Powerful speeches this morning from @michaeldgreen.phd and many others at today's #nokings edition of #nihvigils.
Shoutout to @27unihted.bsky.social, @nihvigils.bsky.social, and all the great organizers who made the event possible.
hi Jill 👋 hope you're doing great and enjoying the company of
some friendly fruit flies in your neck of the woods!
This isn't a coincidence, IMO. The fly community is generally super rigorous - because there are so many tools and techniques available, people expect you to really nail things in order to get published (and keep getting funded)
Certain alleles, called meiotic drivers, cheat the rules of inheritance to increase the chance of transmission.
The Yamashita lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social investigated genetic information transmission and found a meiotic driver that operates differently: bit.ly/4nzcFcp
The other side of the sign said “Kings are for Hosers” but then I realized that is a more controversial take here
Making my voice heard at the #nokings protest in Vancouver!
Super sad and stressful situation. Wishing you all the best Jason so you can continue your important work!
So excited to see this work out in
@narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Congratulations to Hazel Cui on outstanding work!
Keep an eye out for part 2 of this project 😎
Small detail of a dimensional collage with disembodied hands and water droplets in blue, yellow, green, and black
The Sondheim Finalists’ Exhibition at @thewaltersartmuseum is open as of TODAY! I am so thrilled to share this new work and hope you will see it!
“…and Find Out.” (detail), watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 x 1”, 2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
Check this out if you ever wondered what intercellular bridges might be doing during meiosis! Happy to have played a small role! Congrats!!! @thejainlab.bsky.social
Come be my colleague at UBC! A great place to work w/amazing students, a beautiful campus, and…maybe one or two other perks 🇨🇦
Quick tip: If your paper was published today, consider sharing it on social media tomorrow instead. Today, everyone's focus is on Standing Up for Science and making some good trouble!
Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?
The MassBio brief says they represent 1700 biotech / pharma companies in MA.
They cite a recent study showing that "funding from NIH contributed to 354 of 356 drugs approved from 2010-2019." (!!!)
And they argue the policy will have irreparable harm on drug development.
Math is hard
Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
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Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli
In a a pretty dark time, for somebody who grew up in the Washington DC area this article was like a bright ray of sunshine!! 😂
NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers alcohol cloud in deep space!
To drink all of that, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
www.wionews.com/web-stories/...
#NASA #JamesWebb #alcohol #space #spaceeploration
📢The 2025 MAYosis webinar series will be held on consecutive Wednesdays, May 7-28, at 4 pm CET (7 am PST; 12 am JST) meiosis.cornell.edu/mayoss2025/ Apply to give a talk (deadline is March 8, trainees and junior faculty only): tinyurl.com/47k3cjpn Registration is free: tinyurl.com/39rs53yv
Our latest work using TIRFM to uncover mechanisms that stabilize the centromeric nucleosome:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Congrats to all the newly elected members of the GSA Board of Directors, including TAGC24 veteran @barrlab.bsky.social
genestogenomes.org/new-members-...
If you want to learn about how a tiny worm led to major insights in developmental biology and human disease check out the Nobel lectures from Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9N...
Lets start with something exciting! Applications are now open to join our fantastic department as a group leader fellow! Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out here or @macaskillaf.bsky.social for more info! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
I would love to try this guided tour sometime - amazing that he was 76 when he was hired for this project and that he designed this over the next 15 years! 99percentinvisible.org/episode/audi...
Ru-upping this thread from last year since the paper is now out! @chenshuliu.bsky.social identified a Piezo-dependent mechanism that enables C. elegans to sniff out “bad eggs” and target them for destruction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
