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Flora Rutaganira

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Assist. Prof. @StanfordBiochem & @DevBioStanford | #NewPI www.funrscience.com UC Davis ➡️ UCSF ➡️ UC Berkeley ➡️ Stanford | my opinions (she/her) 💜👑🏀 |✌🏾🇷🇼🇨🇩🇺🇸 ORCID: 0000-0001-5587-1872

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UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
UCSF’s Kevan Shokat, PhD, just won the $1M Stephenson Global Prize for research in pancreatic cancer. He cracked KRAS, a cancer driver long considered “undruggable.” Drugs built on his work now treat lung and pancreatic cancer. ow.ly/UYuY50ZRSXg
Middle-aged man in a blue lab coat smiling while seated in a scientific laboratory setting.Hand wearing black glove holding five small glass vials with various colored liquids, including pink and orange hues.
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Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VIPR is now out in Science! What started with a mysterious RNA led us to an unexpected way of recognizing DNA, as well as some clues to CRISPR’s origins. So happy to share these two papers with an incredible team. Links below; original discovery thread here ↓
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What in the Arrested Development…
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My final PhD chapter is now published in Microbiome (@microbiomej.bsky.social)! Using metabarcoding, photochemical measurements, and the first scRNAseq of a bleaching coral, we examined the microbial ecology of coral bleaching at the single-cell level! 🪸🔥 #CoralReefs 🔗 rdcu.be/zWHQ92WqZQUa
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Single-cell ecology of coral-algal symbiosis breakdown - Microbiome
Background The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching and subsequent coral mortality, devastating reef habitats. Despite its planetary-scal...
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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...
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Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI
Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...
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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Neal lab is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to lead exciting structural and biophysical studies of membrane protein quality control! Competitive HHMI-scale salary + cutting-edge science + a genuinely wonderful and supportive lab culture. Please share widely with anyone who might be interested!
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I know I am repeating myself here but: in 2012 the right-wing government did this in Spain. They dismantled the Ministry of Science and incorporated it as a department in the Ministry of Economy. This effectively gave them control over the entire budget because it was one and the same 🧪
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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
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Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My cousin posted a DIY hair-braiding video on the clock app. It went viral and immediately reminded me why I hate how DIY social media is now this performative hellscape. Why is it so aggressively mean & why cant we have the original YouTube DIY days?? #blacksky www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Braiding used to be low maintenance and budget-friendly. What happened?
Every time I get my hair done, I find myself confronted with rising costs, and dizzyingly long maintenance regimes
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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Structural biology postdoctoral position open in my lab--apply now! For more information about the lab, see www.umassmed.edu/munsonlab/. Interested candidates should apply through the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School jobs portal (www.ummsjobs.com/job/11668/).
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Munson Lab | Home | BMB | UMass Chan Medical School
The Munson Lab researches the mechanistic basis for the regulation of spatial and temporal specificity in membrane trafficking in the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology Department at UMass Chan Me...
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So as a joke, I decided to check in on the Space Force's research, development, testing, and evaluation budget for FY 2026 and the budget proposal for 2027. Space Force is roughly three times as large as NSF right now, and the administration proposes doubling that budget, while cutting NSF...
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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Symbiotic capacity in a changing ocean: emerging questions around phytoplankton interactions- Zwahlen & Vincent 2026 - Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Symbiotic capacity in a changing ocean: emerging questions around phytoplankton interactions
Phytoplankton fix half of global CO2 annually and drive key global nutrient cycles. They depend on interactions with bacteria, viruses, and protists. Yet our understanding of these interactions remain...
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Darrin T. Schultz @dts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our new paper in Science Advances asks how animals' genomes have changed since their origin from a common ancestor over 600 million years ago, and what patterns in their DNA have arisen in the churn of speciation and extinction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Five-panel diagram explaining fusion-with-mixing in chromosome evolution. Red and blue represent two different ancestral chromosomes throughout.

