Emery Usher, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪

Disordered, but rhythmic: Intrinsically disordered protein regions (#IDRs) play a key role in the #circadian clock. 🕙🌀 In a timely (ahem) Review, Emery Usher & Jacqueline Pelham (@pelhamjackie.bsky.social) discuss the role of IDRs in clock proteins.
#IDP #IDR Read here: shorturl.at/QsTaa

Please check out our new review on the disorderly🍝 side of molecular circadian timing⏰.

It was so fun to write the review with @idpemery.bsky.social !

On official UC letterhead: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA James B. Milliken President Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 universityofcalifornia.edu CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Irvine UCLA Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz MEDICAL CENTERS Davis Irvine UCLA San Diego San Francisco NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES November 18, 2025 Dear Chancellors: I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive. As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California. Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines. Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership. [continued on next image]

After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption. As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders. Sincerely, James B. Milliken President

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID POSTER'S STRIKE.

No content except mutual aid.

Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing.

And nothing else.

#StrikeForMutualAid

Hi chemistry/biology friends, does anyone have a link to resources for writing effective alt text for organic mechanisms and/or biomolecular structures? 🧪

Say it with me

The 👏 dems 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem

Do you believe they're Nazis trying to genocide trans people yet? Because they're Nazis trying to genocide trans people

If y'all don't see me at some conferences this year... it's because this has been YEARS in the making.

Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

What am I working toward if I'm unemployable? Or can't get federal $$ because I'm on some watchlist? FFS.

Are "violent extremists" eligible for professorships? Asking for myself and all of my trans/gender non-conforming colleagues.

No one prepares you for how to get a PhD or a faculty job in the throes of fascism, or for how to get a grant when agency priorities are steeped in eugenics and pseudoscience.

"bUt It'S iLlEgAl" so is, like, the entire fascist machine at this point. Laws don't matter.

Listen to trans people when we say our lives are at stake. We've been dragging ourselves through critical training stages and research day to day so we don't fall too far behind.

Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

If y'all don't see me at some conferences this year... it's because this has been YEARS in the making.

Trans people aren't safe here. PLEASE stand up--personally and professionally (lookin' at you, academics)--for the trans people in your life.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

NMRSky! Is there any way to indicate multiple peak assignments for a single spin system (I.e., exchange where two peaks for one amide are visible) in a BMRB deposition? @nmr900.bsky.social

Thanks!

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

hey I think this is when trans roundups start

like

pretty damn soon

🧵

www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Flipping rapidly back and forth between heartbreak and fury

Donate to Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft, organized by Alexander Petrovnia Hello! My name is Alex Petrovnia, and I have been a trans org… Alexander Petrovnia needs your support for Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft

Hi Bluesky peeps. Shortly after moving cross-country and starting my new job, our eBikes (how I commute to work) were stolen. If you're able, please consider helping me and my husband @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social recover financially, or share this post.

Thank you 🫂

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Donate to Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft, organized by Alexander Petrovnia Hello! My name is Alex Petrovnia, and I have been a trans org… Alexander Petrovnia needs your support for Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft

Hey friends. I hate that I have to ask but please consider helping my husband @idpemery.bsky.social and I recover financially from bike theft, medical costs, + becoming internal refugees.

Thank you so much in advance to everyone who is able to support us or share. <3

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Donate to Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft, organized by Alexander Petrovnia Hello! My name is Alex Petrovnia, and I have been a trans org… Alexander Petrovnia needs your support for Help Trans Refugees Alex and Emery Rebuild After Bike Theft

Hi Bluesky peeps. Shortly after moving cross-country and starting my new job, our eBikes (how I commute to work) were stolen. If you're able, please consider helping me and my husband @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social recover financially, or share this post.

Thank you 🫂

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last person out the door at the Department of Education needs to rm -rf * the student loan database, please

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

violent misogyny is a prerequisite belief for fascism and I just am begging anyone who doesn't study feminism, gender, child and domestic abuse, etc, to please just believe us when we say domestic and sexual violence is how they learn to dodge accountability to enact institutional violence later

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell, 1984

hey my husband and I are both internal trans refugees and I was threatened/harrassed by one of my neighbors again

we have decided we urgently need to up our security but are really struggling to afford it

my venmo is @AlexPetrovnia and we need $125 for security upgrades to our home

#MutualAid

City shuts down popular dance class due to "moral standards" The class was titled "Dirtylicious Dance Fitness."

we're doing explicit morality policy again

www.newsweek.com/city-shuts-d...

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

The Devil’s Bargain: whiteness and the making of the modern age When I was about 14, my parents took me on a cross country road trip across the US. The beauty I saw changed my life on that trip, but…

I wrote some spice for this "holiday" and it would mean a lot if you'd read it. :)

This link is unpaywalled.

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