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Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...

Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

#PhD, #PhDPosition

The 2nd of 6 faculty positions open at UNC Biology is for an Asst Professor studying critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology, focusing on molecular mechanisms illuminating fundamental aspects of plant biology, including interactions with other organisms 1/n
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Great piece by Joachim Frank, a Nobel laureate at Columbia from Germany who has been standing up for science and democracy throughout this year.

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Sir John Gurdon, 1933-2025 | Wellcome A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 October. He made a discovery that opened up the field of cloning research, and created one of the best environments for res...

A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 Oct. Not only did he make a discovery that laid the foundations for stem cell research, he also created one of the best environments for research at the Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...

Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Schedule

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

History repeats.

Compelling and quite disturbing...

My “western wear” for our department retreat. 🤣

We've raised $450 so far and need to raise a total of $3,000

Let's make it happen! All donors get thanked on a plaque by the exhibit.

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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

A random bit of history (for modern analogies). Lysenko set back genetics in USSR by ~50 years. Hundreds of geneticists imprisoned or died. Cybernetics was also named "reactionary pseudoscience", and about to undergo similar fate, but got lucky that this started close to the end of the Stalin era.

Did the same with Thai basil from the local Asian grocery store. They are gorgeous plants!

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

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Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September

Job add showing the lab logo and the following text: WHAT WE OFFER Fully-funded fellowships up to five years Opportunity to start your own research program or lead ongoing projects. Large, diverse and extraordinary scientific network at the NIH/Bethesda campus. Working at NIH offers the possibility of living in a diverse, liberal and vibrant city: Washington DC Or in a calm residential area with great schools and good affordable housing: Bethesda and Rockville. WHO YOU ARE You share our enthusiasm for epigenetics, gene regulation, nuclear organization and mouse development. You have PhD-experience in one or more of the following: mouse development, mouse genetics, epigenetics, or computational biology.

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We are looking for postdocs to join our lab at NIH.
Apply:
www.nichd.nih.gov/research/atNICHD/Investigators/rocha/apply
Learn more about training at NIH :
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Let’s kickstart new series of #FragileNucleosome seminars! We are delighted to have @gracebower.bsky.social from Kvon lab and @creminslab.bsky.social to present their work!
Register here for upcoming session and the entire series:
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Yellowstone NP. Grizzly guarding kill - you can see him if you zoom in. Sorry not a great shot but was an old phone!

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... )

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Last few days of summer!

Celebrate #FluorescenceFriday with our #CellLineOfTheWeek CAAX domain of K-Ras - illuminating plasma membranes! 🧫

Our entire catalog of stem cell lines and plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to support research.

📦 Hosted @coriellinstitute.bsky.social & @addgene.bsky.social

IT BEST HEALTH! FOR SKIN! MAYBE ELAINE FUCHS INVOLVED! NEED CELLULAR EPIGENETICS FOR EVERYTHING PLEASE!

Susan Monarez, who just weeks ago became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has abruptly left her job after a tumultuous month that included dramatic shifts in vaccine policy and layoffs of the agency’s work force. People familiar with the matter, who spoke anonymously for fear of retribution, said Dr. Monarez appeared to have run afoul of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by objecting to his changes to the panel of experts who advise the agency on vaccine policy.

Susan Monarez, who just weeks ago became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has abruptly left her job after reportedly objecting to RFK's changes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals The U.S. discards vast quantities of critical minerals in mine waste each year - including enough lithium to power 10 million EVs.

A new study in Science found that in one year, US mines discard enough lithium to power 10 million electric cars and enough manganese for 99 million.

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Image of Marie Sklodowska-Curie together with the text "€404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers". The image of Sklodowska-Curie is in brown monochrome like an old photo and superimosed are modern images of four people, presumably postdoctoral researchers, in colour. They are holding rucksacks and walking down a corridor with arches and pillars, presumably a university or research centre.

Are you ready to boost your research career? Apply with @uniGoettingen for an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship!

We’ll gladly support your application, so get in touch asap: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/671766.html

#EarlyCareerResearcher #PostdocCareers #Mobility #WeAreInternational Deadline 10 Sept.

Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Activity of most genes is controlled by multiple enhancers, but is there activation coordinated? We leveraged Nanopore to identify a specific set of elements that are simultaneously accessible on the same DNA molecules and are coordinated in their activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Update- just got the NOA but unlike previous years they only released ~$14K?? Maybe they are doing this in increments, I dunno…

For those awarded an NSF GRFP last year (2024)- curious if you have received this year’s NOA yet? We are still waiting for a grad student’s NOA 😬 - thanks !!