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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 5h

Give Alice a couple extra scritches for me. I miss my cat.

Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 6h

As I apply for jobs and postdocs feeling like an imposter, I try to tell myself there's also a lot of unqualified people running the government right, but that's also not funny, nor reassuring.

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Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social · 20h

Check out our recent paper in the annual reviews of Virology! 👇 👇 👇

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 10h

lol 😁😂

A meme that shows someone screaming EUROPE
“WHY CAN'T YOU JUST USE THE METRIC SYSTEM?”

THE U.S.A.
“A ZACHARIA IS ONE-HALF OF A SCARAMUCCI!”

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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 13h

Come be my colleague in Cell Biology & Neuroscience at Rutgers-New Brunswick! Assistant Professor (TT) search is open in the broad area of Immunology. jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/282...

jobs.rutgers.edu

Assistant Professor – Tenure-Track Faculty

The Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience (CBN) at Rutgers University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to develop an innovative research program in the area o...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

a Zacharia is half a Scaramucci

A senior White House official tells @pooocy Katie
ZACHARIA is "transitioning out" of the press secretary position.
1:22 PM • 10/16/26 • 16K Views

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Reminder that the mission of public universities is not to be profitable.

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Karim-Jean Armache @kjarmache.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We are looking for a postdoc. Candidates should have a PhD, at least one first-author paper, hands-on cryo-EM experience, and strong protein biochemistry skills. Please send your CV, research statement, and contact information for three references.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 15/10/2026

Lise Meitner was the 2nd woman to earn a physics PhD at the Univ of Vienna and Germany’s first female physics professor. She fled Nazi Germany, helped explain nuclear fission, and has an element named for her. 49 Nobel nominations, she never won. Her male colleague did. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Black-and-white historical photograph of physicist Lise Meitner standing in a laboratory wearing a white coat, surrounded by glass bottles and scientific equipment.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Becca @sciencelizard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not saying Janet Mertz is the *most* wronged woman in the history of science, but I am saying that seeing Asilomar as James Watson's lackey trying to slow down the woman who gave us EcoRI hits different in the AI age www.npr.org/2026/10/14/n...

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Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help. : Planet Money

Fifty years ago, scientists pioneering a terrifying gene-splicing technology figured out a way to collectively hit pause. Can we do it again with AI? We ask because some top AI industry leaders are sa...

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And doing a postdoc and being a prof...

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I always wondered what happened to Enya. Good for her

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🔥🎯 Abdul-El-Sayed addresses the importance of investing our tax $ in the NIH. The NIH was designed to support breakthroughs decades in the making. The current political climate is killing that infrastructure. ‘When you disinvest in science you’re disinvesting literally in the future.” #pinks

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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

*** please share widely *** Georgia Tech is hiring an ecologist tinyurl.com/GT-eco-coasts - general search - submit by Dec 1 - come join us, we have a growing group of excellent + collegial eco eco folks (e.g., @armanafzadeh.bsky.social, Sean Anderson, @jameststroud.bsky.social, Lauren Speare)

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Redirecting

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This community response is heartening 💪- yesterday emails sent and hard copies courried to #Nikon #NikonSmallWorldInMotion- 469 signatories from 36 countries. #InMicroscopyWeTrust #ImagedNotGenerated #CiliaGate #TheMadMicroscopyGang #TMMG Today we debate, join us: bitesizebio.com/pr/nikon-sma...

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One sign it’s been raining here

A giant mushroom growing in the grass next to a strop of concrete

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

As the PDB turns 55 next week, take a look at the dozen historic structures that started it all

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PDB101: Molecule of the Month: PDB Pioneers

A dozen historic structures set the foundation for the PDB archive

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Lorna Malone @drlornamalone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🎥 Recordings from the recent Wellcome-MRC In Situ Cryo-ET Course 2026 are now available on YouTube! From sample preparation and cryo-FIB milling to data collection, image processing and STA, check it out here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CryoET #CryoEM #StructuralBiology #eBIC #Microscopy

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Wellcome-MRC in situ Cryo-ET Workshop 2026 - YouTube

This lecture series covers the fundamental principles and workflows of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), including sample preparation, focused ion beam (FI...

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's hard to emote with all that filler and botox.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm excited. Five more days until this job closes. Come do plant evolution here at Davis! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777?utm...

recruit.ucdavis.edu

EVE Plant Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's happening! NYUGSM Microbiology is hiring and I'd love to see more bacteriology here! Please repost and spread the word!

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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

www.drrabern.com/longcore via @drrabern.bsky.social 🥳🎉🔬💧🍄🐸🦎🎉🥳 Celebrate 29 years of #Batrachochytrium research, and more of Joyce Longcore's contributions to mycology. Happy International Batrachochytrium Isolation Day on Oct 13th!

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Joyce E. Longcore Biographies — D. Rabern Simmons, Ph.D.

"You never know when something that is found will become important."

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: I couldn't get Word and Acrobat to play nice

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Derlin-like proteins are essential for the function of Euglena gracilis chloroplasts (Anežka Konupková , Zoltán Füssy , Priscila Peña-Diaz , Masami Nakazawa , Vladimír Hampl) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

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Derlin-like proteins are essential for the function of Euglena gracilis chloroplasts

Membrane pseudoproteases sustain chloroplast function in Euglena and reveal an unexpected protein import system, highlighting convergent evolution in cellu

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring. Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. 🧪💉🧠 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring

Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. Yet that’s enough to be driving a boom in shingles jabs

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Operation Warp Speed developed Covid vaccines, “and the country then went back to treating countermeasure development as something the pharmaceutical industry does when there is a market for it. There is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet. This must be a government responsibility”

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Opinion | We Need an Operation Warp Speed for New Biological Threats

This is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community.

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iowasufferagete.bsky.social @iowasufferagete.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I hope so. I've waited my entire life for this and I'm glad it will be coming to fruition. I'm pissed off. We have gone backwards with rights. We worked so hard to procure in the '70s and '80s. Fuck the GOP & and we should remove the federalist's six because they're traitors

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We are considering a Piazza forum for the microscopy core, so that it keeps a searchable record of questions/solutions like image.sc . Has anyone else tried this? www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php

thepiazza.org.uk

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's something beautiful about sitting at the confocal and visualizing different cell types, different tissues, different ideas .... It's such pure joy. Science is beautiful as it is. I hope we are able to protect this experience - esp in light of recent events of AI usage for image processing.

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ryandevereaux.bsky.social @ryandevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One does not mess with Canada geese

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes. It was very corporate- and lawyer-speak.

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Centre for Programmable Biological Matter @cpbm-heddlelab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧬🌱 Fully funded PhD opportunity @durhamuniversity.bsky.social in the Bentham Lab Designing Immunity from First Principles: AI Protein Design and Structural Biology to Build Synthetic Plant Immune Receptors Apply by 27 Nov 2026 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #ProteinDesign #PlantScience

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nikon just announced it has withdrawn first place in this year’s #SWiM after finding winning video did not comply with its generative AI rules. www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s... Letter still open until Monday- this is a starting point to engage & discuss how AI is transforming microscopy 🔬

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Nikon Small World in Motion Video Statement | News | Nikon Small World

An update from Nikon Small World regarding the 2026 Small World in Motion first-place winning video: After thoroughly re-evaluating the video and supporting materials and consulting with members of…

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks. I think they spent awhile on that statement.

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