Check the linked in post!

It's such a great honor to start the new chapter of my career as a Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University, and co-lead the Carpenter-Shen lab with @drannecarpenter.bsky.social!
More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/runxi-...

I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining Purdue University as a tenured professor this August! Purdue holds a special place in my heart: its undergraduate program prepared this Indiana farm girl…... I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining Purdue University as a tenured professor this August! Purdue holds a special place in my heart: its undergraduate program prepared this Indiana farm girl remarkab...

I'm moving to Purdue University as a tenured professor this summer! Excited to hire postdocs there and get a lab up and running with @runxishen.bsky.social as co-lead.

More details: www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...

We’d be delighted to include it! Can you write a blurb to fit it into context of what is hard on the page, so the pros and cons/context are clear?

In case it helps you (or anyone else), @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post with a few other folks listing existing options and adding some more after she and I lamented this was an awful experience with all the consortia we do!

Big news: this August, I'm starting an exciting new chapter in my career - more on that in the coming days! I’ve spent 20 years working with mission-driven colleagues at the Broad Institute of MI... Big news: this August, I'm starting an exciting new chapter in my career - more on that in the coming days! I’ve spent 20 years working with mission-driven colleagues at the Broad Institute of MIT an...

I’ve spent 20 years working with mission-driven colleagues at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, at the center of an incredible revolution of computational and molecular technologies. I want to close my time at the Broad with gratitude…

Details!
www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...

Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

What systemic bottlenecks do you see in the practice of science? Astera wants to know what you think is broken and how to fix it!

Gripe now or forever hold your peace:

Finally! Thanks to Erin, the beginner's guide to Cell Painting exists! I'm glad to have something to point to those curious about image-based profiling.

I'm... still not sure??

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

A birthday cake comprised of a train and two carriages. Each is iced in a different colour and covered in chocolate and lollies

Look I'm not going to open a cake decorating business any time soon but I think there's enough whimsy here for a 3-year old's birthday party

A line graph showing all NIH projects funded through January 23, 2026 for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies substantially below the other curves.

My weekly update

(Grants with Notice of Award dates up to 1/23/26)

All projects

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Introduction to the Cell Painting Assay - AskErinDearBeth Episode 23 YouTube video by Ask Erin, Dear Beth

@bethcimini.bsky.social and I talk about the Cell Painting Assay a LOT, especially on our podcast Ask Erin/Dear Beth, so we figured it was about time to talk about what it actually is! youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY
h/t @drannecarpenter.bsky.social
#science #biology #cellpainting #microscopy #imageanalysis

Ep 23 - So what actually IS CellPainting anyway? You may have heard of it if you're say, a fan of the @drannecarpenter.bsky.social - @shantanu-singh.cc lab (and who isn't????), but what, you know, is it? Let @erinweisbart.bsky.social break it down for you!

youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly.

Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them.

Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Neat! Is it commercially available?

Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Autistic Traits Over Time - PubMed Weak evidence was found for changes in the genetic and environmental factors underlying ASD and autistic traits over time. Genetic factors played a consistently larger role than environmental factors. Environmental factors are thus unlikely to explain the increase in the prevalence of ASD.

In addition, the genetic contribution has remained stable over time, which also means that the much smaller contribution of environmental factors has also remained stable. Therefore environmental factors are unlikely to explain the increase in the prevalence of ASD. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374377/

Summers' first statement addressing the newly unveiled Epstein correspondence comes on the heels of Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling on Harvard to sever ties with Summers and putting new pressure on the elite university to hold Summers accountable for his close friendship with Epstein. Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor and now the Democratic senior senator from Massachusetts, had said in response to a CNN inquiry that she believes Summers — Harvard's former president and one of its most prominent faculty members — "cannot be trusted" with students given his past relationship with Epstein. "For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment," Warren told CNN. "If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation's politicians, policymakers, and institutions - or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else."

"If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot… teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else." - @warren.senate.gov
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/p...

I did it again. @globias.bsky.social #GloBIAS2025

Here's hoping I get a chance again next year.

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute Judge dismisses final claim against scientist’s former employer and curtails lawsuit directed at woman who accused him of sexual harassment

Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s Halloween so time to make the cells scream!

There's a year-old problem with looping movies in Powerpoint on Mac. Movie plays once, jitters and then shows blocky artefacts. Same pptx works fine on Windows. Problem seems to be Mac-side (QT?) but 15.7.1 and 26.0.1 both show this behaviour.

A solution, in case it helps anyone:
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💡Just presented our new paper at the @iccv.bsky.social BioImage Computing workshop: cubic: CUDA-accelerated 3D Bioimage Computing. We introduce a simple way to add GPU acceleration to scikit-image–based bioimage processing pipelines by swapping import statements. 🧵
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The editors of ACS Omega cheerfully accepted the authors' excuses and replacement image for this weird shit.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social