A, Fusion-with-mixing: a red chromosome and a blue chromosome fuse into one half-red, half-blue bar. Down the page, successive rows show inversions, drawn as X-shaped crossings between rows, progressively interleaving the two colors until the bottom bar is finely striped. A widening gray wedge labeled Entropy runs alongside an arrow marked Time plus evolution, pointing down.

B, Independent regulation: two separate chromosomes, one red and one blue. In each, a regulatory element, drawn as an oval, acts by an arrow on a gene within its own chromosome only.

C, FWM and novel regulation: on a fused, mixed chromosome, a red gene and a blue gene now sit next to each other across an inversion breakpoint. Red and blue arrows show regulatory elements reaching across it to act on the other chromosome's gene.

D, Regulatory entanglement: an extensively mixed chromosome, finely striped. Below it, a row of alternating red and blue genes is linked by a dense web of crossing curved arrows, so many overlapping regulatory connections that unmixing the chromosome would break them.

E, Emergence of entangled loci: a five-species phylogeny. A red and a blue chromosome fuse at an ancestral node, and helical icons on later branches mark continued mixing. Colored boxes mark four new red-blue regulatory interactions arising after inversions. Species A keeps its two chromosomes separate. In species B through E, the two earliest interactions, cyan boxes 1 and 2, are present in every descendant lineage, while later ones, yellow 3 and magenta 4, appear in fewer.
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Please consider nominating your finishing or recently finished PhD student for this award in any area of Drosophila research. The winner gives a big talk at the fly meeting and it is quite the feather in their cap!
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 15/08/2026
Try for your protein at py2dmol.solab.org (Style → Cartoon)
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Postdoc opportunity in Copenhagen! Interested in marine bioluminescence, comb jellies & experimental biology? A great 2-year postdoc (possibility of 1-year extension), working with CRISPR, imaging & EM in the labs of Anders Garm & Cornelia Jaspers. Deadline: 16.08 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Postdoc in Marine Bioluminescence - re-advertisement
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 08/08/2026
Time to spam the gears!!!! The appointment of Dorothy Fink as Deputy Director and acting institute director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development installs a MAHA mom to our children’s health institute. Send your thoughts to: NICHDethics@mail.nih.gov
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Honorific Award Winners! ASCB is proud to recognize scientists whose research, mentorship, education & leadership are helping shape the future of cell biology. See all the awardees: www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-anno…
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We have great newts to share! Twenty tiny Mazama newts have hatched in our lab — the very first babies of their kind ever in human care.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026
We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
Representatives for produce giant Taylor Farms contacted the White House with an urgent plea: the company wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
The call, during which the company asked for more proof and more time before being linked to the outbreak, illustrates how one of the country’s largest produce suppliers sought to limit its exposure to a public-relations nightmare, while grappling with a costly and complicated recall. Over the past several weeks, health officials have been scrambling to contain the outbreak of cyclospora, which can cause explosive diarrhea. Some current and former government officials have criticized the handling of the outbreak, both by the administration and Taylor Farms.Federal health authorities were preparing late last week to link Taylor Farms to a multistate parasitic infection that has sickened thousands. The company wanted to see more evidence, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House asked officials from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating growing cases of cyclosporiasis, to join the call with Taylor Farms, which the government maintains is the source of the multistate outbreak. During the discussion, Taylor Farms raised concerns that the government had no positive laboratory tests linking its product to the outbreak and that it was overstating the company’s culpability, according to one of the people who was on the call.
Taylor Farms sought out the White House after company executives felt they hadn’t gotten enough clarity from the FDA on the evidence behind a potential recall and the scope of it, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Emily Hilliard said the FDA presented Taylor Farms with substantial evidence connecting its products to the outbreak and engaged in extensive discussions with the company.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Gift Lift NY Times: Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The FDA said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms that is not part of the current recall tested positive for the parasitic illness
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FDA says sample of iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms tested positive for US parasite outbreak
The FDA on Saturday said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms tested positive for a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands of people in the U.S.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19/07/2026
If you was cheating in high school chemistry It is unlikely that you are running GLP1 “experiments”
