I think people adjacent to science (but who now find themselves deciding the fate of US science somehow) undervalue humility, valuing braggadocios hubris instead.
Yes it’s true that some scientific discoveries are complete paradigm changers, and we celebrate these. 1/
16.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 148 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 3
By far. Juvenile.
17.10.2025 01:27 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump
batteries and Molotov cocktails not included
whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow
14.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 12071 🔁 2502 💬 133 📌 105
Spread the word if you can.
We have an unused stopped flow accessory from Applied Photophysics. We traded in our Chirascan CD instrument so we have no use for this anymore. Reach out if you are interested and can find a home for this setup. Will ofcourse only work with a Chirascan!
08.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
The Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside Santa Fe were beautiful today! Wonderful day for a hike.
11.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to our #EMGS2025 Best Oral Presentation Award Winners!
Best Student Oral Presentation
1st Place (Tied): David Schuster and Abigayle Vito
2nd Place: Foster Jacobs
Best Early Career Investigator Oral Presentation
1st Place: Elijah Newcomb
2nd Place: Lindsay Volk
23.09.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
The fiscal year is over.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
01.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 84 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 2
A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.
The fiscal year ends tomorrow.
Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
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Thanks so much!!
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Thanks to your incredible painting skills!
26.09.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How it started: Assistant to the Professor 👨🔬✨
How it’s going: Professor mode unlocked 👨🏫
Also clear evidence that science doesn’t just build knowledge… it ages ya too. 😉
🙏Grateful to all the mentors, colleagues, trainees, friends & family who made this journey possible. I am here because you all!
25.09.2025 23:25 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
… or is it a basement of a Wyoming “resident” in Jackson
23.09.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I mean that seems to be the priorities, maybe we need a committee for these semi-pro “activities” to ensure proper training 🤣
23.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A graph showing the number of projects funded per year by NIH for fiscal years 2021-2025. Fiscal year 2025 shows a reduction in the number of projects of approximately 3000-4000.
Here is a plot in terms of PROJECTS rather than dollars. I am using projects rather than awards so that projects that received supplements do not get double-counted.
While the FY25 curve is improving, it seems that the number of funded projects will drop by 3000-4000 compared with FY24.
22.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 37 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 4
i think regardless of who has authored a paper, we (the scientific community) can and should stop criticizing the work on lack of perceived novelty. we can do better than perpetuating harmful myths about individual scientific papers having to present a discovery no one has ever thought of before.
21.09.2025 19:10 — 👍 66 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
This one is a bit of a departure from the usual and definitely a work in progress!
We found that by using ab initio reconstruction at very high res, in very small steps, we could crack some small structures that had eluded us - e.g. 39kDa iPKAc (EMPIAR-10252), below.
Read on for details... 1/x
13.09.2025 00:04 — 👍 261 🔁 81 💬 19 📌 12
What an incredible @EMGSUS 2025 meeting last week! 🎉 Great science, community, and presentations. #EMGS2025
Special congrats to our lab members🏆 #proudPI:
Abbey Vito – 1st, Student Oral Presentation
Eli Newcomb – 1st, ECI Oral Presentation
Spencer Thompson – 2nd, Student Poster
22.09.2025 00:40 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a student, early career Investigator, or first time #EMGS meeting attendee?
Take part in the #EMGS2025 Quest to make sure you don’t miss anything and earn prizes along the way!
Start the Quest: form.jotform.com/251895711320...
06.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
truly unreal. he's the guy who buys a lap dance and thinks the stripper and he had a deep connection
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Great catching up with Matt during his visit with @barneslab.bsky.social!
15.08.2025 04:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Dr. Sowa! Such a great defense and project. Sara has a great lab and is doing wonderful work.
13.08.2025 12:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The summer just flew by this year and today is the first day of 5th grade for these two. Go get em boys. 🥹
11.08.2025 12:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spencer Thompson gave a great talk at the @kucancercenter.bsky.social Cancer Biology symposium this past week. He has really got this talk looking clean and sounding clear. #proudPI @lumicks.bsky.social
04.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great way to end two summer student internships with the KUcancercenter symposium. Fantastic work by Carson Gray (undergrad) and Esther Solange (high school student)!
Kudos to Abbey Vito, Peyton Oden, and Justin Ling for being wonderful mentors.
12.07.2025 20:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.
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Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Thompson Lab at Lyon College 🧬🧬🧬
Studying helicases, conjugative transfer, and genomics!
Professor, PI, Cell and Molecular Biologist. Study genome integrity and cancer etiology. Fun of Xenopus laevis. views=own
Group Leader @MRC_LMB /Structural Biologist/Biochemist. Amateur baker in free time #RNAworld #spliceosome #telomerase #telomeres #cryoEM #Xraycrystallography
Neuroscience, meninges, blood-brain barrier, cake (or cookies)
http://siegenthalerlabcu.weebly.com/
chemical biology enthusiast & strategist; I make impossible things possible - all before breakfast!
Nature lover-San Diego ✌🏻 𓅃 🐬🌎 🦑🦉🪶🌿🐍 conservationist, amateur photographer 📸 (pix mine), birder, independent leftist, advocate single payer healthcare, 🛑 duopoly, defund military. Anti-war. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Investigating origins and vulnerabilities of cancer chromosomal instability at the Barts Cancer Institute, London UK. Www.Mcclellandlab.com
Structural biologist and biochemist, interested in ubiquitin enzymes and DNA repair & regulation
Group Leader at Umeå University | Researching mitochondrial biology with a focus on mtDNA | Investigating the cellular functions of G-quadruplex DNA structures
Has-been structural biologist FRS (no really) reinventing himself as a computational cancer geneticist in the post-AlphaFold world. Hooked on boats. Picture - outside Leonard Cohen's house on Hydra after sailing there.
ORCID 0000-0002-6910-1809
Group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. Studying DNA replication one molecule at a time.
Biochemist of histone and chromatin biology. Group Leader. University of Liverpool.
Paramecium genome(s) aficionado; small RNAs, transposable elements, chromatin biology
PI at Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
The Fena Ochs Lab at the University of Copenhagen
3D chromatin function super-resolved
https://www.fenaochslab.org/
Associate Professor of Developmental and Evolutionary Genomics at Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences. Spent a decade in Philly, #FlyEaglesFly
https://marcotrizzino.wordpress.com/
Fascinated by oncogenic virus and processes that safeguard genome integrity - AFTLab.ca🔬👩🔬 Opinions are my own. #scientist #mentor #mom
Professor of Pathology at WashU, St. Louis, Co-Director DNA Repair Program @Siteman Cancer Center. Father, husband, immigrant.
A bio-physicist turned phys-biologist,
building models and software in genome biology.
3D genome structure in mitosis | DNA repair | meiosis.
A group leader at @IMBA_Vienna.
Dad x2.
Principal Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute. DNA replication, cryo-EM and molecular mechanism.