“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."
A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
In the context of carboxysome positioning, @azaldegui.bsky.social found that the aggregation of a bacterial microcompartment is prevented by a self-organizing DNA-binding ATPase! #SingleMolecule #SuperResolution #Microscopy
with @cellforganized.bsky.social and JianLiu
doi.org/10.64898/202...
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Proud of Dr @tarnopol.bsky.social who received the Sandler Award for “Outstanding Drosophila Thesis” at the fly meeting #Dros26 in Chicago this evening! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
Congrats Rebecca!!
Rebecca Tarnopol @tarnopol.bsky.social receives the 2026 Larry Sandler award for best Drosophila PhD thesis
With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
idk that seems to be the understatement of the week. this is actually happening, postdocs and RAs are being let go, and projects falter. 'could face funding gaps'? this is actually happening at a large scale. 'Worry' doesnt reflect the existential crisis that many of my colleagues are in.
👇a highlight for all alphaproteobacteriologists, don't miss it! #MicroSky
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!
We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.
His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
Congress has appropriated the funds to NSF but OMB is delaying the release. When funds are released, NSF, which has lost almost 1/5 of its staff, will struggle to evaluate proposals. Since they have to award the funds, big projects with established PIs will benefit. This is how US science dies.
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.
Full statement from the band:
Don't be fooled by imidazole! It absorbs UV280, just like protein – on chromatogram it'll be seen! Imidazole is great for purifying His-tagged proteins, but it's a pain for when you want to detect and measure concentration of proteins using UV280 absorbance! youtu.be/JZeTMXfOtGU
Forget the textbook view of a cell as a calm, orderly place. Glowing trackers reveal that it is jam-packed as a crowded nightclub — raising questions about how molecules can encounter their partners for the reactions that enable life. www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
NOT watching a pedophile spew lies…
tweet from lisa desjardins reporting SOTU might be up to 3 hours long
It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas
Exciting line up of talks for CauloCon 2026 - includes keynotes from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @lamasonlab.bsky.social and @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social! Hear work from Isaac Payne and Trung Nguyen, 2 students in my lab, on Weds and Thurs. 🤩
Putting a lot of work into a grant that probably won't get funded due to lack of funding in NIH/NSF. So I'm curious scientists: what work were you excited about that didn't get funding?
Non-scientists, this is the work we are missing out on in the US when we don't fully fund NIG/NSF/USDA/etc
US political vibes these days be like
University of Toronto is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
#assistantprofessorposition
Correction. Team Canada vs the US goalie and the refs apparently!
40 shots to 20. Basically all of team Canada vs the US goalie.
Canada has tied the men's hockey gold medal game 1-1 🇨🇦
Cale Makar with a wicked wrist shot from the faceoff dot gets past Connor Hellebuyck.
Xiaofeng combined 2D live-cell single-particle tracking with 3D simulations to specifically measure the bacterial nucleoid accessibility and viscosity! Our preprint describes how these nucleoid properties respond to cellular processes! Code is available too.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)
Thank you for highlighting our paper on how septal PG hydrolysis licenses a second wave of PG transpeptidation during cell separation! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I will do a thread when the page set version is out.
📢 Save the date! #Biophychrom2027 will take place at Paris-Saclay in July 2027. More details coming soon!
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
