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Queer Science Society @queersciencesd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thursday is the day! Register and join us for the 2nd annual Qs and As on the Mesa, hosted at Scripps Research! And we’re excited to announce our Keynote Speaker, Prof Brian Aguado from UCSD Bioengineering! Come hear great science, network, and build community!

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Queer Science Society @queersciencesd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Our goals: 🔬 Present research (oral + poster) 🌈 Build visibility and community 🤝 Connect across local institutions 📅 Abstract deadline: April 9, 2026 📍 Event date: May 21, 2026 🔗 Submission Link: bit.ly/40iYqht Abstracts from all research areas are welcome — including works in progress. 🧵2/2

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Queer Science Society @queersciencesd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Queer Science Society is excited to open abstract submissions for the 2nd Annual Qs & As on the Mesa: Queer Scientists & Allies Symposium, on May 21, 2026 on the Torrey Pines Mesa. This symposium creates a supportive, interdisciplinary space for queer scientists, trainees, and allies. 🧵1/2

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Queer Science Society @queersciencesd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

QSS has its first meeting of 2026 this Sunday, March 1st! Join us from 11:30 to 1:30 at Nobel Park for a potluck gathering to meet with fellow queer scientists, chat, eat, and find community. QSS organizers will be bringing some food, and we hope you bring some of your favorites. All are welcome!

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Jin Zhang Lab @jinzhanglab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨🚨Double preprint alert! 🚨🚨 Two papers went up on Biorxiv this week! The first presents new chemigenetic FRET-based biosensors: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... And the second presents an improved version of our C-Y FRET PKA reporters, AKAR6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 🧵 1/5

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It's the LAST WEEKDAY that I'll post about the Bigger Than Binaries shirt! I'm sending the order to the printer first thing Monday. SO! I humbly request that you buy a shirt and/or repost this so everybody sees them 😘 Shirts support @skypeascientist.bsky.social! 👕 -> squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily

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SD IRACDA @sd-iracda.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Classes are ending, but SCIENCE is still under ATTACK! Join us and #StandUpForScience to let our representatives and leaders know that we will not let the pipeline for STEM education and discovery be dismantled! All members of the community are welcome! #SummerFightForScience

A flyer that says, "Classes are ending, but science is under attack. Stand Up for Science Education Summer Send Off - Rally, Friday, June 6th, noon at UC San Diego, Geisel Library/Silent Tree. Bring Signs! Hear Speakers! Take Action. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/5cuzx293." The flyer is red, white, and blue with flipflops and palm trees as accents.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

'At the institute I lead, almost all of the canceled grants were ones specifically awarded to support the training of young scientists. Each of these young scientists represents the future of American science: the next innovators, mentors, and developers of lifesaving treatments.'

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What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists?

Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

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Michelle Frei @michellefrei17.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Happy to see my Postdoc work out @natbiotech.nature.com. Using HaloTag and synthetic fluorophores instead of FPs enables us to shift the spectral properties of kinase activity reporters (KARs) to the far-red 🔬. Huge thanks to everyone involved @jinzhanglab.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Far-red chemigenetic kinase biosensors enable multiplexed and super-resolved imaging of signaling networks - Nature Biotechnology

Far-red kinase biosensors are applied to image kinase signaling networks at super resolution.

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity Join @bioimagingna.bsky.social Early Career WG for our Career Speaker Series on The BioImaging ToolBox: “Pre-nalysis”, Imaging, Analysis and Processing” next Thursday , May 1 Learn More & Register here buff.ly/BHGomlc

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We're looking for 1-2 enthusiastic early career chemists to join our Open Chemistry team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Come help us create amazing dyes and share them with the world. Please share with the best recent/soon-to-be B.S. chemists you know! bit.ly/42w8C6N

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Research Technician - Open Chemistry

Primary Work Address: 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. Summary: Open Chemistry is a collaborative research group whose missio...

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I was invited to write a blog post for our Center for the Advancement of Teaching about belonging in large lectures. It came out today 😊 Shoutout to Neal Zondlo (who I don't think is here yet) for the friendship bracelet idea! #ChemSky #EduSky

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Crafting Space for Student Belonging Part VIII: “So, make the friendship bracelets”: Fostering student belonging in large lectures – EDVICE EXCHANGE

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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SD IRACDA @sd-iracda.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

On Wednesday we learned our grant (and those of countless other amazing programs) was terminated. 🧵 1/n

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Trump administration cancels more than a dozen international student visas at University of California, Stanford

Amid a national sweep over student visas that has hit colleges across the U.S., the Trump administration on Friday canceled more than a dozen international student visas at the University of Californi...

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

5 yrs ago I was at Emory to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IRACDA teaching & research postdoc program. My teaching mentor was one of the first fellows and a student I mentored as a PD is now Assistant Professor. This program helped prepare us to be better teachers, researchers, & mentors 🧪 1/

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FASEB @faseborg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

NIH MOSAIC program’s termination is a massive loss for the next generation of scientists, threatening the research workforce’s future and human health. We remain committed to supporting MOSAIC Scholars with critical resources for the remainder of the award and beyond. Full statement: buff.ly/TSMrvXq

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.

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ASCB Responds to the NIH’s Termination of the MOSAIC Program - ASCB

As one of the five scientific societies funded to provide professional development support through the NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program, th...

