🚨 Exciting new crab preprint! A Japanese team found that sideways walking only evolved once! Maybe carcinization itself is necessary but not sufficient to go sideways? When it's lost, the species that go forward have alternate anti predation behaviors. 🧪🦑🦀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New #cilia preprint alert Our latest manuscript is now live on bioRxiv: "The Neuronal Primary Cilium is a Key Regulator of Homeostatic Plasticity" We hope you enjoy reading it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Luke...on balance it's in my financial interest to reinstate being your father"

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday. He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired. We will miss you, Ed.

I am begging you to read even just the Early Life section, which is an absolute roller coaster

www.axios.com/2025/09/20/t... New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says

The NSF GRFP is an amazing opportunity for students in the first two years of a PhD or those applying to a PhD right now. Below, check out our special episode with advice for both applicants and those who write letters of support!! 🧐 Please help us spread the word 📢

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com ), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

**POSTDOC POSITION** My lab (www.goyallab.org) at Northwestern and CZ Biohub Chicago looking for a postdoctoc in quantitative biology. We work on a range of topics, including single-cell cancer plasticity, modeling single-cell perturbations, theory, and stem-embryo models. contact via email. Pls RT

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: www.vbcphd.at

🌟 Launch your own lab at Janelia 🌟 Advance our understanding of biology through theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹 No teaching requirements 🔹 100% internally funded 🔹 Collaborate with expert support teams 📅 Apply by Nov. 4 👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

50 years ago, in LA: one of the epic Bowie duets is filmed. He and Cher tackle "The Young Americans Medley" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSY...

with all natural predators & competitors in the late night ecosystem decimated, a plague of jimmy fallons descends upon the countryside. they're everywhere. they eat the grain. they strip the leaves from trees. you can hear them tittering on the roofs, the scurry scrape of those nasty little claws

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

Say what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

does anyone in new york know why i can book a covid shot for my 14yo but not my 10yo? cutoff seems to be age 12, even though governor's guidelines say anyone over 3 can get in a pharmacy.

Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.

First faculty app of the season submitted! here we go 🥹✨ (tell me about your tt neuro jobs, I wanna know)

Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures. @nachury.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest manuscript is out, and this one tackles the problem of cellular aging in the retina, using comparative multiomic analysis of zebrafish, mouse, and humans. What led us to work on aging after studying development and regeneration? Explainer follows./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I don't know how anyone who doesn't have a kid in middle school or high school can possibly understand or interpret the behavior of anyone under 25, much less navigate a news cycle involving it

Looking forward to the 7th International Melanocortin Meeting next week. Whether you are attending or not please consider submitting your relevant papers (reviews also welcome) to our "Advances in the biology of the melanocortin system" special issue for @jne-editor.bsky.social 🔗: tiny.cc/9fhs001

Carole King signed with ABC Paramount Records in 1958 when she was 16 years old. Her first official recording with the label was the promotional single “The Right Girl”, which she wrote and sang. 📷 Carole King Family Archives

Science friends! I need your help. We have a Neurophotometrics FP system that we are having trouble integrating with behavioral tracking software for annotation purposes. For example, we want to align fluorescence with open/closed arm exploration in the EPM. Can you help us out??

I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

I really do judge people based on whether they use the default ggplot color palettes.

trying to get tame impala tix for my kid 😭

This work reveals RNA stability as a "hidden layer" of gene regulation that: 1) Operates independently of transcription 2) Works locally in neuronal processes 3) Is disrupted in neurodevelopmental disorders 4) Expands our view of activity-dependent plasticity (10/11)

Our new pre-print from the Greenberg and Churchman labs shows that activity-dependent modulation of RNA stability is a major, and underappreciated, mechanism of gene regulation in neurons. Tutorial below! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/11)

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

"The data, gathered from 139 mice, encompass activity from more than 600,000 neurons in 279 areas of the brain — about 95% of the brain in a mouse."

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Hopkins also isolated the phage lambda repressor, one of the first two transcription factors ever identified (lac repressor, in Gilbert's lab, was the other). Here's what she got for it.

Many of you never had to painfully hand-annotate all the EcoRI sites on several printed pages of DNA sequence and it shows. #PILife #molbio #AlwaysBeCloning

Focusing on what truly benefits kids, with their input, would save us all. I wish that, collectively, we desired a free future for children more than we desired the power to harm or control another adult. Every day I try to imagine that better world for all the children who should get to live there.

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure xkcd.com/3138/

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

New preprint! How are developmental cycles coordinated across cell types? It turns out that, like Geppetto's cuckoo clocks in the GIF below, individual cell types are each performing their own little crazy routine, but all in sync with each other.

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Sad to hear that David Baltimore died. I am one of hundreds of scientists that David generously mentored, supported, and inspired. His influence on each of us was deep and lasting, and his impact on the world immeasurable. Arguably David Baltimore is one of the greatest scientists of any generation.

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

Partial lunar eclipse, 8.36pm to 8.45pm, SW London. 🧪🔭