📣 Bold science alert! We're thrilled to announce our latest awardees who are pushing the boundaries of research in aging, regeneration, and bacterial resilience. bit.ly/HFAwardees Hear from the #HFScouts who championed these talented scientists👇 in our 🧵: 1/

Pleased to share our recent work out today in @natmetabolism.nature.com. This study addresses a longstanding mystery - NRF2-driven cancers increase cysteine acquisition (via xCT) by ~5x - so where does all that cysteine go?

Nature Metabolism@natmetabolism.nature.com · 4mo ago

Incredible chance to learn about genetics, from the fundamentals to the latest science. I attended this course when I was a PhD student in the 90s and have lectured in it for the last dozen or so. And science aside, there's nowhere better to be in late July than Bar Harbor, ME. See you there.

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Another charter member of the "Branch Covidians"... The damage these idiots are doing both with specific issues under consideration and future operations is breathtaking (literally).

Lizzy Lawrence@lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Central high school just walked out, marching on the Capitol Sounds like they have a band with them

Simply outrageous!

Fantastic opportunity for undergraduates pursuing summer research experience! @hhmi.org

HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

16 (! What?) years ago I went to my first ABRCMS and was welcomed and encouraged to pursue my scientific dreams. I met folks that provided direct feedback on my graduate school applications and served a pivotal role in my career. I am honored return and give back again as faculty. #ABRCMS2025

How do cancer cells use the nutrients to grow and how can that knowledge lead to better care? Gregory Ducker, PhD, studies the metabolism of cancer. @duckerlab.bsky.social aims to uncover new ideas for future therapies & ways to make current treatments even more effective. @uofubiochem.bsky.social

Updating my LEGO White House

this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.

In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator. Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding

The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

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We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah | 674355

The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...

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Excited to share our latest: we engineered the reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme for ATP-driven modification of C termini. Our tool mimics the logic of peptide bond formation in biology for precision modification of proteins in vitro. 🧪https://rdcu.be/ewN7C

Engineered reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme enables ATP-driven modification of protein and peptide C termini

Nature Chemistry - In living systems, ATP provides an energetic driving force for protein synthesis and modification. Now, an engineered enzymatic tool has been developed for high-yield, ATP-driven...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy

Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy - Nature

Decreased brain coenzyme Q10 levels cause encephalopathy and are associated with neurodegeneration; supplementation with 4-HMA or 4-HB restores coenzyme Q10 synthesis in mice and humans with HPDL vari...

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🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered and you get to live in Utah. 1/2

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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New paper alert! Huge congrats to my graduate student Jesse Velasco on his first author publication in physiological reports. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814...

Loss of hepatic autophagy induces α‐cell proliferation through impaired glutamine‐dependent gluconeogenesis

Autophagy, the highly conserved process of protein and organelle degradation, is suppressed in the liver by obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and associated with the de...

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We @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social, in partnership with @bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues! morgridge.org/job-posting/...

Assistant Professor in Metabolism Research - Morgridge Institute for Research

The Morgridge Institute for Research, in partnership with the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeks a joint tenure track assistant professor to lead a vibr...

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So much healthy food discourse is disguised versions of "have you tried not consuming a quart of oil daily"

Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social · last yr.

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

i would say the modal opinion among the media-political elite is that trumpers are basically correct that our government/elite universities have been taken over by woke ideology/too many minorities and women and that trump is providing a welcome corrective even if it goes too far

"Do your own research" to decide about therapies is like asking to someone to learn to fly to get into a plane. It complete erodes the trust in each other and the essence of society.

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!

1/My 7th grader's science homework is to learn the elements Memorize atomic masses. She points out that carbon has a mass of 12. My life passes before my eyes. Finally, my chance to explain what I've been doing for 20 yrs. So I say, kind of casually, "you know, sometimes carbon has a mass of 13..."

Guess gender has been banned at NIH

Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation

Lisa Jarvis@lisamjarvis.bsky.social · last yr.

Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):