We're hiring! Seeking a highly motivated scientist to serve as the Research Scientist, Biochemistry, who will serve as a key member of the Functional Protein Observatory team. Learn more & apply: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... @pollyfordyce.bsky.social

Microscopy usually requires a tradeoff between field of view & resolution. What if you want both? Velocity Bio co-founders Daniel Mokhtari & Ali Lashkaripour built a 'macroscope' that images large fields of view (34x34 mm) at high resolution (~ 3 µm) & at lower cost. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.

Come join us at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! I feel incredibly lucky to have launched my career here -- it is a fantastic place to do bold interdisciplinary science surrounded by creative & supportive colleagues. Applications are due 10/15/2025 -- DM me if you have questions about the search!

Come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! It's an amazing place to do interdisciplinary science & I'm so grateful to be in this community. Faculty applications due 10/15/2025 -- please share widely. Interested but not sure you're ready to apply this year? DM me & I'm happy to provide advice :)

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely! chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Only 2 days to go! Register and join us to hear these amazing talks!

Incredibly excited for this year's iteration of the Next Generation Faculty Symposium on 9/10/25! This is a fantastic opportunity to hear 10 minute talks describing fantastic cutting-edge science from researchers preparing to launch a faculty search. Please register (link below) & forward widely :)

"meaningful and innovative health research has never flourished amid constraints on language and free exchange of ideas"

This is a great piece highlighting the many ways that federal investment in science benefits society.

Thank you to the student organizing committee for a great Frontiers in Biophysics meeting at UBC!

Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

43% cut to dollar amount awarded in federal research grants by NIH in Trump ‘26 budget. 1800 fewer grants. The 27 ICs will be restructured into 8. www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...

While we are watching the damage here, a far away land has reached a tipping point. More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest cuts to science. There is no future w/o #science. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Powerful new work! Kudos to the authors for making it easy to explore the code ❤️

Check out this fantastic conference in Boston, June 23, featuring the Ono Pharma Awardees in chemical biology, registration open now!

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on! innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...

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)

I was an NSF-funded undergraduate who learned how to code by analyzing high energy physics data. Then I was an NSF-funded graduate student studying how kinesin molecules are the most efficient motors ever known (1/3).

It’s time to comment! Grant opportunities should be motivated by scientific need and grants should be reviewed by scientists with the knowledge to evaluate them. Please repost!

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)

Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation

Tell me you want to destroy science without telling me you want to destroy science.

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals) Oof! 3/n

I am honored to be elected into the 2025 class of AAAS Fellows! It is surreal to see my name in the list. I am very grateful to lab members over the last 10 years & to Aaron Streets & Jason Sello for the chance to co-launch the Next Gen Symposium (1/2). news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Small proteins can be more complex than they look! We know proteins fluctuate between different conformations- but by how much? How does it vary from protein to protein? Can highly stable domains have low stability segments? @ajrferrari.bsky.social experimentally tested >5,000 domains to find out!

Super cool paper with big impacts for making complex library prep much faster and cheaper!

It makes no sense to destroy the crown jewel of American science. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.

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...

These cuts are ruining people’s careers. This is not efficiency - capricious changes to funding damage science for generations. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a super clear and helpful article explaining why the 15% indirect cost rate is unfair, hurts science, and does NOT increase $ for research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apply now for this year's Gordon Research Conference in Microfluidics! See details and information about this week's featured speaker here: tinyurl.com/grcmicroflui...

Wow, major breakthrough in the development of broadly neutralizing bispecific antibody therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, led by @stanford-chemh.bsky.social institute scholar @cobarnes27.bsky.social 😃 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My first research experience was because of a summer NSF REU. I learned to code (in FORTRAN 77!) as part of the KTeV high energy physics collaboration. It launched my passion for science & my entire career. Devastating to see this valuable program gutted. www.science.org/content/arti...

Delighted to share this work led by @mekedlawitts.bsky.social that investigates the delivery efficiency of various protein delivery vehicles! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Anyone (like me!) who has launched a startup knows that bench space, access to utilities, trash collection, etc. cost money. 'Indirect cost' funding from the NIH is what helps pay these costs at universities. This is a great article explaining this: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/02...

Last week to apply and have your abstract considered for a talk at the 2025 GRS Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics! Apply now for GRS and the associated GRC! This week we are featuring Charles Baroud! Apply now at: grc.org/physics-and-... and grc.org/physics-and-...

I flew to LA for #BPS2025 and came down w flu A right after I got here. Bummed to miss everyone - please check out lab posters from @shawnmcostello.bsky.social , Matt DeJong, and Albert Lee!!

Super excited to try out this tool! Congratulations, Borna!

Well said @dereklowe.bsky.social. Academia produces two vital products: (1) knowledge, and (2) human capital that knows how to use it. If we can’t train enough young creative US scientists to fulfill biopharma industry needs… “I think they're being short-sighted, because fear does that to you.”

Super proud of Eliel Akinbami and the amazing work he is pioneering to understand how enzyme sequence encodes enzyme function!

Genomic Foundationless Models: Pretraining Does Not Promise Performance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.

We submitted a paper on 10/7/24 and are still waiting for Reviewer #4 to submit their review. One co-first author has left the lab and the other graduates in June. The clock is ticking for me to be able to respond to revisions -- at some point, I won't have the staff to do it (1/2).

Apply now for the GRC & GRS on Microfluidics! We're spotlighting Hee-Sun Han! The Han lab innovates high-resolution omics technologies & data science to understand how molecular processes converge to shape systems-level phenotypes. Abstracts due 2/23! lnkd.in/dhcuAHtq lnkd.in/dH9Qtx2T

Are you interested in #microfluidics? Check out the amazing speaker lineup for this year's Gordon Research Conference & Gordon Research Seminar in Microfluidics! To be considered for a talk at the GRS, you must submit your application by 2/23/25!!! www.grc.org/physics-and-...

Apply now for next summer's Gordon Conference on Microfluidics -- it's going to be a fantastic meeting and we would love to see you there! www.grc.org/physics-and-...