you can still add -ai to your query and you won’t get an AI response

This Is Just To Say I have taken the space that was in the -80 and which you were probably saving for an emergency Forgive me it was convenient so open and so cold

Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

New preprint. I've been chewing on why bacteria have pangenomes for years. Most species carry a distributed gene pool far larger than any one genome holds. E. coli has ~163,000 rare genes across the species. Each individual cell carries about 5,000. Why? A 🧵👇

Sad news - he certainly was a towering figure with many influential discoveries - see below. Why he was never awarded the 'big' prize is truly baffling, but his many contributions to science will be remembered much longer than any prize. Thank you @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr for putting this together.

As someone who lost hearing in one ear for about a year and now has poor in that ear, I super appreciate anyone who uses a microphone.

Coin flip is definitely apparent comparing 2025 to prior years (look at award rates for 10% scores) bsky.app/profile/josh...

Grand finale of my Effective Research Communication course. Students learn to write an intro, give a 12-minute talk, and present a poster. They also pitch their research to a lay audience. These Rutgers STEM majors are our future scientists, doctors, health professionals. The future is bright!

Calling all crafty crystallographers! Are you going to #IUCr2026? Would you like to have a craft meet up in Calgary? Laura Folkers (at @stoenews.bsky.social) and I are looking to organise a gathering, all crafts welcome! Please fill in the EOI form so we can include you forms.gle/wpTpe4WVsdtY...

Excited to share that my 2025 collection of science-inspired drawings is now live on the Protein Data Bank (PDB) website. Thank you @rcsbpdb.bsky.social! It is free to explore and download. I’d love to hear what you think! pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/bezs...

Last week, @getacrystal.bsky.social hosted the April 2026 Applied Crystallization Center Workshop at @ubuffalo.bsky.social! Participants learned about construct design, HT crystallization 💎 screening, optimizing 💎 hits, using robotic 🤖 dropsetters and cocktail 🍸 makers, & fishing crystals 🎣 💎!

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Calgary Cal @iucr2026.bsky.social mascot and I visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the last few days! We are all super excited about the upgrades at the IMAGINE beamline. 👀 at those new detectors! Next up: the DNP (Dynamic Nuclear Polarization) instrument will be installed.

The current leniency period previously communicated in NOT-OD-26-033 will end on May 7, 2026. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.

As a scientist, I am here to report that this headline is indeed accurate as I am in fact STUNNED!! Wow. This is incredible. 🧪 "Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma.": www.science.org/content/arti...

Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

Love starting a week with an acceptance notice for a paper! 🎉 Stay tuned!

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

First off, let me highlight recent work from Vincent et al.: the authors modified plant ferredoxin with cyanophenylalanine and succeeded in measuring FeS-redox-dependent nitrile band shifts in the IR spectra.

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

I'm going to have to get my butt in gear if I want to get one last publication out before retirement (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) 🤪

SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!

#chemsky, give me a hand sharing this, if you can.

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just woke up, glad we didn't wipe out a country last night, pissed that it was suggested that we would and about how many people died in this pointless "excursion". Hope that Congress takes the hint from the calls yesterday (y'all called, right?) to make a change today. I'm so fricking tired

I am honored to be nominated for ASCB Council this year. If you are an ASCB member, please share and vote before April 30th! The amazing @rogerslabucd.bsky.social is also on the ballot!

The National Association of Black Bookstores has declared today — Tuesday, April 7 __ National Black Bookstore Day in honor of the more than 300 Black-owned bookstores operating in the U.S.

A positive uplifting video to start the day, discussing the benefits and the stakes. @standupforscience.net

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

It pains me to to say so, but it's difficult for me to disagree with this point below.

The President's fiscal year 2027 Budget was released today. Important---Important---Important The President's Budget is always fundamentally a political document that Congress may or may not (usually not) take very seriously. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... 1/9

Today is the anniversary of the April 1 RIFs at NIH and HHS. Thinking of my colleagues who lost their jobs last year. These cuts did no improve efficiency. They undermined the functioning of our government.

Just a reminder that 1yr ago today many dedicated NIH employees received RIF notices and started the process where many others were told they must leave their positions/ICs after years of service. The pain felt across the scientific community in the last year is also felt by those serving it.

One incentive for being a study section member for NIH is “continuous submission.” Or the ability to get extra time for submitting grants when you are a peer reviewer. NIH is terminating this in August.

Cancelling continuous submission for reviewers seems like just about the worst possible idea. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Unless of course breaking the system is the point. Many PIs are already quietly boycotting review. Some not wanting to lend credibility to an increasingly corrupted NIH…

Whelp. NIH just got rid of continuous submission completely. Because it’s “too much work” for them 😩. This is baffling. It doesn’t take months to assign a grant to a study section.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

New to Plasmidsaurus? They're offering the Addgene community their first three sequences free with code ADDGENE. https://twp.ai/4iwdRq

This is what democracy looks like. Now, prepare to VOTE and get everyone you know to do likewise.

📣 💰 Hematology funding alert! Travel awards are available from the NIDDK-sponsored Cooperative Centers of Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) to support early career scientists who are presenting at upcoming conferences! Due 4/15 👇👇👇 cceh.io/funding/cceh...

It was delightful to have a chance to catch up with @nozomi-ando.bsky.social during her visit to UB and hear about the amazing work happening in her group @andolab.bsky.social! The new work untangling allostery in ATCase is🔥! #structuralbiology #biochemistry #allostery

Stories like this make me feel that it’s all worth it. Even if stress during the current times is overwhelming, to have even a little of an impact like this pushes me to endure. I hate that the current times means mentors like this aren’t being celebrated and uplifted in the way they deserve.

Trust me--read this. You'll be glad you did. and thank you Dr. Bennet for writing it. 🧪

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

1) The Herzik lab is excited to announce our newest preprint in collaboration with the Grotjahn lab! We have developed a surfactant cocktail that seeks to overcome one of the more nefarious problems in #cryoEM, Air-water interface (AWI)-induced damage and preferred orientation (PO).