Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!

So sad to hear about Sam Neill - he was a real one. Great advice here, especially for those of us in precarious career positions.

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae. 📷 Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

I gave a workshop on AlphaFold & related programs @ the University of Utah. Part 1 covers protein structure prediction before/after AlphaFold & deep learning neural networks. Part 2 covers the math behind the scores. Part 3 covers PyMOL & the webservers. youtube.com/@rolanddunbr...

Our story on RNA recognition by Egl-BicD is now published! Also delighted to share the accompanying News & Views article by Florence Besse and Andres Ramos, which beautifully highlights the work. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology@mrclmb.ac.uk · 3mo ago

The hidden rules behind mRNA transport. A collaborative study between @simonbullock11.bsky.social & @carter-lab.bsky.social’s groups has found a structural code that explains how cells selectively transport mRNAs. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social 🧪

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

What happened here? UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department to suspend admission to biophysics major - Daily Bruin share.google/9nkV5mbEMiIw...

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department to suspend admission to biophysics major - Daily Bruin

The department of physics and astronomy will suspend admission to the biophysics major for continuing students next fall and is seeking to cut the program entirely in fall 2027, an advisor announced i...

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Happy Easter! Please enjoy this video my sister sent me of a family of bears on the slope yesterday at Sugarbush resort.

Among the atrocities and contradictions, SBE is the NSF directorate that funds the brain and mind research relevant to NSF’s new AI-focused priorities. Make it make sense appears to be expecting too much (sigh).

Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Jay-Z on Kendrick/Drake made my day. www.gq.com/story/jay-z-...

@aai.org is working to protect you from preventable diseases…AAI contributed to the brief that helped the court in this ruling: Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies

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🎥 Bruce Leavitt, "Friday Night I saw a beautiful bobcat in my South Burlington backyard"

If you haven't gotten your #RNA lover that special gift for Valentine's yet, we have just the thing! Registration to our 8th annual symposium, RNA Therapeutics: From Concept to Clinic, June 24-26, 2026 @UMassChan.bsky.social! 'U' deserve it! #RNATx2025 🔬📷: @cansucolpan5 #RNAValentine buff.ly/vi22rN6

Our newest paper is out where we investigate how exogenous RNA triggers innate immune responses, such as PKR activation and stress granule assembly. rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...

We need better structures to protect our own tribe.

Feeling real shade for my Japanese multipen collection (0.3mm coletos to the grave). Always looking for new recommendations!

@marykmac.bsky.social · 8mo ago

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Running an academic research lab is hard. I’ve learned that what matters most isn’t perfection, but clear expectations, consistent communication & shared responsibility. My lab certainly isn’t flawless, but here are some thoughts on organizing a lab. go.unc.edu/SStManagement

Practical Systems That Keep My Academic Lab Running

Lessons learned from building a collaborative, accountable lab

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To be clear, @aaas.org is saying “things are not bad at all” in science on the same day this op-ed was published by former NIH-ers is on the nose. Just a complete disconnection from reality on AAAS’ part. I hope members will hold them accountable. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's | Discussion

Gemini As Indiana Jones: How Gemini 3.0 Deciphered The Mystery Of A Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf’s 500-Year-Old Roundels – The GDELT Project

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The first dataset from the Billion Cells Project to be released publicly. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Genome-scale perturb-seq in primary human CD4+ T cells maps context-specific regulators of T cell programs and human immune traits

Gene regulatory networks encode the fundamental logic of cellular functions, but systematic network mapping remains challenging, especially in cell states relevant to human biology and disease. Here, ...

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@rnasociety.bsky.social's RNA for All Initiative is here! Members: Apply for up to $1,500 for projects to boost RNA education & outreach (no salaries/overheads). Ideas: Awareness, youth engagement, accessibility & more! Details/Apply: rnasociety.org/diversity Deadline: Jan 7, 2026 #RNAforAll

I got postdoc money from the Sacklers. So no sticks or stones from me, but science is rightfully getting a new wave of incoming re:Epstein. A good time for some much needed self-assessment about "where is the line?" Easy win: Avoid donors your staff calls Voldemort.

Epic #Boston

Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭@mayorwu.boston.gov · 9mo ago

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜 🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

3/5 To identify the biological 'control knobs' of immune tissue, we utilized CD40L-induced B cell aggregates as a model system. We demonstrated that these structures function as liquid droplets, terming them B-Lymphocyte Organized Multicellular Blobs (BLOMBs). youtu.be/QAk2ayoVF0M

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YouTube video by Debraj Shubham Ghose

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Having recently found that increasing the default font size on my phone was a dramatic quality of life improvement, placing an open call for recommendations like this for people who might be in denial of their aging husks. (Chatgpt didn't miss a beat).

KOSMOS, this week's buzzy AI scientist, posits that a coding mutation in a well-studied diabetes-related protein is functioning instead by mutated/cryptic exonic TFBS. Plausible, and totally fine to hypothesize; and word salad for an AI preprint is fine too. But horizon farther away than I thought.

Quite possibly the best thing you'll read all month.

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Control of gene output by intron RNA structure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.08.687378v1

"…Every time you flush the toilet, you may very well be feeding engineered reactor ecosystems that inspired discovery of the domain Archaea and cultivation of syntrophic archaea closely related to our ancestors".

STCmicrobeblog@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 9mo ago

we're following closely... 👏👏👏 glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...

🚨 A fantastic opportunity to join HIRI to start your research group on RNA Biology 👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Junior Group Leader for RNA-Biology, RNA-Technology or RNA-Medicine (f/m/d) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Helmholtz-Institut für RNA-basierte Infektionsforschung (HIRI) | 12844907

#RNAexcellence Junior Group Leader Positions (f/m/d) Job advertisement no.:   089/2025 Starting date:                  As soon as possible. The con...

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Random grant writing tip. I generally use 'drawing canvas' to insert figures. This keeps the legends and everything together. But there is one problem, text boxes inside the drawing canvas cannot cross the edge and text boxes are always bigger than the text.