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Monika Piwecka

@monikapiwecka.bsky.social

RNA biologist non-coding RNAs | RNA-protein interactions | gene expression regulation | brain 🧠 & neuroendocrine system

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾@plantevolution.bsky.social · last mo.

Have a favorite European colleague who should be recognized for their work in non-medical biotechnology? Pls nominate them for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Biotechnology. (Prior awardees at novonordiskfoundationprize.com/awardees). Thank you! novonordiskfoundationprize.com/nominate-bio...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize

Our prizes are awarded to researchers who have contributed to scientific breakthroughs or in other ways distinguished themselves within natural or medical science.

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Neva Caliskan @caliskanlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hello RNA Community! @rnasociety.bsky.social You are invited to join the next RNA Collaborative Seminar on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am ET, 4PM CET. Seminar is hosted by Regensburg Center for Biochemistry (RCB) and University of Michigan. Registration link below us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: RNA Collaborative - University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine and Regensburg Center for Biochemistry (RCB). After registering, you will receive a c...

Featuring: "Engineering and delivery of circRNA therapeutics and vaccines" Guizhi (Julian) Zhu, Ph.D. Ara Garo Paul Professor, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Chair, Col...

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Monika Piwecka @monikapiwecka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Not much time left... but still! Please share/circulate or apply!

Carmelo Ferrai @carmeloferrai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Monika Piwecka@monikapiwecka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Not much time left... but still! Please share/circulate or apply!

Monika Piwecka @monikapiwecka.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Not much time left... but still! Please share/circulate or apply!

@meisterlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Exciting news: Our RNA community in @uniregensburg.bsky.social is set to grow! We are opening a Junior Group Leader position in RNA biochemistry / ribonucleases / RNA stability. A great opportunity to start your own team within our collaborative RNA network. Details & application 👇

Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 6mo ago

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪🌏🐵

Handwritten note saying: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

Live With MS @livewithms.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When insomnia hits, it’s not just “having trouble sleeping.” For many people with MS, it’s a brain that won’t slow down, a body that feels wired and exhausted at the same time, and nights that don’t offer real rest.

EMBO @embo.org · 6mo ago

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "#RNA metabolism: Perspective from physiology to brain disorder" in Darjeeling, India, 25–28 October 2026. Deadline: 15 May 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna-metabolism #EMBOrnaMetabolism #RNAsky #LifeSciences #research #conference #EMBOevents 🧪

Monika Piwecka @monikapiwecka.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New year and new opportunities! There is an open call for a PhD student to join our lab. #RNA biology #circRNAs #miRNAs #neuroscience #neuroedocrinology Please share with potential candidates 🙏🫶. A link to the call & more details here: www.phdscanner.com/opportunitie...

Matthew L. Kraushar @matthewkraushar.bsky.social · 7mo ago

yo 🦋 NEURO SKY 📣 the website is live and registration open for the Young PI Symposium 2026 - the day prior to FENS Barcelona! @young-pi-neuro26.bsky.social navigate challenges, sharpen leadership skills, make a roadmap together for generations of neuroscientists! youngpisymposium2026.com

Young PI Symposium 2026

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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧪 An EMBO Meeting on Axon Biology in Okinawa, Japan Iconic science at an amazing venue. Please join us! EMBO | COB Workshop on Axonal degeneration and regeneration meetings.embo.org/event/26-axo...

Axonal degeneration and regeneration

Neurons are the largest and most long-lived class of cells, necessitating specialized mechanisms for their survival, growth and maintenance. Axons are the longest extensions of a neuron, reaching len…

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Monika Piwecka @monikapiwecka.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Jakob Farnung @jakobfarnung.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When RNA Degradation 🤝 meets 🤝 Protein Degradation! tinyurl.com/E3TDMD In a collaboration of @bartellab.bsky.social and Schulman lab, we show that, in target-directed microRNA degradation (TDMD), 2-RNA-factors recruit an E3 ligase and induce the degradation of not only a protein but also RNA (1/5).

Jeroen Pasterkamp @jeroenpasterkamp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Exciting opportunity to learn about #humanbrainmodels and #singlecelltechnology! July 13-17 2026 we for the first time will offer the Utrecht Summer School titled "Advanced human brain models in the single-cell era" for master and PhD students. Apply now: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life...

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization.

In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children.

Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.

Matthew Taliaferro @jmtali.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Announcing the 2026 edition of the EMBO workshop on RNA localization and local translation! This meeting will be held June 30 - July 4 near Porto, Portugal. Come for exciting updates in the field from both established investigators and trainees. See the link below for details!

Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us in Porto for the forefront of RNA localization & local translation research! Registration is live!

Matthew Taliaferro@jmtali.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Registrations are due March 10, and both travel grants and dependent care grants are available. We look forward to seeing you in Portugal next summer! meetings.embo.org/event/26-rna...

Ares Lab @areslab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hey everyone, the RNA Society is running an RNA Infographic Contest! Get your team together and create! There are prizes!

A graphic including a QR code that describes the RNA Society's Infographic contest.

Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Features and biomedical relevance of circular RNA biogenesis" by Xiaolin Wang & Ge Shan "Recently, modulation of circRNA biogenesis to generate tissue-specific expression patterns is coming into focus. We summarize various mechanisms involved..." authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Figure 1. Mechanisms of biogenesis of circular RNA (circRNA) subclasses and the biomedical relevance of the RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) involved.

Ivano Legnini @ilegnini.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded PhD position in #AI and #RNA biology!!!

Ivano Legnini@ilegnini.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And in addition to the postdoc position (1 week left to apply!), just opened a PhD position in AI and RNA biology 🤩

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 9mo ago

Wow

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 9mo ago

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

Patri Álvarez-Campos @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join our upcoming course on cutting-edge evolutionary & genomic methods for Evo-Devo studies! We'll cover: comparative & single-cell transcriptomics,ATAC-seq, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, gene regulation, and much more Spots still available: sites.google.com/view/evodevo...

Jordi Solana@jordisolana.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I will be participating in this EvoDevo course in Madrid, organised by @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social and other colleagues. sites.google.com/view/evodevo... I will be covering scRNA-seq, other topics are transcriptomics, ATAC-seq, phylogenomics Registration closes on Nov 20! Dates: Dec 15-18

Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Some good news New data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows the 2025/26 vaccine is currently 70 to 75% effective at preventing hospital attendance in children aged 2 to 17 years and 30 to 40% effective in adults. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Flu vaccine providing important protection despite new subclade

UKHSA’s early season data shows vaccination remains best defence alongside good respiratory hygiene as flu activity rises.

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Emilio Mármol Sánchez @marmole6.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:

Oden @oden-gjallarhornet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Yuka The Woolly #Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest #RNA Ever Sequenced www.sciencealert.com/yuka-the-woo...

Yuka The Woolly Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced

A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 9mo ago

How to tackle emerging questions in cellular organisation, adaptation, and robustness? Join #EESPhaseSeparation! 🧬🦠 Bringing together scientists from diverse fields to foster new discoveries in condensate biology. Submit your abstract by 10 Feb: s.embl.org/ees26-08-bl 📅 19 – 22 May 2026

BioVoxxel (Jan Brocher)@biovoxxel.de · 9mo ago

Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis

Ivano Legnini @ilegnini.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/6 We are hiring!!! 🐣🐣🐣 Fully funded postdoc position in my group! humantechnopole.it/en/research-...

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Laboratory for Molecular and Systems Biology of RNA The Legnini Group at Human Technopole combines molecular and systems biology approaches to study gene regulation. We use synthetic biology and opt...

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