New CBO paper: every $1 of federal R&D returns ~$3–$4 of GDP in present value over 30 years www.nber.org/papers/w35472

Planning to apply for faculty positions this fall? Join the GSA Education Committee on July 22 for the New faculty workshop: "How to get a job and thrive in it!" Learn about applications, interviews, negotiations, and succeeding in your first year. 🔗Register now: buff.ly/WVy6b6T

I know y'all *just* finished writing you public comments on the fascist NIH takeover plan but the fascist NSF takeover plan public comment period is now open (until August 24) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...

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Today is the day! We will kick off #EMBOrnaLocalization with a welcome reception and opening keynote by Matthias Hentze. Be sure to swing by the registration desk at 4 to pick up your badge and meeting materials! Full schedule here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...

"Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA *Application Deadline: 8/24/2026" Read more here: https://apptrkr.com/7216427 #PlantSciJobs

Final call – One week left! Abstract submission is open until 9 June for The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | EMBO #CellBio2026 meeting in #SanDiego #California, United States, 12–15 December 2026. 🧪 https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/ #LifeSciences #research #conference #meeting

Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting

Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.

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4 hr estimate wait time for an alphafold job? Wut? 💀

Heads up: Abstracts for @ascbiology.bsky.social annual meeting are due earlier this year. If you/your trainees want to be considered for a talk or early poster, submit by 9 June! You would save $75. Also... registration is not open until July

Cell Bio 2026 - An ASCB|EMBO Meeting

Registration and attend Cell Bio 2026 - An ASCB|EMBO Meeting and network

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Productive day: one-on-one meetings, submitted MS review, submitted a paper.

The judge wrote in his 94-page ruling that it was "crystal clear" that the arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. He also ruled that the center could not wind down its programming and close for two years of renovations – at least for now n.pr/4uIQCD8

Trump's name must come off of the Kennedy Center, judge rules

The judge wrote in his 94-page ruling that it was "crystal clear" that the arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. He also ruled that the center could not wind down its programming and close for two years of renovations – at least for now

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My kid doesn’t love reading, but he does love Lego. So, we set a reading goal toward a sweet set he has his eyes on. 📖

SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚

Call for Papers: Cell Biology of the Lysosome Submit your research to MBoC’s special focus on lysosome biology. Benefit from constructive peer review, fast decisions, and wide visibility. Submit your manuscript: molbiolcell.org/lysosome

I did not have being sick on my long weekend bingo card, but at least I got to read my friend’s debut novel

NIGMS May council meeting is this morning. Discussion topics and link to watch the open session can be found here. www.nigms.nih.gov/about/counci...

I find hilarious that a company with a multi billion dollar revenue still cannot manage to properly format a fillable Adobe PDF.

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Today is Revenge of the Fifth, Cinqo de Mayo, and Taco Tuesday. Sounds spicy! 🔥🔥🔥

Everyone deserves a reviewer like this once in their life.😍 "The manuscript is exceptionally well written. The text is precise without being inaccessible, and the authors demonstrate a rare ability to convey complex molecular mechanisms in language that is both rigorous and engaging."

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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology - Penn State www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta... The search is open to any area of plant biology, an area of strength in our department and across Penn State. #BotanyJobs

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Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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New FeiginLab paper is OUT! A commonly prescribed anti-anxiety drug reduces inflammatory signaling in pancreatic cancer through regulation of cancer-associated fibroblast activity! aacrjournals.org/cancerrescom...

A month without F1 😢

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How many times I gotta send FedEx this fake invoice to import a reagent? I uploaded it when I made the label, sender had a copy with the package, already emailed it to them, now they’re calling. Guys, get it together.

I'm deeply honored to be included (with many distinguished others) in the 2025 class of Elected Honorary Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! www.aaas.org/news/aaas-we...

AAAS welcomes 449 scientists and engineers as Honorary Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

AAAS announces its 2025 class of Honorary Fellows, includes 449 scientists, engineers and innovators across 24 AAAS disciplinary Sections.

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You can hear from Hehnly Lab PhD Graduate, Favour Ononiwu, in a first person @biologyopen.bsky.social interview about her recent study. Check it out here: journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

First person – Favour Ononiwu

ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Favour Ononiw...

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The podium at today’s F1 race! Love to see it @f1tv.bsky.social

Very happy to have contributed to this mastodon of a paper by Yinan @yinanwan.bsky.social. Whole-mount spatial transcriptomics in zebrafish y'all 🐟🧪

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Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

If you didn’t have to save and reupload the same figure then rebuild the PDF 4 different times, did you even submit a paper?

FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live! There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org for details.

The Hilde Mangold Prize of the German Society for Developmental Biology is awarded to Maik Bischoff (@maikbischoff.bsky.social) at #GfE2026 for his research on "Mesenchymal sculpting as a driver of chiral organ development" in Drosophila.

If you're at #Dros26 and are interested in how cells change shape & move during morphogenesis & how different classic cadherins influence different cell behaviors, check out the talk by @saraheclark.bsky.social in Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton, Organelles, & Trafficking II Sat 9:15 🧪