Arash Komeili

Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!

If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.

You can do it anonymously!

Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
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Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

Be sure to include the docket number in your comment. Also note:

"Regulations.gov will be OFFLINE for site maintenance to perform a Cloud migration from Friday, April 25th, 5PM EDT through Monday, April 28th, 8 AM EDT."

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This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

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My favorite player: Zico

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This month's interview is with Marco Dueñas! Marco is a PhD candidate in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab in @berkeleymcb.bsky.social and @natureatcal.bsky.social.

He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.

Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas

Bhalla Lab - Research Specialist (Junior Specialist) University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882

Very well-deserved Erin.

The TAL episode released on Sunday was pretty incredible and expands on much of the story.

What an episode that was. Hard to listen to but I was in awe of these people.

Harvey Mudd College is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member whose research and teaching interests sit at the interface of biology and climate. If that sounds like you, I very much hope you'll apply. Application review starts September 18th.

OpgH is an essential regulator of Caulobacter morphology bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Posting this here too cuz I'm just that #proudPI... New pre-print ! Check out Allison Daitch's follow up to her discovery of OPGs in #Caulobacter and their role in envelope integrity. TL;DR the OPG synthase OpgH is actually essential for morphogenesis in Caulo! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I teach this paper in the Experimental Design grad class in our redesigned grad curriculum. I think it does a great job of teaching students how to articulate and test hypotheses with experiments in an abstract way so that the idea of "experiments" is not necessarily attached to any expectations

We're hiring for a postdoc position focused on metabolic modeling. Please share widely.

We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076

All y'all asking for codes to invite scientists and Sci comm folks better be inviting Black, Indigenous, LGBTQAI+, and other marginalized folks. Otherwise this isn't going to work. 🧪

I think Bluesky is in the Baby Groot stage. We all know the potential once more science community friends, universities, foundations, and fellowship centers join in. It's going to be fabulous! Until then, we just have to keep watering 💦 baby Groot and watch him dance and grow 🫶

Skype a Scientist is a wonderful program that matches scientists with classrooms. If you are or if you know a teacher, a librarian, or anyone who could benefit from this great (and free!) program, please sign up here and spread the word: https://www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Fatigue Can Shatter a Person Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.

Sigh, some people still seem to be bumping up against the paywall for this piece despite my understanding that it would be free to read for 24 hours.

Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email edyong210@gmail.com and I'll personally send you a copy.

Elisabeth Bik in her home office. Amy Osborne/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html?unlocked_article_code=hpt5ELi0UmSS2MoT5r7ybYSlhiMZBE24dfqMpakRXC_mTatH6LJ2vEZmj8KIrEORhF3KPwBZ6TaXkTu8rWJwgeMW1XSZvTglQFea2VUwLJBBuasFCvw2Agxl-fPp0KV-_YQKjQJCIymTa36xdHIJKD_1IHTQP2HJEfx8hDHOmo4k5skMT-G5Gw1x4DcyOK0JlJIP4csNyvatH2N7rTwf5LiDWr1gvuk1_AgTrmu2pMVQD9JVe9lQsGS_U4VRfg1IDtN7ZTpzBiYBANeeHTfGFeVC6yx0v0Eptwsew-HM-uY8Q4_tDfWQQtpkqxIpre1ITR69Rvzi8Owz26DfxaideclYmp_VSHZ2HS9xS3errelbivF2EIPgwbQAwXjfR_4UwyCUPQ&smid=url-share

Hello BlueSky!
This is Elisabeth Bik, known as MicrobiomDigest on the late bird app.
I have a PhD in microbiology, and I work full-time on finding image and other problems in scientific papers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html

I had NO idea this is a thing - great tip!!

Hey all, along with our other open positions, our publishing team @arcadiascience.bsky.social is hiring for the following positions. Please share if you know anyone who would be a good fit!
- Data Viz Designer
- Scientific Editor
- Science Illustrator
https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience

Think about who you share invite codes with - how can that introduce biases/inequity? especially for science Twitter trying to gain momentum here, this matters.