Keri Martinowich

A thin layer of clouds is over the trees in the distance and are illuminating in bright orange colors from the rising sun. The water has some ice forming in the distance. The sky and landscape are reflected on the calm waters.

Good morning friends! It’s another frosty morning and the polar vortex is coming in today. 🥶 Here’s today’s #SunriseMagic on the #CTShoreline with some #clouds Stay warm and I hope you have a wonderful day! #landscape #photography #reflections

Updates to the submission process for LOIs and grants requesting more than $500K in any budget periods. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Moon just now.
There’s a bushfire about 10km from here, thus the colour.

Check out our new preprint on STcompare for identifying spatially differential gene expression patterns at structurally matched locations across spatial transcriptomics datasets.

Preprint on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
R package on Github: github.com/JEFworks-Lab...

#AcademicSky

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Availing myself to keynote this thing. I can't stop thinking about funnel cake right now.

Ranking categories found on a recommendation portal for a PhD program. It reads: Top 5%: Applicant is exceptional in this category and is among the best I've collaborated with in my career Top 10%: Applicant has demonstrated consistent excellence and has performed well above the average of their peers in this category Top 25%: Applicant has consistently performed above the average of their peers in this category Top Half: Applicant has consistently performed at an average level or midpoint of their peer group's performance in this category Bottom Half: Applicant has consistently performed below the average of their peers in this category No Basis for Judgement: I have not interacted with the applicant in a manner that allows me to fairly assess their competency in this category

Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul

Jam is sort of amber colored on two halves of a scone on a blue plate, next to the little jam jar and my "just five more minutes" mug which is especially true today for me idk about y'all

December 3: Plum-Pear-Star Anise

Really delightful! Tangy, almost layers of different flavors. Lives up to its pretentious double hyphenated name. The sort of jam discovery that is the reason I continue to put us all through this annually

That positive reward prediction error>>>>>

#jamvent

Wait, wait, is this like a visit with a seminar series talk tied into a state fair?

Neuroscience funding: A source directory Our list features expected and lesser-known governmental and nongovernmental sources of funding for basic neuroscience research.

Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B

#StateOfNeuroscience

Survey: Which sources fund your neuroscience research? Government sources are the main contributors to neuroscience labs, but funding breakdown varies across labs, career stages and neuroscience subfields.

33 neuroscience researchers from across the world shared how their labs our funded, providing insight into the current state of funding and how that might shift.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/whic...

Sculpture of canned jars

If you are in town over the next year, highly recommend the state fair exhibit at the Renwick Gallery - it’s awesome. Found this sculpture quite festive and in the #jamvent spirit, but have to admit I was most excited over the life size cow sculpture in a refrigerated case - sculpted with BUTTER.

The 2023 PI fellows outside The Company of Biologists' office in Histon, Cambridge, UK. From left to right: Leah Greenspan, Loic Fort, Priti Agarwal (front), Thomas Juan (back), Clotilde Cadart, James Gahan, Yuchuan Miao and Polina Kameneva. Originally posted on the Node (https://thenode.biologists.com/sharing-is-caring-developments-pathway-to-independence-programme/news/).

Learn more about why this programme was started in 2022, and some of the PI fellows we have supported so far, in this #biologists100 Perspective article by Reviews Editor, @ingridtsang.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Pathway to Independence Support postdocs on the job market Line drawing of a person at a bench transitioning to working at a desk Development

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine.

“They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building

Spread the word...

www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
“Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” —

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

We have 125 more calendars left to go to fully fund the 2026 Native Plant Project!

People who have received their calendars say they're even prettier in person, I'm just saying.

Get one at SquidFacts.net

Deadline approaching for participating in the international Stanford Course on Neural Assembloids in spring 2026!

This is an immersive, hands-on course on generating, probing and manipulating stem cell-derived neural #assembloids and #organoids for disease and development modeling.

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.

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excited to embark on a new era @nsb-mbl.bsky.social w directors Lauren O'Connell (Stanford) + Bruce Carlson (WashU), new 6-week format for graduate students, postdocs & investigators. learn state-of-the-art methods & approach towards neural systems of behavior. deadline Feb 2. tinyurl.com/57476k4v

Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.

pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

Didn’t have enough of neuroscience conferences lately so I decided to go to another one 😉

It’s great to be part of the Greater Baltimore Society for Neuroscience Chapter, today at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social 😌

#GBSfN2025

Five lab members at GBSfN

Today the Muñoz-Ballester lab had a great day at the local chapter of the Society for Neuroscience in Baltimore #GBSfN2025.

We have presented our first posters in the lab!

Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th!

Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏

Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu

🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology

Hey #nativeplants #Baltimore and #AACoPosts friends. If you want to come to the seed share in a week you can post your wishlist and what you're bringing here. I have definitely brought stuff because someone wishlisted it before so think about it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Thanks so much - that means a lot to hear! I have a huge amount of gratitude for the amazing teams we have built here @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and the network of collaborators with such huge range of diverse expertise!

Definitely Monday after a holiday weekend. I honestly thought this was a pink donut on first glance.

Comparative analysis of commercial Imaging-based #SpatialTranscriptomics methods

Xenium
CosMx 1k
MERSCOPE

Tissue Microarray
17 tumor+16 normal tissue

Transcript count
vs Reference RNAseq
Segmentation accuracy
Cell type annotation

#NatComms 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It is amazing to me that, in my lifetime, I have seen HIV/AIDS go from a death sentence to a medication-manageable condition