“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Some (+)ve news to lighten another heavy weekend: our latest preprint (c/o Mattiroli + Ramani labs) is up! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A tour-de-force by 1st authors Bruna Eckhardt & @palindromephd.bsky.social, focusing on chromatin replication. RTs welcome; tweetorial in 3,2...(1/n)

A reminder in these hard times. #sciencestrong

That's me! Thanks to Bob and Linda and Gladstone for the award and thanks to the organizers at @asbmb.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to share some of our as-yet-unpublished collaborative work between the labs of @vram142.bsky.social and @fmattiroli.bsky.social !

No cheating, post the last photo of your pet (Clara sleeping during the day after having woken me up at 3am)

I saw the helicopter and was hoping for this pic!

Amazing speech from Carolyn Bertozzi at the SF Stand Up for Science Rally today! @standupforscience.bsky.social @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

Diversity makes your science better, pass it on.

Check out our latest preprint - happy to have assisted on this very very cool new method from our lab on nucleosome distortion!

Here's a cat, for some joy today. (Her name is Llamita and she embodies the concept of "tortitude")

I'm privileged to be pretty healthy and have always had insurance, but even then, I have spent a lot of time and energy fighting insurance. In grad school I had dual coverage, which meant neither insurance wanted to pay and recently my insurance told me that only people under 18 had acne. 🙄🤔

If you choose to operate a vehicle when you are not sober, I have no respect for you and would urge you to make better choices for the sake of others on the road. In an instant, you can permanently affect the lives of someone's family and friends.

The tsunami warning when I'm trying to coordinate finally bringing home my cat from the emergency vet after 3 days is wild. My emotions are very on edge.

Super recommend following the Groth lab and checking out their work - they're great collaborators too!

When you have to leave at 7:30am in the rain to drive to campus but your partner works from home and sends you this... 😭

me @ all my other social media accounts

Check out the latest and greatest from my postdoc lab! (I'm not on it but am working on some interesting follow-ups already...)

Good morning!

I just followed a lot of people thanks to starter packs so here is a little thread about my interests and goals, professional and not: 🧵

Big banana slug and gorgeous San Francisco skyline - as seen from near the top of San Bruno mountain this past weekend. It's really important for me to get out of the house even when I'm very busy!

That's us! More exciting work coming soon but feel free to check out our publications and preprints!

The latest from our wonderful UCSF & 4DN colleagues / collaborators Kate Zhou & Geeta Narlikar: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Crowding agents crowd! And we all must think carefully about what our fancy CRISPR knock-in tags might be doing to impact protein coacervation...

I was having a pretty shitty day but Kissinger is dead so at least I outlived that war criminal.

Very excited to share our latest @vram142 lab preprint on developing methods for long-read footprinting of protein-DNA contacts in newly replicated chromatin fibers, co-led with Megan Ostrowski. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/x)

Delighted to share our latest, co-led by Megan Ostrowski & Marty Yang. We describe replication-aware single-molecule accessibility mapping (RASAM 😁) -- a 3rd gen seq method to map the structure of individual, newly replicated chromatin fibers. Follow @martyyang.bsky.social & read his tweetorial!