Pediatrician here.
Misinformation and disinformation don't become facts just because the CDC posted them.
Numerous studies have refuted any link between vaccines and autism.
Zero studies have shown any link between vaccines and autism.
Real science matters.

This week's selection of articles and many #preprints on #proteostasis thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social -- biomed.news/bims-proteo/...

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!

But...good news and bad news.

👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.

👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%

(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)

See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

A huger (I'm making it a word for this) credit goes to Carlos and the Castañeda lab. Your leadership helped make it such a good and fun collaboration!

#preprint Postdoc Nirbhik Acharya used NMR to find three transient helices within intrinsically-disordered regions of shuttle protein Dsk2 -- these interact with STI1. The STI1 is important for phase separation and proteasome condensates in yeast. Comments welcome!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We had to make a form to handle the incoming responses. Here it is. Share it. Our immediate needs are marketing experts, 5th grade teachers, app developers, and grantwriters/fundraisers. An IP attorney as well. We've made great progress. We have 67 days.

In light of recent influxes, would be good to get a thread of starter packs for cell/molecular/mechanistic biologists.

I did one quite a while ago: still great people, but now even more obviously missing important people than when I did it.

Come on gang, help me out!

go.bsky.app/2z8z1nW

I like to make graphics of my work. I'm not a pro, but I hope my drawings can be useful. So I've started contributing to BioIcons. So far, I've added these two kidney drawings. CC-0 license. They download/copy as SVG files from BioIcons, but you can copy/paste them from here as PNG. #SciArt

I'm trying to follow more people on here, and I will be trying to check in more frequently to make this place my bird app replacement. I'd love for folks to follow me (back). Same handle on Twitter if you want to check me out first. #HiSciSky

This reddit post might be helpful for other PhD students wondering if it's okay to not know things and how to say it/ask questions when that's the case. www.reddit.com/r/PhD/commen...

Reproducible means good science, right?
Weekend read:

•Reproducibility ≠ truth
•“reproducible” ≠ “reproducible”
•openness ¬∝ reproducibility
•all replication = non-exact replication
•don't replicate before you contemplate
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

h/t @christlet.bsky.social

1. Serving as an action editor has changed how I write reviews for other journals. A thread on reviewing:
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

I'm awaiting spotting my first orb weaver of this fall season on my walk to work! They build large webs on signs, poles, and trees, and it's always a treat to see them (the spiders and the webs)!

New program out for IDPseminars!

New attendees sign up here: idpseminars.com

We have relied heavily on Twitter for our PR until now, so its slow but painful death spiral leaves us in a bit of a pickle. Please help us rebuild our following over here by re-tweeting.

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Feel free to share with first-year and prospective grad students.
Things I wish I had known…

An exhaustive, 285-refs review on fluorescent probes for super-resolution microscopy pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Happy Proteasome Week! The key days are 19 Sept, 20 Sept, and 26 Sept. Get it? If you're on campus, bring a friend to the KLSIC first floor to play Pin the polyUb on the 26S proteasome!!

I'm hoping to make this a yearly thing. If you have suggestions for how we can celebrate, let me know! #lab&fun