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How do nuclear compartments form inside cell nuclei? We show RNA glues certain loci together to form a nuclear compartment. This involves special GC-rich regions of highly expressed genes that also associate with nuclear speckles, but interactions between these loci are independent of speckles!

bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Formation of an RNA-mediated nuclear compartment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.20.746005v1

A diver stumbles across a whale shark trapped in a commercial fishing line in a marine sanctuary that bans fishing, while the giant lies still while the rope is cut. The footage also shows the scale of a whale shark vs a human. [📹Smithsonian Channel] Original post

“An almost unbelievable blunder has occurred in the field of senescence…” forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

Mind over Antibody

“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the car…

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This is 2026. Desperate times require desperate measures. OnlyFans can be an unexpected source of support for research. 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Scientists create OnlyFans account for marmots to fund research – video

UCLA professor Daniel Blumstein and his team started an OnlyFans account to raise money for their research amid government funding cuts

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I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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You, personally are spending, on average ~$2,500 per person that the United States is deporting. We could fund Medicare for 12 Million Americans with that national budget. By the way, you spend only ~$139 a year on biomedical research through the NIH. www.epi.org/publication/...

The Cost of Deportations Calculator: Technical documentation

Updated August 6, 2026, to correct the teachers, firefighters, and nurses benefits percentages. The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal gove...

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NIH is planning on revoking eligibility for international students on visas for the K99/R00 pathway, a key program that supports postdocs in establishing their own labs www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...

NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue

The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.

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ALL cats love boxes: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/humor/s/yi...

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

Changes to Letters of Support for NIH applications: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the lab -80 will fail on a weekend, and on the hottest day of summer 🥵🤬

Not surprising. 🧪 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

Alternative Treatments are Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Survival

Breast cancer patients have better survival outcomes following traditional therapies compared to alternative or complementary treatments.

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If you hoard those cables for long enough …

Found a surprise on my desk from a colleague! Science meets art! ❤️

Cat quote of the night. 7-19-26 "When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures." - Brian May Happy birthday to Brian May #CatQuoteOfTheNight #MenWithCats

The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>

The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost

For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...

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OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...

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Who did this? #worldcup #chemistry

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

It would be amazing to have more Native doctors! As of 2024, 0.3 percent of practicing physicians in the nation were Native American. A proposed Indigenous School of Medicine in Rapid City SD could help change that. ictnews.org/news/educati...

Proposed Indigenous medical school aims to boost Native physician numbers - ICT

Effort has funding for a feasibility study with a goal of 2030 opening in Rapid City

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The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 3mo ago

Foundational! "The scientist doing basic research may not be at all interested in the practical applications of his work, yet the further progress of industrial development would eventually stagnate if basic scientific research were long neglected." From Science: The Endless Frontier, Bush, 1945

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB

Just did the math. $240 billion is about 27 years of funding for NSF. Literal generations of scientists.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in @cellcellpress.bsky.social ! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!

A fun read, unveiling key discoveries revealed because the control "failed" 🧪

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research.' link.springer.com/article/10.1...