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Daniel Hass (he/him)

@dth.bsky.social

I'm a scientist who likes mountains, painting, mass spectrometry, metabolism, and retinas. This is an interim description but may just become the full thing.

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Looks like there are plenty of good options already, but if you don't mind a little philosophy and other fun stuff on your motorcycle trips, you could also try "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"

10.11.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the wrong paper was linked here!

07.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Myo2 adaptor Ldm1 and its receptor Ldo16 mediate actin-dependent lipid droplet motility Zhao et al. identify the molecular machinery for lipid droplet motility, consisting of the type V myosin Myo2, the Myo2 adaptor protein Ldm1, and its surface receptor Ldo16. They uncover a molecular l...

Proud to share our study on #LipidDroplet #Motility #Mitochondria #MembraneContactSite now in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Big thanks to @rwedlichsoldner.bsky.social, @flofroehlich.bsky.social, @ruferbus.bsky.social, Daniel KΓΌmmel lab, Thomas Becker lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

07.11.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’ FeMS Q4 2025 Empowerment Award applications are now open!
More info here πŸ‘‰https://femalesinms.com/empowerment/
Apply hereπŸ‘‰https://airtable.com/applvoZXoHURMcSCq/shrQlJoZ6f2P5yWqc

#FeMS #TeamMassSpec #WomenEmpowerment

30.10.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟 We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the Rising Star in Computational Mass Spectrometry Award! 🌟

Go to: lnkd.in/gzDuppnb to see the details and to apply!

Thanks to our sponsors @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social and Open MS!

30.10.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a number of colleagues who think that LLMs will be very useful as individualized tutors.

One of their arguments is that unlike previous generations of AI tutors, LLMs have the full context window of the conversation and that’s better understand what a student knows and doesn’t know.

30.10.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 19

This is so interesting! Thanks for the report!

30.10.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology
We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly
defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join
our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell
Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our
department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular,
cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health
and disease. The candidate should have an active research program
that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of-
the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our
expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in
gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected
to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research
for students, trainees, and the community across various life and
professional experiences.
β€’ Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in
physiology or a related field.
β€’ Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or
functional anatomy to professional or graduate students.
β€’ Experience with grant writing.
β€’ Excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, and a demonstrated ability to work
cooperatively and collegially within a diverse
community.

Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular, cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health and disease. The candidate should have an active research program that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of- the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research for students, trainees, and the community across various life and professional experiences. β€’ Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in physiology or a related field. β€’ Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or functional anatomy to professional or graduate students. β€’ Experience with grant writing. β€’ Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse community.

Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Sunrise in Davis CA

Sunrise in Davis CA

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

22.10.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7
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Call for applications: A fifth edition for the Early-Career Scientist Seminar Series

You are a postdoc looking for an opportunity to present your latest work and discuss with leaders in the field? Apply to the early career scientists seminar series @ircm.bsky.social ! If selected, we pay for your expenses to come spend a day with us and give a seminar! www.ircm.qc.ca/en/news-deta...

22.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

01.10.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7652    πŸ” 1625    πŸ’¬ 204    πŸ“Œ 369
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Tenure Track - Physiology - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor job with University of Michigan Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 674815 Tenure track assistant/associate professor in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Our department is recruiting a new tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor. Come join the #1 physiology department in the country and some awesome colleagues doing high impact science and training the next generation of scientists

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674815/a...

28.08.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

27.08.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

20.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Bowdoin College is hiring in Neuroscience! Come join a growing and thriving community of colleagues and brilliant undergrads!

Please share!

@blackinneuro.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @outtoinnovate.bsky.social @sfn.org @ostem.org @acnporg.bsky.social

11.08.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...

Our department is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist or physiologist at the Assistant Professor level! Details found here: lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

19.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenured or Tenure-Track) The Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), the Rutgers Child Health Institute (CHI), and the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) seek appli...

