I found out today that we lost another #glycotime giant, Dr. Vern Reinhold. I first met Vern as a graduate student at my first big international conference, Glyco XIV in Zurich. He was so kind and welcoming to a newbie glyco person. He will be missed.

Congratulations @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar Laura Dassama @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social 👏

ACS BIOL: Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology@acsbiol.bsky.social · 14h ago

Don't miss the ACS Infectious Diseases Early Career Award session on Monday, August 24 in Conference Center room S106a from 8-12 PM as part of #ACSFall2026!

Join me in signing this petition, thank you @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social for leading the way 🙏

Dawn Ocean Harmony🎶🌴☀️♿️🐕‍🦺🦮👩‍🦽🚶🏻‍♂️@dawnoceanharmony.bsky.social · 2d ago

. 🚨✍️Sign Petition!⬇️ PETITION TO CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF DR. ANTHONY FAUCI & AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH Congress must immediately rescind the contempt resolution referral to the Justice Department & stand up for a future where health is supported by science‼️ ✍️👇 www.standupforscience.net/sufs-fauci-p...

The goal of US policy should be to keep smart people here, full stop. This does the opposite: it sends the smartest international postdocs (trained on the US taxpayer's dime) to other countries and we never collect the return. Just dumb 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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The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.

We lost a giant of #glycotime, John Hanover @niddk 😢 . His pioneering work on O-GlcNAcylation as a modulator of glucose metabolism transformed our understanding of glycosylation as a signaling PTM. In this 2023 podcast he shares his passion for the field. irp.nih.gov/podcast/2023...

See the origin of the phrase "witch hunt"

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4d ago

Throughout history, persecuting scientists for saving lives is a frightening marker for the collapse of a society.

RSC Chem. Bio, @chemicalscience.rsc.org and @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org are sponsoring awards at the 22nd (25th anniversary!) Tri-I Chemical Biology Symposium, September 16 at The Rockefeller University. Find out more about the meeting and register for free: chembio.triiprograms.org/publications...

The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main

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Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last wk.

He is so effing irresponsible, casually making extreme claims that fuel conspiracies and worse. I am waiting for "What is wrong with yelling fire in a crowded theatre if the presence of a fire has not been confirmed by studies that he deems worthy. I mean, you never know..."

Carolyn, this animation should explain the mechanism in a much more straightforward way 😀 Copper-free click chemistry definitely rocks! bsky.app/profile/huan...

Prof. Shuo Huang@Nanjing University@huang-nanopore.bsky.social · last wk.

I can finally get this video posted on bluesky. This cartoon illustration should be more clear describing the newly developped transient Pore Analyte Looping (tPAL) platform and the "chop and measure" mode for nanopore protein sequencing. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ten commitments for a bold biotechnology industry - @jeremymax.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide…If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic” www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 2w ago

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

#lipidtime

André Nadler@nadlerlab.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cool method for nano pore based peptide sequencing, nice use of copper-free click chemistry as well! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sequential reading of a stepwise-shortened peptide immobilized on nanopore - Nature

A nanopore-based ‘chop and measure’ method sequences peptides at single-amino-acid resolution by using enzymatic digestion to progressively shorten the N terminus one residue at a time,...

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Just out in @natbiotech.nature.com! PKS-engineered route to chiral monomers for PDKs: tunable Tg and programmable depolymerization, all from corn stover. Cheaper & lower-GHG than dimedone. Biosynthesis meets circular plastics. @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov @jbei.lbl.gov www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineered polyketide synthases enable a microbial chassis for recyclable plastics with tunable properties - Nature Biotechnology

Polyketide synthases are engineered for the production of sustainable plastics.

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Chronicle of Higher Education article on the Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" document www.chronicle.com/article/why-... “This whole document really strikes me as being incredibly naïve and just wrong,” said Jeremy Berg, who led ... a branch of the (NIH), during the Bush and Obama administrations.

Why Scientists Hate Trump’s New Plan to Revamp Research Funding

Diverting money from universities would distort priorities and slow discovery, they say.

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Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy. truthout.org/articles/hig...

Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

truthout.org

Meeting Report on the 2nd GlyCosmos Symposium & Jamboree — Community-driven integration of glycan recognition data #glycotime #Glycobiology

“If universities oppose the actions of the administration, they need to say so quickly so that their constituents aren’t left wondering whether there’s a plan. The alternative is a community of university scientists adrift and grasping for a lifeline.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

University science in the US needs a coherent plan

The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ...

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It’s #glycotime for phage infecting pathogenic E. coli strains

Vivek Mutalik@vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 2w ago

New Preprint 🥳 Here we wondered how phages that have been extensively studied in laboratory E. coli strains actually behave when they encounter a real pathogen such as O157:H7 strain...one with a far more complex cell surface & one of the most consequential foodborne pathogens in the United States.

Outstanding discussion of “Science: A New Golden Age” from @colesci.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/ostp-vision-... 1/4

OSTP Vision for Science is a ‘Golden Age’ for Corporations

"Science: A New Golden Age" tries to reframe the conversation away from the ongoing destruction of American science, writes Cole Donovan.

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Congratulations to Prof. Hart upon his election to the National Academy of Sciences #glycotime www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

Banerjee, Hart elected to the National Academy of Sciences

They were honored for their contributions to the biological sciences.

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Young researchers in chemical biology: don’t miss this unique opportunity! Join @icsnlab.bsky.social through the CNRS Tenure Track programme and develop your own scientific vision. ⏳ Deadline: 2 September 2026 📩 Interested? icsn.cpj@cnrs.fr #ChemicalBiology #CNRS #TenureTrack #AcademicJobs

My first PhD student defended today. Congratulations to Dr. Adonis Rubio!!! Proud of you and all your accomplishments, and can’t wait to see all that you do next 👏🏾🍾🥂

@dereklowe.bsky.social on point with no sugar coating 👏 👏 👏 www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Congratulations @peterszijj.bsky.social! A new dimension to ADC design that expands the ADC-able proteome 👏

Peter Szijj@peterszijj.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am happy to share that the main work from my postdoc in the Bertozzi lab is now available on ChemRxiv. chemrxiv.org/doi/abs/10.2... We set out to enhance the internalization of antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) in a cancer-selective manner.

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , part of the U.S.

SLAC creates an AI agent system that recovers critical metals from depleted lithium batteries - Sinaptica

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, is developing a system of artificial intelligence agents capable of recovering

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