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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just finished reading the academic paper that this news article briefly describes. It's terrific, and anyone teaching molecular biology might benefit from reading it. doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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(((Dr Hannah Wirtshafter))) 🔬 @aheadofthenerve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi friends & colleagues! I’m on the hunt for a tenure-track home! I’m a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 scholar studying learning & memory at the intersection of experimental neuroscience, theory, & machine learning/AI. I’d love to connect & would appreciate help spreading the word! web.mit.edu/hsw/www/

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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Want to chase memory engrams with us? Our NIMH-funded lab studies how LEC inputs shape dentate gyrus engrams. Seeking a postdoc (US work authorization required) to apply with me for CHOP's 3-yr SPAR Fellowship. Apply by Nov 20, earliest possible start July 2027. DM me 🧠🧪 please RT!

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Supporting Promising Academic Researchers Fellowship

The Supporting Promising Academic Researchers Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia partners with the University of Pennsylvania’s Provost Fellowship Program to fund Fellowship Programs at...

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? 🧪🔬🧬⚛️ Since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901, few women have been recognized in the categories of physics, chemistry & physiology or medicine. Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?

Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel! And while only 3 can get a Nobel, let's also honor Gero Miesenbock's earlier proof-of-concept work. bsky.app/profile/nobe...

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Exciting news to wake up to! Congratulations to @deisseroth.bsky.social and all!! Optogenetics changed the course of my research, and many many others

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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Shelly Flagel @flagel-lab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deadline extended to November 15th! 👇

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Roberto De Filippo @roberto-defilippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Too many neuro preprints to keep track of, so I made a monthly ranking of the most-read ones on bioRxiv. Not a measure of quality, just what people are reading. Here's the fresh ranking for September: robertodf.github.io/biorxiv-top/

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Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy 15th Birthday, Evil Genius!!! You brew a fine beer and throw a great party.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/10/2026

Today, they chose violence. #caturday

A gray cat and an orange cat celebrating morning fight club.

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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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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧪 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-re... this is satire….but daaaaaaamn is it laying down some truths: “We have replaced the danger of mouth-pipetting with the danger of a generation of scientists spending their most productive years writing grants that will not be funded”

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Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol

By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Polidoro and Saligman have big dreams for Orifice’s future. They’d like to take her to an Eagles tailgate and maybe out to lunch at Parc one day. If it doesn’t rain this Friday, they’re planning on bringing her to Elfreth’s Alley for the 11th anniversary celebration of the destruction of hitchBOT."

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tremendous photograph by the Inquirer's Jessica Griffin of a worried golden lab regarding Orifice the Awebot, a furry pink plush robot with a shock of blonde hair as it rolls down the street in Old City

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

control panel of the day #HCI

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Kimberly Beatty @beattylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).

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OHSU Faculty, Physician and Academic Jobs in Oregon

Find higher education faculty, physician and research jobs and build your academic health career at OHSU in Portland, Oregon.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SkeleSketch: An Open-Source Tool for Quantifying Microglial Morphology in Fiji/ImageJ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Superb thread about how past caspase activation sensitizes you to cell death during current activation! 🧪

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some random thoughts: Good science doesn't always need disruptors. Often, it needs load-bearing walls. You can't pivot away from a failed multi-year experiment or "iterate" your way out of a mentee's PhD. Science needs stable foundations, not churn. Don't break the people building on top of it.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Defense tech contractor Anduril as official sponsor of Ohio State Athletics?! This is appalling and absurd. (I wrote about some of their early border tech operations back in 2018: placesjournal.org/article/all-...)

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Review @natrevimmunol.nature.com Plasticity of the infant immune system during the perinatal period www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Review @cellcellpress.bsky.social Oligodendrocytes in central nervous system health and disease www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Proteomics is extending the reach of genomics in human ancestry studies. This exciting paper came out in May using proteomics to begin to unravel "Homo erectus" fossils from across China. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Enamel proteins from six Homo erectus specimens across China - Nature

Palaeoproteomic analysis of ancient enamel proteins extracted from Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus specimens from the Zhoukoudian, Hexian and Sunjiadong sites in China suggests that they are a ne...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Heard some of this exciting work at Ben's UNC Biology promotion and tenure talk last year. Brilliant multidisciplinary work into the evolution of symbiosis 🧪

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of our Public Study lessons this fall focuses on community design centers and public education about architecture, preservation, and development. I think I pulled together a pretty good lesson – and a nice list of supplemental resources: www.are.na/shannon-matt...

OCTOBER 14: PUBLIC STUDY FOR PUBLIC DESIGN

Location
This week we’ll meet at the Pratt Institute Library, at Willoughby Ave and Hall St in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Here’s Pratt’s “Getting to Campus” page. If you arrive early or care to stay afterward, Holly Wilson, a Spring 2026 CRC participant, encourages you to explore Pratt’s Sculpture Park. Holly and Brendan Enright, our hosts, will meet us at the circulation desk at 4pm and bring us through the gates, so please do your best to arrive on time!

Agenda
This week we’ll consider the value civic education and public study in community based organizing, development, and design. Why is it important for communities to understand architecture and design, historic preservation, urban development, civil engineering, urban infrastructures and other sociotechnical systems? What can we learn from the archival records about the historical contexts from which community design emerged, how it’s evolved to meet new political-economic and environmental needs, and how that evolution reflects cultural and technological changes?

We’ll begin with a short tour of the Pratt Institute Library, guided by Holly Wilson, Pratt’s Liaison Librarian for Design and Architecture and a member of the Search & Discovery CRC cohort. Then, from 4 to 4:45pm, we’ll meet with Janrey Serapio, Communications Manager, of the Pratt Center for Community Development; and for our remaining time we’ll explore the PCCD’s records with Brendan Enright, Pratt’s Virginia Thooren and Institute Archivist.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I loved Myriam Dion's Tomaselli-esque newspaper art in this Times anniversary article, which prompted me to explore her oeuvre: what amazing paper-cutting work! www.myriamdion.com

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The Day Before The Times Began

Most newspapers offered scandals and ads. With The New-York Daily Times, Henry Raymond saw room for something else.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's installment in the NIH institute director shitshow... A new director for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). www.nih.gov/news-events/... As far as I can tell, he has three publications and has never received NIH funding. 1/2

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Dr. Jonathan Burke selected as director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Dr. Burke will start his role on Sept. 20, 2026.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This could be a game changer for folks working on arthropods other than Drosophila

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 18/09/2026

Submission is just a brief break from these two embarrassment channels.

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#nature #photography Timelapse of the morning sky yesterday, from just outside Copenhagen youtube.com/watch?v=IX8q...

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#timelapse - morning sky just outside Copenhagen - 2x speed - 20260917

YouTube video by miska knapek

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Damn this is compelling genetic epidemiology and a great look back into the migrations history of a specific disease risk. Seems to have originated in the -1700s around northern wales…

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 17/09/2026

Apparently it's Hildegard von Bingen day. Reminded me of this album done in 1994, around the same time Enigma were doing Gregorian chants It's actually quite good. We own it.

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01 Praise for the Mother [O Virga Ac Diadema] - Vision - Hildegard von Bingen

YouTube video by alegnamorg

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Nature @nature.com · 17/09/2026

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex go.nature.com/3VhFjVw

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Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 16 September 2026

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