Be my neighbor! @rwjms.bsky.social Neuroscience is hiring!
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

20.08.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

20.08.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Our National Parks are treasures and we they need more than visitors, they need funding! Btw, #lassenvolcanicnationalpark is magical πŸ’š

18.08.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proposed Rule: Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards | US EPA The proposed rule on the reconsideration of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding and motor vehicle rule

Gold star if you leave a comment. Bonus gold star if you pass this on to someone else so they can do it, too.

I know it's easy to feel frustrated and helpless, but this is action we can take RIGHT NOW to defend ourselves and our planet.

www.epa.gov/regulations-...

15.08.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to π˜”π˜ˆπ˜›π˜œπ˜™π˜Œ family journals β€” sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

14.08.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

my lab needs a repeat pipetter that can dispense 1ml 12 times. (can be analog or digital). i've never had one of these- does anyone have one to recommend?

(pls reski)

05.08.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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How Better Models of Macular Degeneration Could Help Prevent Vision Loss Most experimental models that researchers use to study macular degeneration fall short. BrightFocus Macular Degeneration Research grant recipient Dr. Brittany Carr aims to change that.

Thank you to the the @brightfocus.bsky.social for featuring my research on retinal deposits and their potential association with AMD. 🐸πŸ§ͺ @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social

www.brightfocus.org/news/how-bet...

22.07.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Group Leader (282908) | University of Oslo Job title: Group Leader (282908), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025

🚨 We're hiring! NCMBM @ncmbm.bsky.social is looking for 2 new group leaders to join our vibrant research community. Ready to build your own group with strong support and a solid startup package?

Interested and attending #ISMBECCB2025? Let’s connect!

πŸ”— www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

22.07.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

21.07.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4881    πŸ” 656    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 30
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Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah | 674355 The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

21.07.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Eight babies born after Mitochondrial donation The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle has seen eight babies born, published research shows.

8 healthy babies after Mitochondrial Donation treatment - Press Office - Newcastle University share.google/iaZoEyfgHHd9...

17.07.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mitochondrial Donation and Preimplantation Genetic Testing for mtDNA Disease | NEJM Children born to women who carry pathogenic variants in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are at risk for a range of clinical syndromes collectively known as mtDNA disease. Mitochondrial donation by pronuc...

It was wonderful to see the NEJM paper today about healthy babies born free of mtDNA disease following mitochondrial donation. Built on decades of work led by Doug Turnbull and his team in Newcastle.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

17.07.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eight babies born after Mitochondrial donation The UK’s pioneering licensed IVF technique to reduce the risk of mitochondrial diseases carried out in Newcastle has seen eight babies born, published research shows.

We're proud to announce our work developing a ground-breaking mitochondrial donation IVF treatment has now seen eight healthy babies born πŸ‘Ά

Find out more πŸ‘‡

www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

#WeAreNCL #Health #News #Mitochondria

17.07.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Key numbers in cell biology

Having a sense of scale helps to think more rigorously and realistically about biological systems.

09.07.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Figure 2: Accuracy comparison on the ARC Challenge dataset. The SM Agent (this work, shown
in pink) achieves 97.15% overall accuracy, outperforming all prior public submissions (shown in
orange), including GPT-4o+CoT (94.88%). Unlike other top entries, which often rely on ensemble methods or retrieval-augmented inputs, the SM Agent uses only structured prompting via a single Socratic system prompt. Results of previous models are obtained from the AI2 ARC leaderboard.

Figure 2: Accuracy comparison on the ARC Challenge dataset. The SM Agent (this work, shown in pink) achieves 97.15% overall accuracy, outperforming all prior public submissions (shown in orange), including GPT-4o+CoT (94.88%). Unlike other top entries, which often rely on ensemble methods or retrieval-augmented inputs, the SM Agent uses only structured prompting via a single Socratic system prompt. Results of previous models are obtained from the AI2 ARC leaderboard.

A new preprint introduces a Socratic Method Agent that guides LLMs through structured questioning, i.e., definition, analogy, hypothesis elimination, and more following lessons learned from thousands of years of philosophy and reasoning achieving SOTA on the ARC Challenge.

Continued below w links:

08.07.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@dth is following 20 prominent accounts