😂😂😂😂 This announcement made for a very interesting and entertaining afternoon at work. This Clemson news release was the only info we were given.

Michigan Advance@michiganadvance.com · last mo.

BREAKING: Kevin Guskiewicz has told Clemson he is staying at Michigan State University.

Excited to see this published and to be able to read the whole story! Exciting science and a tour de force. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Ragini also gave a phenomenal talk on this at GS-Connect (gs-connect.us).

Centromeric footprints preserve telomere integrity in ALT cancers - Nature

Centromeric DNA repeat insertions and CENP-A chromatin assembly are identified as genomic signatures that preserve telomere integrity in ALT cancer cells.

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Such a great meeting with a brilliant and supportive community. Also congrats to Georgia Moore, a 2nd year grad student in the lab, for winning an oral presentation award.

Bret Freudenthal@freudlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That's a wrap on the 25th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Two days, 175 attendees, 4 keynotes, 22 talks, and 85 posters of genuinely incredible science (also some fun socializing of course). I am still smiling, but a bit tired. 🧬🌻

Abstract deadline approaching (April 15) for the Midwest DNA Repair meeting. Join us for an exciting meeting with outstanding science and valuable networking. Register and share. $100 includes meals, networking, and social events. sites.google.com/view/kumc-mi...

Midwest DNA Repair

The 25th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium will be held at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas, on May 30–31, 2026. The meeting will take place in the Health Education Bui...

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Bret Freudenthal@freudlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 The 2026 Midwest DNA Repair Symposium is coming to Kansas City (registration is open) 🗓 May 30–31, 2026 ✨ Talks will be selected from abstracts, with a strong focus on trainees and new investigators. Please RT & share with your labs! 🔗 sites.google.com/view/kumc-mi...

Such a great conference for trainees and early career scientists. Going back for the first time last year (since leaving the Midwest) this conference felt like home. Such a wonderful supportive DNA repair community. Awesome science and even better people!!

Bret Freudenthal@freudlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 The 2026 Midwest DNA Repair Symposium is coming to Kansas City (registration is open) 🗓 May 30–31, 2026 ✨ Talks will be selected from abstracts, with a strong focus on trainees and new investigators. Please RT & share with your labs! 🔗 sites.google.com/view/kumc-mi...

you can acknowledge contributions to science AND also acknowledge he was not a good person. This is not nuanced. He told you he was on a regular basis, believe him.

Lior Pachter@lpachter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Given recent events, I do not have faith the university I work for will not sign this. And likely without faculty knowing they did.

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

As expected, the first 9 compacts were a trial run. They have now come for all of us. And each of us, and all of us, should say no. Scoop via @liamknox.bsky.social at Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So sad. I had to email my very talented 2nd year grad student to let her know the app she has been working on cannot be submitted 😢😭

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

It has been one of the harder weeks at work so far. This is a great article that clearly describes my viewpoints on the manner. We are all angry and afraid right now. www.thestate.com/opinion/arti...

I teach at Clemson. It shouldn’t have fired faculty for Charlie Kirk comments | Opinion

Mike Gregory, an assistant professor of philosophy at Clemson University, says it “has just shown the country what happens when a university forgets what it is.”

thestate.com

😢 RIP. Still to this day my favorite experiment in molecular biology.

Javier Irazoqui@javierira.bsky.social · last yr.

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This! This is how I review papers. We are the only ones that can fix this and stop asking for a lot of unnecessary experiments. I will say the last few manuscripts we have submitted have been reviewed this way as well.

Tim@timisstuck.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent tips on peer review here: "It is not our job as reviewers to demand ‘predicted’ results of experiments that have not been performed." The list that follows is superb! The Sticky Wicket series at @jcellsci.bsky.social really is a treasure. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

This! i cringe every time I read that this is scientist’s fault because we don’t have spend more time convincing the public why our science matters. 1) I am socially awkward. 2) we have an office at the uni for that 3) I already don’t have enough time to do the other 19 jobs my job entails.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

It is not realistic or sustainable for every single government program to constantly promote itself to the public. The clear villain in the DOGE immiseration campaign is the right. We don't need to play into their attacks by implying that we deserve it.

Yes!! One of the best pieces of advice I received as an Asst Prof is “The institution will never love you back”.

Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · last yr.

Every action a university makes becomes clear when you realize that their needs are usually diametrically opposed to your own. We care about the sustainability of science. They care about the sustainability of the institute. These are two VERY different things.

An amazing, custom made, going away present from two undergraduates (twins). Can’t wait to get it hung in my office!!

Very great read! Share widely esp to non-scientist friends.

Eric C. Greene@dnacurtain.bsky.social · last yr.

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I really hope leadership stands up soon!

Eric C. Greene@dnacurtain.bsky.social · last yr.

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

Not surprised. Complying will not work. The goal is to destroy. My heart breaks for all my colleagues at Columbia.

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

This is very red Seneca, SC. The support from passing vehicles was amazing! #Handsoff

I am actively looking for a research scientist position in the East Lansing/Ann Arbor/Grand Rapids area. I have experience with in vivo stereotaxy, epifluorescence, confocal and light sheet microscopy. Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your lab’s interests. #neuroskyence

Such a big loss to the scientific community. I still remember when he came to Umich for a seminar when I was a grad student. Such a blast! Thinking of all the meiosis peeps today!

HunterLab.bsky.social@hunterlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sadly, our colleague and friend Scott Hawley passed away this morning. He was an irreplaceable presence and force for good in the meiosis an Drosophila communities and will be sorely missed.

Finally had a whole week to get stuff done now that the semester is over…instead I now have jury duty🤷‍♀️

Small victory. After battling injuries and illness (stupid COVID), I ran for 30 minutes without stopping for the first time in 3+ years! Still slow as molasses right now but stoked about my progress!!!

Introducing Dr. Josh Turner. He rocked his Ph.D. defense yesterday. I was so proud!! By far, this will always my favorite part of this job!

Hoping to reconnect with peeps on here! Genome instability folks please follow if you are out there!