Congratulations to Bernice Waweru! PhD student at the @johninnescentre.bsky.social and recent recipient of the 2026 Jeanie Borlaug Laube WIT Early Career Award 🎉🌱 bgri.cornell.edu/awards/wit-e...

2026 WIT Award winner Bernice Waweru

2026 WIT Award winner Bernice Ngina Waweru, from Kenya, focuses on uncovering the genetic basis of wheat disease resistance by integrating molecular biology, high-resolution phenotyping, genetics, and...

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Excited to share our new preprint! 🧬❄️ by brilliant @mdreimann.bsky.social and great collaborators! Using cryo-ET&EM, we reveal archaeal chromatin in a near-native state: variable-beads-on-a-string fibers shaped by growth phase and histone composition #ArchaeaSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The notochord: development, disease and stem cell-based modelling In this Review, Julie Warin and colleagues discuss how #DevBio and #StemCell studies of the notochord can reveal key insights into spine formation and intervertebral disc development and maintenance. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Happy Juneteenth, Massachusetts! Today is all about honoring Black joy, Black resilience, and Black resistance. As the first Black woman elected statewide, I am inspired by our ancestors every day as I work in community to build a truly equitable future.

📢 We’re hiring! If you’re enthusiastic about computation, MRI analysis, multimodal methods, and you like supporting human neuroscience research, join us at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social. See tinyurl.com/2s4fsx9n for details. Pls share. #neuroskyence #neurojobs #ECR

Computational Technical Expert at University of Reading

Recruiting now: Computational Technical Expert on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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🌟 Special symposium by @neurotorium.org at #FENS2026! 🧠 Titled 'Decoding Brain Diseases: Inflammation, Immunology, and Body-Brain Interactions,' the symposium will focus on the role of inflammatory and immunological mechanisms in brain diseases through four talks. 👉️ Learn more: buff.ly/1c4aVVQ

In the latest edition of Frameshift, our series about alternative careers in neuroscience, Kaela Singleton, director of grants management at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, shares how she bets on bold science and shares in the joy of discovery. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/g...

Getting grants feels good, but giving them is even better

As director of grants management at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, Kaela Singleton bets on bold science and shares in the joy of discovery.

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Let's celebrate York Revolution's first baseman Jacob Teter who showed up at the ballpark in uniform for Pride Night even though his teammates' refusal to wear them caused a forfeit. www.ydr.com/videos/news/...

York Revs 1st baseman Jacob Teeter explains why he came to Pride Night

York Revs first baseman Jacob Teeter explains why he came to Pride Night after his other teammates refused to play wearing Pride uniforms.

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New open access peer-reviewed publication led by a student! This grew out of her final paper in our sports and public health seminar. She’s now headed off to dental school, and I’m very proud of both her and the paper: “Improving accessibility of swimming lessons to reduce childhood drowning rates”

Improving accessibility of swimming lessons to reduce childhood drowning rates - Discover Public Health

Drowning is a leading cause of preventable death among children in the United States, yet access to formal swimming lessons, shown to reduce drowning by up to 88%, often remains inaccessible. This rev...

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Excited to move to the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota in the fall. We will continue our work on neuromodulators and behavior. Positions available in the lab. Please get in touch if interested, and share broadly! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374...

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

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✨ We look forward to hosting Alfredo Varela-Echavarria from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! The Varela-Echavarria lab studies the mechanisms of regeneration in garden slugs. 🐌 ✨ #devbio #regeneration 🪸

Neurosicientist Aryn Gittis and colleagues show Parkinson’s symptoms like tremor and slowed movement arise from different brain circuits, a finding that could lead to more targeted, personalized treatments. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Parkinson’s Symptoms Trace to Distinct Brain Circuits

Carnegie Mellon University’s Aryn Gittis and colleagues suggest the most recognizable symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from disruptions in different motor circuits of the brain, an insight that ...

