Josh T Cuperus

@rnanerd.bsky.social

Faculty in Genome Sciences at the University of Washington focusing on gene regulation tech dev, especially in plants.

“The message, very clearly, they’re sending is, do not speak out on behalf of Chinese postdocs. If you do, you’re going to pay a penalty...It seems pretty obvious that this is an attempt by the current administration to silence people that question their activities." — Roger Innes, IU AAUP member

A Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down.

Work at an Indiana University biology lab was halted amid federal scrutiny, affecting dozens of researchers. “The damage is significant and mounting,” the department chair told The Chronicle.

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Our #PacBio workshop at #PAG33 starts in one hour. ⏰ See how HiFi sequencing and SPRQ-Nx chemistry help researchers reveal chromatin features, explore genetic and epigenetic diversity, and resolve complex genomes. 🕐 January 12 | 12:50–3:00 PM 📍 Town and Country, Ballroom C

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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.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

Here ends our foray into rDNA variation in model organisms—w/ Christine Queitsch, Bonnie Brewer, and many others. Especially Ashley Hall and Elizabeth Morton. tl;dr: In natural ranges of rDNA copy number, phenotypes are rare (yeast + C. elegans). But outside those ranges? Some things happen. 1/3

Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

Tableau

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Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last yr.

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

MPS budget

Trump’s war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer. The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.

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Thrilled to present our collaboration w/ Stergachis lab members “The regulatory potential of transposable elements in maize”. Single-molecule Fiber-seq - accurate and sensitive accessibility in maize. New open chromatin regions in LTRs and much more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The regulatory potential of transposable elements in maize

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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