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I’m here too!!! But hanging out with parental units. Hi!!!!!

Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11 Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc!

If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email.

Please RT 🙏

Glad to hear it!!

very satisfying to see these structures 27 years after first grappling with the Aip1-cofilin mechanism as a beginning graduate student!

With apologies to @xkcd.com

The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism “The current political establishment and their supporters have consistently pathologized difference,” particularly when it comes to autism, a professor of medicine writes.

🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com

Okay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking Thursday 25 September, 15:00 -17:00 BST (UTC+1) Chaired by Francesca Bottanelli, Felix Campelo and Ishier Raote Nick Ader (UNC Greensboro) Keep it together! Mechanisms of membrane maintenance and biogenesis Hannes Maib (University of Sheffield) Multiplex and super resolution imaging of phosphoinositide conversion during receptor trafficking Mónica Quiñones-Frías (Brandeis University) Loss of ER-Shaping protein Atlastin causes synaptic ER stress and membrane trafficking defects Keynote speaker Gillian Griffiths (Yale University) Unexpected membrane dynamics in T cells

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

Highly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼 #sciencecareers #scientificediting #journaleditor #careersoutsidescademia

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

A practical guide to expert learner skills in the research environment | Molecular Biology of the Cell The ability to complete an experiment successfully without mistakes is at the core of the scientific enterprise. Some scientists seem more able to avoid mistakes and missteps than others. In the field...

@mcduncanlab.bsky.social wrote a very nice piece about this. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

Good luck! Looking forward to seeing what you discover!

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.

RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to shekhar@emory.edu.

More info: www.shekharlab.org

Of course I signed this! Please join us.

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking.

All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever.

Yay for us!

We are hiring a lab technician! Join our group studying signaling networks in #Drosophila, with a possibility to carry out a research project. Please RT.
Job posting: employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
Veraksa lab website:
www.faculty.umb.edu/alexey_verak...

Know an outstanding early career scientist in Drosophila neurogenetics? Nominate them for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Lecture! Winner gets $5K, conference travel, & a talk at #Dros26. Self-nominations welcome. Due Nov 6, 2025. buff.ly/5PqSXHw

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

Just to give the TL;DR on this one:

*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

We're looking for a research assistant to work in our neuroscience lab at @princetonneuro.bsky.social @hhmi.org where we study learning and decision-making circuitry.

Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21001/r...

Pls share w/ anyone who might be interested!

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...