Check out our new paper! We did Cryo-EM on native Pol II elongation complexes isolated from Drosophila embryos. This was an incredible collaboration across multiple labs and is now available for your perusal. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.

🧬 @rnamed.bsky.social is hiring! Apply for one of six fully funded #PhD positions in RNA biology and RNA therapeutics, and work with leading RNA experts in an international, interdisciplinary environment. 📅 Application deadline: September 17, 2026 More info: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

RNAmed - Future Leaders in RNA-based Medicine

RNAmed takes a holistic approach to endow doctoral students with the necessary knowledge and skills in the fast-growing area of RNA-based medicine.

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Over 2,700 human mRNA 3' UTRs with conserved nucleotides regulate protein activity by influencing IDR folding, enhancing functions in proteins like JMJD3. PMID:42259285, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00576-3 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Nucleic Acids Research is looking for a new Executive Editor! If you're an established researcher in RNA biology, translation, RNA virology, or related fields, apply! As a current Executive Editor, I highly recommend it. 📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026 academic.oup.com/nar/pages/ex...

NAR seeks a new Executive Editor

Overview of the Journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is a leading open access molecular biology journal published by Oxford University Press. It provides rapid

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🚨😀We are recruiting PhD and postdoctoral researchers at the Würzburg site of our Cluster of Excellence #NUCLEATE @nucleate-cluster.bsky.social on Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies🧬.👉 nucleate-cluster.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-08_NUCLEATE_PhD-Postdoc_final_V02.pdf nucleate-cluster.de

Why is the X chromosome rich in L1 mobile elements? @science.org X-chromosome inactivation draws L1 mutagenesis to the human X chromosome | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

X-chromosome inactivation draws L1 mutagenesis to the human X chromosome

X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) enables gene dosage compensation in XX eutherians. Long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) retrotransposons are unusually abundant on the human X chromosome and are ...

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So excited to share my first preprint of grad school! Check out this thread to learn more about a cool new technique we are using to learn more about hidden layers of RNA regulation! Thank you so much to my coauthors, mentors, and lab for helping us get this story up!

Stirling Churchman@stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 4w ago

RNA-seq tells us how much RNA is present in the cell. But to understand gene regulation, we need to easily measure the synthesis and decay rates driving this abundance. We introduce AIR-seq: analog intrinsic recoding sequencing. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Douglas Weidemann, Silke Hauf @silkehauflab.bsky.social and colleagues @virginiatech.bsky.social establish MS2–MCP-based single-molecule RNA visualisation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

This is a fantastic opportunity, I started my lab through this scheme and the support throughout is phenomenal, please share.

The Dunn School, Oxford@dunnschool.bsky.social · last mo.

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 22nd of September...please share! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Together with @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social, we are looking for an ambitious PhD student to develop fluorescence imaging for anaerobic bacteria. Check out this and other positions that are announced as a part of the M4C Excellence cluster here: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

The Bacterial RNA Biology Group in Jena is hiring a new PhD student! 🔬🧫🧬 We are looking for a motivated candidate to study bacteriophages of the opportunistic pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae. 🔥 Apply by July 26, 2026 🔥 Details on the position and application: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

Introns have a hidden regulatory role! 🧬🎉 Delighted to share our latest paper showing that inefficiently spliced introns and spliceosomal proteins direct RNA methylation, engaging RNAi to silence retrotransposons and regulate gene expression nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in RNA and proteins? Perfect! 😀 We seek to fill a fully funded 3+ years PhD position for a project on pre-mRNA splicing regulation using structural biochemistry in combination with cell biology and bioinformatics. Find more information on our lab's homepage and get in contact via e-mail!

There is more to transcriptional readthrough than meets the eye, and it could even provide a therapeutic opportunity in cancer. Check out our new perspective, inspired by recent work from Neugebauer and Grzechnik labs! #RNABiology #RNASky #Epigenetics

Agata Stepien@agatakstepien.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Studying gene ends is becoming even more fascinating! Curious why? Read our News & Views "Transcriptional readthrough progresses from incidental byproduct to therapeutic opportunity" inspired by the recent publication by Podszywałow-Bartnicka and @karlaneugebauer.bsky.social @natsmb.nature.com

Nice work! #RNAExosome #RNA link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cellular assembly and functional resilience of the mammalian RNA exosome - The EMBO Journal

Most eukaryotic proteins assemble into multisubunit complexes that coordinate essential cellular functions, yet the principles governing their assembly and proteostatic control remain largely undefine...

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Abstract submission deadline is approaching for "The complex life of RNA" @embl.org in Heidelberg 13-16. October 2026! There will be almost 30 selected talks! Submission deadline: 7. July 2026!

