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Anne C. Hart @ach-ceneuro.bsky.social · 5h

Position available to work on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood; develop assays & test compounds using Hart lab #Celegans disease models. Ideal for scientist with Bachelors or Masters degree seeking mentorship, but previous at-the-bench experience is required. See REQ211438 on Brown Univ website.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

😭🫠🤢 Rutgers 2027 Fringe benefit rates 😭🫠🤢 49.83% for federal/sponsored salary 74.51% for non-sponsored salary

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me, my plants and my coffee - every morning! Cheers 💗

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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every day…. 10am highlight

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cheers! Crack-of-dawn ritual. Every day is national coffee day

Coffee in a blue mug in a hand, resting on a cozy gray blanket

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I believe that science derives its authority from…interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it. And it is time to formalize what this means, and which sorts of human judgment cannot (or should not) be offloaded to AI.”

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spotted new posters around DC today

OMG.
AMERICANS ARE LOSING ACCESS
TO
LIFE-SAVING
CLINICAL TRIALS.
OMB.
UNITED SCIENCE

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In professional settings where using the word "fuckery" would be ill-advised, I have been substituting the word "skulduggery," which has proved quite satisfying.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And don’t even get me started about how I’m taking about the expression of womanhood AS DEFINED BY WOMEN, not men. I’m talking about the strength, the rage, the layers, the complexity, the perspectives, the creativity, the leadership, the shear lack of fucks given…not the seen-not-heard bullshit.

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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You gotta KNOW the recipes for alkaline lysis buffers 1 and 2. Not just have them taped up over the DNA bench like normals do

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s hard to relate to people who never used mineral oil for PCR.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

or never ran and read their own dideoxy sequencing gel

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sand mason worms (Lanice concheliga) are still appearing every now and again in my plankton samples. The worms have larval stages in the plankton, with their own little tubes! #marineplankton 🦑🔬

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Graham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Funny that, hey? My Uni cries it is broke too and built a new hockey arena.

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Suspicious Look Hmmm

ALT: Suspicious Look Hmmm

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🤦‍♀️ my uni - with a hiring freeze and "stand-still" budget - ALWAYS has surplus money for football

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I suppose another thing that is happening is that people are taking on more reviews than they can handle in an effort to support journals, but people's reviews are late or missing, which delays getting feedback to authors, as well. As a field, we need to consider alternatives.

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some people do their work and review twice as many papers they submit. Some people do not do their work. If we all did our work, the system would be in balance 🧘

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For excellence in grievance podcasting...

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best mentor I could have asked for - congrats on retirement, Jody! We ❤️ you!

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dark academia is a genre. Who knew? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ac...

Book display with pink label "Dark Academia"

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Rutgers Office for Research @rutgersresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Office for Research is proud to announce the Rutgers Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report for fiscal year 2026, which showcases the university's role as a leading engine of discovery, innovation, and economic growth for New Jersey and beyond. ➡️ go.rutgers.edu/ar-fy2026 #RutgersResearch

Collage of images of Rutgers researchers

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Scientist's kinda coffee shop

Two mugs of coffee and two beakers of H2O

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Rutgers Office for Research @rutgersresearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Office for Research officially welcomes its 2026-27 Technology Transfer Trainees! Our 14 trainees will gain exposure to IP, marketing & business development, academic tech transfer, & more! We look forward to working with this outstanding group - welcome to the OfR family! #RutgersResearch

Screenshot of the 2026-27 Tech Transfer Fellows from their welcome zoom meeting.

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Janet Alder, PhD @janetalder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Congratulations to our Rutgers Tech Transfer Trainees!

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1. There are more mustaches THAN WOMEN in this photo. 2. I got called unprofessional for *touching my hair*, this week. And here we have an AI chucklefuck wearing sunglasses INSIDE standing NEXT TO A SENATOR ON THE HILL. 3. McCormick has taken MILLIONS from Big Oil and Tech Bros.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026

FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cilia - AI champion show🏆 Credit: GPT6-Astra Inspired by @christlet.bsky.social

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A telling quote in this @npr.org analysis: "I think it was clear to just about every observer, left, right, and center, that the NIH of recent decades is a very unhealthy institution and has really desperately needed substantial reform." -Ian Banks, Foundation for American Innovation 🧵

npr.org

These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Evidence is not really the currency here. Those interested in dismantling science have the strength of their convictions, willing to conflate the need for reform (which every institution needs) with an imperative to dismantle, shaped in the image of ideological priorities.

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This makes me irrationally mad

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“1st, rather than cut NIH by nearly 40 percent, as the OMB proposed last year, we should double its $48 billion budget within five years. These are big numbers, but if they yield discoveries that trim the nation’s $5.3 trillion health bill by just 1 percent, they will more than pay for themselves.”

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

👉 Protect basic research—the foundation for future therapies and cures 👉 Preserve the speed of grant review and disbursement 👉 Oppose political review of individual scientific grants 2/3🧵

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Science needs your voice! A proposed Executive Order could give the White House a role in reviewing NIH research grants. It's essential that you contact your elected representatives and ask them to: 👉 Keep NIH grant decisions grounded in scientific merit and expert review 1/3🧵⬇️

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Although the White House temporarily backed down from taking political control of NIH grants, we need to continue to push back and make our voices heard. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was the FA of times, it was the FO of times…

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 23/09/2026

<shots fired> Why are consensus reviews authored by field leaders published in for-profit journals, instead of those run by the societies that serve those fields (and may have sponsored the workshop)? Disclosure: I’m a middle author of at least one, and it burns me.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Class I recall says that the products have a false USDA mark of inspection. The FSIS describes a Class I as involving a health hazard "where there is a reasonable probability that use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death."

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Graham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😍😂 great question

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My Uni has had serious money issues for past 5+ years. the kind that mean my Dept has lost 14 faculty in that time and next replacement hire scheduled for 2030 (not joking) The University President just sent an email that he’s hiring a new “Special Advisor to the President” to help solve problem

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026

Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From the new info my bet is fluo labeling inference pushed to 11. Hallucinating nonsensical DAPI nuclei, mitochondria stain, membrane labeling from a kind of phase contrast image: wrong localization, wrong scale, wrong movement. Keeping this movie as SWiM winner is a disgrace to the competition

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