Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Honorific Award Winners! ASCB is proud to recognize scientists whose research, mentorship, education & leadership are helping shape the future of cell biology. See all the awardees: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

We have great newts to share! Twenty tiny Mazama newts have hatched in our lab — the very first babies of their kind ever in human care.

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last wk.

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...

Gift Lift NY Times: Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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The FDA said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms that is not part of the current recall tested positive for the parasitic illness

FDA says sample of iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms tested positive for US parasite outbreak

The FDA on Saturday said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms tested positive for a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands of people in the U.S.

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If you was cheating in high school chemistry It is unlikely that you are running GLP1 “experiments”

Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...

Ok first of all, I didn't know that NIH had a 3D print designs library, and second of all 🐸: 3d.nih.gov/entries/3DPX...

I’m looking for recommendations for the best breakfast sandwiches in the ENTIRE Bay Area. Send me your favorites, either here or to grant.marek@sfgate.com. Will do my best to track the journey here, starting with Bay Area breakfast sandwich #1: Verve’s Breakfast Sandwich in Palo Alto. It is good.

The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

From 500 views in the first two months to over 100,000 views in the last few days. The ADA opinion piece that was too scary to be distributed at the ADA meeting has gone full Streisand. Y'all are doing the Lord's work.

The labs of KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg at Stanford are working on an exciting and impactful project related to infant probiotics and are hiring a Life Science Research Professional to be part of that team. Take a look at the posting if you're interested. Please share/apply

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...

How’d snakes get to be so long? Did they lengthen their necks? Their torsos? Or both? So far, my research is finding that snakes expanded their torsos and kept their necks pretty much the same length as their ancestors. Happy #WorldSnakeDay

Can we program a kinase like a switch? Inspired by natural autoinhibitory complexes, we designed miniproteins against active- and inactive-like conformations of Focal Adhesion Kinase. Depending on the targeted state, the resulting binders either activated or inhibited the kinase.

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Research Technician (Osterman Group – Metabolism-driven immunity)

EMBL Hamburg / CSSB The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organization, with more than 110 independent research groups across Heidelberg, Hamburg, Grenobl...

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Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam. Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/... Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010 #ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach

Meowtabolism - Examining Feline Behavior within Unicellular Algae on Steam

Explore the interior of an algal cell on your four paws. Built with experimental data and populated with actual protein structures, Meowtabolism offers a glimpse of the vast world inside the basic fun...

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Matthew Collins@matthewcollins.bsky.social · 2y ago

This single author paper has to be seen to be believed.... My 'GIF' does it no justice Chen, M. (2023) ‘Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine’, bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2023...

@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis

Here we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...

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Free pizza for adults who read books from local libraries (ebooks included)

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

Pizza Hut is looking for ways to reconnect with customers after years of restaurant closures and shifting consumer tastes. Some fans say the path forward may actually lie in looking back at its era of colorful lamps hung over checkered tablecloths.

The molecular triggers of human labour: a longitudinal plasma proteomics study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.07.736770v1

Not sure where your PhD fits outside the lab? Whether you're considering academia, industry, nonprofits, or science communication, a focused job search beats applying everywhere. Explore strategies for navigating the PhD job market on our blog:

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Navigating the PhD Job Market: Choosing Between Academia, Industry, and Everything in Between

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Happy to announce that I received tenure! This is all down to the brilliant team I get to work with every day and my collaborators and supportive colleagues. Now UCSF can’t get rid of me…

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic

A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.

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Well deserved @copperbae.bsky.social!

Hypothesis Fund@hypothesisfund.bsky.social · last mo.

4/ What if the key to understanding bacterial stress response is in their electrons⚡? Awardee @copperbae.bsky.social is tracking electron balance as a novel way to predict how well a bacteria's defenses are holding up. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Johnson! @uarizona.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @drkhaynes.bsky.social

🙋🏾‍♀️I am honored to have been supported by @hypothesisfund.bsky.social and can attest that they intentionally select their awardees. There is incredible representation at the scout level as well. Have nothing but good things to say about HF leadership - there is always improvement but the bar is high!

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last mo.

Folks quick to dump on the fact that latest group of amazing @hypothesisfund.bsky.social awardees are all men (n=5) are encouraged to check out the list of all recent awardees to celebrate all their achievements: www.hypothesisfund.org/portfolio

We are pleased to announce a major donation to support the work of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Lawerence Washington, husband of former BDSC director Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment in her honor. bdsc.indiana.edu/news-events/...

8/ Wildly heterogeneous. Mitochondria inside the same cell are far from chemically equivalent. In HeLa cells, most mitochondria contain only ~1–2 mM Na⁺. But a small subset carries much higher levels. Within one cell, neighboring mitochondria can live in very different ionic worlds.