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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My lab started a monthly Vintage Journal Club where we read and discuss seminal papers in the field that are related to ongoing projects. It's turning out to be really fun to discuss "vintage" work in the context of what we know today. The lab seems to enjoy it too. 🧪 🤓

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ohhhh… I love this too!!! Realized at a recent general exam that students aren’t familiar with some of the more “classic” papers. Felt this in my classes too where the answer to any scientific problem is single cell rnaseq and crispr.

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

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Position Details - Academic Personnel & Faculty

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Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644

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Ellen Leffler @ellenleffler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My department at University of Utah is recruiting new faculty, with "Human" and "Genetics" broadly defined. It is a fantastic place to start a lab, with collaboration, creativity and conviviality encouraged. Applications due Oct 16. Please share and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

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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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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also!!! We forgot to take a picture!!! 🙈

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You lucked out!!! The weekend is going to be beautiful!!! Hope you enjoy Seattle and come back soon!!!

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's the beginning of the school year for us. I don't know about you, but my inbox is full of undergrad requests to join the lab. I can't offer them all positions, so instead I wrote a bit of advice on the process. Feel free to share if you find it helpful. www.thekonglab.org/blog/looking...

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Looking for an undergraduate research position? A PI’s advice — Kong Lab

One of the greatest joys of being a PI is mentoring the next generation of scientists. At a large public university (Woohoo… Go Dawgs!), I have the amazing luxury of hearing from many enthusiastic stu...

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In addition to the many great talks -- I got to reconnect with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social and see the latest from the Vasquez Lab @claudiaraudia.bsky.social !!! Feeling re-energized for the beginning of the academic school year!!! ⚡⚡⚡

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I thoroughly enjoyed the Allen Institute Early Career Symposium this week!!! So much great science! A big thank you to @alleninstitute.org @socdevbio.bsky.social @isscr.org for organizing this fantastic meeting!!!

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wooooo Hawaii!!! 🎉🎉🎉 They are having a record number of hurricanes… but maybe no measles??? So clearly, hurricanes prevent measles.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had to look up what a port tong is and now I’m very curious… 🤔🤔🤔

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 22/09/2026

Meet the 2026 cohort of Next Generation Leaders. This program recognizes emerging early career researchers in bioscience and is designed to foster community, exchange of ideas, innovation, and collaboration to make a broad, transformational impact on the future of science.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love this! ❤️❤️❤️

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Development is at the heart of our community, created by scientists for scientists. The leading #devbio journal for over 70 years, Development covers a broad range of in vivo research organisms and in vitro systems. See more reasons to publish:

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Reasons to publish in Development | Development | The Company of Biologists

Reasons to publish in Development | Development | The Company of Biologists Reasons to publish in Development Development is more than just a journal - we are part of your community. Published by a…

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ha!!!! Thank you for asking!!!

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Young Embryologist Network @yen-network.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The YEN Committee is looking for new members! 📣📣 Interested in co-organising the 2027 Conference? Email us at youngembryologistnetwork@gmail.com. We’re excited to hear from you!

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Kara Cerveny @kara-cerveny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reed College is an awesome place to teach and do research. Check out this piece about Reed's Beckman Scholars Program. www.reed.edu/newsroom/sto... So excited to see this finally come to fruition and hoping we

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Krissy Lyon @krissylyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Super excited to share that I will start my lab at University of Oregon in Fall 2027! We will study astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment and related disorders. Grateful to all my mentors and colleagues! I couldn’t be happier to return to the PNW! ion.uoregon.edu/research/fac...

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Maja Radulovic @majarad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our study on DFCP1 and lysosome membrane repair is live! We uncover a previously unrecognized role for omegasomes in the cellular response to lysosomal membrane damage, revealing another layer of regulation in how damaged lysosomes are repaired. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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DFCP1-containing ER microdomains mediate lysosomal membrane repair - Nature Cell Biology

Radulovic et al. show that phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI3P), produced by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase PIK3C3, is formed on ER domains after lysosome damage. ER domain PI3P helps to recruit...

