this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator. Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest: we engineered the reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme for ATP-driven modification of C termini. Our tool mimics the logic of peptide bond formation in biology for precision modification of proteins in vitro. 🧪https://rdcu.be/ewN7C

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy

🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered and you get to live in Utah. 1/2

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

New paper alert! Huge congrats to my graduate student Jesse Velasco on his first author publication in physiological reports. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814...

We @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social, in partnership with @bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues! morgridge.org/job-posting/...

So much healthy food discourse is disguised versions of "have you tried not consuming a quart of oil daily"

i would say the modal opinion among the media-political elite is that trumpers are basically correct that our government/elite universities have been taken over by woke ideology/too many minorities and women and that trump is providing a welcome corrective even if it goes too far

"Do your own research" to decide about therapies is like asking to someone to learn to fly to get into a plane. It complete erodes the trust in each other and the essence of society.

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!

1/My 7th grader's science homework is to learn the elements Memorize atomic masses. She points out that carbon has a mass of 12. My life passes before my eyes. Finally, my chance to explain what I've been doing for 20 yrs. So I say, kind of casually, "you know, sometimes carbon has a mass of 13..."

Guess gender has been banned at NIH

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

My favorite science is the kind that makes you says, "Man, I wish I thought of that!" This is such a paper. Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases. @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter. Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations... Another obscenity...

Enormously harmful to the future of science. My heart breaks for these students who were excited to learn and experience research firsthand.

Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside: A broadly applicable serum-free media, Quantitative lipid uptake characterization, Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.

Recursion CEO Chris Gibson: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help. Companies with resources must bridge the gap. 👏 $RXRX via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/n...

I wrote a book The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2013, title adopted after Schumpeter). This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

Congrats Gerta! We are proud of you!

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

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

Happy New Year. I’m pleased to report publication of the Ducker lab’s latest cancer metabolism paper led by graduate student Kyle Dunlap in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports.... 1/n

"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... From The Unbearable Slowness of Being

At @science.org, the Breakthrough of the Year 2024 Lenacapavir – a new injectable drug that prevents HIV infection "The Long Shot" science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 New bioRxiv study! 🚨 PDAC adapts to glutamine depletion via macropinocytosis, reshaping CAF subtypes & tumor stroma. Blocking it sensitizes tumors to therapy. Shoutout to Dr. Yijuan Zhang for leading this amazing work! Read more: 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #CancerResearch #PDAC #TME

Lots of great stuff happening at the U where enrollment has never been higher. This will be an unnecessary setback that will affect student outcomes and reduce innovation.

A whopping (~90%) reduction of progression to Type 2 diabetes with tirzepatide (GLP-1 drug, dual receptor) vs placebo in a randomized trial of >2,500 participants with obesity, absolute reduction of 10/100 treated t.co/71hKD8v7Y2

We’re live on Bluesky! Don’t post a ton but try to retweet all the cool science I come across.