The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 43 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky

After the GRS, I was lucky to stay for the Bioorganic Chemistry GRC, chaired by Denise Field and @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social. This meeting is truly one of my favorite weeks of the year, and as every year, I learned so much and left the meeting so inspired in my own science!

Last week, I had the privilege of chairing the Bioorganic Chemistry GRS with my amazing co-chair @zhilindseylin.bsky.social. Thank you to all of our amazing speakers, poster presenters for a truly incredibly GRS!

This is an excellent article on the termination of all federal funding at Harvard. This visualization shows all of the terminated programs that were supposed to train the next generation of scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We are happy to seek 3 post-docs across Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow & UCL in an exciting project to investigate mechanisms linking glial ageing/longevity & neurodegeneration (MRC-funded). Info attached @nathanwoodling.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Interested in a postdoc position combining computational protein design and molecular simulation? There is an open position in my group at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, UK. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Feel free to message me with any questions.

Heading to the Biorganic GRC tomorrow! I will be on a GRS career panel and will be representing both Nature Methods and Nature Chemistry as an editor! Pitch me your papers!!

During my recent Europe trip, I kept getting asked why we are not in the streets every day protesting. Here is your chance, San Diego. Join us today at noon. I will give brief remarks. See you at UCSD. actionnetwork.org/events/stand...

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Bioorganic GRC is set! I got tired of the lack of swag so made a couple of unofficial tees. Order one if you want to support the conference (or simply enjoy strange looks in grocery stores). Spirit: chembio-shop.fourthwall.com/products/grc... World Tour: chembio-shop.fourthwall.com/products/spi...

Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the #McClintockLetters initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

Practical course on bioimage analysis!

I'm excited to announce that this spring/summer Statistics, Methods, and Research Training (SMaRT) Workshops are live! Check out the offerings here: smart-workshops.com/workshops Please repost and share widely! Some more info in 🧵 1/

Boston-area pharma/biotech people! Are you considering a future in teaching? Tufts Chemistry has a new part-time Professor of the Practice position focused on mentoring graduate students for a future in research. Please apply, or DM me with your questions! apply.interfolio.com/168150

I wrote something to say that scientists cannot afford to be 'apolitical' Scientists actually have the skills and the duty to join in the fight against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Behind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it. If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it. Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science. Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"If I’m told to build a computer, I am trained to first ask how fast it needs to operate, not how it will be used. If I’m told to build a highway, I am trained to first ask how many cars need to fit on it, not how many people will be displaced by its path."

I don't think I posted about this yet. COME WORK WITH US AT NATURE METHODS! This is a rare opportunity, and we can't wait for our new colleague. Feel free to contact me with questions.

I fundraised for the Alzheimer’s Association when I ran the Chicago marathon. Proud of this organization for standing up for the science and for the NIH.

America’s long-term growth is at stake. Congress is weighing sweeping FY2026 cuts to fundamental science, including $18 billion from the NIH and $5 billion from the NSF. In the long run, these cuts will cost the economy billions. @jdrakephd.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30. *GASP* 😮 We know, it's a big goal. If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.

This is good talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen. Their findings could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-ne...

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

Excited to share that my first first author paper is now out in @pnas.org ! We show that we can use oxaziridines to label thioether containing glycans in Mtb. Using this approach we could visualize key glycans during model infection! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Lead author @ssmelyansky.bsky.social spearheaded a strategy to label a single sulfur-containing glycan called ManLAM on the cell envelope of the bacteria that cause #TB. news.mit.edu/2025/new-mol... or here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #glycotime @mitchemistry.bsky.social

MIT is asking Alumni to SPEAK UP, giving them talking points and encouraging them to contact their legislature. This is huge. ORGANIZE! We can do this!! *Sorry - I deleted a prior post because it had an error in the caption

Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

The real problem about science isn't about loss of trust. It's about not having a voice, a counter. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... Whai if the 300,000 scientists supported by NIH stood up? Or even half of them. Instead of <1%

Excited to share that our protein editing method from the Muir Lab is now published in @science.org We believe that protein transposition will enable new biochemical studies of PTMs and open up new intersections of proteins and small molecules www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re at the point where most of my friends (grad students and post docs) are for the first time seriously considering moving to Europe or debating leaving science altogether www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Timescales in Cell Biology

Congratulations our very own Deiaa Harraz, Kunal Lodaya, Bryan Tang for their new paper in Science! Check out our new paper titled Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The indirect cost issue has moved to the background for the moment, but it will be back. Here is a short thread about indirect costs. I have posted a Powerpoint deck with these slides in the Miscellaneous Materials folder on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/n

My colleague @amoloney.bsky.social is hiring an intern for the summer in Bristol! Alex is a great person to collaborate with and I'm sure whoever works with him will have a blast this summer. biotechne.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Biotec...

🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

A new means of selectively imaging the inner mycolate of mycobacteria using a compound that covalently modifies an enzyme intercepts to create a new intermediate with the Kim lab, @thebrysonlab.bsky.social and the Bernhardt lab. #TB

I cite the knowledge I learned in Marci Shore’s intellectual history class more than I could’ve ever known. Thank you for educating a generation of Yalies, and I hope people can read between the lines. www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...

Congrats to Teddy on a phenomenal paper, and thank you for letting me be a little part of this story!

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.