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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 16/09/2026

The Das lab has 1-2 open postdoctoral positions. Our lab investigates the fundamentals of cell-cycle-dependent cell polarity. Boston College has fantastic resources, including a cutting-edge imaging facility with state-of-the-art microscopes. Please apply here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s not very day you get to read a beautiful paper. Amazing work @hammofish.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 10/09/2026

NIGMS MIRA is officially here! This was one of the longest waits ever, but I'll take it. Also, we have openings for a couple of postdoc positions in cell biology/biochemistry. Details to follow soon.

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Cookie Monster Dancing

ALT: Cookie Monster Dancing

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Patrick Oakes @pwoakes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@myosincity.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a new postdoc this winter! Open to anyone broadly interested in studying how cells generate and interpret mechanical signals. Interested applicants can reach out to me and Jordan directly.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our latest preprint, from Erin Berlew is live: Cytoskeletal disassembly by optogenetic control of RhoA signaling termination. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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bmeunite.bsky.social @bmeunite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We are excited to announce our 2026 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite2026

Names, photos, and institutions of 2026 BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows. Text seminar details with link to presentation schedule.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Amdahl’s law: the speedup achievable by optimizing one component of a system is limited by the fraction of total time that component represents.”

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Stephan Huveneers @huveneerslab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We are hiring! Are you an ambitious postdoc with a background in vascular bioengineering and cell biology? Then please join our team at Amsterdam UMC and help unravel the mechanisms that govern vascular integrity. #embobuildnetworks #vascularbiology #EVBO werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

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Vacatures - Postdoc Vascular Biology - Amsterdam UMC

Are you an ambitious scientist with a background in vascular bioengineering and cell biology? Join our team at Amsterdam UMC and help unravel the mechanisms that govern vascular integrity.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Your budget quantifies your values.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Whenever I give department seminars, I try to make time to visit the uni library. The library is the heart of the university. The books and our monuments to them will outlast both us and the internet - if we preserve them. I haven’t visited MIT, but this feels like a death.

Suzzallo and Allen Libraries, University of Washington

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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Katherine Aird @airdlab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's time to rewrite reviews-aKG doesn't just regulate demethylation. Work from my lab and @mzspectrum.bsky.social demonstrates a new role for aKG in promoting histone acetylation and DNA repair through regulating carnitine synthesis. Congrats Apoorva Uboveja! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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αKG-mediated carnitine synthesis drives DNA repair via histone acetylation - Nature

The metabolite αKG promotes carnitine synthesis and increases site-specific histone acetylation, thereby promoting homologous recombination-mediated DNA repair, which has potential implications f...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/05/2026

He warned us we'd have to remind you. "Particularly in times of international conflict, when the dominant definition of the situation is such as to emphasize national loyalties, the man of science is subjected to conflicting imperatives of scientific universalism and ethnocentric particularism."

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness.” -Flannery www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

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Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

just got knocked over by this new paper from the Andrei Chagin lab: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... physically dropped the paper in delighted surprise when I got to the second half of Fig 5:

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Wayne Orr @a-wayne-orr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We’re hiring! Tenure-track faculty position in cancer research at LSU Health Shreveport (Pathology & Translational Pathobiology). Looking for investigators building programs at the interface of cancer, metabolism, inflammation, and vascular biology. www.lsuhsc.edu/shv/CareerOp...

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LSUHSC Career Opportunities - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Tenure-Track) – Cancer Research

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Whole organism 3D mapping reveals universal branching topology and biophysical optimization governs vascular and nervous system development Read about our work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

📣 New preprint alert! Co-authored by @spalaciosm.bsky.social and @andreacaldarola.bsky.social : Quantitative imaging of calcium dynamics with a green fluorescent biosensor and fluorescence lifetime imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Image of a calcium calibration curve, calcium concentration traces of individual cells and lifetime images of cells

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ASBMR @asbmr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

JBMR® Plus is accepting applications for editor‑in‑chief. Current EIC Deborah Veis, MD, PhD, calls the role one of the most impactful of her career. This paid position's term begins October 2026. Apply by April 3. www.surveymonkey.com/r/8FM2GFJ?ut... Learn More: www.asbmr.org/publications...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Amazing opportunity to work with Kim, who is the most creative scientist and an amazing mentor

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Impossible to overstate how timely the @orssociety.bsky.social meeting feels, again, this year. Cannot wait to see dear friends and hear exciting science. Keep an eye out for these amazing scientists at #ORS2026 this week: @cpane94.bsky.social @gkotsaris90.bsky.social @eseidlscience.bsky.social

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Introducing the #ORS2026 Spotlight Speakers! We are excited to welcome thesee internationally recognized experts, March 27–31, in Charlotte, NC, sharing insights across mechanobiology, regeneration, data-driven #orthopaedics, and more. 🔎 Learn more: www.ors.org/2026spotlightspeakers

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ORS ISFR @isfrfractures.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congratulations to ISFR members @gkotsaris90.bsky.social and @amitsc.bsky.social for their nominations for the New Investigator Recognition Award! Be sure to add their talks to your schedule at #ORS2026 and catch their exciting work in bone fracture repair! 🦴🩻🔬

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🎉 Congrats to our finalists for the ORS Business Innovation Competition at #ORS2026! BIC serves as a springboard for #msk innovation, supporting early-stage ideas as they move from the lab to the marketplace. Learn more about each finalist 👉 www.ors.org/2026bic .

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

5%ile is the new 10%ile and CND is just ND.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. -Melville

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Insight is *never* greater than the level of inquiry. I feel second hand embarrassment every time I hear a serious scientist claim an in vitro system/organoid/“NAM” can answer a question it was never intended to ask.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/02/2026

Without considering the sources of claims, efforts at epistemic vigilance become play-acting. With LLMs, we don't know the sources. Excellent thread from @mjcrockett.bsky.social

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

if you are writing, and need to decide between making things easier for you or easier for your reader (such as using an acronym or cutting white space to fit in more words), always -always- choose your reader. this tweet is not about AI, but it also is.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Let us call her Misty. Life, regeneration & rebirth - sounds right to me 🦛❤️ #worldhippoday #yaptaz

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute). That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization—that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men’s souls. - Booth Tarkington, 1918

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Chia-Lung Wu @chialungwu.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint led by Eloise Fadial (@efadial.bsky.social) 🥳🎉! Using PRDM16 cKO mice, hiPSC models, scRNA-seq & CUT&RUN, Eloise shows that PRDM16 is a key genetic and epigenetic regulator of knee chondrogenesis and chondrocyte identity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I present the most interesting graph ever made. HUMAN ON BICYCLE beats every other living thing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The NIH has indicated a “leniency” period for implementation of the Common Forms (SciENcv) May 2026: grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common... Note: the “warning” that says your materials are not in compliance is also displayed if you submit using the Common Forms. This warning can be ignored.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Almost forgot my Hagoromo chalk this morning. A true crisis. #BE550

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

New to ORS? 👋 Join our virtual New Member Orientation on Feb 4, 12–1 PM CT to dive into member benefits, networking opportunities, and more! Hear from a current member on ORS’s impact & join the live Q&A. Register: ors.memberclicks.net/nmo020426

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

To my children, Fearing for them Wendell Berry

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. -Eliot

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

DH Lawrence, quoted in Robert Stone's introduction to Oakley Hall’s Warlock. America has never stopped being Warlock.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

writing is iterative. it pulls out your heart and stomps on it until eventually you wrestle it to the ground, just in time to put your heart back in and fall in bed sick for a week.

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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is what you get if you search "opto-YAP" on google scholar. ✨Alternative Approaches✨

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