I think about this post every day 🧪

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond. he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Nov 2024 Univ of Texas announced plans to provide free tuition and fees to students from families earning <$100k. Republicans said makes "higher education in Texas more socialist than California." Let's see what they say when a conservative university does this www.chron.com/news/houston...

“When universities abandon faculty under attack, when they violate their own governance procedures, when they tell contradictory stories about their motivations, when they refuse basic transparency about their decision-making—they’re not protecting their institutions. They’re hollowing them out.”

Good leaders are open about their errors and correct them. This post inspires hope for me & hopefully serves as a positive example for others. We need more of this from current NIH leadership.

Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding) And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I’ve spent many years explaining/defending biorxiv’s “no reviews” policy. The logic was always that opening Word and opining is a far lower barrier than doing actual research, so noise’d be >> signal and we didn’t want to make subjective quality judgements. LLMs mean it makes even more sense 1/2

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Wonder if the staff at these journals gets paid commensurate with the journal's revenue

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Love the sense of humor from those in RFK Jr's neighborhood! Happy #Halloween.

In the past 10 years, CZI has given $7.2B or so to science. That's great. But, the White House has proposed *cutting* NIH's budget by $18B in FY 2026 alone. That's another level. Supporting a national network of health R&D requires sustained federal investment. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Eliminating DEI & hiring your friends www.science.org/content/arti...

#IZFS #Webinar TODAY! Join us for 'Regulatory Mechanisms of Tissue Regeneration', presented by Ken Poss, PhD, (@kenposs.bsky.social) tomorrow, October 23, 2025 10:00am EDT! IZFS webinars are free to members, and only $25 for non members. Register here today:

Fears of political favoritism? We’ve seen months of actual political favoritism. www.science.org/content/arti...

Fascinating inside baseball NIH history

Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

Literally had this convo with colleagues today.

Btw for those interested in figuring out how many NIH study sections are being cancelled, the Federal Register announcements are useful www.federalregister.gov/documents/se...

Working on the cell biology of the nucleus? We're still accepting submissions for our special issue on this topic! Find out more at: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu... #cellbiology #nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish

Picard management tip: If you have a psychic on staff, think unsexy thoughts.

A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024) 1/12

If you are applying for a faculty job in Texas, argue for a higher salary than you'd get at other institutions. The lack of real tenure protections is a de facto compensation cut and you should negotiate accordingly. Texas search committees know that getting good candidates is an uphill battle.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Published October 25 years ago, “Effective targeted gene ‘knockdown’ in zebrafish” by Nasevicius & Ekker detail use of antisense morpholino-modified oligonucelotides or #morpholinos that inhibit translation. This landmark spurred a revolution in targeted gene knockdown in vivo. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

Journalist here I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04 Reposts are appreciated!

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Catch up on Development presents… webinar on gut development Check out the talks of Surojit Sural @surojitsural.bsky.social & Swarnabh Bhattacharya @iamzico.bsky.social Also, register for our upcoming #DevPres on 15 October: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back. I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Several organizations are now putting more than $1 million toward reimagining hiring, promotion and tenure at U.S. universities.

Until this morning, Mary E. Brunkow, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine #Nobelprize , had no wikipedia page. She now has one, thanks to the contributors. 👍☺️👏 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E....

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

This year's Crick @crick.ac.uk PhD programme is open for applications - £27,715 tax-free student stipend per year for 4 years - Tuition fees paid - Student visa fee & health surcharges covered Deadline 5 Nov We have a project available. For all the details visit: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

1. Take this seriously. Here is how you do it. Take a screenshot of the #HatchAct violation, whether it's on LinkedIn or other social media or on the actual US Government website. When you file your complaint, provide your personal contact information. If you're a furloughed fed, you're off-duty.

We are highlighting Cathy Jackson, @biologyopen.bsky.social Deputy Editor and an Editorial Advisory Board member at @jcellsci.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @ijmonod.bsky.social

The fiscal year is over. So how was the NIH appropriation committed? A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

Federal workers and contractors: We understand the difficult situations you may be weighing as you decide whether to reach out. All of our reporters take source privacy very seriously. If you have information you can share with us, here's how to get in touch 👇

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

Once again, a shutdown appears likely after today 9/30. Please get anything you need from ERA Commons and any communications you may need from SROs and POS. Down the rabbit hole we go….

Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales. Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social. 📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The fiscal year ends tomorrow. Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago. The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors. 1/3

It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...