This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski. 🧵 1/12

Thank for highlighting our work!

cognitive reframing ahead of quals: ❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me ✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌

Thank you! Roger’s legacy is full of color and playfulness. He is missed.

#wormwednesday how to be sure, really sure that you will not fail to run away from noxious chemicals…

Sudha (@chakrapanilab.bsky.social) and Julio (@cvlab.bsky.social) are organizing the 2026 Ion Channel Gordon Research Conference: Ion Channels Across Scales — Bridging Molecular Events to Physiological Outcomes, to be held at Mount Holyoke College, July 12–17, 2026. 1/3

Congrats to Guosong Hong, a/prof @stanfordbrain.bsky.social, on receiving the inaugural #BiophotonicsDiscovery Impact of the Year Award! Hong is honored for achieving optical transparency in live animals via absorbing dyes, a transformative advance in #biophotonics. 💡 spie.org/news/stanfor...

We made nanobodies that make your heart🫀 stop 🛑beating. Keep reading to learn how this taught us about how large membrane proteins like ion channels are folded and assembled in human cells. Beyond excited to share my lab's first preprint: Please 🔄 bit.ly/49A0PtD

Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.

I'm honored to have received the 2025 HUPO Distinguished Service Award (hupo.org/HUPO-Awards-...) with @mlaval6.bsky.social for building a dynamic early career researcher (ECR) community within @hupo-org.bsky.social. Empowering and amplifying ECRs has been deeply meaningful to me—thank you, HUPO.

The Cordero Vásquez Lab is starting the year on a high wheel (see below) with our latest work on the C. elegans PIEZO channel: “Structures of invertebrate PEZO-1 isoforms with a compact architecture and a dispensable pore-distal N-terminal blade”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

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Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Did you pick up this flyer at #SfN2025? 📣 Calling all early-career neuroscience researchers! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & @neuromatch.bsky.social want to hear from you about the support you need to thrive in your career. ➡️ Take this short survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.

Working with @k-polly.bsky.social generated a fabulous illustration about summer research experiences — and — H/T to Jack, his perspective as a narrative artist helped me to think more deeply about the scientific story I sought to communicate.

Too early to design research experiences for the summer of 2026? Maybe not. |Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, & research groups @plos.org #Computational #Biology. Illustrations by @k-polly.bsky.social 1/n journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From @wormsense.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, & research groups | ❤️ Rule 1: A great short-term project is like a great short film | #Education #PLOSCBTSR 🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Rising junior and senior undergrads: this is a terrific opportunity for a 9 weeks summer internship as a Cech Fellow in an HHMI lab: deadline for applications is December 22!

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I served last year on this committee and have the privilege of chairing it this year. We have amazing students in our field from around the globe--nominate one of them! Make our job difficult 😆 #Drosophila RT

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

Big big thanks to all the program officers and scientific review officers coming back online and managing to instill positivity and we-can-do-this attitudes in emails out to applicants & reviewers who might have wondered: What will happen to all of this good work? Answer: let's do this.

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

The Leading Edge community has been a life-line as I navigate *points to everything*. Zara was such a shining light of wisdom and warmth. She will be sorely missed, but her legacy will continue in everyone who had the utmost privilege to interact with her. Apply, apply, apply!!!!

🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026! If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

🚨Applications are now open for 2026 @beckmanillinois.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships! We provide 3 years of support ($63k/year) for candidates conducting interdisciplinary research with two or more Beckman faculty members. Please apply and RT! beckman.illinois.edu/opportunitie...

Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

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It is with a heavy heart that I share the unexpected news that our colleague, friend, and mentor Daniel Madison passed away on Thursday, October 9.

Repost! Please apply by October 15th for full consideration.

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”: “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone” orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources. 🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF

A short poem of gratitude to all NIH staff who (daily) bolster and support investments in US biomedical research (poem credit: LLM drafted, NI refined)

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10