Let's get to 10K in one day! Please sign and share the #StandUpForScience petition calling on RFK Jr. to be impeached and removed. #impeachthequack 🦆 #31DaysofAction ✊ #signandshare ✍️ www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

It's the LAST WEEKDAY that I'll post about the Bigger Than Binaries shirt! I'm sending the order to the printer first thing Monday. SO! I humbly request that you buy a shirt and/or repost this so everybody sees them 😘 Shirts support @skypeascientist.bsky.social! 👕 -> squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Classes are ending, but SCIENCE is still under ATTACK! Join us and #StandUpForScience to let our representatives and leaders know that we will not let the pipeline for STEM education and discovery be dismantled! All members of the community are welcome! #SummerFightForScience

'At the institute I lead, almost all of the canceled grants were ones specifically awarded to support the training of young scientists. Each of these young scientists represents the future of American science: the next innovators, mentors, and developers of lifesaving treatments.'

Happy to see my Postdoc work out @natbiotech.nature.com. Using HaloTag and synthetic fluorophores instead of FPs enables us to shift the spectral properties of kinase activity reporters (KARs) to the far-red 🔬. Huge thanks to everyone involved @jinzhanglab.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity Join @bioimagingna.bsky.social Early Career WG for our Career Speaker Series on The BioImaging ToolBox: “Pre-nalysis”, Imaging, Analysis and Processing” next Thursday , May 1 Learn More & Register here buff.ly/BHGomlc

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

We're looking for 1-2 enthusiastic early career chemists to join our Open Chemistry team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Come help us create amazing dyes and share them with the world. Please share with the best recent/soon-to-be B.S. chemists you know! bit.ly/42w8C6N

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

I was invited to write a blog post for our Center for the Advancement of Teaching about belonging in large lectures. It came out today 😊 Shoutout to Neal Zondlo (who I don't think is here yet) for the friendship bracelet idea! #ChemSky #EduSky

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

On Wednesday we learned our grant (and those of countless other amazing programs) was terminated. 🧵 1/n

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

#HandsOff protest in San Diego

5 yrs ago I was at Emory to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IRACDA teaching & research postdoc program. My teaching mentor was one of the first fellows and a student I mentored as a PD is now Assistant Professor. This program helped prepare us to be better teachers, researchers, & mentors 🧪 1/

NIH MOSAIC program’s termination is a massive loss for the next generation of scientists, threatening the research workforce’s future and human health. We remain committed to supporting MOSAIC Scholars with critical resources for the remainder of the award and beyond. Full statement: buff.ly/TSMrvXq

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.

I'm an Emory IRACDA alum and this is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating. That program was amazing training in both research & teaching & I know I'm a better professor bc of it. PREP & IMSD programs are so important for training our next gen of scientists. Such a disastrous move for science 🧪

IRACDA at UCSD confirmed done 🫠

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program. this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole

Hello Bluesky! We’re finally moving from that other app! We’re QSS, and we host events to create community for LGBT professionals in STEM, as well as outreach events with orgs across San Diego!

This is really cool! If I were local I’d 100% be going. And I wonder if we could get something like this going in San Diego… 👀

Join research, healthcare, and education workers across the country on Tuesday, April 8th to demand NO cuts to education and research! UCSD rally at noon at Geisel. Not is San Diego? Find a rally near you at killthecuts.org! ✊

Congratulations to graduate student Ayse Sahan and former student Shawn Mingyuan Chen on the publication of their lipid biosensors in PNAS! With these sensors, we’re able to track PI(3,4)P2 and PIP3 signaling in the cell, and show the lysosome is a PIP3 signaling site. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Shared some thoughts about the uncertain future of the D-SPAN award “It’s basically a matter of adapting and recognizing it’s not the first time in history that people like us have been excluded from science,” anyone want to help me with my K99? 🙏 www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/30/s...

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

Check out this upcoming event featuring LGBT scientists across the Torrey Pines Mesa, from SBP, Salk, Scripps, and UCSD! We’ll have talks (including from @canderson0402.bsky.social ), light snacks, networking with LGBT STEM groups, and a raffle prize!

#New: Huge crowd gathers for #StandUpForScience2025 rally in San Francisco:

Thank you @jeremymberg.bsky.social for highlighting the special importance of T32s. This allowed me to launch an interdisciplinary chemistry/biology interface (CBI) graduate program at UCB in early 2000s. For the first time, due to this funding, chem PhD students were able to do rotations. 1/n

Myself and 7 other neuroscientists, including @annaintegrated.bsky.social and @stevenssostre.bsky.social got to speak with @thetransmitter.bsky.social about why we think Standing Up for Science is important and imperative. Check out or thoughts here: www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

Tomorrow! Science is under threat, and so are the people who do it — including women, the LGBTQ+ community, and POCs. Science is meant to tell us more about the world to help the people in it — right now it’s hard to do that. Stand up for science — and don’t forget who else we need to stand for, too

Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people

One week until we #standupforscience2025! Get those signs ready! #saveourscience #scienceforall

First PinkyCaMP plasmids are available via @addgene.bsky.social www.addgene.org/browse/artic... Cc @finkryan.bsky.social @massecklab.bsky.social

Check out my poster tomorrow if you’re at #bps2025! Slight correction to the graphic — my poster will be B335! I’ll be there for the first hour of the session, from 1:45 to 2:45!

Check out the blog post I wrote for @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social about the biological fluorescence subgroup from yesterday’s Subgroup Saturday at #bps2025 www.biophysics.org/blog/light-i...

I’ll be presenting my poster here at #BPS2025 at the same time as the town hall, but this is very important to attend in addition to seeing all the great science going on!

I’m one of the #bps2025 guest bloggers! If you see me at the meeting come say “hi”! And keep an eye out for my posts from the meeting

It's Subgroup Saturday at the #bps2025 #BPS. Who else is here to discuss cutting edge science? @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

Two members of the lab, @ammgest.bsky.social and @anne-lyons-bioe.bsky.social will be at the Biophysical Society Meeting #bps2025 02/15 -02/19! Check out their posters on 02/18 from 1:45 to 2:45!

Trump's assault on the NIH w/a $9B cut will damage academic research institutions and medical research centers - the effects will be devastating to the University of California, UC employs 265,000 faculty and staff, enrolls 295,000 students has >2M alumni.. call your representatives and senators

Hello Bluesky! We're a UC San Diego-based lab that studies cellular signaling, and makes genetically encoded biosensors to study those signals. Talk to us about kinases, fluorescent proteins, GPCRs, and imaging technology!

Young trainees starting to venture into the microscopy world should not feel intimidated! I spent my PhD avoiding the microscope, afraid of breaking it. Don't be like me! Also 2 tips: 1 - Basic knowledge of optics goes a long way. 2 - You don't need a new fancy scope. I'm happy with a 2008 model.

Yeah I got this a lot from people in college. More in grad school. Still get it sometimes when I say I like teaching organic chem. Weirdly dentists tend to be the worst about it to me???

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! The recordings of the #Virtual #I2K2024 workshops are available now tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20... Thanks to all who presented! Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too: www.youtube.com/@I2KConference

It’s really fun honestly! As someone who’s been at the microscope rather than the fume hood for a few years, it’s been fun review. And evidence I haven’t completely forgotten everything lol

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics