Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

Good morning #ABRCMS2025! My graduate student, Sushmita, is presenting a poster about how cytonemes interact with each other during tissue patterning. She is planning to wrap up her PhD in 2026 and is on the job market. She's a great lab member and independent researcher.

me, digging out some macros and other code I wrote in my postdoc for a current student's project

Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The issue also features a Perspective on bridging the gap between single-cell phenotypes and the emergent functions of tissues and organs www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Every dollar donated provides 2 meals: www.capitalareafoodbank.org

Sic semper tyrannis, bitches

Hell yeah Virginia ❤️

We voted early! Polls open from 6am - 7pm ❤️ www.elections.virginia.gov

*puts on old grandpa voice* back in my day there almost daily bomb threats during finals weeks and god am I glad we didn't have text message alert systems then. You just showed up and Cabell Hall was blocked off with police tape, oh well. (But also I hope everyone at UVA stays safe today ❤️)

🪰 folks! Despite Harvard lawsuit outcome, FlyBase NIH grant was not released. FlyBase now runs on the public, like NPR, PBS etc. If we don't step up, it can go away! Donations site on flybase.org homepage. Note: it links to IU stock center, but its for FlyBase, see instructions. pls give+share! 2/2

My friends are my kid's aunties. My cousins and aunts are my kid's aunties. I wouldn't know how else to explain them! They're the aunties! Which also reminds me of one of our favorite books, "Oh no, the Aunts are here"

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

🧪 Please share!: My lab is currently recruiting graduate students (RAs and TAs) this cycle to start Fall 2026. Howard University Graduate School early application deadline is 11/15/25 (to be considered for certain fellowships). We have additional deadlines in the spring (Feb/April) 1/n

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

On today's commute to school my 5 y.o's mind was blown because: 1. plants use sunshine to make food (cooool!) 2. he grew his own bones (wait, what! how!)

Interesting www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/mec...

Humans: Ah, the human brain, a masterpiece of evolution, truly we are so creative and problemsolving and artistic and smart we are the BEST. Also humans: NOW, how do I make sure I literally never, ever have to think.

DMV-area microbiologists! The ASM DC Branch/CAFPA Fall meeting is Fri Oct 17th at Howard U ft. keynote speaker Dr. Ed Dudley from Penn State. Abstracts for short and lightning talks from trainees is encouraged! Due by Sept 26 - for more info and to sign-up: www.washingtondcasm.org/2025-fall-me...

Open science is more than just datasets. It's also opening access to scientific facilities and pipelines. OpenScope allows researchers from around the world to pitch experiments to be run – at not cost to them – in the Allen Brain Observatory. #OpenScienceWeek 🧠📈 youtu.be/13r9n0pSDLc?...

Multiple Historically Black Universities and Colleges in the South were on lockdown or have cancelled classes on Thursday over a potential threat.

The @alleninstitute.org is organizing an "Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education" workshop on the Friday before the Cellbio25 meeting in Philadelphia. Check out this link for more information and to apply. alleninstitute.org/events/open-...

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision. It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all. Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I took my kid to the National Aquarium this weekend and discovered my new favorite animal, the Cowfish. OMG THE PATTERNS! those perfect little hexagons! gorgeous fishy friend

🧪🪰We are hiring, please help us get the word out! The official ads will be up very soon & I'll link to them later. My lab is looking to recruit/hire at all levels: 1. A technician/post-bacc researcher to start ~fall 2026 2. A postdoc to start sometime in 2026 3. At least one graduate student (RA)

Calling all @apsphysiology.bsky.social members: let’s help raise some money to support ABRCMS student presentation awards! Goal is $1200/discipline to support 12 awards by Sept 30th! 🧪 abrcms.org/donate/stude...

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

New pre-print! I’m so excited to share the first work from a great collaboration with Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani's group (Mathematics, Clarkson University).

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!! Message from ACLU team below: 1/n

well I know what I'm calling about today

Because this is unbearable, I just gave to the Sameer Project - recommended by @prisonculture.bsky.social. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

People forget that checking racial boxes in the United States is first and foremost an exercise in resource distribution and not a moment to tell your diary how you feel about your family history And it has been a project, a white supremacist project, to make people think it’s about individualism

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

I've seen some science folks react with relief that the current reconciliation bill doesn't cut NIH spending- of course this is a good thing. But we can't stand by and say this isn't our fight - there's a lot in here that will affect biomedical scientists and some really bad stuff for the country 🧵

Eleven rural hospitals in New York are highly threatened with closure if the medicare/medicaid changes in the current budget bill pass. Of those 11, five are local to my region. This is the bill that our Congressional Representative Elise Stefanik strongly supports.

yes. I'm an alumni (cough not so recent cough). I have many complicated feelings about UVA and my time there, but uh they're going to run the school into the ground

what the fuck

even if you aren't aware of it, you are probably friends or colleagues with someone whose parents weren't citizens when they were born in the United States

Advice distilled from an NSF PO: Apply for NSF funding this year. Because NSF's current policy is to forward-fund active projects (e.g. pay down their mortgage on the future years of funding), there are plausible budget scenarios where NSF has a LARGE budge to spend next fiscal year (on your grant)

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

The Justice Department has demanded that the president of the University of Virginia resign to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.