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Archana Dhasarathy

@adhasarathy.bsky.social
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Chromatin, TFs, epigenetic memory, and Epithelial- mesenchymal cell state transitions. Also will post about dogs/ cats/ animals/ nature.

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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Many thanks to all the amazing authors for contributing to this book! And to the wonderful @takakulab.bsky.social for help with editing this book with me! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Cancer Epigenetics
This book explores tools to study epigenetics in cancer and manipulate the proteins involved for mechanisms in cancer initiation and progression research.
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Sarah Hainer @hainerlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Precisely 20 years after Takahashi and Yamanaka reported fibroblast reprogramming with OSKM to iPSCs, we are excited to invite articles to our BMC Biology collection. Please see our short editorial here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... And submit your amazing work to this celebratory collection!
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Bruce Arthurs @brucearthursaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This gave me a good laugh. (from @accordionguy.bsky.social 's "Saturday Picdump" of tech-related memes, cartoons, etc.)
A military execution by firing squad. The condemned person is tied to a wooden post in front of a wall. The condemned man is covered in black ink, with overspray on the wall behind him leaving a negative shadow on the wall. Ten or so feet in front of the prisoner, a large squid lays on the ground, a spray of squid ink stretching between it and the prison.

To one side, two soldiers stand. One, an officer, holds a piece of paper in his hands, looking at it closely.

Caption: "Damn autocorrect."
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Lennart Hilbert @lennarthilbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just gonna leave this here while it’s still hot off the press 🤩 On the Structure and Function of Transcription Bodies Maciej A. Kerlin Shivali Dongre @shivalidongre.bsky.social Eleonora Perego Martino Ugolini Nadine Vastenhouw @nvastenhouw.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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On the Structure and Function of Transcription Bodies
Transcription is a key process in the life of cells. In the 1990s, cell biologists observed that transcription often takes place in discrete transcription bodies in eukaryotic nuclei, which has sparke...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield and Dr. Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos about doing a PhD or postdoc abroad. www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @dortizba.bsky.social @gbaucom.bsky.social
Headshots of Dr. Krueger-Hadfield and Dr. Ortiz-Barrientos. Text: What Nobody Tells You About Doing Your PhD Abroad with Dr. Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield and Dr. Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos. The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come join us April 2027 for the next instalment of the EMBL Chromatin and Epigenetics meeting. Great invited speakers and lots of talks selected from abstracts! It will be a fantastic meeting (despite the egregious nucleosome images...)
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can mathematics explain how biological patterns are formed? Alan Turing thought so. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social, as we explore his reaction-diffusion theory and how it transformed our understanding of pattern formation and self-organisation.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.wbur.org/news/2026/08... Why a UMass researcher is among the dozens leaving the U.S. for Canada
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Why a UMass researcher is among the dozens leaving the U.S. for Canada
A renowned scientist at UMass Chan Medical School is moving his lab to Canada. The Canadian government named RNA researcher Phillip Zamore among the first recipients of awards that will total more tha...
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Giacomo Donati @giacomodonatijd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
See you on Wednesday!
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GEValT @gevaltcrispr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Infectious transgenesis in arthropods
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the development of in vivo germline genetic editing technologies in arthropods, first pioneered by the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo ...
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Job Dekker @jobdekker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How do nuclear compartments form inside cell nuclei? We show RNA glues certain loci together to form a nuclear compartment. This involves special GC-rich regions of highly expressed genes that also associate with nuclear speckles, but interactions between these loci are independent of speckles!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A diver stumbles across a whale shark trapped in a commercial fishing line in a marine sanctuary that bans fishing, while the giant lies still while the rope is cut. The footage also shows the scale of a whale shark vs a human. [📹Smithsonian Channel] Original post
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Andrea Musacchio @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“An almost unbelievable blunder has occurred in the field of senescence…” forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...
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Mind over Antibody
“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the car…
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yep happened to us too 😭😭
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is 2026. Desperate times require desperate measures. OnlyFans can be an unexpected source of support for research. 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Scientists create OnlyFans account for marmots to fund research – video
UCLA professor Daniel Blumstein and his team started an OnlyFans account to raise money for their research amid government funding cuts
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You, personally are spending, on average ~$2,500 per person that the United States is deporting. We could fund Medicare for 12 Million Americans with that national budget. By the way, you spend only ~$139 a year on biomedical research through the NIH. www.epi.org/publication/...
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The Cost of Deportations Calculator: Technical documentation
Updated August 6, 2026, to correct the teachers, firefighters, and nurses benefits percentages. The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal gove...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NIH is planning on revoking eligibility for international students on visas for the K99/R00 pathway, a key program that supports postdocs in establishing their own labs www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ALL cats love boxes: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/humor/s/yi...
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
McClintock was also among the first to speculate on the basic concept of epigenetics- suggesting that genes, though present, may remain inactive due to “nongenic” materials covering them. Brilliant scientist!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
Signed portrait of Theodor Escherich, MD (1857-1911). Dr. Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician, best known for his discovery of the Escherichia coli bacterium
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
AMAZING news!! Congratulations and wishing you a great start to the new adventure! 🎉🍾
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 27/07/2026
Changes to Letters of Support for NIH applications: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-094: NIH Is Replacing Letters of Support with Letters of Collaboration to Reduce Administrative Burden
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: NIH Is Replacing Letters of Support with Letters of Collaboration to Reduce Administrative Burden NOT-OD-26-094. NIH
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the lab -80 will fail on a weekend, and on the hottest day of summer 🥵🤬
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Not surprising. 🧪 medicine.yale.edu/news-article...
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Alternative Treatments are Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Survival
Breast cancer patients have better survival outcomes following traditional therapies compared to alternative or complementary treatments.
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you hoard those cables for long enough …
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Found a surprise on my desk from a colleague! Science meets art! ❤️
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Cat quote of the night. 7-19-26 "When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures." - Brian May Happy birthday to Brian May #CatQuoteOfTheNight #MenWithCats
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/07/2026
The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>
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The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost
For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Who did this? #worldcup #chemistry
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ok I need to get out more. I thought this was some type of bioinformatics command for counting sequence reads 😂
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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It would be amazing to have more Native doctors! As of 2024, 0.3 percent of practicing physicians in the nation were Native American. A proposed Indigenous School of Medicine in Rapid City SD could help change that. ictnews.org/news/educati...
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Proposed Indigenous medical school aims to boost Native physician numbers - ICT
Effort has funding for a feasibility study with a goal of 2030 opening in Rapid City
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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Foundational! "The scientist doing basic research may not be at all interested in the practical applications of his work, yet the further progress of industrial development would eventually stagnate if basic scientific research were long neglected." From Science: The Endless Frontier, Bush, 1945
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just did the math. $240 billion is about 27 years of funding for NSF. Literal generations of scientists.
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Archana Dhasarathy @adhasarathy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
eBay? I have actually found good equipment there including a pH meter that lasted years.
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Dan Landau @landau.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in @cellcellpress.bsky.social ! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A fun read, unveiling key discoveries revealed because the control "failed" 🧪
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
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