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Evgeny Kvon @evgenykvon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The newly established Department of Systems Biology (systems.bio.uci.edu) @UCIrvine is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Systems Biology. Great science, incredible faculty support, and beautiful, sunny SoCal weather! ☀️🌴 Details: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377. Please share.

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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

‼️ Postdoc position open. We study how protein metabolism controls time. If you’re excited by this question, we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative researcher with a strong track record. 📅 30 September 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇👇

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Babraham

The lab investigates the molecular mechanisms that control biological timing in mouse and human stem cells (Azzi & Rayon, Curr Opinions 2024; Nakanoh et al., Dev Cell 2026). The central aim of this ex...

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Sami Chaaban @sami-c.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Excited to share that the Chaaban Lab will be opening in January at the Crick!

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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So exciting to see our work featured by @jcb.org ! 🎉 This study brings together proteomics, zebrafish & rhomboid biology. New in the final paper: Dr. Kvido Strisovsky Rhbdl2 inhibitor beautifully phenocopied the R2 KO. So proud of Saroj and grateful to co-authors and collaborators! 💕

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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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Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Absolutely ecstatic to share that WE GOT THE COVER!!! 🥹🎉 Seeing this on NCB's cover feels surreal. So much time, science, and teamwork went into this project, and I couldn’t be more excited to see it celebrated like this. A very, very happy day for this really really old and grown embryo 🐭🧫💥

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

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Leonie Anton @leonieanton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am excited to share that I will start my group @embl.org in Grenoble in February 2027, where we will investigate host-pathogen interactions using in situ cryo electron microscopy🦠❄️🔬! I am recruiting PhD students through the current open call of the EMBL PhD Program: www.embl.org/about/info/e...

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Anton Group – Cellular structural biology of host-pathogen interactions

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hiya! Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu) is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. It’s a really great department! apply.interfolio.com/187735

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UW Neurobiology & Biophysics -

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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!

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Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel it! I think in the before times, our first submission would have been funded… so the initial disappointment was pretty heavy. Grateful reviewers liked version 2… but definitely feel for all the grants that aren’t going to get funded this year. In short — Thank you!!!

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally bought a couch for my office to celebrate. 😂😂😂

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Balyn Zaro @balynzaro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Proud to see this paper lead by my amazing student Regan finally out in the world! Using chemical biology approaches, we reveal a transcriptionally silent process by which macrophages acquire new functional proteins from the surface of interacting cells.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NOA Day!🎉 After a few tries 😅, our ESI MIRA was funded! So much gratitude to everyone who got this over the line. Thanks to my lab, my PO and all the hard working people at the NIH that processed this, MRAD reviewers, my ever patient grants person who puts up with me, and my dept for their feedback!

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begüm aydın @begumaydin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share that I'll join Columbia in Jan 2027 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Development& the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative! A long-held dream; I'm grateful for my mentors and colleagues. We'll study microbiota-ENS interactions-now hiring! theaydinlab.com

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The Aydin Lab | Laboratory of Neurodevelopmental Plasticity

The Aydin Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center studies how gut microbiota shape the development and plasticity of the enteric nervous system.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Conferences is a great idea! 🤩

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very happy to share my postdoc paper is out now in @natcellbio.nature.com titled "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarization and directional migration". If you love imaging and immune cells, this is for you! #microscopymonday www.nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵: 1/n

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Drummond Lab @drummondlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu

A picture of the University of Chicago campus, with downtown Chicago in the distance and Lake Michigan on the horizon. The campus's central quad is pictured, a classical collegiate quad with paths and old trees and stone architecture. It's really pretty and I love it.

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Love this too… I do feel like making that jump to postdoc should be accompanied with a feeling of excitement — it’s not a second phd. Also, a big yes to human experts!

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is the most intentional response I’ve ever heard. Love it — especially the check your list with faculty part. ❤️

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That being said, I did do a postdoc because it felt like a default choice and wasn’t able to get anything else lined up while I was scrambling to finish up my PhD. Which, in retrospect was probably a mistake???

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Jenn Kong @jennkong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Noooooo…. 😭😭😭. Academically and scientifically, my postdoc years were the most fun and rewarding years of my life.

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