Erin Goley

bioRxiv, medRxiv, openRxiv stickers, pens, camera covers, window clings, magnets and one remaining T-shirt at booth 1134 at #cellbio2025 - last chance today!

Man and woman in a selfie

Always a joy catching up w the best advisor ever. @mattwelchlab.bsky.social #cellbio25

Picture of a man (Dr. Bryan Dewsbury) standing in front standing in front of a projected PowerPoint slide with the title “Education and Democracy: Making civic behaviors explicit in STEM courses)

Powerful words from Dr. Bryan Dewsbury (@dewsbury.bsky.social) from the #CellBio2025 Education keynote:

“When I stand in front of a classroom, I tell students that I am interested in being more than their destination to a final grade”

Yeah, I've seen study sections rescheduled but was wondering about council meetings. I have a well-scored R21 waiting...

Is yours for study section or council? Mine went to SS in June, but was supposed to go to council in October (didn't happen)... Commons still says Oct Council.

Anyone know when NIH Council meetings that were missed during the shutdown may be rescheduled? 👀

Are you interested in cytoskeleton and looking for a postdoc position? I will be advertising positions in the new year but happy to chat in person if you are attending ASCB @ascbiology.bsky.social in Philadelphia. Just drop me a line.

#Archaea #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky

exceptional work, hiro & team 👏👏👏
it's wonderful to see 𝘓. 𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘮 dancing. live videos reveal so much more than stills!

ALT source: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats!!🎉

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🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146

All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!

Man I wish I was teaching host associated microbiomes this semester, this would be a fun paper to end on

Graphical abstract for the paper. Tick feeding causes the up-regulation of CCR7 and CXCR4 on human epidermal LCs, which are polarized by tick saliva and emigrate to the lymphatics to mediate immune tolerance. Consequently, tolerogenic T cell priming and lack of effector T cell differentiation results in an inappropriate T cell response to tick-borne pathogens.

"tick bites and tick saliva reprogram Langerhans cells, (which) dampens protective immunity and helps explain how ticks and their pathogens evade host defense and achieve efficient transmission"

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

#MicroSky

I submitted a grant in October and just received notice it was assigned to study section so seems like what others have said, allowing late submissions but still processing those submitted during the shutdown.

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵

My ERA commons is broken! 😆🫠

same...

Here we go. Its ALL #NIHGrant applications. Dec 8 is the new deadline. And a one page prelim data update will be accepted for all May Council submissions. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

For the Thank a Microbe project, Lactobacillus sp. were a favorite genera of bacteria to thank.

Lactobacillus acidophilus is what digests milk sugars into acetic acid, which gives yogurt its tangy taste!

Do any of you lovely folks work at FB or meta?

Immunostaining on a section of the mouse brain for tyrosine hydroxylase to label the locus coeruleus

One more #FluorescenceFriday to give some ❤️ to the mouse 🧠 - I really like the orientation of this slice - locus coeruleus is labeled here with tyrosine hydroxylase in PINK with some virally-labeled axons traversing through in ORANGE 🔬🧪

Image credit to RA Daniel Olivares on our Circuits team!

Finally the scary example. The image of a western blot with a time course experiment, staining a protein of interest, showing the increase of protein over time and a second staining with a control antibody that does not change over time

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

NIH LRP application due date extended to Dec 4th. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Today 🚨 Thinking about a faculty career? Join our workshop on how to prepare for faculty job interviews, 1:00–3:00 p.m. EST. Hear tips on interviews, chalk talks, and teaching demos from experienced faculty. Register now: buff.ly/YSJfzXy

HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.

Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.

On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.

But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.

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Today is #LGBTQSTEMDAY, which celebrates the work of LGBTQIA2S+ people in science, technology, engineering, and math while also highlighting the barriers they face. Thank you to everyone who is working to make #STEM a more welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone!

Happy #PrideInSTEMDay! 🏳️‍🌈
Today we celebrate all our colleagues and their identities, and raise the inclusive pride flag in recognition of all members of the LGBTQIA+ community who have contributed and who continue to contribute to STEM 🌈