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Dr. Katie Glover (she/her) #BLM @katieglover.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...
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LKC 2027 Postdoctoral Fellowship.pdf
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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ok first of all, I didn't know that NIH had a 3D print designs library, and second of all 🐸: 3d.nih.gov/entries/3DPX...
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NIH 3D
NIH 3D
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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’m looking for recommendations for the best breakfast sandwiches in the ENTIRE Bay Area. Send me your favorites, either here or to grant.marek@sfgate.com. Will do my best to track the journey here, starting with Bay Area breakfast sandwich #1: Verve’s Breakfast Sandwich in Palo Alto. It is good.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2026
The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.
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Community Voices: On the Events of the American Diabetes Association 86th Scientific Sessions
The editorial and the seven opinion articles posted here were scheduled for publication on July 13, 2026, in the journal, Diabetes Care. All articles were provided, in advance of the scheduled publica...
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Anthony Shiver @anthonyshiver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The labs of KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg at Stanford are working on an exciting and impactful project related to infant probiotics and are hiring a Life Science Research Professional to be part of that team. Take a look at the posting if you're interested. Please share/apply
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Life Science Research Professional 2
Applying a comprehensive understanding for the theories and methods of a life science discipline, perform work directly involved in research projects, interpreting results and participation in experim...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How’d snakes get to be so long? Did they lengthen their necks? Their torsos? Or both? So far, my research is finding that snakes expanded their torsos and kept their necks pretty much the same length as their ancestors. Happy #WorldSnakeDay
A cartoon of a ball python wearing a necktie, looking confused.
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Can we program a kinase like a switch? Inspired by natural autoinhibitory complexes, we designed miniproteins against active- and inactive-like conformations of Focal Adhesion Kinase. Depending on the targeted state, the resulting binders either activated or inhibited the kinase.
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Osterman Ilya @ostermanilya.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Research Technician (Osterman Group – Metabolism-driven immunity)
EMBL Hamburg / CSSB The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organization, with more than 110 independent research groups across Heidelberg, Hamburg, Grenobl...
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Edward T Eng @edwardteng.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Muyuan Chen has turned structural biology into an immersive experience with his new video game Meowtabolism, now available on Steam. Try the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4045010/... Give Muyuan feedback: steamcommunity.com/app/4045010 #ScienceGaming #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #STEMOutreach
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Meowtabolism - Examining Feline Behavior within Unicellular Algae on Steam
Explore the interior of an algal cell on your four paws. Built with experimental data and populated with actual protein structures, Meowtabolism offers a glimpse of the vast world inside the basic fun...
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@breakliquid.bsky.social and I are delighted to say our OpenEVO preprint is finally live! An open source hand-made turbidostat that's modular, affordable, and made to be customized. Designed with love for the research community. Enjoy!!!💚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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OpenEvo: An Open-Source Platform for Automated Evolution and Analysis
Here we introduce OpenEvo, a fully open-source, low-cost turbidostat platform for automated continuous culture and directed evolution experiments. Existing tools are expensive, complex, or lack open-s...
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Rashelf the cutest elf 🧝🏾‍♀️🍃💫🌬️ @sheliwaili.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026
Free pizza for adults who read books from local libraries (ebooks included)
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The molecular triggers of human labour: a longitudinal plasma proteomics study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not sure where your PhD fits outside the lab? Whether you're considering academia, industry, nonprofits, or science communication, a focused job search beats applying everywhere. Explore strategies for navigating the PhD job market on our blog:
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Navigating the PhD Job Market: Choosing Between Academia, Industry, and Everything in Between
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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Happy to announce that I received tenure! This is all down to the brilliant team I get to work with every day and my collaborators and supportive colleagues. Now UCSF can’t get rid of me…
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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic
A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Well deserved @copperbae.bsky.social!
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