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Jens Schmidt @jenscs83.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study DNA damage repair via the homologous recombination pathway using quantitative cell biology approaches. The position will be initially supported for two years by the MSU Research Foundation Postdoctoral Scholars program. Please share! 1/5

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Kevin Tompkins @ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bad idea to quickly wash my coffee machine and make coffee this morning, 2 minutes before a meeting. #dawnprofessional #tastelikecitrus

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Jens Schmidt @jenscs83.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I am looking to recruit 2 postdoctoral fellows to the lab to work on a recently funded project focused on class switch recombination in B cells. If you are interested in immunology, gene expression, and RNA and protein single molecule imaging, please reach out (schmi706@msu.edu). Please share!

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🔥PREPRINT🔥: Metformin Redirects Autophagy from Bulk Turnover to Mitochondrial Clearance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This truly was a team effort. @kupharmchem.bsky.social

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We put out a preprint with Bluesky-less Gaby Medina-Meza at KUMC (aka my wife). 3y of work, a bunch of coding, and a lot of fun. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I am and will always be skeptic about AI use in science. However, I can finally build omics computational pipelines with very little effort and do not depend on biostatisticians with zero knowledge about how real - and not hypothetical - experiments work (p.s.: I have strong stat foundations).

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What I read is "chocoflan", also known as the 'impossible Mexican dessert'. This is some bioinformatician trolling me at the highest level.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thanks Waters for the kind invitation here in Boston…and for the sexy socks 🧦 😍

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Traveling to Boston in a couple of hours…how bad the snow is? Asking from my 64F here in KS….

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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel) @bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Practical tips for using spin concentrators (centrifugal filters), especially for concentrating proteins (which I've spent much too much time doing over my scientific career . . .) youtu.be/ERUhYrDXN2c

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Practical tips for using spin concentrators (centrifugal filters), esp. for protein concentrating

YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

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KU | The University of Kansas @universityofkansas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

With a goal of expanding health care across Kansas, KU School of Medicine-Wichita is launching a new emergency medicine residency program this summer at Wesley Medical Center. The program aims to encourage more ER doctors to practice in the state. bit.ly/3LUIRcd

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New emergency medicine residency aims to keep doctors in Kansas

KU School of Medicine-Wichita hopes to create a pipeline of emergency care physicians prepared to practice throughout Kansas.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My three-year-old was reading the Epstein files when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy why did so many nice people at Harvard like Jeffrey Epstein?" And when I told her "Because people at Harvard will do anything for a buck," she started crying.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Yeah, Americans discovering imperialism with Bad Bunny half time show. Do me a favor: go to a library and get this. It’s never too late to feel empathy. And (maybe) shame. 🫠

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

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

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

USDA grant submitted in September 2025, we will know if recommended for funding in June 2026. This is simply unhealthy.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Stunning planet 🌎 (I think it’s Canada).🍁

Picture taken from plane flying over Canada

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

What I have been seeing is that young PIs fail at being just professional. We train individuals to be masters in their field; we don't teach them how to behave with their peers, to meet a deadline, or to properly answer an email. Honestly: last two months have been a series of 'WTF?!?'.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

“As 2025 comes to a close…”, followed by 100% guaranteed AI bullshit. Totally losing interest in “content”.

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KU News Service @kunewsservice.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

KU’s Steven Soper was named to the 2025 Class of the National Academy of Inventors Fellows — the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. Soper is the 8th faculty member to receive the honor while at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social. news.ku.edu/news/article...

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Academy lauds third KU inventor in three years

Steven Soper is the eighth National Academy of Inventors fellow named while at KU.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Grad students + PI at the annual KUCC Research Week.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our lab was awarded both a Tina's Wish Team Science Award (with Godwin, Soper, and Whelan labs at KUMC-KU) and the inaugural KUCC Obesity, Metabolic Health, and Cancer Pilot project. Every penny counts. :-)

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I have a strong feeling that science is being killed day by day by this. Oligarchs should keep their hands off science.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

So, it looks like we're gonna get some money to build CRISPR-Cas13 miRNA sensors for cancer detection...any other suggestions/new approaches other than SHERLOCK? #crispr #newPI

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Three years ago I was farming in Southern Italy to replace dad who had a terrible accident. Social media made me remember this picture: a detail in my dad’s workers van. It’s a tough life.

Van with a beer instead of coffee in the mug holder.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Jeff Tweedy warming our hearts yesterday evening.

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

You have a dozen active grants, half of them the size of an R01. You have committed 100% of your effort to them. Your >300k damn salary is covered. Is it even ethical to ask for more $$? At what point this becomes just a greedy game?

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Graham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is something I have often wondered about - how DNA damage alters genome architecture and if it is heritable across the cell cycle even after repair? Well here is a nice study addressing this fundamental question 👇👇👇😍

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

As a reviewer, please don't overuse AI to write your grants. I understand the need for a quick editing/grammar check, but the structure of the paragraphs and the logic is absolutely awful. I can spot it in a nanosecond.

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Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I still contend that >90% of the benefit of writing a review isn't the audience. It's for the author going through the literature, finding gaps in knowledge, learning how experiments are done, etc. It really isn't about writing a review. It's about doing the review yourself. AI can't do that for you

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Carlo Barnaba 🇮🇹🇲🇽 @barnabalab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This was a great meeting, with outstanding speakers.

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