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Fifth Avenue, NYC.

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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

RIP Dick Garwin, who I had the pleasure of working alongside every summer for more than 20 years. A brilliant thinker and compassionate person, Dick is the perfect example of how high-level science advice has been critical to the success of the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/s...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

New lab preprint! Unveiling the Molecular Architecture of T Cells and Immune Synapses with Cryo-Expansion Microscopy (Cryo-ExM). A fantastic collaboration with Dr. Benita Wolf. Congratulations to all authors, especially Florent Lemaitre, for leading this amazing work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Itai and I, along with Kelsey, have been doing these sessions with postdocs across NYC. Great fun and much science buddy interaction! Join us at the New York Genome Center on June 2 for the final meeting before we take a summer hiatus.

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Less than 1 week to go for Pint of Science! Make sure to grab remaining tickets for Tuesday & Wednesday (featuring the amazing @itaiyanai.bsky.social @oneofmanyalexes.bsky.social and @liddelowsa.bsky.social) Tickets (2$) here: 👉https://pintofscience.us/events/nyc #Pint25 @pintofscience.us #SciComm

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

A new preprint from the lab in collaboration with Feng Jiang. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is a thread for you if you're interested in secretion systems, phages, and evolution. The extracellular contractile injection system (eCIS) is a mysterious microbial toxin delivery system.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

NYC Postdocs! Join us for Night Science at the New York Genome Center on June 2nd for a discussion on the creative process of finding novel questions. This time we hit the bar after! Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/1s9W... @stearnslab.bsky.social @kelseymonson.bsky.social @rmassonix.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

As the incoming Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, I am looking for a Director of Research. Exciting opportunity for a PhD scientist to shape the future of this new Department! Apply here: jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...

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The Clearwater sloop docking at Cold Spring on a beautiful day on the Hudson. Clearwater has been the symbol of the very successful effort to clean up the Hudson River for almost sixty years and is a great example of how bringing information to people can effect change. www.clearwater.org/about/

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This desperate attempt to sort diffusing motors is a fight against entropy and disorder. Life shall win. Numerical simulation by Floran Lavrilleux.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

The EU recognizes the critical moment for science. The US must, too. “We are choosing to be the continent where universities are pillars of our societies and our way of life…where innovation serves humanity, where global talent is welcomed.” ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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ASCB and other science orgs file an amicus brief in support of the NIH MOSAIC grant program that has been terminated. www.ascb.org/society-news...

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Congratulations to Susan Dutcher, a luminary in the cilia field! @dutcherlab.bsky.social www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

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Barbara McClintock proposed – over 40 years ago – that transposable element activity could be a response to stress, and I think that we are still only beginning to understand how right she was.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

'Centrosomes and cancer: balancing tumor-promoting and inhibitory roles' - It was so much fun writing this review with Renata Basto! Thanks for bringing me on board 🙏 Perfect timing to reflect on the field's most recent advances and open questions 👇 www.cell.com/trends/cell-...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

New(ish) preprint! 📰What whole-cell patterns emerge from the arrangement, morphologies, and interactions of organelles in the 3D space of the cell? What would we see if we could gather ALL the whole-cell reconstruction data that's out there in one place? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/11

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

On Per Theodor Cleve (1840-1905) the amazing part-time protistologist: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a... #protistsonsky

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Harvard president Alan Garber: "The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority..." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Dear cilia researchers, join us in the heart of the beautiful Vosges mountains to share your latest findings! This year, partnership with @for5547.bsky.social and keynote lectures by @micromotility.bsky.social and @mick-lab.bsky.social Registration is now open www.cfc2025.conferences-pasteur.org

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Join us at Columbia on April 22 for the latest round of Postdoc Night Science NYC!

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New York City postdocs: What do you do when hitting a contradiction? Night science loves this first glimpse of a new concept! Our next 'Postdoc Night Science NYC’ session is April 22 @ Columbia. docs.google.com/forms/d/1v_b... @stearnslab.bsky.social @kelseymonson.bsky.social @sophiekorn.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

submitted 56 days ago • 15 comments

Hang in there, Cek and other NSF honorable mentions! Less than half of the usual number of NSF graduate fellowships were awarded this year. Time to write to your representatives in Congress to remind them of the importance of this funding for the careers of the next generation of scientists.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!! But...good news and bad news. 👍 I'm thrilled for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now. 👎 # of fellowships went down by 51% (1000 this year vs. 2036 last year) See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

submitted 57 days ago • 14 comments

Some good news from NIH - they have restarted the intramural training programs for postbacs and postdocs. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

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Congrats to #RockefellerAlum Sichen Yang on being named one of the 2025 @schmidtfellows.bsky.social! Yang aims to explore the role of the immune system in maintaining healthy internal tissue in addition to its role in defending against external pathogens.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

On a beautiful spring day here in NYC I visited the registration hall of Ellis Island, where my grandparents arrived from Italy 125 years ago. The Statue of Liberty is visible through the door window, the symbol of why they were coming to the US.

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments

Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

Alex Long, the last postdoc from my lab at Stanford, is starting her own lab, continuing her beautiful work on evolutionary cell biology using chytrid fungi as a model. Check it out! alonglab.org

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Some good science news in the New York area! The Weill Cancer Hub East will bring together scientists at Rockefeller, Weill Cornell, Princeton and the Ludwig Institute to better harness the immune system to target cancer. www.rockefeller.edu/news/37526-w...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so happy to report that our preprint on light-induced collective cell migration has now been published in Cell Systems! This project was a lot of fun and will be the basis for a lot of our ongoing & future work.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Very useful information from UC about your rights re: search and seizure of your electronic devices at the US border. TL;DR: the “border search exception” to the 4th Amendment gives the CBP broad discretion, but there are some limits. security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...

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Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 91 days ago • 16 comments

PSA for NIH R35s: My R35 was administratively withdrawn this year because I broke my Future Research into “Aims” & they said this violated the “Do not submit a Specific Aims page or identify specific aims” policy. So. Don’t use the word “Aims” in an R35 - use “Projects”. #critical

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

The cell cycle and immunology cross paths in beautiful new work from the Victora lab! @victora.bsky.social

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

submitted 78 days ago • 21 comments

NIGMS administrative supplements are back! These are given at the discretion of program officers and are not reviewed by study sections. Renewing obsolete equipment is a priority. loop.nigms.nih.gov/2025/03/nigm...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I am super excited to share our latest work on the structures of doublet microtubules from trypanosomatid parasites, the causative agents of leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and African sleeping sickness. tinyurl.com/48sh3xn5

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to share my first postdoc paper - a tool to engineer mtDNA deletions in human cells and study their pathogenic impact ✂️🧬🧫

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments