Kevin Collins
@kevinemco.bsky.social
Practically a C. elegans neurobiologist. Views are my own and not my employer. https://collinslabmiami.com
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We have an exciting 3-year postdoc position available to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics.
If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you!
Application deadline - 24th February.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you!
Application deadline - 24th February.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Associate - Godlee Group (Fixed Term)
We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral Research Associate with a background in cell biology and interest in infection research to join the laboratory of Dr Camilla Godlee in the Department of
www.cam.ac.uk
February 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
We have an exciting 3-year postdoc position available to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics.
If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you!
Application deadline - 24th February.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you!
Application deadline - 24th February.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...
February 16, 2026 at 9:56 PM
We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...
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For people impressed by the 130k jobs added in January, I'd offer and alternative economic analysis that I think you'll find compelling. www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-poll...
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
For people impressed by the 130k jobs added in January, I'd offer and alternative economic analysis that I think you'll find compelling. www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-poll...
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
Great. Do you think he will finally shut up about it now?
January 16, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Great. Do you think he will finally shut up about it now?
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Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)
You’re misquoting his video statement
January 12, 2026 at 2:18 AM
You’re misquoting his video statement
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Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698500v1
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698500v1
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OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.
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📽️Please allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish 🪝🐟
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
📽️Please allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish 🪝🐟
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good time🎣)
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Echinoderm aficionados, please help - I’m looking for antibody advice! Has anyone used the 12G10 or E7 tubulin antibodies from DSHB to stain cleavage stage embryos?
I’m planning a sea urchin cytokinesis module for my cell biology lab next semester and want the students to do beautiful IF stains.
I’m planning a sea urchin cytokinesis module for my cell biology lab next semester and want the students to do beautiful IF stains.
December 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Echinoderm aficionados, please help - I’m looking for antibody advice! Has anyone used the 12G10 or E7 tubulin antibodies from DSHB to stain cleavage stage embryos?
I’m planning a sea urchin cytokinesis module for my cell biology lab next semester and want the students to do beautiful IF stains.
I’m planning a sea urchin cytokinesis module for my cell biology lab next semester and want the students to do beautiful IF stains.
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Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa
If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
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So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
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Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague. Please repost. 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
facultypositions.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
Nice microPublication reporting methods to image C. elegans egg laying under a coverslip www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
Time-lapse imaging of C. elegans egg-laying with high spatiotemporal resolution | microPublication
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November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Nice microPublication reporting methods to image C. elegans egg laying under a coverslip www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
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I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Daily ultrastructural remodeling of clock neurons
A cluster of Drosophila clock neurons remodel their axonal arbors daily. Using volumetric
electron microscopy at different times of day, Ispizua, Rodriguez-Caron, and colleagues
reveal ultrastructural...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our paper on Rho signaling in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit is now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.org! In this study, we manipulate Rho signaling pre- and postsynaptically and find interesting activity and behavior defects.
Rho signaling promotes cell excitability and synaptic transmission https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688363v1
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Our paper on Rho signaling in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit is now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.org! In this study, we manipulate Rho signaling pre- and postsynaptically and find interesting activity and behavior defects.
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C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 June–3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
European C. elegans and CeNEURO Meeting 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
2026 European C. elegans and CeNEURO meeting
ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 June–3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
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New preprint!
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-efficiency targeted integration of extrachromosomal arrays in C. elegans using PhiC31 integrase
Extrachromosomal arrays are unique chromosome-like structures created from DNA injected into the C. elegans germline. Arrays are easy to create and allow for high expression of multiple transgenes. Th...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
New preprint!
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yes they are both timeless, but also: great grant writing music.
Recent celebratory concerts dedicated to the two composers Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley have been sites “not of reverence but of restless rediscovery,” Alex Ross writes. “Both retain the power to make the familiar strange.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8foDqy
At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
Both composers remain intriguing outliers, notable for the stubbornness with which they have held to their youthful convictions.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Yes they are both timeless, but also: great grant writing music.
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A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
How do neural circuits switch between distinct patterns of activity, known as “internal
states”? Prashad et al. describe how PVW neurons, which lack any identified neurotransmitter,
generate one of th...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
Meet Paul Maddox
Paul Maddox is a world-renowned cancer researcher, two-time entrepreneur, and native son of Western North Carolina–and now, a candidate for U.S. Congress. ....
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October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/