Congratulations to the newest official PhD Candidate in the Starbird lab, Johnna Bingham!!! 🍾🎉

how many Diet Coke cans will it take me to finish my PhD? The postdoc in my lab and I calculated that for 5 years of PhD I will consume approx 1300 cans (averaging 5 cans per week) @cocacola pls sponsor me

My first ever BPS conference was more than a success!! I gave a talk, presented a poster, networked with potential postdoc mentors, made new science friends, schemed with the lab tech in the exhibitor halls, dilly dallied and explored San Fran with my lab and friends #BPS2026

A problematic stance from someone like @holdenthorp.bsky.social who has the position & privilege that comes with being Editor-in-Chief of Science Journals. Yes, scientists need to continue to do science. But science leaders can't leave the risk that comes with speaking up to others. 🧵1/8

Ian L Morgan@ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Interesting talk from @holdenthorp.bsky.social yesterday at #bps2026. I agree that doing science is an act of resistance, but I disagree that we can just keep our heads down. IMHO - Every scientist has a duty to communicate the value of science and the people who do it, either privately or publicly.

Today is a busy day at #bps2026 but you can catch me speaking at two exciting events! Intrinsically Disordered Proteins I 10:45-11 AM Rooms 209/210/211 Steps and Suggestions for Getting Your Scientific Paper Published Monday 2:30-4 PM Esplanade 155

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Proud of the newest Starbird Lab (aka Starbirdian) to become an official PhD candidate! Congratulations Camila @biophysgal.bsky.social !!! She will also be presenting her work in a talk at the Biophysical Society annual meeting where she won a travel award, so stay tuned. Lots to celebrate! 🎉

I embrace my silly side in the lab all the time with my lab mates and it’s made my relationship with them stronger and I get excited to come to lab everyday for the science but also for the jokes … We started a quote wall on our inside jokes, dressed up as our PI.. btw I also love axolotls

Science Magazine@science.org · 9mo ago

"In the end, I have come to realize that being authentic at work is not a weakness, but rather a strength." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/49B7hRv

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 9mo ago

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Camila Arango ( @biophysgal.bsky.social ), a 3rd year graduate student in our lab, did a great job presenting part of her work to investigate how TAM receptor structures are changed by ligand activation at the annual Carolina Biophysics Symposium! 🤩

Our rotation student, Maria Lopez Vasquez, did an excellent job presenting her research on a new TAM ligand at the BBSP fall poster session! 👏🏾

A couple months ago, the Carolina Latinx Center reached out and asked if I’d be willing to help start a brand new STEM speaker series! I helped put together an all-star team, and we made it happen. I was PUMPED to have @cterminiphd.bsky.social come give a talk! So inspiring!

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

"I was thrilled to be on an exchange semester overseas, but I saw it as just a detour from my imagined career path. I didn’t realize I was already pedaling toward a different life—one that would make me reassess how to achieve a fulfilling research career." https://scim.ag/46EZ2kj

And of course, I’m excited for the looming debuts of the Atlas of Inspiring Latin American Scientists (Fall 2025) and the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists (early Winter 2026). We also have a very motivated team working on the Atlas of Indigenous Scholars, stay tuned 👀

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

Saw a science content creator (and fellow PhD student at UNC) say that grad school really teaches you to become desensitized to failure in one of her vids. She framed that as a privilege — and it really is. So many people are afraid to try something new because of fear of failure…

Big congrats to Celeste, so happy and proud of you 💗 happy to see a fellow IMSDer and friend from UNC win 🥳🎉

Celeste@celeste-robles.bsky.social · last yr.

I wish you guys could've seen my jaw hit the floor when I got the email! So honored to be a part of the 2025 Gilliam Fellow cohort!! 😄

Status and material things are empty vessels. Two imposters we often feel define us. We live in a society that pushes them as the definition of success. Real success - and true growth - is measured in our ability to be kind, humble, and selfless. May your week ahead be peaceful, my friends. 😊 #life

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I’m so happy to share a project very close to my ❤️ launching this September: Atlas de Científicxs Latinoamericanxs que Inspiran ✨ We’re currently collecting nominations! This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇

A bit late to post, but a couple weeks ago I attended my 1st international conference—and had to share my hype! #EACR2025 @helloeacr.bsky.social Poster presented✔️ Great talks✔️ Lisbon explored✔️ Science batt🔋 recharged✔️ Thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster and shared insights and encouragement!

The places science can take you! In Salamanca, Spain for the 1st International Advanced Biophysics and Structural Biology course — in a town full of history, culture, and home to the oldest university in the world #BioPhySAL

Now I'm really angry. They're banning "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race", by Margot Lee Shetterly. 🧪 🔭 🎢 👩‍🔬

Daniel Harper@danielharper.bsky.social · last yr.

Relevant to IDSG Episode 103, more Tennessee counties are banning Spiegelman's Maus, along with many other books, for stupidly prurient reasons. (They even include Calvin and Hobbes, because of some strips showing Calvin's bare bottom.) pen.org/magic-tree-h...

We are grateful to all who made our IndigiData #Indigenous #data #science workshop on "Indigenous #Health & #Artificial #Intelligence" a reality! This was our largest workshop yet. Held on the lands of the Ak-Chin Maricopa Tribal Nation in central Arizona. @d4itdr.bsky.social @nativebio.bsky.social

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Oh hey I made some #sciart

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · last yr.

There we go

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

Dustin Rubenstein@dustinrubenstein.com · last yr.

NSF to ONLY fund research in five areas: artificial intelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, nuclear energy, and translational science. Can this be happening? www.science.org/content/arti...

EU augments opportunities for scientists around the world to launch or re-launch their careers in Europe.

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Europe’s choice is clear. To put science at the heart of its economy. To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration. And to welcome talent from all over the world. I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative. → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