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I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n

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Hello BlueSky 🦋 I'm the Director of Graduate Studies in Cornell Chemistry. We're hiring a new Graduate Field Coordinator to help support our graduate program. Please apply or repost if you know someone great! tinyurl.com/3znxx4bh

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More insights into #glycoRNA, this time found within exosomes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Is everyone on #chemsky ready for the new NIH public access policy to take effect on July 1? sharing.nih.gov/public-acces...

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Writing a book chapter isn't always the best idea, but when José Bozelli Jr. and the late Richard Epand asked me, I couldn’t say no. Honored to have contributed the chapter “Shape and Function of the #Golgi Apparatus” in "Membrane Shape and Biological Function" www.routledge.com/Membrane-Sha...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

We are looking for a postdoc to study biomolecular condensates and/or mechanosensitive membrane proteins. Please help spread the news 🙏 sites.rutgers.edu/shi-lab/look...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Meet GEQO: Genetically-encoded biosensors for absolute small-molecule quantification in single cells brought to you by @sascha-kuhn.bsky.social. For simple absolute quantification of your favourite small molecule or ion, head on over to @bioarxiv and read our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Woohoo — exciting day for membrane biology at Cornell with a visit from @marymunson4.bsky.social!

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

the power of bright pink pants! excited for the next few years, onwards & upwards

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Very cool study from @nadlerlab.bsky.social and @pavelbarahtjan.bsky.social — why do cells have asymmetric membranes? Among other reasons, it is a way to store potential energy. Fascinating! #lipidtime

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Why are biological membranes asymmetric, with different lipids in the two bilayer leaflets? Discovered in the 70s, lipid asymmetry is linked to many cellular processes, but why the cell needs it is largely unclear. @pavelbarahtjan.bsky.social addresses this question: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

🎉 Congratulations to newly qualified PhD candidate @bethylacetate.bsky.social!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

This is a SUPER interesting paper with a fascinating and surprising conclusion: the structural and biochemical evolution of sterols seems to be guided by their ability to induce membrane phase separation (at least in part)!! Rafts are BACK baby!

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Out today, we report how small chemical modifications in the metabolism of ergosterol are needed for yeast membranes to phase seperate into ordered yet fluid domains www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Question for lipidtime chemsky and the palaeofolks What are the oldest lipid records we have? Off the top of the head I know the 2.7 billion year from Brooks 1999 (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) but is there anything else going back further?

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

I was an NSF-funded undergraduate who learned how to code by analyzing high energy physics data. Then I was an NSF-funded graduate student studying how kinesin molecules are the most efficient motors ever known (1/3).

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

I'll be more inclined to believe that AI is going to take over the world when I enter the bathroom in a rest area on the interstate and I don't hear a chorus of smartphones in people's pockets shouting at them to proceed to the route.

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If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”? If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein. Think I’ve finally found a way.

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Here's the background story on how I vibe coded a web extension for "Painless Preprint Posting": thenode.biologists.com/painless-pre...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Outstanding job explaining the simple reality that indirect costs are real and important!

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Many thanks to our awesome guest speakers and student organizers for a fantastic CBI symposium at Cornell yesterday!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

So excited for the annual student-organized Chemistry-Biology Interface symposium today! Amazing lineup including @hsulab.bsky.social @achemsynbio.bsky.social, Sloan Devlin (Harvard), & Nick Agard (Genentech) + stellar Cornell student and faculty speakers. Looking forward to some great science!

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to share our new publication in ACS Chemical Biology @pubs.acs.org reporting a new chemical biology tool – dual SLIPT! Congratulations to first author Kristina Bayer @XXX, all co-authors and collaborator Shige Yoshimura @XXX. Open Access: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... (1/5)

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone please read and act! 👇

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

submitted 61 days ago • 18 comments

Bluetorial: Pathways to Independence: The K99-R00 award program NIH’s response to a 2005 National Academy report led to a new program based on its initial goal of reducing the age of investigators achieving research independence

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

A follow-up to my quote of the day this morning: A short Bluetorial about Vannevar Bush and his legacy

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

Thank you so much for your visit Jeremy, it was fantastic to have you here in Lausanne!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Bonjour et au revoir, Lausanne! And a big merci to @mschuhmacher.bsky.social for hosting me for a memorable day of engaging #lipidtime and protein engineering discussions at EPFL!

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Looking at grant funding time for all years from 2015-2025 Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_ 1/2

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

My Op-Ed in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette was posted this morning. (Registration required, but I have posted a pdf on my dashboard) www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues... 1/2

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

The indirect cost issue has moved to the background for the moment, but it will be back. Here is a short thread about indirect costs. I have posted a Powerpoint deck with these slides in the Miscellaneous Materials folder on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/n

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Groundbreaking study in Cell from @leventallab.bsky.social: phospholipid asymmetry is a defining feature of the plasma membrane and cholesterol fills the holes — major implications for how this membrane works. A #lipidtime must-read! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

People/organizations with means and a vision for the future of biomedical science - we need an “Arc Institute” equivalent in the DMV area to sponge up all the incredible talent, opportunity of a lifetime for a visionary entrepreneur, I will help! @mcuban.bsky.social

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

Are you attending the Lipidomics Forum 2025? September is conference season in Vienna. We recommend booking your accomodation early! Submit your abstract until June 15: lipidomics.at/lipidomics-f... #lipidomics #metabolomics #massspec #bioinformatics

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I could not be more excited to have our lab's first story online where we report our discovery that HDACs ~reverse~ their activity to ADD acyl groups to lysine! We found this for our favorite ketone body, BHB, but this pathway controls other lysine modifications too!🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 89 days ago • 10 comments

My favorite science is the kind that makes you says, "Man, I wish I thought of that!" This is such a paper. Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases. @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Funding curves for K and F mechanisms (Warning: the new F mechanism "curve" is a lot)

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

Updated dashboard jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... All advisory councils now posted (or by Monday) for institutes and centers except the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH), or Fogarty International Center (FIC) Let me know if I missed anything

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments