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Brenda Bass

@bbass.bsky.social
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Scientist at U of U; lab revolves around dsRNA. Love the Utah land. Views are my own.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026
Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
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Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sort of like exchanging name tags at annual meetings ?@rnasociety.bsky.social apple.news/AEBclWhWKT-W...
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Why Soccer Players Switch Jerseys After Matches — Sports Illustrated
soccer Swapping jerseys has been a long-standing postmatch tradition in soccer. One of the most recognizable postgame traditions in soccer is the jersey exchange. After the final whistle, it is common...
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Monica Pasqual Is Fighting to Preserve Casa Pilar
Monica Pasqual left for Salt Lake City the day an earthquake shook the valley—the same week the world shut down for COVID-19, the same week her brother lay dying of the virus. She drove from the Ba…
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Christine Mayr @christinemayr.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If you want to know what 3′UTRs with long conserved sequence stretches do, check out our BioRxiv preprint doi.org/10.64898/202.... They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.
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Kelly Nguyen @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Proud to share the yeast telomerase structure, led by the talented @hongmiaohu.bsky.social in collaboration with the Wellinger and Chartrand labs. Discovered 37 years ago and took us nearly 7 years but totally worth the wait 😍. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFE4...
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Cryo-EM structure of yeast telomerase
YouTube video by MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026
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NOT-OD-26-047: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2027-2031
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fis...
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yay Kelly-they made the perfect choice!
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"I hear from current NIH staff regularly. They describe a particular kind of exhaustion: not just from overwork, but from the cognitive load of performing normalcy while privately managing fear." elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-nih-s...
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What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters
The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.
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Peg Kerr @pegkerr.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.
People line up on a sidewalk at dusk in a line, holding lighted candles.
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
So, so, honored by this award—it is daunting to know that my heroes have won this award! Thanks to my heroes and mentors, and my trainees, who are everything!!!!
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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I would ask people to call or message their senators about this and specifically that Vinay Prasad needs to be out at FDA. Even the Wall Street Journal has said as much. There is push back. Companies won’t fund clinical trials if they can’t trust the FDA.
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Horse and eagle my favorite commercial so far
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Yay Joe!! I am so proud!! This is so deserved—the Bass lab depends on you for everything.
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RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The RNA Society is welcoming submissions of original infographics about any and all things RNA! Scan the QR for details!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New #miRNA paper from Lai lab!! 🧬🔥 some think this field, despite recent Nobel to Ambros and Ruvkun, doesn't have much surprises left. but, do we EVEN KNOW WHAT a miRNA precursor LOOKS LIKE? we found some conserved miRNA hairpins up to 10x longer than suspected. this is mir-12, just bonkers! 1/n
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨IT'S HAPPENING!🚨 Register now and join us in beautiful southern Chile in September for a new edition of the Molecular Biosystems Conference! @molbiosystems.bsky.social
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Niladri Sinha @2primehydroxyl.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We are hiring at all levels, so please help spread the word! #RNAsky #ribosomes #signaling #translation sinha.biochem.utah.edu/join
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Join — The Sinha Lab
We welcome curiosity-driven individuals excited to make foundational discoveries aimed at understanding and combating defects in translational control and proteostasis in a dynamic, collaborative, and...
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Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 18/08/2025
🎉 We're so excited to announce the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge: A #scicomm competition for researchers to share their authentic journeys in science with students, teachers, & the broader public! 🧪 💸 $1k in cash prizes, thanks to @ncse.bsky.social! 👉 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...
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Win Cash, Save Science: Share Your SciJourney! — Galactic Polymath
Join the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge! We are looking for scientists at all stages to share their journeys in science! Teachers: You and your students can help decide the winners! #scicomm #SaveNSF
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Joining an increasing number of people publicly demanding RFK’s removal as HHS Sec: Dr. Bill Foege, a literal (6’6”) & figurative giant of public health. He served as a CDC director under Carter & Reagan, & is credited with designing the ring vaccination strategy that enabled smallpox eradication.
“We will live through this drought of values, principles, and facts and again apply our talents to improving global health and happiness. Do not back down.
In the meantime, be clear. Kennedy's words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.
Americans deserve better.”
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Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Join the 22,339 people who have joined to support our NIH colleagues. Let's get this to 50,000 RT
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I have been updating my dashboard (jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...) to add important material about the #BethesdaDeclaration 1/n
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NIH_since_1_20_25
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
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Kristy A. Brown, PhD @drkristyabrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This might be helpful: www.regulations.gov/assets/files...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Anyone have advice on how to justify a budget increase on a renewal of a senior MIRA? I know, dreaming, but want to dream right. thanks, thanks for any advice.
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Now online! Integrator loss leads to dsRNA formation that triggers the integrated stress response
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Integrator loss leads to dsRNA formation that triggers the integrated stress response
Integrator (INT) prevents the escape of immature RNAPII to ensure full-length mRNA production. INT deficiency causes defects in RNAPII maturation that lead to premature termination, accumulation of immunogenic dsRNA, and activation of the integrated stress response (ISR) observed in patient cells.
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Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Canadians 🇨🇦 abroad - you can register to vote in the election! You need to do it soon. www.elections.ca/content2.asp...
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Voting by mail – Elections Canada
Apply to vote by mail, Eligible electors can apply to vote by special ballot. With a special ballot, you can vote by mail from anywhere in the world, 2025.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
we need to remember that these small wins are because people SPOKE UP -- keep calling your representatives, keep writing op-eds in your local papers, your voice matters! #resist
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/04/2025
“a 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now…is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...
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Harvard’s moment of truth - The Boston Globe
The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Really bad news here:
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... please reskeet and spread the word! 🧪
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Stand Up for Science 2025 - Denver, CO
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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Jack Lee @jackjlee.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Working on a story for @sfchronicle.com about the administration's impacts to science, including #NIH and #NSF funding. Hoping to chat with early-career scientists, especially grad students and postdocs, about how you've been affected. Thanks! Signal: jacklee.55
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Shahryar @srizvi1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I think it's going to happen: techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/m...
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Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night | TechCrunch
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, offering support on the social network Bluesky for newly
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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Great speech from Rep Jake Auchincloss (MA) - worth 3 mins of your time.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I believe we have breaking news in Inside Medicine. I spoke to a member of the FDA vaccine committee who confirmed that the meeting to decide the 2025-2026 flu shot composition was abruptly canceled today. My on-the-record Q&A with the FDA advisor: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...
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Scoop: FDA vaccine meeting abruptly canceled. Meeting was to determine 2025-2026 influenza vaccine composition.
Hi everyone,
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is a powerful (and accurate) speech both about curiosity driven research and about which institutions would be most hurt by a 15% cap on indirect cost rates (smaller academic med centers) and who would benefit (China). 1/2
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. 
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are looking for a new Executive Editor on the journal, with @katherine-brown.bsky.social taking on a new role at @biologists.bsky.social. If you're an experienced editor with a love of developmental biology and its community, this could be the job for you. Full details in the link below.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU
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Julie Kovacs @juliekovacs.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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New NIH ‘Indirect Costs’ Funding Cuts Threaten Universities, Science
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health announced major cuts to funding of indirect costs for Universities, etc. Here's the potential impact on science and society.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Here's what that hallway looked like before at NIH. (h/t @ivancalcantara.bsky.social)
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/02/2025
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
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HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions
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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Spread the word #AcademicSky if you or someone you know is being impacted by the fed funding freeze, @motherjones.com wants to hear from you!
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