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@lablerit.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Cell Bio at Emory. Fan of centrosomes, RNA, legal egalitarianism.
One of those days slash years. No, it’s not ok. Yes, that is a clone helmet on my kitchen table.
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
One of those days slash years. No, it’s not ok. Yes, that is a clone helmet on my kitchen table.
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I had no idea that as many as 1 in 8 Americans relied on SNAP
ONE IN EIGHT
I'm sick over my students, kids' classmates, & neighbors who are hungry right now
But I'm furious that we live in a society where *1 in 8 need food assistance as our status quo*. That this is our normal is APPALLING
ONE IN EIGHT
I'm sick over my students, kids' classmates, & neighbors who are hungry right now
But I'm furious that we live in a society where *1 in 8 need food assistance as our status quo*. That this is our normal is APPALLING
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I had no idea that as many as 1 in 8 Americans relied on SNAP
ONE IN EIGHT
I'm sick over my students, kids' classmates, & neighbors who are hungry right now
But I'm furious that we live in a society where *1 in 8 need food assistance as our status quo*. That this is our normal is APPALLING
ONE IN EIGHT
I'm sick over my students, kids' classmates, & neighbors who are hungry right now
But I'm furious that we live in a society where *1 in 8 need food assistance as our status quo*. That this is our normal is APPALLING
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From an accidental discovery of hidden biology to a new framework to understanding and diagnosing rare disease. Thrilled to share the most recent work from our lab and the amazing Jimmy Ly.
wi.mit.edu/news/alterna...
wi.mit.edu/news/alterna...
Alternate proteins from the same gene contribute differently to health and rare disease | Whitehead Institute
Iain Cheeseman and colleagues reveal the underappreciated role of single genes producing multiple proteins in atypical presentations of rare disease, and present case studies of affected patients thro...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
From an accidental discovery of hidden biology to a new framework to understanding and diagnosing rare disease. Thrilled to share the most recent work from our lab and the amazing Jimmy Ly.
wi.mit.edu/news/alterna...
wi.mit.edu/news/alterna...
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🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026!
If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Teaching Assistant Professor
Teach three courses per semester for a total of six courses each academic year, along with service/administrative responsibilities.
unc.peopleadmin.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026!
If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
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We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.
Marvin Cortez, Cullen Young, Rebecca Burdine @rburdine1.bsky.social and colleagues identify a conserved domain in Cfap298 that governs left–right symmetry breaking in vertebrates.
#JCSciliaSI
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSciliaSI
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We are thrilled to see this out in @jcellsci.bsky.social an in the special issue on Cilia. Cfap298 - which we call Kurly - is the mutant that keeps on giving us surprises! In this paper, a mutation generated by CRISPR, that deletes two aa and changes a third, specifically affects cilia motility.
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We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
Careers | Arcadia Science
Evolve with Arcadia.
www.arcadiascience.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
You never know which post will get you fired, so just throw up a GIF and leave it open to interpretation?
a man holding a blue puppet with the words " excuse me what is personal space " on the bottom
ALT: a man holding a blue puppet with the words " excuse me what is personal space " on the bottom
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October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
You never know which post will get you fired, so just throw up a GIF and leave it open to interpretation?
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Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Predawn view from the office
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Predawn view from the office
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After a long break from social media, I’m finally on Bluesky and have a preprint alert from my lab!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A microexon in Arp2 alters tissue-specific Arp2/3-generated actin structures
The Arp2/3 complex nucleates essential branched actin networks in most eukaryotes. Interestingly, the subunit Arp2 encodes two splice variants that differ merely by five amino acids in the D-loop, whi...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
After a long break from social media, I’m finally on Bluesky and have a preprint alert from my lab!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Are we all just assuming our study sections will not meet? I realize SRO cannot email us, but also no update to federal register. Hmm…
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Are we all just assuming our study sections will not meet? I realize SRO cannot email us, but also no update to federal register. Hmm…
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Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists!
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
hofstra.peopleadmin.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists!
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Reviewing grants and some of these folks could benefit from attending our graduate level grants class, especially the presentation on figures. I’m seeing lots of examples of what not to do. Poor legends, missing legends, images or text too small. Fun. 🫠
October 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reviewing grants and some of these folks could benefit from attending our graduate level grants class, especially the presentation on figures. I’m seeing lots of examples of what not to do. Poor legends, missing legends, images or text too small. Fun. 🫠
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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Community Manager
EMBL is Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and teams performing scientific research in disci...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
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Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
remember when the most stressful part of our day was having to insert a figure into MS Word?
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
remember when the most stressful part of our day was having to insert a figure into MS Word?
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The fiscal year is over.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .
media.tenor.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The fiscal year is over.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
So how was the NIH appropriation committed?
A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.
Our new technician starts in less than 2 weeks! Welcome, Mona 👏🏽
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our new technician starts in less than 2 weeks! Welcome, Mona 👏🏽
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On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Poll: Agreement that political violence may be necessary to right the country grows
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
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We’re opposing DHS’s misguided proposal to restrict the length of international student visas – making it harder for students to successfully complete their degree.
America is stronger and more economically vibrant when we attract the best and the brightest students from all over the world.
America is stronger and more economically vibrant when we attract the best and the brightest students from all over the world.
September 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We’re opposing DHS’s misguided proposal to restrict the length of international student visas – making it harder for students to successfully complete their degree.
America is stronger and more economically vibrant when we attract the best and the brightest students from all over the world.
America is stronger and more economically vibrant when we attract the best and the brightest students from all over the world.
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A video journalist was injured on Tuesday during a tumultuous scene involving federal agents at a Manhattan immigration courthouse less than a week after another officer was captured on video shoving a woman in a confrontation. nyti.ms/4nxXAY2
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A video journalist was injured on Tuesday during a tumultuous scene involving federal agents at a Manhattan immigration courthouse less than a week after another officer was captured on video shoving a woman in a confrontation. nyti.ms/4nxXAY2
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"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.
The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
September 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.
The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"