Yamuna Krishnan

In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money

in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war

Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas is a paradigm for organelle size regulation. In poster 163 at CellBio2025 Sunday Dec 7, I present work by Hiro Ishikawa using a synthetic biology approach to test a length-sensing model based on diffusion of kinesin in flagella

Photo of a full audience of 100+ people listening to Dr. Maggie Werner Washburne who’s at the lectern. A PowerPoint slide is projected with a photo of students and on it is written: “Imagination: Principles: * Know your heart * Look for the positive or the blessing in everything * Embrace who you are and bring it to the table * Show gratitude/finish well”

Packed room for the opening mentoring keynote by Maggie Werner Washburne talking about the importance of imagination in science and persistence

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Terrible. I’m sorry 😞

Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this

Every day, I think about the things we won’t discover because of The Great MAGA Deconstruction of our scientific ecosystem 😔

This is true in the science world too.

(Many) scientific societies are not doing enough now to defend science and US innovation and universities.

And that’s for a reason like this 👇👇 — because they have flawed theories of power; outdated frames of how politics works today. We need bigger thinking.

Just checked in with the Santa Cruz city election office .. paperwork isn’t available yet, but I’m planning to run for District 6 City Council.

How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

I’d never thought of this before - so obvious and so powerful.

If no oil is extracted within your city limits, every gas pump pumps money out of your regional economy.

Bicycles and pedestrians keep the money circulating.

I have written these kinds of letters and served on a high-volume advancement and promotion council at a highly ranked medical school.

This thread contains SUPERB advice.

Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

YouTube video by Robert Reich Trump’s Ballroom Corruption Exposed

Why have so many corporations donated to Trump’s White House ballroom project?

Could it be because many of them have lucrative government contracts?

Or because they have mergers and other regulatory business before Trump?

I’m sure they just thought a ballroom sounded nice…

American Science, Shattered An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

This year may go down as one of the most tumultuous in American science, @statnews.com is capping it off w/ 10 stories examining what's been lost.

We bring you American Science, Shattered. Featuring stories of those who are being effected the most immediately

www.statnews.com/american-sci...

"I think this president thinks we have the world's largest economy ever because of real estate investors. It's not—it's because of science."

Sen. Mark Kelly criticizes Trump's cuts to critical scientific research.

nice to hear this expressed so clearly and passionately — as a former astronaut he knows firsthand what NASA and other US science agencies have done: make the ‘impossible’ not just possible but scalable, safe, and successful

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE

Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!

The suspicious activity was then gathering firewood. Is there no end to this cruelty.

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:

It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.

I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

A PBS News tweet explains how two laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with canceled programs, keeping nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries. Below the text is an image of two people—Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum—appearing in a split-screen video interview, each seated in their respective rooms.

Meet two heroes of our times.

Postdocs at Center for Gene Expression in Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

We are looking for a Postdoc to join us at the Center for Gene Expression @cgen2025.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen! Full advertisement here: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

my name is pattie gonia and i’m backpacking 100 miles in drag to try to raise $1,000,000 for 8 outdoor nonprofits. here goes nothing. TikTok video by pattiegonia

I love Pattie Gonia so much! 100 miles… in drag. It’s spectacular. Consider checking out their fundraising project. (Plus, I love a mustachioed queen!) Aaaaand, they were in the #Out100 with @mswmedia.com’s own @dgcomedy.bsky.social. 🫶🏻

Do these people not see that the only way to have a chance of survival is to prepare for resistance, not preemptively give up?

Shame on Cambridge.

Opinion | Why this ad for a weight-loss drug alarmed me Dr. Melanie Jay: Prescriptions to weight-loss medications shouldn't be this easy to get

www.ms.now/opinion/glp-...

White fluffy snow covers the angular bare tree branches and vertical lines of iron fences and railings on a street in Chicago

Snowscape! #Chicago

Screenshot of a tweet from Cory Archibald on X.com criticizing claims that young people are “hoarding” devices. The tweet says Boomers spent years telling young people to save money, and now blame them for not buying $1500 phones and for “costing the economy” by living at home. Below is a tweet from unusual_whales stating that $12 billion a year is being lost because younger people spend less on housing, transportation, and food due to living with family.

Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.