From MBoC…
Now accepting submissions for the Cell Biology of the Nervous System special issue. Share your research on nervous system cell biology with the community: https://www.molbiolcell.org/nervous-system/
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Virginia: Vote YES! Early voting is open for the next two weeks until Saturday, April 18.
As Trump and Republicans try to rig the midterms in their favor, you have the chance to stop them.
Make your plan to vote early or on Election Day, April 21, at IWillVote.com.
Gift link. NYT article about the fallout in one Harvard lab from the vandalism to the NIH.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
hbcu is on this list 🤨
$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.
That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
Fuck ICE
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
#Drosophil. Does anyone know who hosts the flyfos GFP tagged library now? We need some constructs but I cant find where they are.
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
Science requires human interaction. I owe it to my students to help them learn how to ask their questions, to feel uncomfortable, and to work with other real human beings to solve problems? To learn what it means to tackle new ideas, to challenge themselves and succeed.
Our textbook rep (who is genuinely a nice guy) popped in yesterday to ask if I'd activated the AI chatbot "TA" for the students.
short answer: scowl, and no.
long answer: what are we even doing here? Do my students/families pay tuition for a chatbot?
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
EXCLUSIVE: the Working Families Party is putting out a recruitment call for people opposed to data centers in their communities to run for local office
the recruitment effort comes just 2 days after Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on data center construction
In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
All my grades are IN! Expense reports DONE! p-card jail AVOIDED!
all that stands before me and vacation is a couple of meetings, a paper revision deadline, and a kindergarten winter concert.
LETS GO
#StemCell and #DevBio communities, mark your calendars for Sept. 23-25!
Together with @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social, we're presenting a scientific symposium led by the next generation. Researchers at all stages are invited to be a part of this collaborative event
🔗 https://bit.ly/4rO7xTy
It's a key part of my grant writing process: "I hate this proposal, it is trash"
#cellbio2025 come visit our poster this afternoon (B#026) if you want to discuss how cells have long range conversations with each other via cytonemes and help me figure out a good name for the structures they collectively make.
#cellbio2025: I'm so tired! and we still have 2 days to go! So many good talks and posters. and I've been thinking about what chemotaxis by self-generated gradients means for cells migrating in vivo ALL DAY.
A question for old-ish fly folk:
Any idea if the webpage for the old DrosDel site that could design deletions still lives somewhere?
The DrosDel url is defunct, and the link I found to DrosDel at Cambridge doesn’t work.
I’d make a new Df or two, if I knew the best way to do it.
📢 PhD opportunity: fully-funded BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience project available @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary project on keratins in cell division combines cell biology, biophysics and in vivo Zebrafish imaging.
👇Apply by 7th Jan
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Sekiro, and elden ring, are the only souls-ish games I *love*. I hope you get past the training and enjoy it. It is SO FUN and wacky and hard. but I'm also stubborn. multiple times my husb was like, 'why don't you quit it seem like you aren't having fun'. b/c I CAN'T (it was worth it)
just catching the end of the developmental biology minisymposium, after a great public policy committee meeting.
I think people are still eager to get involved in the public policy work, and yes we're all tired too. I am resolved in 2026 to invite my new congress rep to the lab! #cellbio2025
#CellBio2025 here we go! I think this might be my 10th meeting, and I always love when it's in Philly...
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
