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submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

Congrats to our most recent PhD grad, Dr. Dana Woodstock!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Is anyone looking for postdocs? I have a really great graduate student looking to start as early as August 1st (and as late as January 2026). Area is flexible! Expertise in molecular biology, cell line engineering, gene regulation, cloning. Feel free to reach out here if you've heard anything!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you too are experiencing mental health issues due to the ongoing shitshow, please DM me or Signal me at ziadadina.19, I am trying to build a community to help each other. Y'all, please repost and help me out, this is serious stuff

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

submitted 46 days ago • 19 comments

I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

I would just teach Physics I and Physics II, beginning to end.

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

Ugh, I expected this but kept hoping it wouldn't happen. UAlbany just got a MARC award, and two undergrads in my lab are supported from this award. In my limited experience, it's been a great way to engage undergrads in research who may otherwise not have the opportunity. A shame...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Some colleagues hate when I point this out, but for tenured/tenure-track faculty, peer review is already compensated work. It is part of the 20% of our jobs that account for service (in 'standard load' positions).

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

This will be my resignation letter.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Just had a lovely visit to Stony Brook University and the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. I met a ton of great scientists doing fun science, and even ran into a former student I taught in two courses now pursuing her PhD. Fun stuff! Thanks to @dadapisconti.bsky.social for the invite!

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

sigh

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

For everyone interested in science and preventing cuts to science funding: a fantastic article by Joachim Frank, a Nobel Prize winner for work done right here in the Capital District. www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Symposium on ‘Enhancer Sequences’ at beautiful @collegedefrance.bsky.social in Paris, by April 11th. Open and free, no registration. Come to relax listening to facts #TherapeuticEffects #VillageGauloix Final programme below. Tell your friends! 🙏🤘

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Federal funding cuts are devastating to universities, careers, the economy, and the generation of knowledge. Even worse is the continued demonization of higher ed and the demographic cliff. Student tuition pays almost everything at MOST universities. We need to show students this is worth it.

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One of my students just got into an unbelievable summer undergraduate research program. More details to follow, but finally some good news amongt all this bad news and chaos.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

The realignment of research in our group @fmiscience.bsky.social is beginning to bear fruit. Proud of our captain @merleskribbe.bsky.social and the whole team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

We're hiring at UAlbany and the Research Foundation for a Senior Research Administrator to support grant applications and management. www.linkedin.com/posts/rfsuny...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I still don't think it's sunk in to many that after February 20th, there ain't no study sections.

submitted 96 days ago • 13 comments

For the first time in my career, I withdrew a manuscript from the peer review process. The Editor was unable to secure peer reviewers after two months. Now we'll start over at another journal. We need to revitalize the current peer review system or fully commit to pre-prints and post-pub review

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

(1/4) Thrilled to announce another major release of the HOCOMOCO motif collection, well-known for its silly name and rigorous approach to constructing and benchmarking DNA sequence motifs recognized by human and mouse transcription factors. hocomoco.autosome.org

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 98 days ago • 688 comments

Harold Varmus was the commencement speaker when I graduated from Harvard in 1996 and his speech is extraordinarily relevant again right now You should go read it 🧪 harvardmagazine.com/sites/defaul...

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

I have two PhD students looking for postdoctoral positions. I promise I trained them well! Both have strong molecular biology and tissue culture skills and have expertise in gene expression. NYC area preferred for one. East Coast-ish for the other (but willing to consider other areas).

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 100 days ago • 209 comments

Hey, I know life is really hard right now academic scientists. There's so much to worry about. But can we please agree to help each other out in one of the most fundamental ways possible? Can we agree to review some manuscripts? Two months, 20 contacted reviewers, and no one has agreed to review

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

submitted 102 days ago • 252 comments

The total endowment of ALL US colleges and universities combined ($800 billion) is less than the combined wealth of the top FIVE individual billionaires. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

submitted 104 days ago • 51 comments

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

submitted 105 days ago • 82 comments

Well, that 23 years of being a scientist was nice.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

15% indirect across the board - can your university survive? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 105 days ago • 8 comments

Thank you @reppaultonko.bsky.social for being there.

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2025 EMBO workshop on "Enhancer Mechanics and Enhanceropathies" now open for registration I was at the 2023 workshop in Marseille and it was a great event - recommend!

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