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Michael Trakselis

@trakselis.bsky.social

#Traklab PI studying DNA replication and DNA repair mechanisms. Genome Instability @Baylor Director of Graduate Affairs Chemistry & Biochemistry #soccerdad

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Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 7d ago

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last wk.

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last mo.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today. To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university. The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.
Mark Histed@markhisted.org · last mo.

It is sad that Scott Atlas doesn’t understand basic economics. Paul Samuelson wrote about public goods—why NIH has been such a stunning success—more than 75 yrs ago. Also, to see why Atlas urges ending US success, just look at who elevates him: pro-privatization billionaires. 1/

Clown shoes pro-oligarchy pablum, supported by far-right billionaires — a Hoover fellow, brought in by Trump 1 to blame others for COVID, arranged doubt via billionaire-funded AIER, and now writes in the Bezos Post.
Gen Wojcik@genandgenes.bsky.social · last mo.

They want you to join their witch hunts, feed the flames that burn us all in the end. "Do you think a particular federal research grant is a waste of tax dollars? Anyone angry enough to file a lawsuit over such a matter may soon be able to have the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on their side."

Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research

White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”

science.org

Dirk Remus@dirkremus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you have experience in biochemistry/cryo-EM, are interested in DNA replication, and would like to do a postdoc in New York - our lab has positions available! Just DM or email me with your CV.

Michael Trakselis@trakselis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a really good read for anyone interested in DNA replication dynamics and the history and tools developed to study this complex process. Well done!

Cardoso lab@cardosolab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New review in NAR! We connect the two halves of the DNA replication field — single-cell microscopy and genome-wide sequencing to show how each method’s strengths build one picture: from DNA fibers → replication foci → origin & timing maps. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag550 @narjournal.bsky.social

Nature Astronomy@natastron.nature.com · 5mo ago

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T, U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth. http://dlvr.it/TRWtVp ☄️

A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu - Nature Astronomy

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T and U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth.

dlvr.it

Mohammed AlQuraishi@moalquraishi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New OpenFold3 preview out! (OF3p2) It closes the gap to AlphaFold3 for most modalities. Most critically, we're releasing everything, including training sets & configs, making OF3p2 the only current AF3-based model that is functionally trainable & reproducible from scratch🧵1/9

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