If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment

"The Study of Evolvability in Gene Regulatory Networks" by Alger Jorritsma, Aaron Kiggen, Steven Van Belleghem, & Pieter van den Berg FREE till Oct 27th at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nkTMcQbJI...

PhD position available (start 2027) in my group at TUM! We study how mechanical stress controls cell cycle progression and cytoskeletal dynamics in plants, combining cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics. CV + cover letter to mariana.romeiro-motta@tum.de. RTs welcome! #PlantSciJobs

☕ @anhhle2702.bsky.social @mayorlab.bsky.social & co show that in Xenopus embryos, local ectodermal tissue flows provide a directional cue that polarizes and guides embryonic myeloid cells migration via cell-on-cell interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration - Nature Cell Biology

Le et al. show that in Xenopus embryos, local ectodermal tissue flows provide a directional cue that polarizes and guides embryonic myeloid cells migration via cell-on-cell interactions.

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Teaching advanced cell bio this morning and including a cautionary note about using AI. So I asked AI to draw a microtubule, thinking it would have subtle but important errors. But wow. I think dissecting everything wrong here could take all semester! Maybe a fun exam question?

As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

I always find it amazing how much review figures or graphical abstracts change over time and with more understanding of the subject. If one slow-cooks instead of AI-generates figures that is.. 🧪🎨

Joachim Fuchs@joachimfuchs.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do molecular features of protein complexes allow cells to behave collectively? And what can we learn from collective cell migration in epithelial and mesenchymal cells to understand brain development? These questions motivated our recent review: doi.org/10.1515/hsz-... 🧪🔬🧠 1/10

Many students come to the Marine Biological Laboratory for a course, and often, they find their way back. That was the case for John Spear, who took the Microbial Diversity course in 1998 and now returns as a course director. 🔗 Read more here: go.mbl.edu/take5-spear

If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

My uploaded comment on proposed changes to National Science Foundation policy that would preemptively align decision making with OMB's plan to politicize grant making, despite widespread public rejection of this plan.... Still time to comment, last day 8/24: www.regulations.gov/document/NSF...

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.

The Drift@thedriftmag.com · 4w ago

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

The kinetochore is essential for cell division across species, but its components and organization evolve dramatically. How can that be? Our first foray into this fascinating question is up now on biorxiv: 🧪 1/12 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kinetochore diversification in Naegleria reveals plasticity in the kinetochore-microtubule interface

The kinetochore--the molecular machine that couples chromosomes to spindle microtubules--performs an essential, tightly regulated function, yet varies dramatically across eukaryotes. Microtubules are ...

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For @science.org , I wrote about brain-eating amoeba 🦠 and fascinating new research led by @katrinavelle.bsky.social which could help explain how the usually harmless pond-dweller ends up in the brain. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Brain-eating amoeba’ appears to love crawling into narrow spaces

Claustrophilic behavior may help Naegleria fowleri find food—and accidentally travel up the human nasal cavity

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Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

Fred Hutch@fredhutch.org · 4w ago

🔬 Fred Hutch Cancer Center is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org. Join a world-class research community in Seattle and help advance discoveries in fundamental biology. Apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/190640

IGN@ign.com · 4w ago

Ready for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around. https://bit.ly/3UmhwmS

What can development contribute to predicting evolution? I argue it sets what evolution can access, and this depends on timescale since different parts of development evolve at different rates. Hence coarse-graining: keep only what matters 📣 New in @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

New preprint from the lab! One reason why I chose work on trypanosomes is to address this question "How do they determine kinetochore position without a centromeric histone H3 variant, CENP-A/CenH3?" After working on this question for 16 years, we finally got a clue

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 4w ago

The centromere localization domain of kinetoplastid kinetochore protein KKT2 recognizes the free N-terminus of histone H3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.13.744621v1

Checkout 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘶𝘬𝘰𝘭𝘪, a new species of amoeba isolated from cow poop that aggregates on the tips of dung fibers doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

✨dung fiber amoeba✨

Tristan@tristamoeba.bsky.social · last mo.

Checkout 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘶𝘬𝘰𝘭𝘪, a new species of amoeba isolated from cow poop that aggregates on the tips of dung fibers doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

My lab just opened at Lehigh University - we study the origins, mechanisms, and impacts of the rapid evolution of the chromosome segregation machinery. I'm looking for 2 team members (postdoc and lab tech) who are passionate about evolution and cell division! See the opportunities at dudkalab.me.

Endocytic clathrin coats are surprisingly dynamic: triskelia turn over in seconds. How is the turnover regulated and what is it for? Read Anne-Laure Boinet's preprint with @rouxlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Cell size reduction distinctly scales spindle elongation and chromosome segregation in C. elegans - Nature Communications

Embryos must adapt to decreasing cell size. Although chromosome segregation. dynamics in C. elegans remain largely invariant, spindle length scales with cell. size and can be recapitulated by only var...

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Yay! Just saw that we got the cover of the August 1 MBoC! Woot! 🎉 Please check out our paper if you are interested in it the tubulin code or early development. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

Happy to share the final version of our study on the evolution of chromatin states across eukaryotes, out today in @natgenet.nature.com Led by @crisnava.bsky.social and @seanamontgomery.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some highlights below

Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...

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The extraordinary robustness of mitotic spindle assembly to microtubule dynamics plasticity revealed by end-binding proteins and tubulin tagging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741283v1

So much sadness, excitement, anxiety.. all the feels! This was a long journey that started with a pandemic and ended with “whatever this is”. But I am thrilled that the Raman lab will be a thing. More about our lab soon but for now, must move toddler and dog across the country. Send good vibes

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And just like that… @pravrutharaman.bsky.social is ready to leave us to start her lab at @umassboston.bsky.social We mark this occasion by the ‘solemn’ passing of the crown and specter to the next seniormost postdoc @tamanash.bsky.social; may his reign be as short as British PMs.

A 2 are dead & 5 are in hospital including a 2-yr old from a mass shooting at a food festival in Seattle. Texted my Seattle family to check on them; thankfully they were safe. My brother in law noted this was the kind of event they would normally attend. So sick of the guns shorturl.at/PtZDb

2 killed, multiple injured, including child, during shooting at Bite of Seattle event

Police in Seattle are investigating a shooting at the Seattle Center that left multiple people injured.The Seattle Police Department said, “Police are investiga

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CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

From MBoC A new localization atlas maps more than 600 Giardia proteins, revealing the locations of hundreds of previously uncharacterized proteins and creating a valuable resource for functional discovery. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E25-12-0590