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm an Emory IRACDA alum and this is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating. That program was amazing training in both research & teaching & I know I'm a better professor bc of it. PREP & IMSD programs are so important for training our next gen of scientists. Such a disastrous move for science 🧪

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

IRACDA at UCSD confirmed done 🫠

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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 02/04/2025

so sad for so many who have benefitted from this incredible program. this is a tragedy for every scholar, but more importantly for academic science as a whole

I am writing to let you know that due to changes in NIH/HHS priorities, the Maximizing Opportunity for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program has been terminated.
Your institution can continue to draw funds on any active award for allowed costs that are within scope and consistent with the Grants Policy Statement. Further awards will not be made, and NIGMS will not permit no-cost extensions.

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Queer Science Society @queersciencesd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hello Bluesky! We’re finally moving from that other app! We’re QSS, and we host events to create community for LGBT professionals in STEM, as well as outreach events with orgs across San Diego!

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Anneliese Gest @ammgest.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is really cool! If I were local I’d 100% be going. And I wonder if we could get something like this going in San Diego… 👀

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SD IRACDA @sd-iracda.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Join research, healthcare, and education workers across the country on Tuesday, April 8th to demand NO cuts to education and research! UCSD rally at noon at Geisel. Not is San Diego? Find a rally near you at killthecuts.org! ✊

Flyer for Kill the Cuts rally at UCSD on April 8th, 2025 at Geisel library at noon. The text reads, "Save lifesaving research, healthcare, and education. By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Join research, healthcare, and education workers across the country to demand NO cuts to education and research.

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Jin Zhang Lab @jinzhanglab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Congratulations to graduate student Ayse Sahan and former student Shawn Mingyuan Chen on the publication of their lipid biosensors in PNAS! With these sensors, we’re able to track PI(3,4)P2 and PIP3 signaling in the cell, and show the lysosome is a PIP3 signaling site. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Shared some thoughts about the uncertain future of the D-SPAN award “It’s basically a matter of adapting and recognizing it’s not the first time in history that people like us have been excluded from science,” anyone want to help me with my K99? 🙏 www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/30/s...

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In research-rich San Diego, Trump cuts hit studies of HIV, domestic violence and more

The Union-Tribune interviewed local researchers who have had funding cut or are at risk of losing funding. Here’s what they had to say.

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Today was yet another sad day for science. All U-RISE training programs, including the one at SJSU, got stop work orders. We've had a version of this program at SJSU for 30+ yrs. Devastating for the students who got their stipends & tuition pulled w no notice & for the future of science 🧪 1/

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Anneliese Gest @ammgest.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Check out this upcoming event featuring LGBT scientists across the Torrey Pines Mesa, from SBP, Salk, Scripps, and UCSD! We’ll have talks (including from @canderson0402.bsky.social ), light snacks, networking with LGBT STEM groups, and a raffle prize!

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Scott Budman @scottbudman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#New: Huge crowd gathers for #StandUpForScience2025 rally in San Francisco:

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 06/03/2025

Thank you @jeremymberg.bsky.social for highlighting the special importance of T32s. This allowed me to launch an interdisciplinary chemistry/biology interface (CBI) graduate program at UCB in early 2000s. For the first time, due to this funding, chem PhD students were able to do rotations. 1/n

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Myself and 7 other neuroscientists, including @annaintegrated.bsky.social and @stevenssostre.bsky.social got to speak with @thetransmitter.bsky.social about why we think Standing Up for Science is important and imperative. Check out or thoughts here: www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

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Anneliese Gest @ammgest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Tomorrow! Science is under threat, and so are the people who do it — including women, the LGBTQ+ community, and POCs. Science is meant to tell us more about the world to help the people in it — right now it’s hard to do that. Stand up for science — and don’t forget who else we need to stand for, too

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/03/2025

Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people

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SD IRACDA @sd-iracda.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

One week until we #standupforscience2025! Get those signs ready! #saveourscience #scienceforall

Flyer for Stand Up for Science rally at UC San Diego on March 7th at noon at Geisel Library / Silent Tree. The flyer has the Satute of Liberty and the details above. The flyer also says that science is for everyone! The rally is in conjunction with marches in DC and nationwide.

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Anneliese Gest @ammgest.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Check out my poster tomorrow if you’re at #bps2025! Slight correction to the graphic — my poster will be B335! I’ll be there for the first hour of the session, from 1:45 to 2:45!

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Emily Weed-Nichols @emilyweednichols.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I’ll be presenting my poster here at #BPS2025 at the same time as the town hall, but this is very important to attend in addition to seeing all the great science going on!

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Anneliese Gest @ammgest.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’m one of the #bps2025 guest bloggers! If you see me at the meeting come say “hi”! And keep an eye out for my posts from the meeting

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Karen Fleming @karenfleming.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's Subgroup Saturday at the #bps2025 #BPS. Who else is here to discuss cutting edge science? @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social

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Jin Zhang Lab @jinzhanglab.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Two members of the lab, @ammgest.bsky.social and @anne-lyons-bioe.bsky.social will be at the Biophysical Society Meeting #bps2025 02/15 -02/19! Check out their posters on 02/18 from 1:45 to 2:45!

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JoAnn Trejo @joann-trejo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Trump's assault on the NIH w/a $9B cut will damage academic research institutions and medical research centers - the effects will be devastating to the University of California, UC employs 265,000 faculty and staff, enrolls 295,000 students has >2M alumni.. call your representatives and senators

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Jin Zhang Lab @jinzhanglab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hello Bluesky! We're a UC San Diego-based lab that studies cellular signaling, and makes genetically encoded biosensors to study those signals. Talk to us about kinases, fluorescent proteins, GPCRs, and imaging technology!

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