We are still accepting applications for an image analyst within the Optical Imaging Core at Van Andel Institute. If you know anyone that is looking for a career in image analysis, please encourage them to apply!
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This is insane. All because Donald Trump launched a war with no plan and took away your healthcare.
Americans deserve relief now. We’ve paid enough.
I am hiring a popgen postdoc!
Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed.
Job add & details 👇🏽
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The beauty of Nature 😍
Excited to share our paper about copick, a dataset API and toolkit for collaborative annotation and analysis of #cryoET data! Whether you're picking particles or curating segmentations, copick reduces friction and brings #OME-Zarr to cryoET without breaking pipelines.
🧵👇
doi.org/10.1002/pro.70578
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ✍️ @gwenkirschner.bsky.social
🌱Hidden highways: mapping plasmodesmata in Arabidopsis roots
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70877
About Davis et al Quantification of cell-type-specific plasmodesmata distribution in ...
@emmanuellebayer.bsky.social George Bassel
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70726
Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity at @johninnescentre.bsky.social to work with the amazing @hassansalem.bsky.social and @berasymbionts.bsky.social on the developmental and molecular basis of insect–microbe symbiosis.
I’m excited to be part of this collaborative project!
🌟 AeRLCK2 & AeCRK2: new players in immunity & symbiosis
Mutations in two Nod-independent symbiotic genes heightened disease resistance.⚡
8/9
New Jersey weather seems to be yo-yoing between winter and spring.
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#protistsonsky
Postdoctoral Scholar position in the Coaker group University of California, Davis We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research program focused on immune receptor engineering and spatial analyses of plant pathogens interactions using computational and imaging approaches. The position will involve integration of molecular, imaging, and computational approaches. Relevant publications from the laboratory include Nature Plants (2025, PMID: 40721669), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024, PMID: 38814867), and Cell Reports (2023, PMID: 37342910). https://www.coakerlab.org/ Qualifications: • Ph.D. in plant biology, molecular biology, genetics, computational biology, or a related field • Strong background in genomics and/or computational biology • First author publications in peer-reviewed journals • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment • Experience in plant innate immunity is preferred Application Instructions: The position is initially available for two years, with the possibility of extension based on performance and funding. Salary is based on the University of California postdoctoral salary scale (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2025-26/represented-oct-2025-scales/t23.pdf). The salary range for this position is $69,073-$82,836 US Dollars/year. Review of applications will begin June 1, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a CV, a brief statement of research interests (~1 page), and contact information for three references to glcoaker@ucdavis.edu. The research statement should describe your previous work, how your expertise aligns with ongoing research in the lab, and potential future research directions.
We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...
@cryomariena.bsky.social
Rods have a continuous multilamellar architecture - unlike any known cellular membrane organisation - and occur across all cell types tested /3
🙏 @andimicroscopy.bsky.social
Interesting read - how do you restore a door for an iconic building? #flatiron www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/r...
These fuckin chuds
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough
This black-and-white studio portrait photograph captures Rosalind Elsie Franklin, the brilliant British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose meticulous research produced Photograph 51—the iconic X-ray diffraction image that revealed DNA’s double-helix structure and proved pivotal to the 1953 Watson-Crick model of the molecule. Shown in a close-up, three-quarter view from the shoulders up, Franklin appears in her late twenties or early thirties, her dark, wavy hair neatly styled and swept back from her face. She wears a simple, dark collared blouse or shirt with a crisp, professional appearance that reflects the understated elegance typical of mid-20th-century scientific women. Her expression is calm and intensely focused: direct gaze slightly off-camera to the viewer’s left, lips gently closed in a subtle, knowing half-smile, conveying quiet confidence, intellectual depth, and quiet determination. The plain, softly lit studio background with its neutral gradient emphasizes her face and upper torso, creating an intimate, timeless composition that places her poised presence at the absolute center.
Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure.
Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. Died #OTD in 1958, age 37. #WomenInSTEM
🌱🔬We’re exciting to be hosting a new webinar series on quantitative plant imaging with @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. The first webinar will be on 30 April at 15:00 BST.
For more info and to sign up to our mailing list or volunteer to give a talk ⤵️
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94
billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪
📷 What if your camera was your chlorophyll meter?
Check out GreenLeafVI, a free FIJI plugin for high-throughput leaf chlorophyll quantification from standard RGB images. Non-destructive, no specialized equipment, GWAS-validated across four species. Read at https://bit.ly/4vtq6OM
#PlantSci #GWAS
May 29th. If you're in Paris, mark your calendars. Lock your pipettes. TELL YOUR cHAIR. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 🧪🐟
Krios (and we’ve ruled out issues with the chiller)
This made me smile and feel a little less cynical
He was trying to bait kids into assaulting him. Just because unfathomably stupid behavior.
www.azfamily.com/2026/04/09/a...
New scary four word phrase "unresolved optics board error"
Benefits from DEI:
NASA’s first crewed mission around the Moon in 50+ years included…
✅Christina Koch (first woman on a lunar mission)
✅Victor Glover (first Black astronaut on a lunar mission)
✅Reid Wiseman (single Dad)
✅Jeremy Hansen (first Canadian headed to the Moon).
Not “woke,” PROGRESS.👇
A black cat, looking irritated, lounges on a grey couch in the sunlight
Nuit is upset I disturbed his nap in the sun
My sister sent me this (she has a MFA)
