also this same org has this super useful infographic, breaking down the difference between direct and indirect (also called Facilities and Administration) costs and what F&A costs can and cannot be used for at a research university or institute

"As out of fashion as it is to talk this way, we are all really in this together. Academia and industry do different things most of the time, and we each benefit from that. And that’s why the silence from industry about what’s going on with the NIH et al. is so infuriating."

Join us at the HUB annual meeting! It's directly before the #SFB annual meeting - so easy for you biomaterials folks. one day meeting, packed with great speakers and networking, and an opportunity for pilot grant $$!!!

Please see this short form to apply for travel funds! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The HUB will have a call for $100,000 pilot grants! Coming to the HUB meeting is not a pre-requisite to win a pilot grant, but it could allow you to make new connections for collaborative teams toward the grants.

The first HUB annual meeting will be the day before the SFB meeting, April 7-8 2025 in Chicago, IL. The educational and community outreach team is led by myself, @brianaguado.bsky.social and Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, and we have funds available to support PI-trainee pairs to attend HUB and SFB.

HUB

Travel Award Announcement!

@lolaumich.bsky.social and @kellystevens.bsky.social have won an NIH center grant, Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (the HUB): www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org

There is something about a haka that is absolutely undeniable. It’s embodied resistance to colonization that is completely alive & a source of strength & determination. It’s a practice that reminds these people of their power. They blocked this bill that would have rolled back indigenous rights.

Molecularly Shielded, On-Demand, Ultrasound-Cured Polymer Networks Networks formed from polymers can range from soft hydrogels to ultrahard protective coatings, making them useful for a wide range of applications, from cell culture to highly bonded adhesives. Polymer...

🧪New paper out from @peytonlab.bsky.social , my **first** first author paper!
In it we show how crosslinking kinetics of thermosetting polymers can be tuned by copolymerization with macromonomers as a way of shielding reactive sites
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Please share! abrcms.org

6 hour flight delay on a saturday at bradley means everyone's getting their email's answered.

NIGMS program officer talking about T32s: "The stipend is meant to defray living expenses. It is not meant to be a living wage."

🧪 My department is hiring! Tenure track faculty position in genetics. Researchers using any eukaryotic model, including fungi and plants are encouraged to apply! We are a broad biology department with strengths across all kingdoms. Join us! Apply by March 1 tinyurl.com/y4evds8p

The 2023-2024 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 125 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

Add a job: forms.gle/KHsGtn5nroc5...
Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Letter calls on Students Publishing Company to drop criminal complaint against two students connecte... Eighty-nine student organizations, faculty and Northwestern community members signed a letter to the editor published by North by Northwestern Friday calling on Students Publishing Company — The Dai...

Parody newspapers have a long tradition in American political speech. Bringing criminal charges against students for this is really bad. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/02/02/l...

Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York, Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming, you no longer need to go through a commercial preparer to do the free e-file: the IRS is pilot testing a direct version in your states

Carl Weathers, ‘Rocky’s’ Apollo Creed and ‘Mandalorian’ Actor, Dies at 76 Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed in the first four 'Rocky' films, died Tuesday. He was 76.

christ RIP to carl weathers. a hilarious, insanely charismatic actor. he should have been one of the biggest stars on the planet. variety.com/2024/film/ne...

You saw the headline, now look at what happened when scientists actually evaluate the headline

This would have made them so much easier to learn!

An Update to the Changing Distribution of Fitness Effects About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a pair of papers posted on the bioRxiv preprint website.  Both papers examined the evolution of the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) in the LTEE popula...

New #LTEE paper out in #Science today. I wrote about it here, with an emphasis on "how civility, cooperation, and collaboration can succeed even in the highly competitive world of science."
the-ltee.org/an-update-to...

And here's a link to the paper itself:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is terrible. To me, this is a signal that the department chair does not care about their colleague. I would also write a great letter but I will also add that the department chair needs to do more to support their colleagues in the letter.

#academicsky #philsky

This is such an important lesson, y'all: peer networks are so often where the most relevant and useful support can happen.

Every. time.

FGF9 binds to integrin αvβ3 (Other integrins?)

Integrin-binding deficient FGF9 R108E variant acts as a dominant negative mutant in MAPK signaling + Cell proliferation
How? Competing for FGF receptors or HSPG or FGF9 WT monomer?🤔

Yoshikazu Takada lab bioRxiv 2023
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

glow up!

yes!!!! OMG a thousand times yes.

what about your far away friends? Toffee travels well!!! :)

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $100M Hawaii compound with a huge underground bunker

I read an article that always haunted me about a humanist tech writer who met with the "ultra wealthy" thinking they would want to know how to use their vast wealth and power to avoid a climate disaster.

Instead they all wanted to know how best to insulate themselves from it