Slightly overdue article highlight! In PNAS, we use smFRET to reveal how polypeptide release factor 2 (RF2) undergoes a cascade of structural changes to catalyze polypeptide release during translation termination and ArfA-mediated ribosome rescue. 🧵⬇️ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🚨 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/...

Excited to share that this work is now published in its final form! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s FINALLY out! 🎉🚀 We have been working on PhotoFiTT for a long time, and it’s now published, introducing a quantitative framework to measure phototoxicity and optimise live-cell microscopy experiments. So excited to finally share the last version! 🔬✨ #PhotoFiTT doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Big turnout yesterday. www.reddit.com/r/FortCollin...

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

This!! Like I've been saying....

Defending Elmo and all that is good... sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

Just got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

Glad to see Colorado State University has joined more than 550 universities in signing an April 22 statement from the AAC&U, “speaking in one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Enjoyed spring in Tokyo last month for a much needed respite from the chaos here in the US. Glad to get a second dose of spring now that I'm back here in Colorado. Refueled to get out there and protest some more!

We are walking the Ullswater Way with OSCAR's Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity in May. Learn more and donate here: www.justgiving.com/team/thalia #braintumours #childhoodcancer #cancer

Preprint alert! Interested in high-throughput microfluidic droplet screening? Read on for more about postdocs Samuel Thompson & Zijian (ZJ) Yang's (from the Soh lab) paper demonstrating successful FACS sorting double emulsions at rates of 1,000,000/hour (!) (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us! Women in Biophysics: journeys and challenges Monday, March 24th, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Four prominent women biophysicists will share their experiences in life and career. Join us for this unique opportunity featuring live interviews!

A good cause: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Awesome turnout at CSU and Fort Collins for the #standupforscience2025 today.

#StandUpForScience #FortCollins

I wrote about the harmful impacts of NIH funding cuts on the health and economy of Indiana. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Getting my poster ready...

Please join me and an amazing panel of inspiring #WomenInScience on March 6 @rnasociety.bsky.social "alteRNAtives Celebrating Women's Career Journeys in Science" #MariaTejero #NevaCaliskan @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social @rnasociety.bsky.social members check email to register!

Excited to share our lab’s first review, focusing on RNA localization! #RNA #RNAlocalization genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... please reskeet and spread the word! 🧪

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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

If you're in the US, considering Europe for your PhD, and you identify as a minority, I will chat with you and review any application documents you need 🧪

EMBL has a single PhD application where a student can apply to any of our 80 labs in our 6 sites, with applications twice a year--the next March 10th! No need for MS, no application fee. Ranked 13th in the world on basis of publications, with emphais on junior faculty www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Hey #chemsky and beyond, with all that is going on, I am curious what expensive, high margin molecules we could provide to the community for free. What things do you use all the time, cost way too much, and would make a difference? Alexa Fluor 488 NHS? Other dyes? Other molecule?

I spent this afternoon in DC meeting with @repdwightevans.bsky.social about the current science funding freeze & indirect cuts. I'm proud to fight for the biomedical research funding & cures we all deserve—and you can, too.

It's out! Beautiful work led by Loreto Oyarte Gálvez & @cbisot.bsky.social! Do you want to learn more about how Mycorrhizal fungi extraordinary networks form and function? Read the open-access publication! Link below 👇

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It’s official! Stand Up for Science with us on the east steps of the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, CO! @standupforscience.bsky.social

*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

“I am glad the NIH staff have been allowed to take this first step to avoid getting further behind,” said Jeremy Berg, former editor of Science and a previous director of the NIGMS. “But this makes getting advisory council meetings back on track as soon as possible even more imperative.”

Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) -- a novel, high-throughput single-molecule sequencing technology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.639056v1

In a brief respite from current events, I got to see a California Condor for the first time while running in the Grand Canyon this weekend! What an amazing animal. Unfortunately, public lands and those who protect them are also targets of this admin. Keeping fighting…

Friends: Science is under threat! Worldwide, forces seek to make it corporate-like, focused on deliverables, or even the enemy of society. It's time to take a stand to celebrate the science we know and love. Introducing: Woodstock.Bio2 + Night Science June 10-13, Prague & Woods of Bohemia Join us!

If you’re a constituent of David Valadao, Ken Calvert, or Young Kim you have more power to fight for Medicaid by making a phone call than 99% of Californians. Call tonight, then call again tomorrow before 4PM

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Photos from the rally last week to support science, protest firings at NIH, NSF & budget cuts for research. Careers of people who’ve worked hard for science & public service have been lost. There were many young people, including PhD students from my lab, who’re anxious about what the future holds.🧪

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n