I'll do it. I will fire tens of thousands of ICE agents. I will fly around the country like George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in that movie, just firing people all day. Except instead of it crushing my soul each ICE agent firing will bring me joy.
We have an exciting 3-year postdoc position available to study how Salmonella remodels host membrane dynamics.
If you have a background in cell biology and are interested in working on an infection project this could be for you!
Application deadline - 24th February.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
We are hiring at UGA! Weβre looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...
For people impressed by the 130k jobs added in January, I'd offer and alternative economic analysis that I think you'll find compelling. www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-poll...
lol @inprep.bsky.social with another banger
open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
#chemchat
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
Great. Do you think he will finally shut up about it now?
Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)
Youβre misquoting his video statement
Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698500v1
Side-by-side black and white photographs of Cecil Kelley, possibly from an ID badge, and of the 1,000-liter stainless steel processing tank that held the plutonium organic solution that went critical as it was being mixed in the tank.
OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.
π½οΈPlease allow us to present our latest Lee lab production: Holding lab equipment like men hold their fish πͺπ
Is it just us, or do y'all also get unreasonably attached to your favorite tools of the trade??
(all credit to @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social for giving us this idea for a REEL good timeπ£)
Echinoderm aficionados, please help - Iβm looking for antibody advice! Has anyone used the 12G10 or E7 tubulin antibodies from DSHB to stain cleavage stage embryos?
Iβm planning a sea urchin cytokinesis module for my cell biology lab next semester and want the students to do beautiful IF stains.
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models?
My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open:
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If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
So happy to announce our new preprint, βA geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.β We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63Β°C (145Β°F) π₯ - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky π§΅
Application review launches on December 1, 2025. We want to read *your* application outlining a vision for a research program deciphering how membrane proteins collaborate to enable cell function, their biosynthesis, and the biophysics and structure of how membrane proteins change shape.
Nice microPublication reporting methods to image C. elegans egg laying under a coverslip www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
SO HAPPY to share our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using volumetric EM, we found daily shifts in synapses, vesicles, and mitochondria that accompany neuronal remodeling, linking structural plasticity to changes in how s-LNv neurons influence their targets
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our paper on Rho signaling in the C. elegans egg-laying circuit is now available as a pre-print on BioRxiv.org! In this study, we manipulate Rho signaling pre- and postsynaptically and find interesting activity and behavior defects.
C. elegans enthusiasts- save the date for two consecutive C. elegans meetings, taking place in Bordeaux, 29 Juneβ3 July 2026.
Abstract submission will open around January, with many opportunities for oral presentations.
Check out our website for more details: ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org.
New preprint!
It turns out you can integrate arrays with super high efficiency using PhiC31.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Yes they are both timeless, but also: great grant writing music.
A positive feedback loop promotes the active internal state of the C. elegans egg-laying circuit
www.cell.com/current-biol...
π§ͺhey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
IN CURRENT BIOLOGY
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The author Dave Sherwood with the chicken flock that he and his wife Nina tend to in their yard in North Carolina.
#DBfeature π§βπ¬
David Sherwood draws a powerful parallel between morphogenesis and a scientific career, showing how becoming a biologist is a continual process of shaping, adaptation, and growth. Like development, a scientific life unfolds through adaptation and emergence.
tinyurl.com/6yd46wcx
And you know these right-wing 'journalists' will be receiving juicy classified info to publish, violating the original principle that the real journalists left for.