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Heads up: Kristian Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social is speaking at #NIH tomorrow. “On Viral Emergence and the Origin of Pandemics,” 2pm ET, NIH B40 (the Vaccine Research Center). Despite the non-Lab Leak topic, this isn’t part of Jay Bhattacharya’s so-called “Scientific Freedom” lecture series. 🧪

VIROLOGY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY INTEREST GROUPS
Present
On Viral Emergence and the Origin of
Pandemics
Kristian G. Andersen, MPhil & PhD
Dr. Andersen's laboratory explores viral systems biology and ecology and its impacts on global health
Tuesday October 6th, at 2 p.m.
Building 40 Conference Room 1201/1203
For more information, contact Eric Freed
efreed@mail.nih.gov or Lee Eiden eidenl@mail.nih.gov

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Shubhendu Trivedi @shubhendu.bsky.social · 3h

If one would have made me guess, I would have said Pan, Miesenböck, Boyden. But neither made it. Not to say that the winners didn't absolutely deserve it, but I think prizes like the Nobel need to be retired. Lately one can see in sharp relief the kind of damage the Fields Medal has caused to math.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 5h

When they post their first author paper on bioRxiv. Usually 9-12 months before desired postdoc start date and with time to do manuscript revisions/write/defend

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5h

PIs: when do you want students to reach out about postdoc position requests? It used to be that students had to reach out a year before graduation. A grad student who is graduating next spring was told by several people to reach out closer to graduation (also that she is a good fit). Is that new?

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 7h

Still celebrating today's Nobel-winning role for Chlamydomonas research, I highlight new, exciting Chlamy discovery from the Lechtreck Lab @universityofga.bsky.social. There are different (maybe 9?) Polycystin complexes in flagellar subdomains involved in fast swimming! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PKD2-like proteins target Chlamydomonas PKD2 to distinct subciliary regions | PNAS

Many motile and sensory functions of cilia and flagella depend on the precise localization of transmembrane proteins within the ciliary membrane. R...

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 8h

Make sure you read this in addition to the Nobel Prize announcement. I honestly can't believe it is this difficult to figure out an recognize the pioneers that did the work.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 9h

Prescient reporting on Zhuo-Hua Pan being overlooked for his pioneering work in optogenetics, by @annaintegrated.bsky.social

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11h

Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11h

I sat in on the interview of @deisseroth.bsky.social for an NIH Director's Pioneer Award (which he subsequently received). It is remarkable how much what he presented about his vision for optogenetics played out from work in his and other labs over the next decade. Bioengineering meets Psychiatry

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 22h

Consequently, I have made soup

First pass at making Koginut Squash Soup. It's good but could be GREAT

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 22h

Yummmmm. Two things can be true at once. My 2nd comfort food meal of the day cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

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Mushroom Piccata (Published 2023)

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23h

People are layered and complex and weird and our diagnostic system is useful *and* wrong. Tech bros won’t see you calling them “crazy” but your friend who has battled with their mental health for their whole lives will. People with mental disorders are more likely to be victims than commit crimes.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🤣 his favorite kid dinner

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Matt Rich @mattrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ChatGPT is not a good geneticist (would have gotten a C on our Adv genetics exam; has lots of trouble ordering a pathway…). Claude was better, pretty much got everything correct. Neither knew how to draw a cross though…

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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

GPT-5.6 could not correctly solve the C. elegans genetics problem set I wrote! There is still a glimmer of hope for people who think.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026

this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hate to hijack this guy's well earned celebration, but I suspect that most of the public has no clue that _this is what a typical lab looks like_. A diverse bunch, many immigrants, from a huge range of backgrounds. And they're the ones coming up with new cures, new facts, new technologies.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Woohoo! Congratulations Takashi!!!!

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Takashi Akera Lab @takashiakeralab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I want to thank my entire lab for organizing an amazing tenure celebration party!🎊 We will continue pursuing crazy biology in chromosomes and reproduction 🧬

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks! He went for it and is stoked

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

$1000 prize! He's buying dinner

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

right?!?! our nickname for him is the metronome

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He's only 22 so a while. He and my middle son are competing to see who can make the trials first 🤣

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He won!!! 2:17:09. That was exhausting, I need a nap

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

His reach goal is to qualify for the Olympic trials and needs 2:16:00. His current pace is 2:16:06. Please baby jesus

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My youngest is running a marathon and he is first on the leaderboard at the half. He has plans. My heart cannot take this

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Charles Boyle Gasp Reaction B99

ALT: Charles Boyle Gasp Reaction B99

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are you a mouse transgeneticist interested in coming to UCSF? Come join us! Questions? DM me! Please repost, peeps! careers.ucsf.edu/careers/JobD...

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Staff Research Associate IV Detail – UCSF

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Worth zooming in

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unspoken rule of academia: the moment you hit send to a paper submission, you can stop working and go home.

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Which character of friends is which amino acid? Monica-proline-Always tied up in knots Rachel- valine- the hottest amino acid Chandler-glu or asp- acidic personality Ross-tryptophan- the nerdiest aa, I bet you didn’t know it is W Joey- glycine. Empty head no thoughts Phoebe- ornithine obviously

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My quote of the day A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Mahatma Gandhi

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When Jane Doe's name is eventually exposed, as it most likely will be, let us all promise that we will not use that name. We won't link to articles that name her or discuss her life and character. We will protect her as Cornell should have done.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🪱 Read the latest work from @barrlab.bsky.social in #GENETICS that describes a #Celegans pipeline for mechanistic classification of conserved Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) associated missense variants. 🔗 buff.ly/R2nrikZ

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMB has not repeatedly proposed a 55%+ cut to NSF because of 'woke' research—even if you eliminated all of the grants flagged in the Cruz report, you wouldn't scratch 10% of the budget. It is because NSF heavily funds universities.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This has been explicit all along and those who have pretended that it is not are fools or knaves.

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