Nick Burton nickburton - Bluesky Statics

Thanks Ethan!

07.03.2026 22:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can recommend. This is a great talk

04.03.2026 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2026 Midwest C. elegans Meeting Join us for 2026 Midwest C. elegans Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

Reminder that we are still running a free 1 day Midwest worm meeting this year for all students/labs that either can’t go to MAPSS/DevCell or want a smaller audience (~100 last year) to present to. www.vai.org/event/2026-m...

24.02.2026 00:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ugh. I hope it’s not a broader change

22.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Anecdotally, I got this same feedback this year for the first time from NIH and hadn’t previously on the same topic. I’m still hopeful that it’s a bit study section specific or topic specific rather than worms though. Perhaps we both got that feedback on the same general topic?

22.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2026 VAI Epigenetics Symposium, May 11-13, 2026

🧬🪰🐀🪱🧑‍🤝‍🧑Join me and my co-organizers @andrewpospisilik.bsky.social @nickburton.bsky.social Derek Jannssens and Piroska Szabó for the 2026 VAI Epigenetics Symposium @vai.org.
The meeting is centered around phenotypic plasticity and variation.
For more specific topics check:
www.vai.org/event/2026-v...

04.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

A noncanonical polyamine from bacteria antagonizes host mitochondrial function - Nature Communications Polyamines produced by gut bacteria have been proposed to contribute to inflammatory bowel diseases. Here, Nauta et al. show that bacteria can produce a noncanonical polyamine intermediate that functi...

First paper from the lab goes live on Thanksgiving day!? I guess that’s a thing to be thankful for. Also my lab’s first paper in our new major focus - identifying bio active molecules from bacteria that regulate animal metabolism! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

27.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Two at once! Congrats!

22.11.2025 02:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you look at NIH reporter this problem seems to have recently changed and several (many?) new R01s for nigms have come in. I have heard that NIGMS now aims for a 60/40 split R35/R01. Also, fwiw, I am neither ESI nor a new investigator so afraid those options won’t apply for me but will for others!

23.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t want to overstate it, but as people here might know I’m also a big fan of “fundamental” or “old-school” techniques/approaches in science and an advocate of them

18.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just replace analytics with “mathematical model” or AI or some similar buzz word

18.08.2025 21:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m sure @razzball.bsky.social never thought he’d be retweeted in the realm of science for this, but this is as true in science as it is in baseball and I’m really liking the parallels across spheres here

18.08.2025 21:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks Ilaria!

13.08.2025 01:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Eugene!

13.08.2025 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Natalie!!

12.08.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Walter! Maybe I’ll see you at this once you open up your new lab with all that exciting work!!!

12.08.2025 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Caroline! How’s the new lab set up going? Once you’re up and running hopefully we can get you out to VAI Metabolism dept for a talk. Would love to hear more about your stuff!

12.08.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With that said it does feel odd to post happy science funding news in times such as these. However this, coupled with an NoA on an R21 with @saranowinski.bsky.social really feels like a win in a time where wins are hard to come by and an important point in my career. So guess I need to celebrate?!?

12.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is equal parts an honor and thank you to all the people who trained me, wrote letters, my lab members etc. Really looking forward to the next four years and annual meetings.

12.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pew Awards 22 Researchers Biomedical Science Grants

I’m really beyond thrilled to be included in this years Pew Biomedical Scholars cohort and to be able to meet all the incredible scientists in this program. I was in Scott Kennedy’s lab when he was a Pew Scholar and never thought I’d be lucky enough to also be one! www.pew.org/en/about/new...

12.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 8 📌 0

Congrats!!!

10.07.2025 17:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Swathi! They both are, hope everything is well with you too!

02.07.2025 23:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So sad to have missed #worm25. With a relative new kid, and selling my house (offer accepted during worm meeting) it was just a bit impossible to also get to Davis. I did hear multiple of my lab members had a great time even if all I experienced was FOMO

02.07.2025 22:54 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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01.06.2025 16:27 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

This sounds exciting

31.05.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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31.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 13 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 5

Assistant Professor in Metabolism Research - Morgridge Institute for Research The Morgridge Institute for Research, in partnership with the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeks a joint tenure track assistant professor to lead a vibr...

We @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social, in partnership with
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27.05.2025 16:35 — 👍 15 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks. Sadly I wont be at worm meeting but two of my lab members will be. Newish kid at home and might be moving houses that week and all a bit difficult to line up given all the other travel I've had to do recently. Really, really, really sad to have to miss it though. Pained me to know id miss it

21.05.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hold up is this real? I’m a bit stunned this isn’t talked about more in the circles I run in on here. Would be a big deal for how basic science is funded.

20.05.2025 23:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks. This one has been a bit of a saga already, but I guess that's what happens when you're trying to push the envelope. I do think some reviewer comments on this have already really strengthened the paper which is why we pulled it to collect more data for 6 months. Its a much much better version

20.05.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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