Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin)

Great news for yeast tetrad dissectors: Singer has stepped up in the wake of the closure of Cora Styles Needles N Blocks to make dissection needles. My lab manager beta tested them & deemed them, and I quote, "flawless." So glad to have a new source! www.singerinstruments.com/product/sing...

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🧪 My department is hiring! Tenure track faculty position in genetics. Researchers using any eukaryotic model, including fungi and plants are encouraged to apply! We are a broad biology department with strengths across all kingdoms. Join us! Apply by March 1 tinyurl.com/y4evds8p

We’re searching for Biology Dept Head here at Oregon! Please share careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

Figure one in our new preprint showing the diversity of microtubule binding proteins in different eukaryotic lineages. There are a lot of these proteins all across the eukaryotic tree!

🚨🧪New lab preprint: "We therefore propose a model for cytoskeletal evolution in which pools of microtubule network components constrain and guide the diversification of the entire network, so that the evolution of tubulin is inextricably linked to that of its binding partners." tinyurl.com/27ck46nb

Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob

Are you an ASCB member?
Submit you work to MBoC. From today, all members’ papers thoroughly reviewed. No desk rejection!

The JCS “Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology" conference is accepting applications! Spain, 2024. Please spread the word! 🧪https://www.biologists.com/meetings/jcsevocellbio24/

The Arp2/3 complex promotes periodic removal of Pak1-mediated negative feedback to facilitate antico... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

🚨🚨🚨Very excited to present our latest preprint on the role of endocytosis in regulating Cdc42 oscillatory dynamics at cell ends to promote bipolarity. Fantastic work by Marcus Harrell and Bethany Campbell in collaboration with Tian Hong and Ziyi Liu from U. Tennessee.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For microbiologists seeking faculty jobs: Rutgers has 4+ faculty searches in microbiology right now! Please share widely and see below for details and links on the individual positions 1/5

Sightseeing in Toronto!

Absolutely perfect!

Large tangle of computer cables and headphones

Cable management is my passion

Image of Bd sporangium with actin highlighted in green. Actin forms patches at the cell periphery as well as cages surrounding each nucleus.

🐸🍄🚨New lab preprint! Genetic transformation of the frog-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪

Youtube now has all talks and lectures from the 4th Annual Workshop in Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics at Institut Pasteur Montevideo (2021): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Dug up the best meme I have ever made for a talk next week:

Step one in making cheese curd agar.

Sketch of animalcules as observed by Leeuwenhoek.

OTD in 1674, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek sent the first of many letters to Henry Oldenburg of the Royal Society of London describing the “animalcules” he had observed in rainwater using a microscope.

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#histsci 🧪

Assistant Professor in Phylogenetics The successful candidate will develop a research program, specifically developing a research program in the area of phylogenetics, that interfaces with an integrative and collaborative department of e...

Phylogenetics faculty job! Colorado State 👍. Love to see it specified, bc resolving the tree of life is a scientific grand challenge for humanity.
🧪 #AcademicSky #SciJobs

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/131...

Beaver dam between two ponds of water in the evening. A hockey stick with a broken paddle sits among the branches of the dam. A beaver swims through the still water next to the dam.

Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.

Header of the "Plant Science Research" Feed. There is a big button at the top named "Add to my Feeds", which is circled to show new users that this is how to follow.

Hey new Plant Scientists,
follow this feed to keep track of all #PlantScience related stuff posted here on Bluesky (see the screenshot for hashtags that are indexed).
bsky.app/profile/did:...
You can add it to your feeds and pin/like, which will make sure that the content shows up in your time line.

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Biology at Fordham University! Search is broad but interested in phylogenomics, evol genomics, and people that can teach computational bio and/or biostats. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/128986

dreaming platypus

Early work found no REM in sleeping echidna, suggesting REM sleep arose in other mammals after diverging from monotremes. Later work discovered REM in the only other living monotreme genus. What do platypuses look like when dreaming, you ask?

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#evolution

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Major federal funding program for childcare is about to sunset. Rs have suggested they won't extend it & Biden left it out of his supplemental budget request
Nationwide, 70k providers expected to close altogether; 3.2m kids forecast to lose childcare slots www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Happy last day of no-more-camps-but-elementary-school-hasn't-yet-started-time to all who celebrate! 🥳🍎📝

Local folks, check out the Plant Biology symposium happening at UMass on 21 October. Theme this year is Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria 🧪

William Smith’s 1815 Geological Map of England, Wales and part of Scotland. The colorful map shows the extent of the rocks by type using a different color for each, and the successive ages including a legend that correlates the rocks from young on top to older on the bottom. There is also a cross section that shows how the strata dips to the east across the area.

“To cross the southern coast of England, west to east, is thus to travel forwards - and at breathtaking chronological speed - in a self-propelled time-machine. With every few hundred yards of eastward progress one passes through hundreds of thousands of years of geological time: …👇🏼
🧪 geology ⚒️

🧪Alrighty Folks! It's that time of year where I ask if any Scientists would like to volunteer/donate their time to come to Buffalo to give a seminar! Literally any science is welcome!
-About 45 min
-Must talk about how you got into science
-In person or zoom!

Those who are able to succeed via traditional routes end up with an emotional incentive to view them as meritocratic and dismiss any other modes as attempts to 'cheat' the natural order.