Looking for a post-doc? Join us at #SickKids recently voted the Top Pediatric Hospital in the world rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-...

World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2025 - Pediatrics

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Olena Zhulyn@ozhulyn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral fellowships (2 positions) in wound healing - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 1284...

Two Postdoc positions to identify & visualize translation dynamics & function of proteins that drive epithelial cell migration during wound healing.

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Olena Zhulyn@ozhulyn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral fellowships (2 positions) in wound healing - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 1284...

Two Postdoc positions to identify & visualize translation dynamics & function of proteins that drive epithelial cell migration during wound healing.

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Given his performance on @cnn.com, it’s time to tell this story again. Vought’s daughter is alive because of NIH. He’s destroying an institution that saved his daughter’s life. @mrjoncryer.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @atrupar.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid

Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

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SickKids Research Institute has just launched a search for Program Head in Developmental, Stem Cell and Cancer Biology. Phenomenal colleagues, amazing science and great food all in the most multicultural city in the world. Join us: www.sickkids.ca/en/research/...

Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology | SickKids Research Institute

The Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology program has led significant discoveries in developmental genetics, genomics, stem cell and cancer biology.

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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Stay strong @harvard.edu

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

The ethical implications of this from long established principles are atrocious - from denial of consent and respect for persons and their wishes, to beneficence with a high rate of harm to the potential child and justice. This is a violation of all 3 Belmont principles of ethical medical care.

One of my axolotls will find and eat any food I give her. The other must be hand fed one morsel at a time, because she only eats things that smack her in the face at the precise moment she was pondering a lil snack anyway.

U.S. House panel passes GOP plan that cuts Medicaid by $625B, adds work requirement, reports Jennifer Shutt, @jennifershutt.bsky.social, of @statesnewsroom.com, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/14/r...

U.S. House panel passes GOP plan that cuts Medicaid by $625B, adds work requirement | Alaska Beacon

About 10.3 million would lose Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, with 7.6 million becoming uninsured, the CBO said.

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There was lots of cool science at the #synbiobeta synthetic biology conference in San Jose last week — not to mention some awesome technology that I dreamed up 25+ years ago! But there was also a lot of what I can only call cowardice in the face of MAGA's war on science. Please share. 🧪

I was in the house when the house burned down, part one

SynbioBeta 2025: a failure of a synthetic biology conference

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Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

Read this excerpt of an interview with Jay Bhattacharya, new NIH director. And do not miss the last graf. Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Group picture at the wonderful 19th @transtechsociety.org #TT2025 meeting at @ethzurich.bsky.social in Zürich (Switzerland) Thanks to Stefan Selbert, Nataša Savić and rest of local organizers abd committees for putting together a great conference with balanced technical and scientific talks. Go ISTT

Transcription factors (1,600+ TFs) intricately shape human gene regulation, exceeding the complexity of the genetic code through crucial TF-TF interactions. PMID:40205063, Nature 2025, @Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08844-z #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code | Nature

In the same way that the mRNA-binding specificities of transfer RNAs define the genetic code, the DNA-binding specificities of transcription factors (TFs) form the molecular basis of the gene regulatory code1,2. The human gene regulatory code is much more complex than the genetic code, in particular because there are more than 1,600 TFs that commonly interact with each other. TF–TF interactions are required for specifying cell fate and executing cell-type-specific transcriptional programs. Despite this, the landscape of interactions between DNA-bound TFs is poorly defined. Here we map the biochemical interactions between DNA-bound TFs using CAP-SELEX, a method that can simultaneously identify individual TF binding preferences, TF–TF interactions and the DNA sequences that are bound by the interacting complexes. A screen of more than 58,000 TF–TF pairs identified 2,198 interacting TF pairs, 1,329 of which preferentially bound to their motifs arranged in a distinct spacing and/or orienta

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Wonderful initiative!! Canada is friendly, Toronto science is world class and we don’t have the brainmeltingly toxic politics of America. Come to Canada, do great science with great people - and you don’t have to worry about being deported to an El Salvador concentration camp! The choice is clear.

University Health Network@uhn.ca · last yr.

Today UHN launches the Canada Leads 100 Challenge! 🇨🇦💯 We’re making an ambitious investment to recruit 100 world-leading scientists. Together, we'll drive the future of health research and position Canada as a leader in global innovation! Learn more: www.uhn.ca/corporate/Ab...

May opportunities in Toronto.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

Grateful to receive a 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants to lead a dream project with a dream team:‬ Mounia Lagha ‪@laghalab.bsky.social‬, Neil Kelleher @nlkproteomics.bsky.social and Alexander Van Oudenaarden. ‪ @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social @sickkidsto.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · last yr.

🥳Congratulations to the 104 pioneering scientists from 30 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants! 🎉Your frontier research is shaping the future of #LifeSciences! 🌍🔬🧪 🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202... #ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:

Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...

Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders

A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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The first paper from the Leppek lab is published today at @embojournal.org!! 🎉 We designed and evaluated a versatile toolbox for determining IRES activity in cells and embryonic tissues. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

My alma mater, the University of British Columbia, Dept of Medical Genetics, is hiring for a tenure track junior faculty position specializing in chromatin regulation / gene regulatory mechanisms. Beautiful city and vibrant epigenetics research. Please share! medgen.med.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...

We need to trust our eyes. Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.