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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...

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

submitted 7 days ago • 15 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 6 days ago • 2 comments

(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 6 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 9 days ago • 710 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 9 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 9 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 212 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 11 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 12 days ago • 257 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 13 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 15 days ago • 50 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 16 days ago • 84 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

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!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Another crazed change from the Trump Administration: removing the NIH No-cost extension form

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

guessing using pmids instead of journal names isn't going to save the rest of the investigators if hhmi decides to cut other diversity programs

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

My official take is "fuck all of this"

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

There aren't words to cover how catastrophic this would be.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This might sound crazy...but do any molecular bio/genetics/genomics journals need an editorial board member?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

We shut down our X/Twitter account and will be doing all of our science here.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to the fine folks at the Leibniz Institute - FLI for the write-up on our recent contribution to the transcription field. www.leibniz-fli.de/news-events/...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats to the whole team on this new manuscript, out today in Nature Genetics. Happy to have been along for the ride and to have contributed what I could. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Some news: I have been appointed Associate Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics here at the University at Albany. I look forward to working to make our College the first place students think of for their STEM education and training

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Giving a final exam on a Saturday. Totally normal.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

I only average "just 2.5hrs per week" on actual teaching and the rest of the time is eaten up by "tedious, undifferentiated tasks". /s

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Go work with Dan!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Closing 2024 out with even more science from PhD student Abby McCann www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Also, Abby (www.linkedin.com/in/abby-mcca...) is on the biotech job market! If you're interested in p63, transcription factors, or an incredible scientist for hire, take a look!!!

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I wish I could...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment