A superb summary of why our investment in fundamental science fuels stunning advances in medical treatments 🧪

Bursting with pride 🥹💙🐻 My amazing student, Briley Hillyard, is presenting her research at #ERS2025 in the Netherlands! Watching her hard work and dedication shine on an international stage makes me feel like the proudest mama bear. 🧑‍🎓🌍✨ #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 #cysticfibrosis #proudPI #CF

🚀 Exciting MSc opp @ UManitoba! Join 2 interdisciplinary labs (bioinformatics + cancer bio) on a CIHR-funded ovarian cancer project. Gain hands-on training in single-cell genomics & molecular biology. See advertisement to apply #GradResearch #Cancer

We have developed a new workflow to map whole human organs at single-cell resolution, while integrating spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. We applied this workflow to map precancerous lesions of the fallopian tubes. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you @smufu.bsky.social for your unwavering support!!!

Fantastic news! When students mobilize, great things happen! #KeepDalStrong

1000 faculty members have been locked out of @dalhousieu.bsky.social since Aug 18. That means 90% of classes WILL NOT start next week. The Board of Governors needs to come back to the table and stop playing with the future of our students. #keepdalstrong

2nd DFA Lockout Rally - This is happening RIGHT NOW! Game on and #keepdalstrong - 6225 University Ave, Halifax - Outside Killam Library

DFA President explains the past 24 hours and urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social board to negotiate rather than dictate. Talk to us at the table ti #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Join us this Friday in front of the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Killam Library for our rally! Students are arriving this week, let's stand together and show them that we care about saving their Fall term from this reckless Board behaviour! #Keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

DFA members in Saint John standing strong against the poor offer from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - time to get back to the table and get on with fall term! #keepdalstrong

Patti Doyle-Bedwell is on DFA’s Bargaining Team. She urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board to come back to the table- we are now on day 7 of complete silence from the Board. Time to talk, don’t you think? #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Naiomi Metallic talks about how her students will miss an opportunity to learn some foundational info re: indigenous law the longer this lockout continues. @dalhousieu.bsky.social, come back to bargain and help us to #keepdalstrong @caut.bsky.social @ansut.bsky.social

Faculty are concerned about the impact this lockout @dalhousieu.bsky.social is having on students and the fall term. Admin, let’s get back to bargaining and #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

Happening NOW #keepdalstrong - 6225 University Ave, Halifax - in front of Killam Library @ansut.bsky.social

#keepdalstrong DFA 1st lockout rally kicks off NOW. 6225 University Ave, Halifax - in front off Killam Library

All welcome to join DFA's 1st rally in 23 years! In front of the Killam Library, Friday August 22 at 12 noon, half an hour only. See you there! Help us to #KeepDalStrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @nsgeu.bsky.social

Wnt signaling--still at the heart of EVERYTHING!

🥁NEW publication from our lab: the largest meta-analysis of gut microbiome associations with CRC! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵⬇️ 1/6

Here are my top 10 graduation dogs!

Why should microbiologists working on #CysticFibrosis study Haemophilus influenzae? @phoebesilva.bsky.social explains all for @amiposts.bsky.social www.the-microbiologist.com/features/the... #MicroSky

Beautiful Vienna 🥰🥰❤️ #Europerio11 #Vienna #Europerio11vienna2025

There are many types of eDNA in #biofilm matrices - including Z-DNA & G4 complexes that are key for mechanical stability, don't get degraded by DNaseI and can't be seen with typical DNA dyes. Absolutely storming talk from Rikke Meyer at #Biofilms11 #MIcroSky (Image: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...)

Scientists created "neurobots" - biobots with integrated neural tissue! These autonomous, self-powered, novel life forms show complex movements and more! 🤖🧠🔬 #Biobots #Neuroscience #Robotics #Xenopus #NeuralDevelopment @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The mechanisms of HER2 targeted ADCs are dependent on Rab GTPases - Apr 24, 2025 @journals.sagepub.com @tamedoncol.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #personalizedmedicine #breastcancer #oncsky #oncology #openaccess

#mylove #myheart #myeverything #mybabies #blessing I’d go to war for you..easy

#Friday #mood

Unveiling the role of phages in shaping the periodontal microbial ecosystem -in #mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The fundamental feature of a scientific system is not that its propositions are verifiable….but that its propositions are falsifiable… #science #thelawsofmedicine #discovery #ecrlife #research

As the year comes to a close.. This thought for anyone who needs it. #kindness #love #academicchatter #life #2024 #newpi #womeninstem #relationships #struggles #silence

WOW! "Subtomogram averaging Soluble and membrane-bound complexes ranging in size from >3 MDa to ~200 kDa, including 80S ribosomes, Rubisco, nucleosomes, microtubules, clathrin, photosystem II, and mitochondrial ATP synthase. The majority of these density maps reached sub-nanometer resolution..." 🧪

My first #job ad here! We are looking for a res assistant in #bioinformatics to analyse #single-cell and #spatial #transcriptomics data in #skin inflammation. Job based at King's College London, with opportunity to spend time at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social in beautiful Vancouver tinyurl.com/4xd9n5n7

To not know self. The immunologically “self-less” mouse.. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Just got my first proper grant—the very first one I submitted as a new PI. Super grateful but, I was happy for all of about two minutes, and then the dread with a topping of Imposter syndrome? Does anyone else feel like this, or is it just me? #skeptic #newpi #womeninstem #life #ecr #academicchatter

A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.

🌨️☕👩🏻‍💻 The differences in #lungcancer molecular profiles between nonsmokers & smokers highlight the importance of a discriminating approaches for screening. The authors present emerging data & implementation challenges for Low Dose CT (LDCT) screening in nonsmokers. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39258345/

Phenomenally useful and interesting comparison of the timescale of different events inside cells! 🧪

“We’re your team, not your judges..” ❤️👌👌

Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut - in #Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Someone shared this.. Makes sense, doesn’t it? #life #academiclife #womeninstem #research #poetry #science #wisdom

Congratulations, Dr. Lior Peri! What a cool coincidence to receive the official notification of the Doctorate within a week from a publication of her paper "A bitter anti-inflammatory drug binds at two distinct sites of a human bitter taste GPCR" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is immense stength in kindness #monday #peace #kindness #academiclife #womeninstem #gentleness #leadership

Amen! As a woc, this resonated so so much! #womenforwomen #womeninstem #kindness #strength #life

Good read. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here are other resources of *free* science illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, inkscape.org, biogdp.com They still look like BioRender style thou.

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com