This coming school year's Lego League theme is biodiversity, which means it's about to be all-hands-on-deck for ecologists. Let's get ready for the flood. Ecologists, if you're willing to answer questions from classrooms or LEGO teams, we need ya. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The BME Faculty Jobs List is back for 2026-2027! My goal is to support early-career faculty candidates with a centralized & open-access database. Please share & contribute! #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/Qq4GmF9axXHE... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Not everyday a friend is able to define a new organelle!!! If you like membrane compartimentalization and are interested in how cells responde to stress in membrane tension, check this out!👇👇 Congrats to Elda and co!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Awesome outside of the box thinking!! #ShyraGardai CSO #EpiBiologics shines a light on the strategy of recruiting #degraders to target #EXTRACELLULAR proteins (like #EGFR) for #therapeutics (not that there’s anything wrong with intracellular targets…) #BioScience_Forum #ProteinDegradation

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

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Awesome #axolotl (Thank you, Cassie!!) along with many bugs and critters to be discovered at the #SMCMVCD #OpenHouse 🐞🐛🐜🦟🪲🪳🕷️

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How can you resist a #BugMuseum!!?? Happening today until 4pm @countyofsanmateo.bsky.social #Mosquito&VectorControlDistrict #OpenHouse www.smcmvcd.org/open-house

How can you resist a #BugMuseum!!?? Happening today until 4pm @countyofsanmateo.bsky.social #Mosquito&VectorControlDistrict #OpenHouse www.smcmvcd.org/open-house

Finally finished @philipcball.bsky.social's wonderful "How Life Works"! When I hit the part on the 2nd Law felt compelled to share my comic on Entropy from a few years back, bits of which I'm expanding on in the new work (& one reason I read this brilliant book!) spinweaveandcut.com/sketching-en...

First moments at Asilomar Conference Grounds at #Yeast2026

Came back to US for the first time after my PhD to attend the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #Yeast26 Genetics Meeting. Great to meet many colleagues from the North American yeast community, whose research I have followed through papers. Until next time~

How cool is that? I am utterly exhausted & mind-boggled with the phenomenal synthetic hybrid chromosomes (Chromosome I of S. cerevisiae & S. paradoxus) & unexpected colony morphologies described by #ChrisNeVille lab of #IanEhrenreich @usc.edu @dornsife.usc.edu #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

[1/3] Monday at #Yeast26 was extremely busy (no excuses), but I just wanted to thank @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social , #MichaelLaw @stockton.edu (and…help!! I’m missing names!!) for putting together the “Teaching with Purpose: Implementing the New #Genetics #LearningOutcomes” workshop,…

How can you not stop in your tracks when you see “Yeast Killer” on a slide?? Extremely cool to learn about #mycoviruses from #MengxiTan lab of @marcmeneghini.bsky.social @utoronto.ca. Incredible to see they’ve uncovered even more #viruses with the #1011YeastGenomes #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

My paper is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🐟🐭🧠 Thankful to the contributors and @annamolofskylab.bsky.social for the support! How does the developing brain clear millions of dying neurons? Read below, if interested. #zebrafish #neuroscience #microglia #devbio @zebrafishrock.bsky.social 1/5

Surprised that #evolution of #fluconazole #DrugResistance monitored in yeast lineages in different environments collapsed into six fitness response clusters. Stunning work by @kgslab.bsky.social #ArizonaStateUniversity #ASUBiodesignCenterforMechanismsofEvolution #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Welcome to Wednesday morning and the FINAL #Yeast26 session focusing on #Evolution and #PopulationGenetics with co-cruise directors @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social and #GregoryLang #LehighUniversity to close our YGM! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Congratulations to @schacherer.bsky.social @unistra.fr recipient of the #Yeast26 GSA Medal! Great to hear the journey to identifying structural variants in #1011YeastGenomes, tackling heritability, genetic diversity, and genotype-phenotype @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Congratulations to @lacefieldlab.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social #DartmouthGeiselSchoolOfMedicine presenting the #Yeast26 Ira Herskowitz Award Lecture highlighting the link between #meiosis and #autophagy @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Thanks #LindaHuang @umassboston.bsky.social for reminding/teaching us to end yeast #meiosis with four spores requires wrapping each nucleus with a prospore membrane, like pulling a ski mask down from the top of your head past your ears and under your chin. #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Graduate awardees of #Yeast26 YGM Student Poster Awards announced by #InesPinto @uarkansas.bsky.social: #LeahAnderson @maitreya.bsky.social lab @uwgenome.bsky.social, #NasimaAkhter @justinfay.bsky.social lab @urochester.bsky.social , & #OnyinyechiOnuoha #BruceKnutson lab @biochemdept-bmb.bsky.social

Undergraduate awardees for #Yeast26 Student Poster Awards announced by #Yee-MonThu @colbycollege.bsky.social: #AlexaMacKersie #SeanBeckwith lab @hopecollege.bsky.social , #ViaLawson @jlargueso.bsky.social lab #ColoradoStateUniversity, & #EmmaBocquillon #AllysonO'Donnell lab #UniversityOfPittsburgh

How to monitor the #stress response of one protein in a single cell in response to salt stress as shared by #RachelKocik lab of @audreygasch.bsky.social #UWisc-Madison #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

Delineating the role of #Bck2 in controlling cell size for triggering Start presented by #ShifuWu lab of #JanSkotheim @stanford.edu #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

The final #Yeast26 session this afternoon is “Life Cycle” with co-chairs #AmyIkui @brooklyncollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu and #AnujKumar @umich.edu @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

As a yeast geneticist, I wonder how yeast cells die. This clever Yeast Lifespan Machine holds the mother cell and buds are washed away to allow study of the aging mother cell. #KiyanShabestary #CalicoLifeSciences has focused on analyzing gene expression changes in scRNAseq from aging yeast. #Yeast26

Fascinating to see the detailed analysis of the #fibril structures generated by the #prion form of the translation termination factor #Sup35 in yeast shared by #WenjuanZhang @ucl.ac.uk #amyloid #[PSI^+] #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

I am easily fascinated by #WordClouds and these are all about #aging! And then you get to see an atlas of the age-sensitive proteome (where are they, how much, protein interactions) #KaiZhou @buckinstitute.org #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #HallmarksOfAging

Wow! In this morning’s #Yeast26 Disease Models and Aging session, @richasardana.bsky.social @cornelluniversity.bsky.social @cornellvet.bsky.social is using #Ers1, the yeast homolog of #cystinosin (#CTNS) to uncover potential drug targets for #Cystinosis @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

As we start this morning’s #Yeast26 session on “Disease Models & Aging” with co-chairs #DanielGottschling, #CalicoLifeSciences and #AllysonO'Donnell #UniversityOfPittsburgh, I'm having a back-to-the-future moment of a long-ago meeting enthralled when Dan Gottschling explained aging studies in yeast😮

Thanks #AparnaSreenivasan #CSUMB @calstate.bsky.social for gathering #Mentoring voices and challenges @needhibhalla.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social #DeVant’eDawson #SJSU #EnvironmentalStudies & #LeahAnderson @maitreya.bsky.social lab @uwgenome.bsky.social #Yeast26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social