"We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas card and extensive family newsletter. It brings us no good tidings to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to paywall it."

Mother, I am a big girl and can dry myself off unlike my incompetent sister who made you towel dry her by the door

Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them. Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

If you care about how we get the most achievement across the population and the world, the science-backed, evidence-backed thing you should care about is solving systemic inequities.

Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology

Lastly, for those at #CellBio25, we will be having a social TONIGHT at Little Gay Pub (102 S 13th Street) at 8 p.m.! Come meet the LGBTQ+ committee and let's celebrate another great conference! #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb #CellBio2025

Still processing how I feel about this...

Come find out how to make your science more accessible. Hear and touch mitosis during my talk. @ascbiology.bsky.social #cellbio2025 #mitosis #midbody #tactilelearning

Hey @ascbiology.bsky.social looking for a tactile way to communicate your science? Come hear and touch mitosis and the midbody remnant during my talk. #ascb25 #ascb2025 #midbody #MBR

While on the topic I should also mention small talk with your neighbor during other talks, even if you're whispering and don't think you're being disruptive, can also make it very difficult for someone with APD. This includes during questions.

While I understand talks have time limits and I get the desire to cram it all in, please know that rapid speaking is an accessibility issue especially for those with auditory processing disorder #ASCB2025

#CellBio2025 Note that the app won’t list you as an attendee unless you manually add yourself to the list using your Profile link (under the little wheelie tool) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social

If you're at #CellBio25 and want to learn about publishing with BMC Biology or elsewhere in the BMC Portfolio, drop me a line or come say hi to the lady in the very visible yellow coat #CellBio2025

ASCB President Mary Munson awards Francis Collins the ASCB Public Service award, noting this is the first time it’s been awarded for defense of science #cellbio2025

With more Danio species being described, the genus was split in 1916 with larger species into Danio & the smaller species (such as zebrafish) into Brachydanio. In 1991, the two genera were recombined & most larger species within genus Danio were reclassified into genus Devario. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

So you're saying cockroaches can be pestimists? 🪳

Bug: let me just scooch in here

The best thing I ever did was implement universal design. ALL my students have access to lectures in advance, unlimited time on quizzes, exams, and extensions on deadlines without penalty. Extra time doesn't magically change whether a student knows something or not. It's not gaming the system.

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

"[T]he absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value" www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... @anildash.com

When someone lets their dog bark at yours through the dog park fence until yours engages and then has the audacity to comment on your *mean* pitbull

Happy Thanksgiving! May you find peace, love and support this holiday season with your chosen family.

Calling for your papers for the upcoming #BMCBiology collection “Regeneration: Wound Healing, Reprogramming, and Tissue Engineering.” Excited to serve as Guest Editor and can’t wait to read your submissions! 🔗 www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

New paper from Dr. @kuldeep-verma.bsky.social Lab @lid-cdfd.bsky.social at CDFD, in BMC Biology on a new paradigm in Rab biology. @navyaka.bsky.social Read for more: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #RabGTPase #Selfassociation #Multivesicularbodies #Ubiquitination #Entamoebahistolytica

Looking forward to attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 next month! Please come chat with me. Please, please, please!!

If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit. This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶

"By anthropomorphizing failures as “hallucinations,” the blame falls on the creation rather than the creator, as if the model possesses autonomous agency." Amen! We need more accountability from the creators.

The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

At BMC, we work together with a diverse community of editors and authors to shape the vision of our journals and represent the views of researchers in their communities. Explore how we are advancing open, trusted and community-led science for the future: bit.ly/4qPbFCf

The Punctuation Collection™️

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required. Please share.

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Methodology

We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

This phrase has been living in my head rent-free all day. Truly perfect

Ummm what? 👀

When team building takes the building part literally

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Hey! Northern hemisphere folks: this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important! You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!

#Review Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠 #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🧪 NEW STUDY from the UK finds higher PM 2.5 air pollution inside homes with gas stoves. 1/2 bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate. apply.interfolio.com/177622 Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025. @columbiasysbio.bsky.social

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Methods developers trying really hard for that perfect acronym...

Light pollution is a relatively easy-to-address environmental problem. I’ve tried talking about it through the lenses of human and wildlife wellbeing, plus preventing insect, bird, and bat fatalities. Never got as much conversation as this post. Yet another reason to be grateful for the aurora ❤️

Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?