Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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Reminder that the #MLCB2026 paper/abstract deadline is July 1st! Conf is Nov 16-17 @nygenome.org. Fantastic lineup of keynote speakers @drannecarpenter.bsky.social (Broad/Purdue), Ellen Zhong (Princeton), Christina Leslie (MSKCC) & Michael Brenner (Harvard). More deets at mlcb.org. Please RP!

Are you super organized? Knowledgeable about research operations and administration? Join me at Purdue!! In Indiana. Opportunity to: - work with all kinds of software and AI tools - contribute to labs working on the causes and cures of disease - with nice people! careers.purdue.edu/job/Research...

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

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The Cimini lab is hiring for both postdocs and interns! The postdoc role will cover bioimage analysis projects and educational material creation; the intern will be working on our Bilayers project for helping distribute and access deep learning tools for bioimage analysis. Click below to learn more!

Postdoctoral Associate and Data Science Intern roles - Broad Institute, Cambridge MA USA

The Broad Institute Imaging Platform (the team behind CellProfiler, Piximi, and Bilayers) is currently hiring for postdoctoral and intern roles! Postdoc role: we are looking for 1-2 candidates who ha...

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call for original art by July 1 (unrelated to me, just passing along the news!) submission link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's such a great honor to start the new chapter of my career as a Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University, and co-lead the Carpenter-Shen lab with @drannecarpenter.bsky.social! More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/runxi-...

I'm thrilled to share that this August I'll be joining Purdue University as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, co-leading the newly established Carpenter-...

I'm thrilled to share that this August I'll be joining Purdue University as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, co-leading the newly established Carpenter-Shen lab...

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Anne Carpenter@drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm moving to Purdue University as a tenured professor this summer! Excited to hire postdocs there and get a lab up and running with @runxishen.bsky.social as co-lead. More details: www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...

I'm moving to Purdue University as a tenured professor this summer! Excited to hire postdocs there and get a lab up and running with @runxishen.bsky.social as co-lead. More details: www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...

I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining Purdue University as a tenured professor this August! Purdue holds a special place in my heart: its undergraduate program prepared this Indiana farm girl…...

I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining Purdue University as a tenured professor this August! Purdue holds a special place in my heart: its undergraduate program prepared this Indiana farm girl remarkab...

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In case it helps you (or anyone else), @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post with a few other folks listing existing options and adding some more after she and I lamented this was an awful experience with all the consortia we do!

I’ve spent 20 years working with mission-driven colleagues at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, at the center of an incredible revolution of computational and molecular technologies. I want to close my time at the Broad with gratitude… Details! www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...

Big news: this August, I'm starting an exciting new chapter in my career - more on that in the coming days! I’ve spent 20 years working with mission-driven colleagues at the Broad Institute of MI...

Big news: this August, I'm starting an exciting new chapter in my career - more on that in the coming days! I’ve spent 20 years working with mission-driven colleagues at the Broad Institute of MIT an...

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Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Iran’s dismisses Trump’s Hormuz deadline; 2 killed in Israel’s Haifa

Iranian officials dismiss Trump's ultimatum, condemn latest threats as 'incitement to war crimes'.

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Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

What systemic bottlenecks do you see in the practice of science? Astera wants to know what you think is broken and how to fix it! Gripe now or forever hold your peace:

Astera Institute@asterainstitute.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ICYMI an essay competition specifically for active researchers: 1st prize $30K, 2nd $10K, 3rd $5K. Public submissions only: astera.org/essay-compet...

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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Look I'm not going to open a cake decorating business any time soon but I think there's enough whimsy here for a 3-year old's birthday party

My weekly update (Grants with Notice of Award dates up to 1/23/26) All projects 1/3

@bethcimini.bsky.social and I talk about the Cell Painting Assay a LOT, especially on our podcast Ask Erin/Dear Beth, so we figured it was about time to talk about what it actually is! youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY h/t @drannecarpenter.bsky.social #science #biology #cellpainting #microscopy #imageanalysis

Introduction to the Cell Painting Assay - AskErinDearBeth Episode 23

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Ep 23 - So what actually IS CellPainting anyway? You may have heard of it if you're say, a fan of the @drannecarpenter.bsky.social - @shantanu-singh.cc lab (and who isn't????), but what, you know, is it? Let @erinweisbart.bsky.social break it down for you! youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY

Introduction to the Cell Painting Assay - AskErinDearBeth Episode 23

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊@bethcimini.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ep 22 - while we all love CellProfiler (right??), we know that often the challenging part is handling the "bookkeeping" to get your data into it in the first place. @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I do a quick overview, and then point to great longer-form materials. Welcome to AE/DB 2026!

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

In addition, the genetic contribution has remained stable over time, which also means that the much smaller contribution of environmental factors has also remained stable. Therefore environmental factors are unlikely to explain the increase in the prevalence of ASD. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374377/

Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Autistic Traits Over Time - PubMed

Weak evidence was found for changes in the genetic and environmental factors underlying ASD and autistic traits over time. Genetic factors played a consistently larger role than environmental factors. Environmental factors are thus unlikely to explain the increase in the prevalence of ASD.

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"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...

I did it again. @globias.bsky.social #GloBIAS2025 Here's hoping I get a chance again next year.

DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you give an image of image analysts to an image analyst, you better believe I'm going to analyse it. #GloBIAS2024 What a great meeting.

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

kritty krat nyahah >w<@spookybiscuits.com · 9mo ago

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute

Judge dismisses final claim against scientist’s former employer and curtails lawsuit directed at woman who accused him of sexual harassment

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Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s Halloween so time to make the cells scream!

There's a year-old problem with looping movies in Powerpoint on Mac. Movie plays once, jitters and then shows blocky artefacts. Same pptx works fine on Windows. Problem seems to be Mac-side (QT?) but 15.7.1 and 26.0.1 both show this behaviour. A solution, in case it helps anyone: 1/2

💡Just presented our new paper at the @iccv.bsky.social BioImage Computing workshop: cubic: CUDA-accelerated 3D Bioimage Computing. We introduce a simple way to add GPU acceleration to scikit-image–based bioimage processing pipelines by swapping import statements. 🧵 1/6 #iccv2025