Miriam B. Goodman, PhD
@wormsense.bsky.social
Sensory biologist, passionate educator, advocate & mentor. Using nematodes to decipher brains & influence to broaden participation, enhance creativity, and pursue excellence in fundamental neuroscience. Opinions are mine.
Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)
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⏰ TODAY: Career Development Workshop on Increasing Transparency in the Academic Job Market! Join @nafisajadavji.bsky.social and Amanda Haage for a discussion on faculty hiring, expectations, and navigating academic careers. 2–3 p.m. EDT. 🔗Register and join: buff.ly/YE8q2EA
Mentee sign-ups are open for the 2026-2027 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Choose: - One-to-one mentoring with an experienced mentor - A peer-mentoring group with people at your career stage Or sign up for both, it takes just 2-5 minutes. And please spread the word! 🧵
Mentee sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. ⏱️ This form takes only 2–5 minutes to complete depending on your choic...
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Dan Feldman@danfeldman.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs
Celebrating a major postdoc milestone this month: my paper is finally published and available online for all. Now that we've (and others) have truly established this link between molecular identity and vulnerability, I'm STOKED to narrow in on the "why/how."
Molecularly defined auditory neuron subtypes show different vulnerabilities to noise- and age-related synaptopathy in mice - Nature Communications
Here authors show that the synaptic vulnerability of auditory neurons in the mouse cochlea can be tuned via genetic reprogramming. This discovery fills a critical gap in efforts to identify the underl...
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🚨Today at 1:00 p.m.🚨 New faculty workshop on “How to get a job and thrive in it” offers practical advice on how to identify faculty positions that will suit your goals and how to navigate the application process. 🔗https://buff.ly/sL0fucx
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Matt Bogyo@mbogyo.bsky.social · 4w agoCheck out this new listing for an Assistant Professor in my department at Stanford which is an amazing, collaborative department with clinical and basic scientists who study diverse aspects of basic biology and human diseases. Join us! med.stanford.edu/pathology/jo...
John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · last mo.My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735
Working on two talks now, playful reminder to consider ur audience, seek to inform & share discoveries, end on time.
Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last mo.🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
C. elegans friends: If you participated in the mentor match program last year, we want your feedback on what worked, what didn't, and how to make the program better! Please fill out this survey: forms.gle/xYCF19saFfoj...
C. elegans Community Mentor Match 2025 feedback survey
Thank you for providing feedback about your experiences as a mentee, mentor, and peer group member in the last cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program! Please skip questions that are n...
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Amazing job opportunity at Brandeis - we are looking for a new manager of our Light Microscopy Facility! Cool instruments, a great community to work with, lots of opportunities for growth - please circulate! brandeis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobs/j...
Light Microscopy Facility Manager
The main purpose of this job is to bring cutting-edge light microscopy research approaches to Brandeis researchers and oversee the day-to-day operations of the Brandeis light microscopy facility. The ...
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Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees. One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help. Please record a short video, and share!
C. elegans Mentor Match Testimonials
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One of my go-to resources for many different reliable & inexpensive antibodies! 🧪🫶
Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2mo agoBy the way, @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social is a non-profit that sells quality antibodies to many proteins at exceptionally reasonable prices, without AI generated faux-validation images. Check them out. dshb.biology.uiowa.edu
Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.
Grand finale of my Effective Research Communication course. Students learn to write an intro, give a 12-minute talk, and present a poster. They also pitch their research to a lay audience. These Rutgers STEM majors are our future scientists, doctors, health professionals. The future is bright!
Looking forward to seeing y’all
@stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe invite Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliates and members of their labs to join us on Monday, May 18, at our 2026 Institute Retreat. ⚠️ Attendance is limited. Registration required. 🧠 Learn more: neuroscience.stanford.edu/events/2026-... 🎟️ Register here by April 21: wutsaineuro-retreat-26.zite.so
#Artemis is circling the Moon right now. And later this week, our team's experiment launches to the #ISS. Tiny worms. Defined gut microbiomes. Here's why the two are connected. 🧵 #WormsinSpace #CBIOMES #Celegans 🧪 🪱 🧬 🚀 1/n
Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances @science.org In this work, we uncover how a disease-linked TRPC3 mutation, together with a cerebellum-specific splice isoform, stabilizes the channel in an open state, drives Calcium overload, and promotes neurodegeneration. (1/4)
Functional and structural basis of a hypermorphic TRPC3 variant
Structural snapshots capture an ataxia-linked overactive ion channel in its open state and reveal a druggable site for inhibition.
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Posting on behalf of (soon-to-be) Dr. Samira Monshietehadi (not on Bluesky) -- "I’m very excited to announce that my PhD thesis project is now a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We show how Müller glia engage with growing retina vasculature in an activity-independent manner."(1/11)
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃 The 2026 #HFSPResearchGrants are out! 🥳 117 scientists from 31 countries will pursue bold, interdisciplinary research, from #neuroscience to #ecology and beyond! 🧪 Are you one of the new #HFSPAwardees? 🔗https://bit.ly/4uGmMQ3 #sts #HFSP
" @ucsantacruz.bsky.social will develop and implement institution-wide guidelines to evaluate open science, open source software, science communication, and graduate mentoring in merit and promotion." 🙌🏽🙌🏽 proud to see our VPAA, Christina Ravelo, spearheading this effort!
Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)@orca-open.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨🚨🚨 Six universities will receive $250K each through the Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement (MA3) Challenge to pilot bold reforms in faculty hiring, evaluation, promotion, and tenure systems. Today @orca-open.bsky.social is excited to announce the inaugural MA3 awardees. [1/5]
A postdoc fellowship & postbac position are available in the Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit headed by Dr. Antonina Roll-Mecak. Please send your CV, research experience summary & contact info of three references to Antonina@nih.gov Please write “Tubulin code” in the subject header.
Congratulations @katiejacobs.bsky.social! Come for the beautiful EM images, stay for wonderful weirdness of cell-cell communication mediated by the ECM.
Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew preprint! An ECM gene acts cell non-autonomously from neighbor neurons to regulate ciliary function, protein localization, extracellular vesicle shedding, and ultrastructure @katiejacobs.bsky.social is the lead in another great collaboration w/ David Hall www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
3i is hiring a Microscopist - repost & tell a friend! Ideal candidate has experience in fundamental optical theory & familiarity with lightsheet, spinning disk, multiphoton, TIRF etc. Full-time, exempt position (travel to visit customers) offering a competitive salary & comprehensive benefits.
Intelligent Imaging Innovations - Microscopist
Intelligent Imaging Innovations
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Woodson wrote in 1927. “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race, hatred and religious prejudice.” news.uchicago.edu/story/centur...
A century of Black History Month
In 1926, alum Carter G. Woodson launched annual commemoration; learn about this year’s events at UChicago
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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
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This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski. 🧵 1/12
