Krishna Mudumbi

Awesome, congrats @biophysgal.bsky.social!

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

The Prada glasses cracked me up!

Just as with real science, we were scooped by the @krishnamudumbi.bsky.social lab, but there were 10 Chrystal Starbird’s in lab today. I mean, down to the tattoos, the glasses, and the luggage (since I’m always traveling), they committed!

Happy Halloween! 🎃

It was a lovely night, and thanks for breaking in what will now be a long and storied tradition of rooftop bar night caps!

The reveal was so ridiculous, they could barely hold it together 😂

5 people dressed the same way - khaki pants, dress shoes, brown belt, and tucked in button up shirt posing in a "thinker" look

5 people dressed the same way - khaki pants, dress shoes, brown belt, and tucked in button up shirt

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flatter, but what does it mean that my lab is imitating me for Halloween, historically a time where you're supposed to be dressed up as someone scary? 🤔

A woman in a whire shirt and dark pants in a lab setting holding up a clear piece of plastic infant of her.

Late post, but the lab has a new grad student, Isabella!

Not sure if we can sustain the tradition of new students peeling off the protective plastic on new lab equipment though!

NEW FACULTY: Professors explain how their research could better the world Hear from Vanderbilt's newest faculty on the positive impact their research could have on society.

A nice highlight of what we hope to tackle in our lab!

Also, check out all the cool things the other faculty at Vandy are doing!

news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/08/n...

Big #NewPI step today - had the lab submit abstracts for @ascbiology.bsky.social 2025!

ASCB was one of my first conferences as a trainee, and I've loved it since!

Replace this with HaloTag and I'd feel very attacked right now!

Application information for an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University

The Department of Biochemistry @vanderbilt.edu is hiring for an Assistant Professor position! Apply and come be my colleague!

apply.interfolio.com/171767

At least someone's saying it out loud

Budget proposal for the NIH in FY 2026

Could they be any more pathetically transparent that this is about revenge?

Thank you for the conversation @klangin.bsky.social and for bringing to light the challenges that we're all facing at every level of academic science!

Picture of salted carmel frap from starbucks

Come what may, they've brought back some version of salted carmel mocha fraps at Starbucks, I can die happy again!

The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.

Congratulations to all the amazing scientists named 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars by @hhmi.org! We’re proud to have to #BlackInBiophysics faculty members, @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @cobarnes27.bsky.social among this outstanding group. We wish you the best in this next stage of your careers! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

It's probably because I'm astutely ignoring the outside world, but this week was a good week!

Science is scienceing, grants are being written, talks are coming up.

I will not doom scroll tonight, I will not doom scroll tonight, I will not....

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”

So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”

It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

Just misspelled my own name in an email...it's clearly one of those days/weeks

a man holding a piece of paper in front of a sign that says extra extra read all about it Alt: a man holding a piece of paper in front of a sign that says extra extra read all about it

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!Our study from the White Lab is online today! Thank you to all that made the story & my postdoc time phenomenal
Forest White
Roger Davis
Jess Spinelli
@mvhlab.bsky.social @alextoker.bsky.social
@mitkochinstitute.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

a man is standing in front of a bunch of palm trees with his hand out . Alt: a man is standing in front of a bunch of palm trees with his hand out .

On loop tonight

New graduate student pulling off the plastic protective film on a display for a -80 freezer.

Late with the update, but we recently welcomed our first grad student, Brandon Goldstein! He got to celebrate by peeling off the plastic on the -80 display!

Amazing! Congrats!

We'll get there. I'll send you an updated picture in a year or so!

A brown door with a white board and a sign from Lord of the Rings which reads "One does not simply walk into the microscope room without knocking." There is a white light with red letters above the door that reads In Use.

An optical table with a microscope with two cameras on the right side and one spinning disk confocal on the left side. To the left of the optical table is a black screen monitor

An optical table with a microscope with two cameras on the right side and one spinning disk confocal on the left side

The scope is finally fully set up!

Time to image everything! Very excited #NewPI over here!

A feature, not a bug.

Who didn't see this coming?

I'm not sure this regime wants to buy scientific advancement - the very product that we're trying to sell.

I suppose we should all pivot to selling snake oil

Love to see societies that we support supporting us back!

Proud to be a member of @ascbiology.bsky.social!