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 3mo ago

Join us for the next edition of the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA'! 🔬🧬 The programme will include topics on transcription, RNA processing and modification, mRNA export and localisation, mRNA surveillance and decay, and more 💻 s.embl.org/ees26-12-bl

Happy to share the latest work on a bacterial protein that inhibits human mRNA decay machinery, in collaboration with @smlea.bsky.social #RNAsky www.nature.com/articles/s41... Intracellular pathogen effector reprograms host gene expression by inhibiting mRNA decay | Nature Communications

Intracellular pathogen effector reprograms host gene expression by inhibiting mRNA decay - Nature Communications

Intracellular pathogens hijack host gene expression to subvert cellular processes. Here, the authors show that Legionella pneumophila’s PieF effector inhibits the human CCR4-NOT deadenylation machiner...

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Exciting PhD position available in the Diepold lab @kit.edu ! We're especially interested in international students with expertise in molecular biology and ready to lead a cutting-edge research project in molecular machines and infection biology. Find out more at diepoldlab.com.

Deadline alert ⏰⌛- if you want to present a poster or short talk at our conference in September, please submit your abstract by next Sunday, June 14! The template is available for download on the conference website 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf

RTG 2355@rtg2355.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎉Now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION - join us Sep 14-16 in Giessen for the RTG 2355 International Conference as we explore RNA’s critical functions! Register 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf We have slots for short talks and a poster session in the "Palmenhaus", so submit an abstract to present your own work!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... - from @igorulitsky.bsky.social - "most chromatin regions reported as bound by trans-acting RNAs in recent studies in mammalian cells appear to be technical artifacts"

Widespread DNA off-targeting confounds RNA chromatin occupancy studies - Nature Biotechnology

Many long noncoding RNA–DNA binding peaks detected using common assays arise from technical artifacts.

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#RNAExosome www.cell.com/trends/cell-...

Precision in RNA degradation: helicases, ribosome and RNA polymerase stalling, and RNA modifications

Errors in transcription and RNA processing generate aberrant transcripts that can produce truncated, nonfunctional, or dominant-negative proteins. RNA surveillance pathways, centered on the RNA exosom...

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Last call for this awesome opportunity: www.czbiohub.org/program-mpi-.... If you hold a US-PhD degree and want to join one of the labs at the @mpi-cbg.de or @mpipks.bsky.social for a fully-funded postdoc, apply! Deadline is May 20.

Global Science Scholars - Max Planck Society

Learn about the international postdoctoral fellowship program from Biohub and the Max Planck Society.

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Join us at our special anniversary Symposium on RNA biology at the @vbcscitraining.bsky.social campus! We promise 3 days of interesting science, discussions and hopefully new ideas and learnings for everyone - plus a symposium dinner at the Vienna city hall!

IMP@impvienna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 Registration is open for the 20th Microsymposium on RNA Biology! Join in at the Vienna BioCenter for three days of cutting-edge science, discussion & networking. 📅 17-19 June 2026 🧬 Poster abstract deadline: 19 May Info & registration: www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/seminar...

We're hiring! Join our growing team at the @crg.eu as a postdoc. Curious about how mRNA translation and decay cross-talk? We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead a project in the field of RNA biology and gene regulation. Apply here: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs... Please share!

🎉Now OPEN FOR REGISTRATION - join us Sep 14-16 in Giessen for the RTG 2355 International Conference as we explore RNA’s critical functions! Register 👉tinyurl.com/rtg2355conf We have slots for short talks and a poster session in the "Palmenhaus", so submit an abstract to present your own work!

We have a 4 year PhD position available to study the impact of the RNA exosome on ribosome specialisation in different cell types! Get in touch if you are interested or just apply (UK students only). Deadline Wednesday, May 20, 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Understanding the pathology of cardiac complications in a rare neurodevelopmental disease at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Understanding the pathology of cardiac complications in a rare neurodevelopmental disease at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Final call for postdoctoral positions in my lab in wonderful Århus. You may apply using this link: mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Postdoc positions in Nuclear RNA Biology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - RNA Biology and Innovation, Aarhus University

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A limited number of poster presentation slots remain for RNA 2026 in Montréal, Canada from May 26th – 31st. We encourage you to register and submit your poster abstract by April 24th to secure one of the remaining spots! www.rnasociety.org/conferences/

If after reading the article you are still hungry for more about alternative TREX-2 complexes, also check out the recent preprints from the labs of Torben Heick Jensen @heick.bsky.social and Mary Dasso 😉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RTG 2355@rtg2355.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy to share the Preview by RTG PIs Cornelia Kilchert & Katja Sträßer on the recent paper @cp-molcell.bsky.social by Tian et al on LENG8's role in nuclear RNA quality control. Here's 50 days' free access - so check it out before June 05, 2026! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...