Liana Lareau
@lianafaye.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Berkeley. Living in an RNA world. lareaulab.org
Your chance to be the first person in the lab of a great new PI! He’s looking for a lab tech in NYC.
J. Wren Kim@jwrenkim.bsky.social · 3d agoA motivated new PI (me!) is recruiting the first member of his lab: a Research Technician. We’ll work together on exciting, modern neurobiology projects while also navigating the joys—and challenges—of setting up and maintaining a brand-new lab.
CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...
Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · 7d agoThe fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
Our #genome still holds many mysteries… Want to help figuring out what is actually translated into proteins and how it is regulated? Our research network #ORFeus is looking for motivated #PhD students to join projects across Europe. Deadline is soon (Oct 22), have a look! www.orfeus-dn.eu/apply/
Apply to ORFeus — 15 fully funded PhD positions
15 fully funded PhD positions across Europe, starting 2027. Applications open 1 October and close 22 October 2026. Rank up to three projects.
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A truly lovely story about math: The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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My department, Berkeley bioengineering, is looking for an assistant professor in cell engineering. It's a truly lovely place to launch your career. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05476
Assistant Professor - Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Why your doctor can't give you a cure tomorrow: how effective treatments are discovered and developed. Part 1 🧪 🧵 #science #news #education #health #research
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...
My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.
Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 4mo agoBeen wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...
"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
Victor Ambros@vambros.bsky.social · 4mo agoA column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
A Federally funded doctor was curious about a lizard's biology. That work became Ozempic. The administration just proposed a rule requiring grants to "advance the president's policy priorities." The lizard would never have been studied. My piece in today's NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
Auburn Board Takes Curricular Control, Dissolves Senate
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
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The ADA called the cops on attendees--one of them a former ADA president--for distributing reprints of an article pulblished in the ADA's flagship journal. "Failing to meet the moment" is starting to feel like the understatement of the century when it comes scientific organizations in the US.
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 4mo agoShame on the American Diabetes Association- ejecting scientists from the meeting for distributing copies of an editorial critical of NIH funding cuts. Kudos to these scientists for standing up for science and resisting censorship 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Now to go check the IDweek code of conduct page…
What is the role of #poison-exon in regulating splicing factors in stem cells and development? Check out new work from Nathan Leclair and Mattia Brugiolo and many others in my lab @jax.org #RNA #splicing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Top story on the @nytimes.com app. A big sign that this all-important story is breaking into mainstream consciousness.
This is what has me scared the most- the dry language that attempts to justify a legal sounding framework to do again what they have already tried- to ban entire institutions from receiving Federal funds and to reward "red" states and punish "blue" ones.
Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 4mo agoTo clarify: the story and reporting is excellent; but for those outside of science, each of us will have to be clear in our messaging - this is not 'oversight' in any conventional sense; it cuts to the core of the viability of US science.
This Vought policy is an attempt to choke out American higher education. America's fascists view its institutions of higher ed—and the people who staff them—as existential enemies of the purified nation
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4mo ago🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
Science Magazine@science.org · 4mo agoThe White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
Powerful piece! www.ms.now/opinion/canc...
Opinion | The U.S. is dangerously close to defunding miracles like the one that saved my life
Jenney Bitner: I'm not a scientist or policy expert. But I know that the drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment.
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This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae. DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under. All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”
The groundbreaking research into the KRAS protein that led to the development of daraxonrasib was funded in part by the NIH. Public funding is the bedrock of pharmaceutical research.
Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 5mo agoDaraxonrasib is the first drug to substantially extend survival in pancreatic cancer trials. Median survival reached 13+ months compared to <7 months for chemo. It finally shuts down the "undruggable" KRAS protein, once called a greasy ball, using a novel molecular glue. #MedSky
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
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