Miriam B. Goodman, PhD
@wormsense.bsky.social
Sensory biologist, passionate educator, advocate & mentor. Using nematodes to decipher brains & influence to broaden participation, enhance creativity, and pursue excellence in fundamental neuroscience. Opinions are mine.
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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...
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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.
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This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.
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Oh no! 😡 [A friend once found their stolen bike for sale on craigslist and bought it back for $50.]
February 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Oh no! 😡 [A friend once found their stolen bike for sale on craigslist and bought it back for $50.]
Grants office just offered a narrow interpretation that only the 10 listed pubs can be called out in the supplement.
February 3, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Grants office just offered a narrow interpretation that only the 10 listed pubs can be called out in the supplement.
Ha, ha, ha.
One thing I do not like is the embedded idea that contributions to science are captured in 5-10 publications. Some contributions build over years and multiple papers…sometimes more than 5.
One thing I do not like is the embedded idea that contributions to science are captured in 5-10 publications. Some contributions build over years and multiple papers…sometimes more than 5.
February 3, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Ha, ha, ha.
One thing I do not like is the embedded idea that contributions to science are captured in 5-10 publications. Some contributions build over years and multiple papers…sometimes more than 5.
One thing I do not like is the embedded idea that contributions to science are captured in 5-10 publications. Some contributions build over years and multiple papers…sometimes more than 5.
Yup. Leaves me inclined toward declining the subsequent request to review.
February 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Yup. Leaves me inclined toward declining the subsequent request to review.
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Thank for highlighting our work!
Day 4 is to celebrate Xiaofang Zhong and Ruth Hüttenhain and their amazing manuscript, where you can learn how to map spatial proteomes with better consistency. Check out this streamlined proximity proteomics pipeline that boosts throughput and reproducibility: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....
February 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Thank for highlighting our work!
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cognitive reframing ahead of quals:
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
January 31, 2026 at 11:32 PM
cognitive reframing ahead of quals:
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
Thank you! Roger’s legacy is full of color and playfulness. He is missed.
Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday
www.nature.com/articles/nme...
www.nature.com/articles/nme...
January 30, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Thank you! Roger’s legacy is full of color and playfulness. He is missed.
#wormwednesday how to be sure, really sure that you will not fail to run away from noxious chemicals…
Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint!
Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thread 1/
January 29, 2026 at 3:42 AM
#wormwednesday how to be sure, really sure that you will not fail to run away from noxious chemicals…
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Sudha (@chakrapanilab.bsky.social) and Julio (@cvlab.bsky.social) are organizing the 2026 Ion Channel Gordon Research Conference: Ion Channels Across Scales — Bridging Molecular Events to Physiological Outcomes, to be held at Mount Holyoke College, July 12–17, 2026.
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January 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Sudha (@chakrapanilab.bsky.social) and Julio (@cvlab.bsky.social) are organizing the 2026 Ion Channel Gordon Research Conference: Ion Channels Across Scales — Bridging Molecular Events to Physiological Outcomes, to be held at Mount Holyoke College, July 12–17, 2026.
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There is always the Clandinin rule: Estimate the time, double the number, and increase the unit by one notch. 1 day = 2 weeks. Does that help?
January 27, 2026 at 2:14 AM
There is always the Clandinin rule: Estimate the time, double the number, and increase the unit by one notch. 1 day = 2 weeks. Does that help?
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Congrats to Guosong Hong, a/prof @stanfordbrain.bsky.social, on receiving the inaugural #BiophotonicsDiscovery Impact of the Year Award!
Hong is honored for achieving optical transparency in live animals via absorbing dyes, a transformative advance in #biophotonics. 💡
spie.org/news/stanfor...
Hong is honored for achieving optical transparency in live animals via absorbing dyes, a transformative advance in #biophotonics. 💡
spie.org/news/stanfor...
January 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Congrats to Guosong Hong, a/prof @stanfordbrain.bsky.social, on receiving the inaugural #BiophotonicsDiscovery Impact of the Year Award!
Hong is honored for achieving optical transparency in live animals via absorbing dyes, a transformative advance in #biophotonics. 💡
spie.org/news/stanfor...
