Thomas A. Brinkley
@tabrinkley.bsky.social
Grad Student @ Hopkins, researching motile multiciliogenesis @ Stony Brook, and figuring out life somewhere in between 🧬🔬🧫🥼
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I stood up today - and so did Beaker!
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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The CRG PhD call is open! 🌟
A truly special place, world-class facilities, an inspiring community, and a training team that really cares about helping each student reach their full potential.
My lab will be recruiting (moving next year), as will many amazing new colleagues!
#CRGPhD2026 #CRGBarcelona
A truly special place, world-class facilities, an inspiring community, and a training team that really cares about helping each student reach their full potential.
My lab will be recruiting (moving next year), as will many amazing new colleagues!
#CRGPhD2026 #CRGBarcelona
Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you.
More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The CRG PhD call is open! 🌟
A truly special place, world-class facilities, an inspiring community, and a training team that really cares about helping each student reach their full potential.
My lab will be recruiting (moving next year), as will many amazing new colleagues!
#CRGPhD2026 #CRGBarcelona
A truly special place, world-class facilities, an inspiring community, and a training team that really cares about helping each student reach their full potential.
My lab will be recruiting (moving next year), as will many amazing new colleagues!
#CRGPhD2026 #CRGBarcelona
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The centriole is crucial for cilia formation, but its molecular architecture is not known. Research from the @Wieczorek Group at ETH Zurich reports structures of the centriole’s A-C linker, revealing how it crosslinks neighboring microtubule triplets. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The centriole is crucial for cilia formation, but its molecular architecture is not known. Research from the @Wieczorek Group at ETH Zurich reports structures of the centriole’s A-C linker, revealing how it crosslinks neighboring microtubule triplets. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.
Did Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trial
The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.
n.pr
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.
I have hundreds of these in my gel room. Any good ideas on how to repurpose them? 🧪🔬
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I have hundreds of these in my gel room. Any good ideas on how to repurpose them? 🧪🔬
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These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
August 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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write good papers and die happy
August 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
write good papers and die happy
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✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social
#Microscopy #DevBio
#Microscopy #DevBio
June 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social
#Microscopy #DevBio
#Microscopy #DevBio
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Mark your calendars! The next ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 is taking place in Philadelphia, US, 6–10 December 2025: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/ 🧪
@ascbiology.bsky.social
#CellBiology #research
@ascbiology.bsky.social
#CellBiology #research
May 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Mark your calendars! The next ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 is taking place in Philadelphia, US, 6–10 December 2025: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/ 🧪
@ascbiology.bsky.social
#CellBiology #research
@ascbiology.bsky.social
#CellBiology #research
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The membrane topology problem inherent in ciliogenesis is solved by ciliary recruitment of a phospholipid flippase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The membrane topology problem inherent in ciliogenesis is solved by ciliary recruitment of a phospholipid flippase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia.
Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?
Find out more and apply:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?
Find out more and apply:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia.
Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?
Find out more and apply:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?
Find out more and apply:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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This fall, we are offering a Light Microscopy Bootcamp for graduate students, postdocs, and advanced researchers! 🔬
Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link!
bit.ly/4iGt8Yi
Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link!
bit.ly/4iGt8Yi
MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp | Marine Biological Laboratory
Director: Ed Munro, University of Chicago
bit.ly
May 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This fall, we are offering a Light Microscopy Bootcamp for graduate students, postdocs, and advanced researchers! 🔬
Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link!
bit.ly/4iGt8Yi
Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link!
bit.ly/4iGt8Yi
Thankful to receive a Best Poster Award at a research conference last week! 🏆🔬 #cilia #cellbio #devbio #bioinformatics
April 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thankful to receive a Best Poster Award at a research conference last week! 🏆🔬 #cilia #cellbio #devbio #bioinformatics
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Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mY
Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research
Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics
scim.ag
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mY
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Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6
March 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6
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Save the date! Cell Bio 2025, the joint ASCB | EMBO meeting, will take place in Philadelphia, US, 6 – 10 December 2025:
www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/
#CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social 🧪
www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/
#CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social 🧪
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Save the date! Cell Bio 2025, the joint ASCB | EMBO meeting, will take place in Philadelphia, US, 6 – 10 December 2025:
www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/
#CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social 🧪
www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/
#CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social 🧪
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openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Sharing some oocyte spindle love-an image taken by PhD student Phia Maddocks. This beautiful work is supported by our NIH funding. Without this funding, we cannot understand the complexities of fertility genetics. With declining fertility rates, this work is essential to human health.
January 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Sharing some oocyte spindle love-an image taken by PhD student Phia Maddocks. This beautiful work is supported by our NIH funding. Without this funding, we cannot understand the complexities of fertility genetics. With declining fertility rates, this work is essential to human health.
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Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
November 9, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
I stood up today - and so did Beaker!
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I stood up today - and so did Beaker!
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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Drosophila Alms1 proteins are general regulators of #centriolar cartwheel assembly, exhibiting distinct centriolar localization patterns and enabling Plk4-Ana2 interaction
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Véronique Morel, Bénédicte Durand and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Véronique Morel, Bénédicte Durand and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Drosophila Alms1 proteins are general regulators of #centriolar cartwheel assembly, exhibiting distinct centriolar localization patterns and enabling Plk4-Ana2 interaction
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Véronique Morel, Bénédicte Durand and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Véronique Morel, Bénédicte Durand and colleagues
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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On March 3rd, he asked me what day it was.
It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
March 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
On March 3rd, he asked me what day it was.
It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”
Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”
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Caspases have well known roles in #apoptosis, but roles in other cellular processes are emerging... This study shows that #caspase -3 & -7 promote cytoprotective #autophagy in response to non-lethal stress by modulating PARP1 activity in #BreastCancer cells 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/41xfLVm
February 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Caspases have well known roles in #apoptosis, but roles in other cellular processes are emerging... This study shows that #caspase -3 & -7 promote cytoprotective #autophagy in response to non-lethal stress by modulating PARP1 activity in #BreastCancer cells 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/41xfLVm
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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.