one of my students is applying for a prestigous fellowship and while i am 100 % supportive, the mentor portion is VERY high maintenance and 'grabby', requiring so so so many MANY fields to be filled with information that cant possibly be relevant....

me and whole family did the #earlyvote in Colorado so please wake me when it is over.

Destiney Rose: Enough Is Enough!

ALT: Destiney Rose: Enough Is Enough!

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no kings march - Boulder!

Boulder showed up! #NoKings

LIVE from No Kings #4 in Washington, D.C. Americans across the country are coming together to make their message clear: VOTE EARLY!

Today is No Kings! We're turning people power into voter power. Vote early where available, make a plan for Nov. 3 and help your community get ready. Find an event: go.aft.org/nokings

To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸

North Carolina A&T students march back to campus tonight after voting on the first day of early voting in North Carolina. The Guilford County Elections Board removed their campus early voting poll...

North Carolina A&T students march back to campus tonight after voting on the first day of early voting in North Carolina. The Guilford County Elections Board removed their campus early voting polling ...

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Check out this very nice piece on our article by Viviane Callier: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

This arbiter protein keeps the balance between X and Y chromosomes

Protamine’s role in a sex-selection arms race may be why it evolves so quickly

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Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last wk.

Most animal species pack sperm DNA with protamines instead of histones. Protamines are essential for male fertility. They are among the fastest-evolving genes in animals. That makes little sense. We think we know why, in a new paper led by @ching-hochang.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tomorrow is the day, the day we turn our protest into votes. Find a 🚫👑event near you and get out there and have your voice heard. #VoteEarlyOnNoKings is how we will get back to a Congress that will restore checks and balances and hold the Trump administration accountable. LFG‼️

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the proteins that make up the mitochondria in six organisms spanning the eukaryotic tree of life go.nature.com/4ylbZLT

Unprecedented atlas explores mitochondria across the tree of life

The mitoproteomes of five parasites and a plant hold medical potential — and reignite the question of just when the mitochondrion evolved.

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How can histone acetyl-transferase acetylate a specific histone tail residue ? Using cryo-EM, we captured the MSL complex in a stable post-catalytic state, visualising the acetyl group on H4K16, a central mark for gene regulation authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

An echidna day is always a good day!

C4 plants rule !

The Onion@theonion.com · 5d ago

Corn Named World’s Sexiest Plant

👇👇👇👇😮👇👇👇👇 The sheer stupidity and short-sightedness of these people is mind blowing.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last wk.

I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...

a fantastic new paper by lab alumni @codyz.bsky.social and yangliu9.bsky.social. Congratulations - such a cool mechanism! check it out 👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨PhD opportunity alert!!! Come work with us on this new cool NERC DTP PhD project Investigate How Bacterial Hosts Control Domesticated Viral Machines to Drive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments. Retweet = nice. Thank you!!! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

Investigate How Bacterial Hosts Control Domesticated Viral Machines to Drive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments? | Aries

Professor Tung Le, John Innes Centre – contact me Professor Jonathan Todd, Quadram Institute & UEA Dr Ngat Tran, John Innes Centre Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major driver of bacterial…

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100% 🤣 #BookSky

😍 fantastic preprint from the Hajkova lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... describing a role of the H3.3 chaperone HIRA in oocyte aging.

This historic heat wave in the West expands further to the East. Records keep falling. Los Angeles Int. AP recorded its hottest October night in history with two consecutive MINIMUMS of 77F/25C.

Nobel season! congrats to the fantastic scientists who were recognized. current @nobelprize.org 2026 stats: of the 6 STEM prizes so far this year: of these: Women: 0. Researchers working in the US: 2 (of these, 1 foreign born).

Dan Jagger@auditorynerves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? 🧪🔬🧬⚛️ Since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901, few women have been recognized in the categories of physics, chemistry & physiology or medicine. Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Peggy Stuart@peggystuart.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish they would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars in the Middle East.  Quotes from James Talarico.

on my way back to Boulder after an exhausting review panel meeting, they let me into the Lufthansa 'Senator's lounge. Not sure how i feel about the name, but I definitifely endorse the warm chocolate croissants.

fantastic - congratulations to the team!

Philipp Radler@radler92.bsky.social · 3w ago

The first paper of my PostDoc in Christa Schlepers group (@archaea-vienna.bsky.social) on the dynamics of Asgard archaea is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a great team effort and I am looking forward to uncover the complex behavior of these cells further!

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Switzerland has lost almost 20% of its glacier ice in just five years. If emissions continue to rise as they have, practically all glaciers in the Swiss Alps could disappear by 2100. doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr... 📷 GLAMOS / Urs Steinegger / Matthias Huss

New preprint from Dodonova lab 🔔! Capturing multiple states by cryo-EM❄️, we show for the first time how archaeal RNA Polymerase engages a nucleosome and forms direct contacts with histones! 🧬 Great work by Gabriele & a fantastic collaboration with Dina Grohmann! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Are you ready to submit your application? Deadline extended: 4 October, 2026 For more information and to apply: www.imprs-lm.mpg.de/join/apply/ #IMPRS-LM #PhDpositions #FullyFunded #LifeScience

The rationale for the European Union summed up very simply and movingly

Massimo Faggioli@massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 3w ago

these words of pope Leo are for me, and for many others I think, profoundly moving

morning run in Bonn, Germany. The river is at a record low which is both scary and sad, but sunrise is as beautiful as ever.