Glad to see two kick ass parasitologists on this list. Congrats @sabsalon.bsky.social and @cmholab.bsky.social

Day 2 of the EMBO U-ExM Workshop at EMBL Heidelberg #EMBOExM. Gels are ready and expanding nicely! We also had a lively poster session and inspiring talks from @sabsalon.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social. A very engaged group, great to see such thoughtful discussions around expansion microscopy

"TRUST YOUR NERDS"

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating). A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

Just watched The Thinking Game and loved it. A thoughtful, human look at the people behind AlphaFold—and a reminder of the responsibility we have as scientists using AI. Highly recommend watching and sharing.

The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions. Children do not belong in government detention.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Applications for UC San Diego RAPID program's 2026-27 cohort are now open! This highly-rated and effective career development opportunity is for junior faculty researchers in #InfectiousDiseases. Learn more and apply today at rapid.ucsd.edu! #UCSD_RAPID #FacultyDevelopment

Yet another starting example highlighting that countries and communities continue to suffer as foreign aid depletes, first with US cuts and then by other developed countries. Thanks for your relentless reporting on this topic @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Jay Bhattacharya, MAGA world, corruption, & the politicization of science: ‼️🚨‼️He replaced the chief of the NIH’s environmental health institute with a dear friend of Vice President JD Vance without going through any of the usual NIH due processes More on this ghastliness from @markhisted.org 👇

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of government demands.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

"Paper accepted in principle" is the best email to read while being in vacation with the inlaws in Brazil.

No words

An absolute diamond of cell biology work. Congratulations 🎉 to all authors #UExM #Parasitesrule #CellBiology #Cilia

From the 6 Surgeon Generals who served across administrations since President Bush: "Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe. I'm horrified. I'm angry. A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our @viroscope.bsky.social Joe McKellar interviewed by The-Scientist Magazine ! Look at all these beautiful cells we have in the lab :)

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. Christophe Leterrier⭐in #TheMicroscopists and reflects on the make-or-break moment at the end of his postdoc when he came close to leaving academia before securing his CNRS position and how these experiences shape the way he mentors others. Stream: bit.ly/microscopist...

Delighted to report our publication on a divergent cyclic nucleotide binding protein that regulates malaria transmission to mosquitoes. Great work by Domi Kwecka , @jennyregan.bsky.social @choel Kim #malaria #ookinete #mosquitoes #signalling journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Whoever works with me knows how much I hate doing Western blots. Well today I feel the WB fairy helped me get the most beautiful sodium carbonate extraction samples analyzed with 6 antibodies, they all work amazingly and I have not a single bubble, dirt or weird running. Rebuttal paper looking good

Trouble imaging actin in ExM? Meet HAK-Actin, a probe for U-ExM, cryo-ExM & iU-ExM. Enables post-expansion labeling for max signal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Soon at @spirochrome.com Led by O.Mercey and @lreymond.bsky.social, in collab with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @marinelap.bsky.social

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

FINALLY! Challenging to publish but we believe it is an important discovery: rdcu.be/eATFz 💚 Thanks to the team ‪@biswashere.bsky.social‬, Omar Muñoz, ✨Q✨ C. Hoege, B. Lorton, R. Nikolay ‪@matthewkraushar.bsky.social‬ @dshechter.bsky.social @gucklab.bsky.social @vasilyzaburdaev.bsky.social‬ 💚

4 new quick-guides to help you help your friends and fam STAND UP FOR SCIENCE and protect democracy www.standupforscience.net/activate-eng... www.standupforscience.net/inform-activ... www.standupforscience.net/team-science www.standupforscience.net/calling-values @standupforscience.bsky.social

If RFK Jr approach to develop a vaccine against all viruses involves sequentially exposing himself to each of these viruses and letting his amazing body develop a vaccine the natural way, then I highly endorse this approach. I would start with something easy like Nipah or Hendra virus

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal go.nature.com/3UITVts

“To the scientists wondering if there will even be an NIH by the end of this administration, this committee’s resounding message is: ‘Yes, Congress has your back’,” said @murray.senate.gov We’re not near the finish line yet - but this is a strong step in the right direction. zurl.co/AzSK7

Online now in @science.org Cryo-EM structure of endogenous Plasmodium falciparum Pfs230 and Pfs48/45 fertilization complex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One for the Apicomplexa peeps: ever wonder how does the IMC grow so fast during progeny formation? Where do all the lipids come from? In our latest work on malaria RBC stages we implicate this monster protein (~6000 residues!) and ER contact sites. Happy+proud to share and keen to hear thoughts!

A bridge-like lipid transfer protein is critical for generation of invasive stages in malaria parasites https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666630v1

🎙️ Excited to host Dr. Zhicheng Dou for our next PEERs in Parasitology (PiP) seminar! 🧫 A New Perspective on the “Lysosome” in the Protozoan Pathogen T. gondii #Parasitology #Toxoplasma #PiP #Protozoa #SciTalks #DiversityInSTEM 📅 Fri, July 25 | 🕛 12PM EST🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3

NIH funding REINSTATED! Thank you to @atg.wa.gov and other attorneys general and to Judge Young. This saves the career of a promising junior scientist. TY @jeremymberg.bsky.social for all your help interpreting these events.

Acknowledgement matters! At PPBI, we stand with the Royal Microscopical Society and Global Bioimaging to promote recognition of the vital work imaging scientists and facilities do for research. #PPBI #acknowledgementguidelines

TIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...

As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget. prospect.org/politics/202...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to all but especially to The Parasitologist of the group Dr. Filipa Rijo Ferreira www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Postdoc opportunity ALERT! Interested in exploring interactions between #wolbachia , #anopheles mosquitoes and #microbiome? check this postdoc position in Dr. Grant Hughes lab at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

In honor and celebration of #Juneteenth, we talked with Jasmin Graham of MISS about the importance of enhancing representation, fostering diverse communities, and considering varied perspectives in the ocean sciences. #OceanMonth #BlackinSTEM @misselasmo.bsky.social 🤿🦈 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Meet MapMyCells! This tool saves neuroscientists precious time by comparing their data to massive, high-quality reference datasets, including our whole mouse brain multi-omics atlas and the Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas. 🧠📈 portal.brain-map.org/atlases-and-... #studyBRAIN

Towards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇

Woo! Very excited to share our collaborative work on the centriole's Luminal Distal Ring ⭕. This project started 13 years ago with @hugovdhoek.bsky.social & @stearnslab.bsky.social, and then beautifully came together with @computingcaitie.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social. #TeamTomo #UExM 🧪🧶🧬🔬

🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NIH cuts have life and death consequences. How a cancer patient became collateral damage to Trump’s purge of the federal workforce, @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social reports wapo.st/44ntbo4

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.