Arash Komeili
@micromagnets.bsky.social
Cell biology of bacterial organelles. We love magnetic bacteria (www.komeililab.org)
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Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
June 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
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Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?
June 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?
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The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
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Be sure to include the docket number in your comment. Also note:
"Regulations.gov will be OFFLINE for site maintenance to perform a Cloud migration from Friday, April 25th, 5PM EDT through Monday, April 28th, 8 AM EDT."
"Regulations.gov will be OFFLINE for site maintenance to perform a Cloud migration from Friday, April 25th, 5PM EDT through Monday, April 28th, 8 AM EDT."
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Be sure to include the docket number in your comment. Also note:
"Regulations.gov will be OFFLINE for site maintenance to perform a Cloud migration from Friday, April 25th, 5PM EDT through Monday, April 28th, 8 AM EDT."
"Regulations.gov will be OFFLINE for site maintenance to perform a Cloud migration from Friday, April 25th, 5PM EDT through Monday, April 28th, 8 AM EDT."
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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
media.tenor.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
1/n
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This month's interview is with Marco Dueñas! Marco is a PhD candidate in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab in @berkeleymcb.bsky.social and @natureatcal.bsky.social.
He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.
Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.
Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
April 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This month's interview is with Marco Dueñas! Marco is a PhD candidate in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab in @berkeleymcb.bsky.social and @natureatcal.bsky.social.
He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.
Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
He chats with us about his recent paper in @pnas.org, overcoming research challenges, and more.
Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
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Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
Bhalla Lab - Research Specialist (Junior Specialist)
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
April 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882
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Harvey Mudd College is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member whose research and teaching interests sit at the interface of biology and climate. If that sounds like you, I very much hope you'll apply. Application review starts September 18th.
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment & Department of Biolo...
www.hmc.edu
September 12, 2023 at 3:33 AM
Harvey Mudd College is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member whose research and teaching interests sit at the interface of biology and climate. If that sounds like you, I very much hope you'll apply. Application review starts September 18th.
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Posting this here too cuz I'm just that #proudPI... New pre-print ! Check out Allison Daitch's follow up to her discovery of OPGs in #Caulobacter and their role in envelope integrity. TL;DR the OPG synthase OpgH is actually essential for morphogenesis in Caulo! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
OpgH is an essential regulator of Caulobacter morphology
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
September 1, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Posting this here too cuz I'm just that #proudPI... New pre-print ! Check out Allison Daitch's follow up to her discovery of OPGs in #Caulobacter and their role in envelope integrity. TL;DR the OPG synthase OpgH is actually essential for morphogenesis in Caulo! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I teach this paper in the Experimental Design grad class in our redesigned grad curriculum. I think it does a great job of teaching students how to articulate and test hypotheses with experiments in an abstract way so that the idea of "experiments" is not necessarily attached to any expectations
Years ago, I wrote a paper with an undergrad in the lab [Amy Strom, who is now a postdoc at Princeton] about using the game of Mastermind* to teach logic, experimental design and data interpretation.
*Wordle is a variant of Mastermind
Free link: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
*Wordle is a variant of Mastermind
Free link: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
September 1, 2023 at 3:59 PM
I teach this paper in the Experimental Design grad class in our redesigned grad curriculum. I think it does a great job of teaching students how to articulate and test hypotheses with experiments in an abstract way so that the idea of "experiments" is not necessarily attached to any expectations
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We're hiring for a postdoc position focused on metabolic modeling. Please share widely.
August 31, 2023 at 1:50 PM
We're hiring for a postdoc position focused on metabolic modeling. Please share widely.
