Last call!

🚨 Deadline approaching (Apr 16)! Don’t miss your chance to join our student-led #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop. Meals, accommodation + reasonable travel covered for accepted participants.

Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26

@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more.

✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered

🔗 janelia.news/THB26

@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

who actually invented Tiffany lamps?
#FungiFriends

Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2026 is one of a kind school where students delve into state of the art research on collective behavior.
Apply here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
Deadline: March 15th, 2026
@cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

I left the US on 1/21 and am not back until late on 2/11. Feels like a century has passed in the news.

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!

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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!

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Poster graphic reading Take Back our Science Rally! Washington DC, March 7th, 2026. standupforscience.net/march7. A group of protesters carrying signs in support of science are gathered in front of the US capitol building. A line of red stars streaming from right to left decorates the poster.

Washington, DC. March 7th, 2026. Rally with us to Take Back Science! 🧪✊🔬💥
The stakes could not be higher: we're facing attacks from an administration hell-bent on dismantling our science and our democracy. We have to stand up and fight back!

GET IN, DORKS! www.standupforscience.net/ma...

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On 1/30 we are shutting it down, and, on 1/31, we are gathering across the country to demand ICE Out of Everywhere, permanently!

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Excited for the third round! Co-organizing this workshop has been a joy and I’m looking forward to learning from everyone this fall.

Lab member: can I show you some data?
Me, 9am: YES
Me, 8pm: YES
Me, 3am: YES
Me, while undergoing surgery: YES

Love the note at the end of this paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

People, we need you in the streets today. Really, we do. We need to show them we won’t accept a regime that kills its own citizens. They do not have the consent of the governed.

And you’ll be signing on to impeach Noem when?

Are you a junior scientist working in theoretical biophysics? @zamakany.bsky.social and I are organizing another workshop this fall here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Travel and the workshop expenses are all covered!

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Want to join #EESCollectivity on site but haven’t registered yet? You can still submit an abstract for a poster presentation, so hurry up – you only have until 13 January! ➡️ s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl

New year, orchids back in bloom to celebrate!

Interested in the MBL Physiology Course in Woods Hole and want to learn more before you apply?

Join myself and Cliff at our Virtual Open House TOMORROW 2–3 PM ET. You will hear what the course experience is like and get all your questions answered.

Register/Join: princeton.zoom.us/j/97673682905

Memory from variability: Heritable short-term cellular memory emerges from stochastic biochemical reaction networks Cells exhibit a mysterious form of selective heritable short-term memory, influencing outcomes as diverse as cell fate decisions in embryos and environmental responses in cancer cells and bacteria. He...

Thrilled that the lab's first @hhmijanelia.bsky.social project is up on bioRxiv! Story behind the story to follow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oh no! It’s the end of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” season!

Happy start of the dark winter months!

I love the idea of the art surprising me around corners. Thank you!

Yes, I’m staying there up in the Oval. Some friends recommended it.

Oooh! I’m headed there in February. Any tips?

Excited about summer research at Janelia or other HHMI labs across the country? Apply!

Standing on the shoulders of giants. Researchers (nodes) at early (red), mid (blue) and late (grey) career stage who have built on one another's work (edges). Large nodes are researchers whose work would not be recognized with journal level metrics but would be recognized with article level metrics. Credit: B. Ian Hutchins

Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed

Sit with this for a moment.