KU IRACDA has three postdoc positions open iracda.ku.edu. Eligible applicants must demonstrate interest in teaching, have a biomedically-relevant research focus, and an identified KU faculty sponsor. www.employment.ku.edu/staff/32261BR .
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the cnidarian Podocoryna is just out. Well done @pcart.bsky.social , @baxevanislab.bsky.social and the other authors
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧬 New genome alert! We’ve generated a chromosome-level assembly for the hydrozoan Podocoryna. With both polyp and free-swimming medusa stages, Podocoryna is a powerful model for exploring the evolution of complex traits in early animal lineages.
I am super excited to announce that after a tumultuous period of uncertainty, KU MARC marc.ku.edu has been awarded another five years of funding! news.ku.edu/news/article....
The deadline is near for our NSF RaMP post-bacc program BioGEM. If you know of any graduating seniors interested in doing research in EEB for a year, please encourage them to apply biogem.ku.edu/apply-biogem
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
In our lab, every day is women is science day w/ @stoilovamarina.bsky.social @gelatinoussting.bsky.social
Logo for MANUS AI, with lowercase lettering and a pointing finger.
This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that @pcart.bsky.social and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.
What distinguishes those with moral courage vs. those who choose to look the other way? This article came out a few years ago but it is an inspiring read and very relevant to today's times (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/o...
So here’s to making 2026 a better year. For science. For our country. For the American people.
We have the momentum. The resistance is growing. Let’s make 2026 the year we turned the tide.
After three months away @mblscience.bsky.social I return to the lab with these notes welcoming me back. It’s nice to know I was missed.
"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day!
These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems.
youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...
Every day, when I walk past this sign, I feel overwhelming gratitude for being able to spend my sabbatical here.
Enjoying the view from the lab @mblscience.bsky.social. Sabbaticals are nice 😀.
Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.
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Woah! Do you know of any other sightings in N. America?
Congrats Marina!
All hands on deck. I don't know how to get this across to the majority on SCOTUS, but speaking up now is critical. They do read newspapers I assume.
Yep!
Very excited to be hosting this workshop with Natalia Lopez Carranza at the @kunhm.bsky.social on #paleontology publications and data: biodiversity.ku.edu/news/article...
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n... via @statnews.com
The implications of living and working in a red state just got a lot more frightening. In Kansas, our constitutional rights are now under the discretion of Kobach et al.
Cover of Harvard magazine showing boxing gloves
I’m not seeing evidence of backing down.
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
Reading over what has been cancelled will make you sick. So much work to achieve funding for these projects and training grants, and so much work put into them already.
I'm excited for you and for whatever new adventures await. Wherever you go, you always make such a positive impact and I have no doubt this will continue. Thank you for your service and for your unwavering dedication to making science a better space for all of us.
