Recent radio interview www.wuky.org/podcast/dr-g... #MicroSky

Two grant-funded research projects could help foster new preventive treatments for Lyme disease

There’s a virus within a bacterium within a parasite, and University of Kentucky researchers are figuring out how to make them kill each other. Dr. Greg talks with a UK researcher who has been studyin...

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Find your fam. Fuck abusers.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d ago

lol come the fuck on

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

Sorry, I know I've posted enough #FluorescenceFriday images 🔬, but this is so frigging cool - 3D reconstruction from Xenium data of cell types across the nucleus accumbens in human 🧠. Credit to JHU Biostats PhD student Jianing Yao and @rphillips3.bsky.social who are leading this project 🤩

The accompanying video 🤩

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 6d ago

Excited that this is now out in MBoC @ascbiology.bsky.social Check out our new insights into the subset of cell junction proteins in action in migrating mesenchymal cells. Open access PMC version is in line being processed 🧪 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

Being asked to participate in a fantasy football league....

David Rose's Iconic 'I'm Outta Here' Moment

ALT: David Rose's Iconic 'I'm Outta Here' Moment

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Mark is one of the leaders in this field, and an important voice on the future of publishing. Definitely worth checking out!

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 7d ago

HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2

“Fascism works not only by the passage of arbitrary, dehumanizing laws but by the arbitrary, dehumanizing enforcement of the laws.”

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · last wk.

Sharing this one because we don't read enough about what's happening in the lives of trans people - this is thorough and tragic.

My inner monologue every time British spell check makes me spell estrogen with an "o" at the start.

Berrinche Tantrum

ALT: Berrinche Tantrum

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Amid the rush to burn DEI infrastructure to the ground, it’s worth remembering that the goal was never favoritism. It was a fair shot for people long excluded by unconscious or real bias — prominent scientists, including Nobel laureates, openly argued some “races” were innately unsuited for science.

This is sooo cute. Using a colander to project partial eclipse onto a funky plastic hawk!

Seven months into my new position, and one of the big notables is how empowering an inclusive work environment can be.

Congrats to @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social and team for an excellent paper looking at BEST4 cell development and function in zebrafish.

A conserved Notch-Meis1-Pbx cascade specifies secretory progenitors into spatially diverse intestinal best4 + cells - PubMed

<span><i>best4</i> ⁺ cells are a recently described vertebrate intestinal epithelial cell type. <i>best4</i> ^<i>+</i> cells are altered in inflammatory bowel disease and colorect...

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These two #Caturday cuties celebrate every day like it’s #InternationalCatDay

The last 2 years have been disturbingly clarifying, scientifically, politically and organizationally. I have had to focus on what I have control over: organizing at my uni, ensuring the success of trainees in my lab and acknowledging that my approach to research may not align with future funding

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2w ago

US scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1

One more from mouse 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday because I AM IN LOVE with that green neuron up top. These are virally labeled projection neurons in prelimbic cortex headed to either the locus coeruleus or the ventral tegmental area. Brought to you by RA Daniel Olivares and the LIBD circuits team.

Zebrafish Slack is hilarious. It's all messages like does anyone have mScaGreeLue in a turnip het background? Frozen sperm would be ideal!

Excited about our new manuscript @elife.bsky.social: Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate doi.org/10.7554/eLif...! Huge congratulations to Rahul Nagvekar and the team!! ✨⭐🍾🐟 We generated a genetic model to identify engulfing macrophages in the #killifish aging brain!

It's sad that things have gone this far, but these are important conversations for Canadian science. IMHO, the quality of virtual reviews eroded over time (I was a regular on one panel). I feel CIHR should do what they can to get researchers back in rooms together.

Jim Woodgett@jwoodgett.bsky.social · 2w ago

Due to my role at the Terry Fox Research Institute I no longer comment publically on CIHR but this largest funder of Canadian health research made an important statement today: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54795.html and I can’t just watch this beloved agency crash.

UBC is the perfect mix of excellent science and scientists. Well worth checking out!

callista yee@csybio.bsky.social · 2w ago

hiiii everyone! my department @zoology.ubc.ca is hiring an assistant professor in cell and developmental biology! deadline is october 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32408 // please share!!!!!

I still pinch myself that this is part of my walk home from work every day 😍

NEW GRANT OPPORTUNITY! Ever wanted to travel to a different lab to learn more? Or expand your knowledge and experience in the field? #IZFS has a new grant opportunity for you! Read more about the Knowledge Exchange Grant here: www.izfs.org/awards/knowl... #ZebrafishGrant

The Rawls Lab is hiring! We are seeking a motivated research technician to support cutting-edge studies in gastrointestinal physiology using zebrafish & mice. To learn more about this hands-on & in-person position at Duke University in Durham NC, click here: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-R...

For some reason, I wore all green today, and every time I walk into a room I want to say "Hi-Ho, Kermit the frog, here!" and my word this is turning into a looooong day!

Jeeze, flies are so freaking amazing, but can someone please point out that this is truly breath-taking research (ba-dum!)

Yichen Luo 骆奕辰@camellyc.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“You’re not seen as middle age, you’re seen as old, whereas your comparable male counterpart is seen as in his prime time,” @amydiehl.bsky.social said about the gendered ageism that women ages 40-60 can face.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 3w ago

As I told @monicatorrr.bsky.social of @huffpost.com, "As [women] grow older and more mature in their careers, they lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that." www.huffpost.com/entry/age-di...

I am sincerely honored and excited to be named the Vice Chair for Vision Research at the @moraneyecenter.bsky.social at @utah.edu. I am thrilled to work with everyone to build upon the Moran's rich history in vision research. Stay tuned for much more to come - we will be growing!

Moran Eye Center Names Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research

The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah has named Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research. In this leadership role, she will help guide the strategic direction of the Moran...

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I am excited to announce that I have opened my own lab at SMU in Dallas, Texas! We are studying questions surrounding how our environment shapes social interactions across lifespan using aggression across sexes in Drosophila as a model. (Photos are of SMU's Dallas Hall and the view from my office)

I looooove this #FluorescenceFriday fish gut! lipid-laden lumen fluorescing in white, while magenta-coloured phagocytes occupy regular intervals at the ventral surface of the gut 😍

The “fruit” of my sabbatical year at Chongqing University: how an insect discriminates between pathogenic vs. commensal fungi and how we can manipulate that interaction to generate biological insecticides for eliminating insect pests and recover crops. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Immune surveillance on the insect body surface recognizes a pathogen-derived fungal protease to activate defenses - Nature Communications

Early immune surveillance promotes effective antifungal defense. Here, the authors show that a secreted lectin, IML1, binds diverse fungal spores on the cuticle, but immunity is triggered only upon cl...

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