Kevin Collins

I'll do it. I will fire tens of thousands of ICE agents. I will fly around the country like George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in that movie, just firing people all day. Except instead of it crushing my soul each ICE agent firing will bring me joy.

We have an exciting 3-year postdoc position available to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics.

If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you!

Application deadline - 24th February.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...

For people impressed by the 130k jobs added in January, I'd offer and alternative economic analysis that I think you'll find compelling. www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-poll...

PI Compares State Of Common Room To Sodom And Gomorrah BALTIMORE, MD—In an all-lab email sent at 11:47 PM Tuesday, Johns Hopkins principal investigator Dr.

lol @inprep.bsky.social with another banger

open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

#chemchat

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Great. Do you think he will finally shut up about it now?

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)

You’re misquoting his video statement

Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698500v1

Side-by-side black and white photographs of Cecil Kelley, possibly from an ID badge, and of the 1,000-liter stainless steel processing tank that held the plutonium organic solution that went critical as it was being mixed in the tank.

OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.

📽️Please allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish 🪝🐟

Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)

Echinoderm aficionados, please help - I’m looking for antibody advice! Has anyone used the 12G10 or E7 tubulin antibodies from DSHB to stain cleavage stage embryos?

I’m planning a sea urchin cytokinesis module for my cell biology lab next semester and want the students to do beautiful IF stains.

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?

My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa

If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

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 🧵

Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.

Nice microPublication reporting methods to image C. elegans egg laying under a coverslip www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Daily ultrastructural remodeling of clock neurons A cluster of Drosophila clock neurons remodel their axonal arbors daily. Using volumetric electron microscopy at different times of day, Ispizua, Rodriguez-Caron, and colleagues reveal ultrastructural...

SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our paper on Rho signaling in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit is now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.org! In this study, we manipulate Rho signaling pre- and postsynaptically and find interesting activity and behavior defects.

C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 June–3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.

High-efficiency targeted integration of extrachromosomal arrays in C. elegans using PhiC31 integrase Extrachromosomal arrays are unique chromosome-like structures created from DNA injected into the C. elegans germline. Arrays are easy to create and allow for high expression of multiple transgenes. Th...

New preprint!

It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yes they are both timeless, but also: great grant writing music.

A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit How do neural circuits switch between distinct patterns of activity, known as “internal states”? Prashad et al. describe how PVW neurons, which lack any identified neurotransmitter, generate one of th...

A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Meet Paul Maddox Paul Maddox is a world-renowned cancer researcher, two-time entrepreneur, and native son of Western North Carolina–and now, a candidate for U.S. Congress. ....

🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/

IN CURRENT BIOLOGY
www.cell.com/current-biol...

The author Dave Sherwood with the chicken flock that he and his wife Nina tend to in their yard in North Carolina.

#DBfeature 🧑‍🔬

David Sherwood draws a powerful parallel between morphogenesis and a scientific career, showing how becoming a biologist is a continual process of shaping, adaptation, and growth. Like development, a scientific life unfolds through adaptation and emergence.

tinyurl.com/6yd46wcx

And you know these right-wing 'journalists' will be receiving juicy classified info to publish, violating the original principle that the real journalists left for.

Sounds like a line art to vector transformation problem someone should have noticed