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This is likely solving the mystery of how septins are being identified as autoimmunity antigens. Exciting.
Motor activity of nonmuscle myosin 2A is a key component of bipolar filament turnover in cells
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It will eventually happen once an alternative emerges in the ecosystem. Think the phonomenon is still fairly new. The publication landscape right now is very different than it was 25 years ago. And will be very different in 25 years from now.
Hot take: the Science/Nature/Cell brand is self cannibalizing through the obscenity of big volume firehose publishing of Sci Adv/Nat Comm/Cell Rep etc. At 10,000 pubs per year... there is no brand anymore. Just a glorified bioRxiv.
Just another paper lost in thousands of others.
Let’s go!
🔥 Gorillaz w/ new album and big tour this year
Any data out there on raw Impact score distribution after the change of review criteria (from five to three) in Jan '25?
Has this resulted in score inflation, deflation or no change?
There were 338 grants at 15th percentile in '25 vs 269 '24.
Could be due '25 bottleneck but maybe not entirely?
#Question: This may sound like I'm crazy but has anyone experienced immersion oil solidifying or getting stickier after light exposure? Until recently I noticed the oil suddenly gives off a lot of autofluorescence after ~10 mins of imaging, becomes thicker. Have to wipe constantly, really annoying.
Think it was Mahatma Gandhi…
NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.
IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT
NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required!
Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Sad news indeed. Pioneer of the genomics era as we know it (genetic linkages/microarrays), and in the cytoskeleton field (tubulin/actin) during the heyday of yeast genetics.
Well said, Philly.
"Since Wilfrid Rall’s seminal work was published in the 1960s, the field has increasingly appreciated that individual dendritic branches can act like neurons within a neuron"
Apical vs basal dendrite differentiation/polarity is so fascinating... and there is nearly zero cell biology about it.
One more reason to Stand Up For Science next weekend:
www.standupforscience.net/march7
In DC or a city near you:
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Rallies-2026....
Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
Dang. Feels like the Jessell story was (7 yrs ago) yesterday.
The money addiction in science is real...
And seems the haves can never have or get enough of it.
#SpreadTheWealth
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
Wish I had a lawsuit against FedEx everytime they have screwed up my lab’s deliveries - examples include a cracked anti vibration optical table, a $800 dollar shipment of protein from Europe (holiday rates apply), multiple orders of perishable brain tissue… and the list goes on and on.
Please share widely--there are rallies planned across the nation--look for one near you
Linking molecular tension and cellular tractions: a multiscale approach to focal adhesion mechanics
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Looking forward to research supply prices and subcharges going down effectively today...
(yeah, the ones levied to offset tariffs)
Holding my breath
Looking for bead baths - formerly known as water baths.
Anyone has any recommendations for good ones?
"Republics that work" for 500
Mark Rothko canvas, red on red
Happy year of the fire horse
[Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]
😮🤯
Just in case… we are looking for submissions for special issue on septins in MBoC:
www.molbiolcell.org/cell-biology...
Exciting. Nice to see it out. We had tried to go after the AP3 connection in early days of grad student project but did not get too far and went on a different direction:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38668767/
