Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab)
@mollygale.bsky.social
Jumping Genomics!
I run a lab in NYC that studies transposons 🧬in the brain 🧠
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I run a lab in NYC that studies transposons 🧬in the brain 🧠
Opinions are all mine
mghlab.org
I understand that you want these men to be better than they were. So that we don’t have to wrestle with the legacy of men who were both great and terrible.
They all (W/C/W) behaved badly. Wilkins didn’t deserve a prize for Franklin’s work. Crick shouldn’t have argued for it. Watson was awful
They all (W/C/W) behaved badly. Wilkins didn’t deserve a prize for Franklin’s work. Crick shouldn’t have argued for it. Watson was awful
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I understand that you want these men to be better than they were. So that we don’t have to wrestle with the legacy of men who were both great and terrible.
They all (W/C/W) behaved badly. Wilkins didn’t deserve a prize for Franklin’s work. Crick shouldn’t have argued for it. Watson was awful
They all (W/C/W) behaved badly. Wilkins didn’t deserve a prize for Franklin’s work. Crick shouldn’t have argued for it. Watson was awful
They gave Wilkins a Nobel prize for work he *didn’t do*. Even worse - work done by the woman he drove out of the field.
Imagine how much further Franklin could have gone at King’s if she’d been supported. We’ll never know. Because of Wilkins and W/C. Instead, she had to move away to thrive.
Imagine how much further Franklin could have gone at King’s if she’d been supported. We’ll never know. Because of Wilkins and W/C. Instead, she had to move away to thrive.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
They gave Wilkins a Nobel prize for work he *didn’t do*. Even worse - work done by the woman he drove out of the field.
Imagine how much further Franklin could have gone at King’s if she’d been supported. We’ll never know. Because of Wilkins and W/C. Instead, she had to move away to thrive.
Imagine how much further Franklin could have gone at King’s if she’d been supported. We’ll never know. Because of Wilkins and W/C. Instead, she had to move away to thrive.
Imagine arriving as a new faculty member at King’s, and Wilkins assumes you’ll be his technician. Now imagine he gets pissed that you aren’t warm and friendly in response, so calls you “wicked witch” and gives your data to your competitors. Would you be honored that he’s given a prize for your work?
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Imagine arriving as a new faculty member at King’s, and Wilkins assumes you’ll be his technician. Now imagine he gets pissed that you aren’t warm and friendly in response, so calls you “wicked witch” and gives your data to your competitors. Would you be honored that he’s given a prize for your work?
Remember that Maurice Wilkins was given a share in the Nobel despite not figuring out the structure nor generating the experimental evidence that proved it. Wilkins was also the person who tormented and harassed Franklin from the moment she arrived at King's. If anyone stole credit, it was Wilkins
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Remember that Maurice Wilkins was given a share in the Nobel despite not figuring out the structure nor generating the experimental evidence that proved it. Wilkins was also the person who tormented and harassed Franklin from the moment she arrived at King's. If anyone stole credit, it was Wilkins
Congrats Raquel!
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Congrats Raquel!
Reposted by Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab)
The image offers a stunning variety of objects — from bright stars ranging from blue to red in color, to nearby blue spiral galaxies, to distant red galaxy groups — demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data ✨🔭🧪
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The image offers a stunning variety of objects — from bright stars ranging from blue to red in color, to nearby blue spiral galaxies, to distant red galaxy groups — demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data ✨🔭🧪
Oh good catch - that was a copy-paste error! "DNA is the transforming principle" was 1944 while "DNA is the genetic material" (Hershey/Chase) was 1952
June 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh good catch - that was a copy-paste error! "DNA is the transforming principle" was 1944 while "DNA is the genetic material" (Hershey/Chase) was 1952
The field is still making new discoveries about transposons - how transposons function and how they contribute to (dys)function in ways both mind-boggling and also... already predicted by McClintock
Celebrate Transposon Day with your favorite TE-controlled trait!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22427337/
Celebrate Transposon Day with your favorite TE-controlled trait!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22427337/
Retrotransposons control fruit-specific, cold-dependent accumulation of anthocyanins in blood oranges - PubMed
Traditionally, Sicilian blood oranges (Citrus sinensis) have been associated with cardiovascular health, and consumption has been shown to prevent obesity in mice fed a high-fat diet. Despite increasi...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The field is still making new discoveries about transposons - how transposons function and how they contribute to (dys)function in ways both mind-boggling and also... already predicted by McClintock
Celebrate Transposon Day with your favorite TE-controlled trait!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22427337/
Celebrate Transposon Day with your favorite TE-controlled trait!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22427337/
The transposon work was not even McClintock's only major contribution to genetics. She also discovered chromosomal crossover in the 1930s and the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle that underlies aneuploidy in the 1940s
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The transposon work was not even McClintock's only major contribution to genetics. She also discovered chromosomal crossover in the 1930s and the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle that underlies aneuploidy in the 1940s
Most people fail to appreciate just how groundbreaking McClintock's work truly was. Her transposon work was first presented in 1950 - before we knew, for example, "DNA is the genetic material." Long before most discoveries that we consider fundamental to the question of: "What is a gene?"
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Most people fail to appreciate just how groundbreaking McClintock's work truly was. Her transposon work was first presented in 1950 - before we knew, for example, "DNA is the genetic material." Long before most discoveries that we consider fundamental to the question of: "What is a gene?"