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Cytogeneticist Dr. Barbara McClintock won the 1983 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her study of corn chromosomes--revolutionizing the field of cytogenetics. She is the only woman to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize in this category. She was born #OTD in 1902. #WomenInSTEM

I will soon be recruiting a postdoc for projects on auditory perception in people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, based here in Auckland. It will probably be a 2-yr post If you're looking for a postdoc and are keen to live and work in NZ, you can submit an expression of interest here

Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest

Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit, but is not associated with any specific position. We will soon be advertising for a 2-year position focusing on au...

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Female Clinical Resilience Despite Pathologic Risk in Alzheimer's Disease jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Female Clinical Resilience Despite Pathologic Risk in Alzheimer Disease

This Perspective discusses female biology and resilience regarding Alzheimer disease despite pathologic risk.

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My recent chat with @carlzimmer www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s... 🧪

Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’

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A glowing profile of my post-doc advisor. As @yvetteefisher.bsky.social says in the piece, Rachel is truly "...one of these generational scientists who thinks extremely incisively about both the details and the big-picture frameworks." magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/stu...

By Studying Fruit Flies, Rachel Wilson Is Changing How We Understand the Brain

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@isabella-gaeta.bsky.social, @shuangshuangdu.bsky.social, @valentatormenta.bsky.social et al. show that the epidermal stem cell layer retains its capacity for proliferation despite significant fibroblast depletion during both adult and neonatal stages in vivo. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #StemCells

"As an institution, we are — by charter and design and history — nonpartisan. But we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science." A principled vision for NAS via incoming Pres. Neil Shubin.

Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’

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Our latest paper describes a single bacterial strain that can make different Phe derivatives from supplemented aromatic aldehydes or carboxylic acids and incorporate them into target proteins via genetic code expansion Congrats to Shelby Anderson and co-authors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RESOURCE/METHODOLOGY: Neural stem cell epigenomes and fate bias are temporally coordinated during mouse cortical development By Shapira et al., Amos Tanay, and Boyan Bonev ➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/40/11-12/956.full #neuraldevelopment #epigenetics #MPRAs #celldifferentiation

Congratulations new #VosshallLab PhDs!! So proud of all 3 of you - you make the world better Dr. Priyanka Lakhiani > MSKCC bioinformatic specialist Dr. Adriana Rosas > Whitehead Institute postdoc Dr. Yael Tsitohay > NYC public high school biology faculty @rockefeller.edu

Sometimes I like doing "random" expts. It's how I learn new things n know the limit of my system. Optogenetics is not too trivial in 🐸, but here is an example of it applied to the rear end 🔴 of a macrophage expressing Opto-Ras. It's strong enough to reverse the cell's direction. #FluorescenceFriday

I wanted to share some news: I'll be leaving the NCI at the end of August. I'm excited to share more about the lab's next step soon, but for this post wanted to focus on expressing gratitude for my colleagues, trainees, and friends at the NCI Center for Cancer Research.

Our newest review on septins as makers & breakers of membrane contacts in J Neurochem Fun writing with new PhD grad (and FASEB Septin Conference A/V Assistant Extrordinaire) TJ Holt Thanks @mcmurraylab.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social for input. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Septins in the Middle—Makers and Breakers of Membrane Contact Sites

Septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins that assemble into heteromeric oligomers and polymers, associating with specific membrane domains and organelles according to their subunit composition. G...

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Join us to hear Maike Frye at #Angioscience26! Maike studies how extracellular and physical microenvironments govern vessel integrity, notably demonstrating how matrix stiffness instructs lymphatic vessel formation. Deadline June 15th. Register today!

New paper! How do RNAs "know" where to go inside a cell? We dug into the sequence elements that route RNAs to the right place. It turns out that, in mammals, they're surprisingly massive (>200 nt), multipartite, and wonderfully complicated. 🧵

Happy to share our new paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social . This project started while I was at Stanford with @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and was completed at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social by @pablidopsis.bsky.social . Find it here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage

Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...

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I am incredibly excited to join this vibrant community

Leading Edge Fellows Program@leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/