Hong is honored for achieving optical transparency in live animals via absorbing dyes, a transformative advance in #biophotonics. 💡
spie.org/news/stanfor...
A collaborator of my PhD advisor asked me why he insisted on training women, since they would all leave to have children. I did not have kids at that time, but told him I hope he was better at knowing his audience when giving seminars and walked away.
January 19, 2026 at 5:19 PM
A collaborator of my PhD advisor asked me why he insisted on training women, since they would all leave to have children. I did not have kids at that time, but told him I hope he was better at knowing his audience when giving seminars and walked away.
At an evening event/dinner-talk with students, the other faculty presenter said “I know you have small kids, would you like to speak first so you can get home to them.” Students were shocked by this line which simultaneously undermined me as a scientist & mother.
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
At an evening event/dinner-talk with students, the other faculty presenter said “I know you have small kids, would you like to speak first so you can get home to them.” Students were shocked by this line which simultaneously undermined me as a scientist & mother.
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We made nanobodies that make your heart🫀 stop 🛑beating. Keep reading to learn how this taught us about how large membrane proteins like ion channels are folded and assembled in human cells. Beyond excited to share my lab's first preprint: Please 🔄 bit.ly/49A0PtD
January 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
We made nanobodies that make your heart🫀 stop 🛑beating. Keep reading to learn how this taught us about how large membrane proteins like ion channels are folded and assembled in human cells. Beyond excited to share my lab's first preprint: Please 🔄 bit.ly/49A0PtD
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Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
Assistant Professor - Virology
Assistant Professor - Virology
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January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
Yup! The seam is on the other side. So cool 🆒
January 13, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Yup! The seam is on the other side. So cool 🆒
That’s fabulous! I would love to walk by that every day.
How many protofilaments? There’s no seam visible, so not a 13pf microtubule. Right?
How many protofilaments? There’s no seam visible, so not a 13pf microtubule. Right?
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
That’s fabulous! I would love to walk by that every day.
How many protofilaments? There’s no seam visible, so not a 13pf microtubule. Right?
How many protofilaments? There’s no seam visible, so not a 13pf microtubule. Right?
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I'm honored to have received the 2025 HUPO Distinguished Service Award (hupo.org/HUPO-Awards-...) with @mlaval6.bsky.social for building a dynamic early career researcher (ECR) community within @hupo-org.bsky.social. Empowering and amplifying ECRs has been deeply meaningful to me—thank you, HUPO.
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I'm honored to have received the 2025 HUPO Distinguished Service Award (hupo.org/HUPO-Awards-...) with @mlaval6.bsky.social for building a dynamic early career researcher (ECR) community within @hupo-org.bsky.social. Empowering and amplifying ECRs has been deeply meaningful to me—thank you, HUPO.
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The Cordero Vásquez Lab is starting the year on a high wheel (see below) with our latest work on the C. elegans PIEZO channel: “Structures of invertebrate PEZO-1 isoforms with a compact architecture and a dispensable pore-distal N-terminal blade”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Structures of invertebrate PEZO-1 isoforms with a compact architecture and a dispensable pore-distal N-terminal blade
PIEZO channels are mechanosensitive ion channels conserved from plants to humans, yet structures exist for only a few mammalian orthologs. We define t…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The Cordero Vásquez Lab is starting the year on a high wheel (see below) with our latest work on the C. elegans PIEZO channel: “Structures of invertebrate PEZO-1 isoforms with a compact architecture and a dispensable pore-distal N-terminal blade”: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?
20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026
✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️
🔁 pls!!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?
20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026
✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️
🔁 pls!!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis
Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,
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December 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?
20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026
✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️
🔁 pls!!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?
20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026
✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️
🔁 pls!!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Very important 🧵 🧪
Amplifying for greater reach
Amplifying for greater reach
Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Amplifying for greater reach
Amplifying for greater reach
My colleagues in Biological Sciences are searching for a tenure track assistant professor. Info here: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job...
#AcademicJobs #Biology
#AcademicJobs #Biology
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December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
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December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM