I am in an endless waiting game 😅😞. I resubmitted a grant that got an excellent score b/c… and am waiting on reviews.. 🤞🏽🤞🏽. Got a score on the Mira… but am waiting since PO can’t say… 🤞🏽🤞🏽.. and planning on what else I could write about and submit. Crazy, isn’t it?
This. I feel all of this. Hang in there, Needhi. Like you said, what works, if it works is revise and submit…
Fingers crossed for you. 🤞🏽💪🏽
Changes to Dev Biol too. Dev 1 and Dev 2 will be ended as well.
CMIR is scheduled to end after May 2026 council meeting as well. This is all so bizarre.
Hurrah!!!! Congratulations, Ahna. I needed some good news!
How fantastic!! Congratulations, Piali!
There certainly seems to be a pattern…
👀!!!!!
University of Toronto is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
#assistantprofessorposition
Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.
Likewise.
😭😭😰
I wonder if it’s study section specific. I had an impact score of 20, with 8 percentile June, ‘25. NICHD (IC). I did not get funded, and have resubmitted the grant, but the correlation of impact score vs percentile seems to be study section specific rather than the new rules. Maybe? Idk..
forgot about this crowdsourced resource to help people strategize for MIRA and DP2 applications that may help navigate this new funding landscape:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets... bsky.app/profile/need...
Digital Illustration depicting a synthetic auxin molecule as a crop circle in a field of maize
A new issue of CSH Protocols is out!
@cshlpress.bsky.social
The cover image highlights the work by Gonzales, Cowling, and @diorkelley.bsky.social, who describe a rolled towel assay-based protocol to phenotype maize seedling responses to chemicals of interest.
⬇️Links below
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
It is with deep sadness that we share that Michael J. Matunis, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has passed away. (1/4)
Mike was dedicated to BMB and people who make up the department and the broader BMB community, and will be deeply missed. A memorial for Mike will be held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on February 20. For more information about Mike and the memorial, please visit: (4/4)
Professors/PIs! Please donate on behalf of your labmates/ECRs
#standupforscience
Cool! Thank, Jordan to you and all authors!
Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
University of Cambridge is hiring:
Group Leader in Stem Cell Science
Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
@springernature.com can you please do something about this!? I have paid open access fees to your journal, and yet you cannot send papers to NCBI? The scientific community reviews for free, are editors, and now has to pay exorbitant open access fees while our grant dollars continue to decline!
Agreed… 💯….. as an author, reviewer, scientist, editor, i completely agree that constant vigilance is our only hope.
Greetings! I decided to make a YouTube video of my AlphaFold workshop that I've given a few times in the past year. Caveats aside, people seem to find this useful for thinking about how to model protein interactions and how to interpret various AF outputs 1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63o...
I can see this. And I suspect we will discuss it. But as Benoit said, mostly people who come back likely liked the experience vs those who did not (as anything in life). In either case, there is no intent on part of the editors to harm (if you will)…
The "Hard Truth" about how hard it is to publish in Development. We wrote this to really drive the point that we are a discerning community journal, and we really want to publish your best developmental and stem cell biology contributions.
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
