PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

PSA - Ted Lasso Season 4 ep 1 is now up (at least on the east coast). The first minute is hilarious.

Interested in using #Drosophila genetics & advanced imaging combined with modeling to study inter-organ transport and epithelial dynamics? We’re hiring a #PhD student @uni-muenster.de, based at the Multiscale Imaging Center and @sfb1348.bsky.social Graduate School. Apply here tinyurl.com/ypx74a5d

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

🚀 My first Cryo-EM structures are OUT on the PDB! 🎉Super excited about this milestone as PhD, it’s been a journey, and I’m grateful to finally have these as my first Cryo-EM structures! 🙌 🔁Thank you for sharing!❤️ Read @daaninthelab.bsky.social et. al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ⬇️ 2nd video

NOTE: The lawyer/law firm that represented Trump in his Capital One money laundering lawsuit is the same lawyer Judge Williams referred to the bar for disciplinary action in the bogus Trump IRS lawsuit that resulted in the slush fund and tax immunity.

U.S. Navy contract for Blue Angels ceremonial flight suits is changed from small, Black woman owned business to large defense contractor at massive cost to taxpayer: youtu.be/7bIbJIIwBVg?...

Pensacola’s 'Sewing Box' loses Blue Angels flight suit contract after 43 years

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A lovely little bit of physics that you might have spotted if you ever play with a slinky. We should all play more, because we should all embrace our curiosity. And finding out how the physical world works is fun!

if you have a hard time with your grocery bills, skip a meal and read this instead. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Let Them Eat Gold

Taxpayers are now financing President Trump’s love of anything gilded.

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Following #ASV2026, Titans of Virology and Vaccinology is excited to present: Dr. Peter Hotez discussing his efforts to make low-cost vaccines for #COVID19 and #NTDs as well as his #vaccine_advocacy globally and in the US.

After a bit of a rough patch my lab's funding situation has taken a significant upturn, so if you're looking for a Postdoc position please keep us in mind...Pseudomonas aeruginosa genetics, regulation, and physiology - with a focus on the cell envelope. Please repost. andrewdarwinlab.org

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Shameful move by the AAU. Here are their Board www.aau.edu/who-we-are/l...

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Padilla co-wrote a bill that would let the public sue a sitting president to recover money taken through corruption. Yes, a sitting president. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-law...

Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

I knew I liked Alaska Airlines - www.joemygod.com/2026/08/airl...

Airline Bans "Sky Evangelist" For Annoying Passengers - Joe.My.God.

The Washington Post reports: Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith, a trend that was featured in a recent Washington Post article. On Thursday, ...

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🚨 Faculty Cluster Hire in Crop Design/Synthetic Biology at @universityofga.bsky.social! 🌱 We're hiring 3 open-rank faculty for the Institute of Crop Design. Work in AI, synthetic biology, genome engineering, quantitative genetics, or crop design? Come join us! 🔗 tinylink.net/l48Ms

Excited PI brag: postdoc Katie Ching just received the NOA for her K99/R00! She's talking at FASEB Cilia & Centrosomes meeting! "Investigating how mechanical force causes cilia to shed extracellular vesicles." Thanks to NIH POs, SROs, staff, study sections, taxpayers for investing in the future!

60 years ago, on July 30 1966 Medicare and Medicaid went into effect

Dream position for a very recent graduate

Teva Vernoux@tevavernoux.bsky.social · 6d ago

Together with @plantophagy.bsky.social, we have an opened postdoc position for a young scientist that graduated after 01/01/2025, see ad attached

“If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide…If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic” www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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In situ #CryoEM structures of rice photosystem supercomplexes #photosynthesis #plants #StructuralBiology @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In situ structures of plant photosystem supercomplexes - Nature

The cryo‑EM structure of the Oryza sativa photosystem II–light harvesting complex II supercomplex in its native membrane reveals the intact plant photosystem architecture, retaining physiologically re...

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How do poxviruses initiate infection after getting into the cytoplasm? With Tom Calcraft, @miguel-virus-cells.bsky.social & Peter Rosenthal, @crick.ac.uk we solved the structure of the vaccinia virus portal that mediates viral assembly and early mRNA and subsequent genome release. rdcu.be/fwGTn

In situ structure of the poxvirus portal complex

Nature - Cryo-electron tomography uncovers the structure of a conserved hexameric ‘portal complex’ that spans the core wall in vaccinia virus, and shows how it is associated with viral...

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On this day, 35 years ago, Metallica released 'Enter Sandman'

With all the chaos going on in the world, I can't be the only one excited for a new season of Ted Lasso

I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.

Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

Tire blow out on the freeway at rush hour was not on my list for today. I am ok, car is ok, grateful for a good samaritan and the spare in my trunk.