunding in 2026, and wonder what awaits us in 2027. 🤔 Give it a read on Medium: medium.com/science-poli...

If you're analysing Cut&Run or Cut&Tag data here's a nf-core NextFlow pipeline to simplify and standardise data processing joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🫣 well, here we go!

i’ll save y’all the trouble: luddite faculty are scared of bold changes so it’s all their fault.

Congrats to #FreemanHrabowski Scholar Corina Amor Vegas & #HannaGray Fellow Marissa Scavuzzo, both among this year's MIND Prize winners! Recognizing early-to-mid-career scientists, the award honors those with innovative ideas that advance neurodegeneration research: bit.ly/46VrlMh.

Second- or third-year PhD student in biological or biomedical sciences? Get ready — applications for our #GilliamFellows Program open Sept. 1! Robust research support, incredible scientific community, & tailored professional development that can transform a PhD journey. 🧪 bit.ly/4bjdTmr

Absorbing account by Duke professor Misha Angrist of the boiling-under-the-surface politics at a scientific conference, and how some young scientists are planning to fight the chaos wrought by the Trump administration

Been thinking a lot about the "hidden curriculum" of research training recently and @cghlewis.bsky.social 's book is so great. She argues that most of us learn how to manage data by mentoring and "winging" it. What did you learn the hard way? Ill start... #OpenScience #databs

SNAP is grateful to receive @researchamerica.bsky.social's "Meeting the Moment for Public Health" award for the #McClintockLetters #SciComm initiative! Thank you to all our ML writers. 🩷 Here's to stronger science, better health, and thriving communities. bit.ly/47sVJwE #RAAwards #SciAdvocacy

We especially want to thank all of the other SNAPpers and ASAPers who made this possible @erinmorrow.bsky.social @bdavisbio.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @ashyeneng.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io @alexlando.bsky.social @hannaherf.bsky.social @kassstem.com @jonj-udd.bsky.social

Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biased but highly recommend!

2. plotgardener is a genomic data visualization package for R. Using `grid` graphics, `plotgardener` empowers users to programmatically and flexibly generate multi-panel figures github.com/PhanstielLa...

😂 flop

No rabbits, no top hats — just #GilliamFellow Axel Vera leveling up on the standard poster session with a little sleight of hand. We guarantee you've never heard an anti-CRISPR (used to help control & improve precision gene editing) explainer like this before, & it's ... magic 🪄.

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

(6/n) Any cell change that changes chromosome compaction (e.g. mitosis, differentiation, mechanical, osmotic) would be expected to result in stronger A/B/micro-compartments without strongly affecting loop extrusion. E.g. 2-fold compaction --> 6-fold MC dot change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share @suminkim.bsky.social and @mileshuseyin.bsky.social 's new Current Opinion review on how Polycomb complexes mediate 3D genome interactions including mechanistic models and potential roles in gene regulation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exited to share Current Opinion review on how chromatin hubs involving multiple enhancers and promoters are formed, and their potential roles in gene regulation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New blog post just dropped! Read to learn about the #SNAPcoalition experience at the @aaas.org conference in #Phoenix and to hear more about some of the work SNAP is doing. #AAASmtg #AAAS2026 medium.com/p/eea4fcbf7de7

he last couple of weeks I’ve been at HHMI, AAAS, Occidental, and UCLA. I’ve been traveling all over the country for postdoc interviews, conference talks, panels, and meet and greets. Meeting with mentors and past and present. Meeting with my peers and colleagues.

Before I moved to Carolina 5-6 years ago, I gave all my college baseball stuff (I played D3 at Occidental) to my then-9yo neighbor. Now, he’s using all my old stuff! Ran into him and his friends playing wiffle ball and joined in 😊