Thanks to 2026 for so rapidly showing its colors bc this New Year’s goal took only 1 month to complete even with a 1 week break in there for work travel. Materials for my next project are already en route.

The scientific (bureaucratic) uncertainty over what constitutes gain of function research is going to stymie important research into pathogens, just as the US & Canada are poised for a dramatic resurgence of infectious diseases thanks to the ‘wisdom’ of non-scientists who have abandoned reason.

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I love that La Farm is in RDU bc now I can’t have a white chocolate baguette first thing when I’m back visiting the RTP area. ❤️❤️❤️

Very excited to share our work on locus level transposable elements in development with the @fnucleosome.bsky.social community!

Please RT 📧 Registration open for ➡️"Summer School on Chromatin Biology" Our 2 weeks hands on expedition 🧪👩‍💻August 2026. 3. edition. Learn CUT@Tag, CUT@Run, ChIPseq, ATACseq AND to analyse your own data at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social Daily letures by experts in the field ! ▶️ shorturl.at/jrA8i

Me: I’m going to take time for lunch and not eat at my desk. Also me: Answers emails and slack messages from my phone in my kitchen.

JOIN US "Twelve Months That Changed a Year" An unhinged, meme-filled retrospective of the new features and improvements from the Altmetric Team this year. Hosted by @culturebullet.com and @lukegeorge.bsky.social Join us on December 18th for our Christmas Special: www.altmetric.com/event/12-mon...

Do you have an exciting new chromatin/transcription story that you'd like to share with the #FN community? Fill out this form to be considered for a talk in our Jan-June 2026 schedule! forms.gle/TBi38UgYxPAB... Please repost and share!

hey! if you're in the US and in a state that restricts gender affirming care, my friend flies for an amazing organization that will give you free flights to states/clinics that can help u get access. elevatedaccess.org

Epigenetics Update – A primordial germ cell-like-cell platform enables CRISPRi screen for epigenetic fertility modifiers bit.ly/48iiPI3 John C Schimenti (Cornell University) reporting in EMBO J #Epigenetics #PGCs #Fertility #CRISPR --- High-res insights without cell sorting; epigenometech.com

Psyched to say that Mike Diamond is talking at our next seminar. THURSDAY 20th Nov. All welcome! World leading #virology not to be missed - just email us for a Zoom link. Please help us with a re-post to get the word out 👍

I’d love to create a mini series highlighting the cool biology folks uncover with the help of this kit. If you use this kit, please get in touch so I can highlight YOU and YOUR WORK!

I’m proud of the team that made this launch possible and incredibly appreciative of Dr. Stergachis for trusting us to turn his tech into a reliable commercial product. But what I’m REALLY excited for is seeing the cool data folks generate using this kit.

Sunday morning time cleanse: A picture of the goodest boy who was so well behaved on his morning adventure to Lowe’s.

We are delighted that @genesdev.bsky.social have selected our (w/ @adrianbracken.bsky.social) Weaver syndrome paper artwork as the November cover! This piece was made by my incredibly talented niece, Gina 'Dna Vinci' Ronan. @ucddublin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r... (Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)

A colleague showed up to the work costume contest dressed as Fiber-seq. No notes. She got my vote.

Hi Genome Engineering peeps! When you genotype crude cell lysates after colony picking, which PCR enzyme/buffer composition works best for you for genotyping >1.5kb amplicons? KOD Xtreme is amazingly robust but so $$$😬 Thank you!

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Checked in on some new friends this weekend while the human friends were out of town.

Them: But you’re so outgoing, don’t you get lonely working from home? Me: Not really.

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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

Swung by Boston Common on my way out today. Bummed I didn’t get my flight moved so I could have stuck around.

It’s not that surprising but @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social had the best swag at #ASHG25 this year. Followed closely behind the Parse yeti mug (which I was not fortunate enough to get).

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

The way I hype up Louisville at biotech conferences... Louisville could be a great hub for more than just overnight sequencing y’all.

Looks like @leandrosboukas.bsky.social has been busy doing useful stuff. DNV detection in duos, very valuable in communities in which families are less stable. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.

Pushing the boundaries of science often means our language can’t keep up. Excited to be part of a team whose work with amazing collaborators advanced the field so much, it demanded a new shared language. Huge congrats to all involved! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hits on all the things that make RNA viruses the coolest things to study in biology. 😤

UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics will soon post openings for tenure-track junior faculty positions! Information about the search is at this website: www.med.unc.edu/biochem/join.... The link to apply will be shared here too as soon as it's live. Join us!

🚀 Ordering lab supplies just got way easier in our lab. We built a workflow (github.com/farnunglab/N...) where tapping an NFC tag on a reagent bottle automatically triggers an order request in Quartzy. No more scribbling notes or hunting for a computer. Here’s how 👇

A phenomenal example for why it is important to accurately cite the funding sources that support the work you publish AND why properly citing those published works in everything from other publications, to patents, and news articles is also important.

Another great set of talks! Also thanks @schvartzman.bsky.social for the (unsolicited!) shoutout to @epicypher.bsky.social products! It's always fun hearing how researchers are using Epi reagents to push the field in new directions.

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

I missed this earlier this month, but Eldred et al, use a non-specific 6mA-MTase to label accessible chromatin and map historical chromatin accessibility during development in single cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

This is a helpful guide for students new to the publishing game. A step-by-step guide to getting your manuscript across the finish line, from start to finish. I appreciate how it doesn't assume hidden curriculum and is informed by the author's experience with English not being his first language.

What does hope look like for you today?

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

I looked a grants where the title was different between the original award and the noncompetitive renewal and limited the analysis to grants with no subawards so there was no ambiguity about what to compare. There were 777 such grant pairs. 2/4

Great talks today! Want to wish the @creminslab.bsky.social an early Welcome to STL! She closed her talk with a reminder that her lab is moving to WashU to continue her lab’s spatial neurobiology work.

I used inducible CRISPR/Cas9 to make Trypanosoma brucei cell line that allowed me to edit originally muti-copy histone gene. We uncovered a novel role of H4 histone tail in gene regulation. I enjoyed working on this exciting project with @joanarcf.bsky.social, a great mentor. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

'David Baltimore, a biologist who in 1975 won a Nobel Prize for a startling discovery that seemed to rock the foundations of the fledgling field of molecular biology, died on Saturday at his home in Woods Hole, Mass. He was 87.' www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...