Omar Saleh

I am not sure it is a major conflict. The poster is correct that the scaffold concept has been taken too far in certain cases. But he is not questioning the entire condensate/LLPS field; to the contrary he praises certain approaches

Check out our paper on transcriptional control of an artificial condensate, including engineering a feedback loop that includes phase separation. Led by the amazing @samwilken.bsky.social

Done! Run fast!

PRX Life seems like a good choice, though maybe you are thinking to aim higher? It is a great result

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

Best time to come is the winter, for the obvious reason (maximal weather difference between Canada and here) but also because it is the clearest time, and you get great views of the islands from that particular room

Maybe the new NSF will fund this

Seems like the kind of thing the administration will like

How many of you are there

Hey this looks fun

Congrats!

Indeed

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I believe research gov went down and came back up without any issues or changes

This whole thing was strange from the start; we have all sorts of email trails and office of research paperwork on awards, right?

This summer in beautiful Santa Barbara we will run a 3-day conference on “Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment” June 16 to 18th. Register now: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/b...

Bioinspired Phase Separation 8:00 am – 10:48 am, Friday March 21, Session MAR-W64, Anaheim Hilton, Palo Verdes (Level 4)

APSMarch attendees: eat to bed early so you can get to the 8am session on Friday: Bioinspired phase separation, wi the Lorenzo Di Michele and many other great speakers.

8am sharp in the Hilton 4th floor Palos Verdes room

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-W64

Note excellent invited speakers on both days starting at 8am sharp!

Multi-Component Active Liquids 8:00 am – 11:00 am, Thursday March 20, Session MAR-Q64, Anaheim Hilton, Palo Verdes (Level 4)

For those condensate and active fluid fans attending the APS meeting next week, please wake up early and come to our 8am sessions on Thursday and Friday, co organized by myself, Ahmad Omar, Lauren Zarzar, and Sam Wilken
Details here:

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-Q64

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-W64

Yeah I saw this also… was hoping to get to LA from Santa Barbara; getting to Sacramento is a bit harder

Yeah I read this yesterday… a sad ending to an article that, in the first place, was discussing intrinsic issues with the university funding model. May we be so lucky to just have those intrinsic issues in a year

No despairing!!

Fight fight fight

the wide scale legal action about the NIH IDC is great.

I am concerned that there is no such action for the NSF. basic research generates long term technological/economic benefit, but the long time scale makes it vulnerable to short term budget thinking

Who is championing the NSF?

Well all the more reason to take quick action then!

Though even CRISPR was at least 15 years, and perhaps longer depending on which fundamental research paper you want to start counting from

You are right

It probably varies with sector.

Some physics things are longer scale

Agreed that biotech is much faster

Me too! I am literally waking up in the middle of the night with this crap running through my head

Private industry generally no longer carries out research …bell labs is long gone…but in pharma they still do some

Is your comment about the real world or online discourse? I think in the real world there are a lot of powerful entities (companies) that rely on an educated workforce.

Even Musk seemed to acknowledge this in the H1B visa discussion last fall

My worry with that approach (focusing on scientific areas with such direct and ongoing applications) is that the argument does not protect fundamental research (NSF, and a lot of the NIH and DOE)

Yeah, agreed about the delay…stopping research will tank the economy in 30-50 years, not right away.

A teaching strike is pretty immediate. This is a huge benefit when the NIH order takes effect tomorrow.

No retailer/company will stop selling Viagra because we ask (why did you choose viagra?)

Well we might be forced to stop doing research anyway, regardless of what I choose.

Maybe the ‘deal’ I outlined is simplistic. But teaching is the only mechanism of civil disobedience we really have, right?

A teaching/grading strike would put pressure on the universities, and students and their families; this pressure might then transfer upwards to elected officials.

I don’t like pressuring students, but I also don’t see what other levers I have apart from teaching.

My understanding of my job: I garner federal funding to carry out research, in part to support the economy and security of the nation. In return for the opportunity to do this, I teach.

Friday’s NSF budget proposal, and NIH budget cut, breaks this deal. Ergo, shouldn’t I stop teaching?

Yeah this is no fun