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Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD
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📖Editor at BMC Biology
🦠Part-time community college prof
🧘🏻‍♀️200 hour RYT
📍 Philadelphia

Past:
🔬Postdoc Thomas Jefferson University
🧬PhD @stonybrooku.bsky.social‬
🧪BS @mnstatemankato.bsky.social‬
Pinned
Looking forward to attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 next month! Please come chat with me. Please, please, please!!
a woman is putting her hand on a man 's shoulder while talking to him .
Alt: A scene from Parks and Rec - Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) is repeatedly and annoyingly tapping Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) on the shoulder begging him to talk to her.
media.tenor.com
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org

Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.

Please share.
ANTONY LAB SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Edwin Antony Lab Website
www.antonylab.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
web103.reachmee.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Methodology
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This phrase has been living in my head rent-free all day. Truly perfect
"decision-based evidence-making"

Chilling. Perfect description.
A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:

www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Ummm what? 👀
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
When team building takes the building part literally
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:

this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!

You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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#Review

Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠

#MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate.
apply.interfolio.com/177622
Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025.
@columbiasysbio.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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NIH grant applicants:

October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-005: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities NOT-OD-26-005. NIH
grants.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Methods developers trying really hard for that perfect acronym...
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Light pollution is a relatively easy-to-address environmental problem.

I’ve tried talking about it through the lenses of human and wildlife wellbeing, plus preventing insect, bird, and bat fatalities.

Never got as much conversation as this post. Yet another reason to be grateful for the aurora ❤️
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Every billionaire is a policy failure.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The doggos have a request for you all today - Get off your phones for 30 minutes and just sit outside.*

*Weather permitting
*Stick gnawing optional
*Badgering humans to join encouraged
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Aurora Science 🔭🧪

What do the colors of the aurora tell you 👇
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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During #COP30 it is important to remember that climate policy is health policy, and that climate action is needed to improve health. Some background information in a new commentary by me, @jonathanpatz.bsky.social, @howardfrumkin.bsky.social, and Vijay Limaye.

theconversation.com/want-to-make...
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM