Amy Sater

Houston Bioscience folks! Join us for the launch of GCC- Integrative Development, Regeneration, and Repair: Thurs 10-16, 11:30-2:30, Biosci. Research Collab., 6500 Main St. Flash talks during lunch, networking after. Come find a new collaborator!

Register www.eventbrite.com/e/gcc-idr2-l...

This is quite a gut punch -

Do it! I have few regrets about life choices, but not learning to play drums is definitely one of them

😂 Now there's a lyric for ya

Short and sweet!

very cool thread, offering an evolutionary / selective rationale for the absolute festival of craniofacial extravagance found across different bat taxa.

With apologies to @xkcd.com

Nice Polite Republicans. This is why I stopped listening to and supporting them. You can't "both sides" federal thuggery.

On the left - western blot of B16F10 cells wt and KO for CDK8. Our in house produced antibodies give a lot of unspecific bands. On the right same probes with antibodies preincubated with fixed CDK8 KO cells - there is a specific band and faint unspecific bands, which can be probably eliminated with increase of amount of KO cells.

Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass...
I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands)
#WesternBlot #cellsky

fantastic thread -

Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post Netanyahu referred this week to a 'community' pushing out preferred messaging in US media — and boy are they making a princely sum

This should be a truly massive scandal in the Jewish world. Obviously, many of us knew and assumed this was occurring, but the proof is now out there and it needs to be called out.

We have US-based influencers pretending to speak for themselves but actually working directly for the Israeli govt.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 186 tenure-track positions and 21 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 - Nature Communications Here they perform a systematic dissection of OCT4 and reveal how intrinsically disordered regions can be used to serve specific functions during reprogramming and embryonic development. This can be exploited to engineer more efficient and specific reprogramming factors.

Hot off the press!

Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The "Standards" XKCD, normally: [A text-only panel.] Situation: There are 14 competing standards. [Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other.] Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Ponytail: Yeah! [Another text-only panel. The word "Soon:" appears in its own box at the upper left of the panel.] Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards. except that "STANDARDS" has been replaced with "BRASSICAS"

with apologies to xkcd:

"Indigeneity". Autocorrect wants this word to be "Indignity" so bad. Grrr.

It's highly unusual for a Ph.D. candidate in STEM to take classes outside of their area without a clear rationale that's relevant to their degree program. Grad students who just want to learn would usually sit in / audit without formal enrollment.

The chilling effect of Title VI investigations: the professors accused of antisemitism Exclusive: Andrea Brower quits Gonzaga University after the Civil Rights Act is used to challenge her pro-Gaza activism

This is how I find out that my good friend Judith Norman was targeted (and cleared, thankfully) for her activism on Gaza! #gaza #academicsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is really over the top, especially for a school that's not in Texas or Florida. Also, a Comp Sci Ph.D. student enrolling in "Gaza, Indignity, Resistance" is a giant red flag, no?

So exhausting..

Thanks for this! I look forward to reading it (and quoting from it in my Developmental Biology class, and in conversation with departmental colleagues eager to incorporate AI in teaching "so we don't get left behind"). Your initial post alone is illuminating.

That entire album .... I've just been transported back to my late teens ....

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Because of the way I was raised, I used to think that shame was not a good way to teach or train people. But like anything else, I now realize that shame needs to be properly and consistently wielded to enforce liberal and egalitarian norms.

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Hegseth puts us all at risk Why put all the American commanders in one room?

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Former UNC Provost Sues Board of Trustees Over 'Pattern' of Closed Session Violations - Chapelboro.com Chris Clemens, a former provost of UNC, is suing the university and its Board of Trustees for allegedly violating open meeting laws.

Everyone in NC and all concerned about overreach by University administrators around the nation need to read this sad but important story about UNC-CH: 1/n Please share
chapelboro.com/news/unc/for...