Swaying Dandelion
@swayingdandelion.bsky.social
Geneticist/epigeneticist. Mom to humans and cats, she/her
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Oh, your favorite genetic locus only encodes one gene? That's boring.
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Oh, your favorite genetic locus only encodes one gene? That's boring.
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Service dog meets his hero.
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Service dog meets his hero.
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I finished my PhD during a time of uncertainty with waning opportunities in American academia. So I went to Germany. The Humboldt program laid foundations for my career at a time when my own country wouldn't.
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
When curiosity meets opportunity: Molly Taylor-Polesky, a US scholar of early modern history, shares how her research stay in Germany gave her new perspectives and the freedom to explore through the Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Interested? Find out more about the programme 👉 bit.ly/3JgH2oo
Interested? Find out more about the programme 👉 bit.ly/3JgH2oo
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I finished my PhD during a time of uncertainty with waning opportunities in American academia. So I went to Germany. The Humboldt program laid foundations for my career at a time when my own country wouldn't.
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
I highly recommend looking into fellowship opportunities, especially now. 🧪
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After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,
I’m teaching about race and media anyway!
@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!
600+ signups.
We move!! ✊🏾
I’m teaching about race and media anyway!
@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!
600+ signups.
We move!! ✊🏾
October 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,
I’m teaching about race and media anyway!
@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!
600+ signups.
We move!! ✊🏾
I’m teaching about race and media anyway!
@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!
600+ signups.
We move!! ✊🏾
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Your daily moment of zen:
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Your daily moment of zen:
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
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we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
October 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
1/n
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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Assistant Professor
jobs.colorado.edu
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology
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A new fossil of the Leatherback Turtle from Alabama just dropped! #FossilFriday
bioone.org/journals/Pal...
bioone.org/journals/Pal...
Family Fishing Trip Leads to “One-in-a-Million” Fossil Discovery - Poarch Creek Indians
A family of four recently discovered the fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle while fishing along a river in south Alabama. The new species, Ueloca colemanorum was named by...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A new fossil of the Leatherback Turtle from Alabama just dropped! #FossilFriday
bioone.org/journals/Pal...
bioone.org/journals/Pal...
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Thanks, @ellecordova.bsky.social. We’re trying. 🧪
For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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September 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thanks, @ellecordova.bsky.social. We’re trying. 🧪
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Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Patrick's paper is finally out, a label-free method to measure the composition of multicomponent biomolecular condensates!
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🧪 #RNAsky
If you aren’t using RNAcanvas to draw your RNA structures and explore alternative structures, you are missing out! 56 citations in a year, with multiple ones in top journals like Nature, Science & Cell. Easy to use and packed with unique features! Try it!
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If you aren’t using RNAcanvas to draw your RNA structures and explore alternative structures, you are missing out! 56 citations in a year, with multiple ones in top journals like Nature, Science & Cell. Easy to use and packed with unique features! Try it!
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
RNAcanvas: interactive drawing and exploration of nucleic acid structures
Abstract. Two-dimensional drawing of nucleic acid structures, particularly RNA structures, is fundamental to the communication of nucleic acids research. H
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August 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🧪 #RNAsky
If you aren’t using RNAcanvas to draw your RNA structures and explore alternative structures, you are missing out! 56 citations in a year, with multiple ones in top journals like Nature, Science & Cell. Easy to use and packed with unique features! Try it!
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
If you aren’t using RNAcanvas to draw your RNA structures and explore alternative structures, you are missing out! 56 citations in a year, with multiple ones in top journals like Nature, Science & Cell. Easy to use and packed with unique features! Try it!
academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Check out our pre-print on how the human INO80 complex acts on nucleosomes and hexasomes: PostDocs Priyanka & Manmohan et al. solved structures of INO80 bound to several substrates and completed missing questions about similarities of modes of actions across species🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recognition and remodelling of nucleosomes and hexasomes by the human INO80 complex
The ATP-dependent INO80 chromatin remodeller slides and repositions nucleosomes to shape and maintain chromatin around gene regulatory elements and replication origins. Recent work uncovered capabilit...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Check out our pre-print on how the human INO80 complex acts on nucleosomes and hexasomes: PostDocs Priyanka & Manmohan et al. solved structures of INO80 bound to several substrates and completed missing questions about similarities of modes of actions across species🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
Apply - Interfolio
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August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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Using brain #organoids derived from individuals with #schizophrenia & 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social scientists discovered cell-type-specific developmental abnormalities that may explain early disruptions in how brain regions form and connect.
#neuroskyence #devbio 🧪
#neuroskyence #devbio 🧪
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Using brain #organoids derived from individuals with #schizophrenia & 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social scientists discovered cell-type-specific developmental abnormalities that may explain early disruptions in how brain regions form and connect.
#neuroskyence #devbio 🧪
#neuroskyence #devbio 🧪
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My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
www.utm.utoronto.ca
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
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data wrangling is an essential skill for genomics data analysis. Here is the dplyr cheatsheet from posit
rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets...
rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets...
July 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
data wrangling is an essential skill for genomics data analysis. Here is the dplyr cheatsheet from posit
rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets...
rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets...
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Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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July 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...
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among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries
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Need something cute and crafty in your life? Check out these felt sewing patterns by Little Dear - ocean creatures are 50% off this month!
My fave (of course) is the Deep Sea collection, partly bc I helped Little Dear choose the animals 😊
www.etsy.com/listing/1695...
#craftsky
My fave (of course) is the Deep Sea collection, partly bc I helped Little Dear choose the animals 😊
www.etsy.com/listing/1695...
#craftsky
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Need something cute and crafty in your life? Check out these felt sewing patterns by Little Dear - ocean creatures are 50% off this month!
My fave (of course) is the Deep Sea collection, partly bc I helped Little Dear choose the animals 😊
www.etsy.com/listing/1695...
#craftsky
My fave (of course) is the Deep Sea collection, partly bc I helped Little Dear choose the animals 😊
www.etsy.com/listing/1695...
#craftsky
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Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
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Excellent visualisation of slime molds reaching for food 🧀🥒🍗 Loving the picky one!
🧪 #science #biology
🧪 #science #biology
from www.instagram.com/yeweijun98
Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things!
I wonder what's up with the peanut
Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things!
I wonder what's up with the peanut
July 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The Klem Lab at LSU is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in computational biochemistry!
Application info: klem-research-group.github.io/join/
♻️ Please share with anyone who might be interested! #chemjobs #postdoc #compchem #biochemistry #enzymes
Application info: klem-research-group.github.io/join/
♻️ Please share with anyone who might be interested! #chemjobs #postdoc #compchem #biochemistry #enzymes
July 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Klem Lab at LSU is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in computational biochemistry!
Application info: klem-research-group.github.io/join/
♻️ Please share with anyone who might be interested! #chemjobs #postdoc #compchem #biochemistry #enzymes
Application info: klem-research-group.github.io/join/
♻️ Please share with anyone who might be interested! #chemjobs #postdoc #compchem #biochemistry #enzymes