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We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
August 29, 2023 at 11:32 PM
We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
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All y'all asking for codes to invite scientists and Sci comm folks better be inviting Black, Indigenous, LGBTQAI+, and other marginalized folks. Otherwise this isn't going to work. 🧪
August 9, 2023 at 9:08 PM
All y'all asking for codes to invite scientists and Sci comm folks better be inviting Black, Indigenous, LGBTQAI+, and other marginalized folks. Otherwise this isn't going to work. 🧪
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I think Bluesky is in the Baby Groot stage. We all know the potential once more science community friends, universities, foundations, and fellowship centers join in. It's going to be fabulous! Until then, we just have to keep watering 💦 baby Groot and watch him dance and grow 🫶
August 10, 2023 at 3:04 AM
I think Bluesky is in the Baby Groot stage. We all know the potential once more science community friends, universities, foundations, and fellowship centers join in. It's going to be fabulous! Until then, we just have to keep watering 💦 baby Groot and watch him dance and grow 🫶
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Skype a Scientist is a wonderful program that matches scientists with classrooms. If you are or if you know a teacher, a librarian, or anyone who could benefit from this great (and free!) program, please sign up here and spread the word: https://www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
🩺 🧪
🩺 🧪
The collapse of twitter has made it much harder to publicize Skype a Scientist.
Very open to any ideas on how to get the word out to teachers about our program.
It has to be either free or very low-cost (twitter collapsing has also made fundraising harder lolololol).
Very open to any ideas on how to get the word out to teachers about our program.
It has to be either free or very low-cost (twitter collapsing has also made fundraising harder lolololol).
August 2, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Skype a Scientist is a wonderful program that matches scientists with classrooms. If you are or if you know a teacher, a librarian, or anyone who could benefit from this great (and free!) program, please sign up here and spread the word: https://www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
🩺 🧪
🩺 🧪
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Sigh, some people still seem to be bumping up against the paywall for this piece despite my understanding that it would be free to read for 24 hours.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email edyong210@gmail.com and I'll personally send you a copy.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email edyong210@gmail.com and I'll personally send you a copy.
Fatigue Can Shatter a Person
Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.
www.theatlantic.com
July 27, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Sigh, some people still seem to be bumping up against the paywall for this piece despite my understanding that it would be free to read for 24 hours.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email edyong210@gmail.com and I'll personally send you a copy.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email edyong210@gmail.com and I'll personally send you a copy.
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Hello BlueSky!
This is Elisabeth Bik, known as MicrobiomDigest on the late bird app.
I have a PhD in microbiology, and I work full-time on finding image and other problems in scientific papers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html
This is Elisabeth Bik, known as MicrobiomDigest on the late bird app.
I have a PhD in microbiology, and I work full-time on finding image and other problems in scientific papers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html
July 25, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Hello BlueSky!
This is Elisabeth Bik, known as MicrobiomDigest on the late bird app.
I have a PhD in microbiology, and I work full-time on finding image and other problems in scientific papers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html
This is Elisabeth Bik, known as MicrobiomDigest on the late bird app.
I have a PhD in microbiology, and I work full-time on finding image and other problems in scientific papers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html
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I had NO idea this is a thing - great tip!!
July 25, 2023 at 6:53 PM
I had NO idea this is a thing - great tip!!
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Hey all, along with our other open positions, our publishing team @arcadiascience.bsky.social is hiring for the following positions. Please share if you know anyone who would be a good fit!
- Data Viz Designer
- Scientific Editor
- Science Illustrator
https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience
- Data Viz Designer
- Scientific Editor
- Science Illustrator
https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience
Arcadia Science jobs
Job openings at Arcadia Science
jobs.lever.co
July 24, 2023 at 9:01 PM
Hey all, along with our other open positions, our publishing team @arcadiascience.bsky.social is hiring for the following positions. Please share if you know anyone who would be a good fit!
- Data Viz Designer
- Scientific Editor
- Science Illustrator
https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience
- Data Viz Designer
- Scientific Editor
- Science Illustrator
https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience
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Think about who you share invite codes with - how can that introduce biases/inequity? especially for science Twitter trying to gain momentum here, this matters.
July 24, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Think about who you share invite codes with - how can that introduce biases/inequity? especially for science Twitter trying to gain momentum here, this matters.