iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Agathe Chaigne @agathechaigne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does anyone (ideally local to the Netherlands) have a His-Ub plasmid? High cheese reward.

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International Zebrafish Society @izfs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

US Zebrafish PIs: Your input is critical! An NIH R24 grant has been obtained to develop 60 small epitope tag knock-in genes as a resource for the zebrafish community. Please submit your input by Sep 18: upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #EpitopeTag #ZebrafishResource #ZebrafishSurvey

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ooh so sneaky. I'm going to a small conference as a speaker. I just got an e-mail informing me that my entire trip was going to be sponsored click on the encrypted link to enter my details. I'm 99% certain that the conference has no speaker budget, plus I registered with my non-work e-mail.

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Heads up AA folks. The B to B trail is blocked by portable barriers just east of the fishing pond in Gallup park. There does not appear to be any hazard that warrants closing the trail either to the east or west of the barrier (in other words you can just go around it).

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm only a few days into being an AAAS Policy Fellow, but if any of tweeps here are interested in applying, I'm glad to share about my application experience and what it's been like so far. Only 2% if my cohort are "senior" (>15 years post-PhD), but it's a great opportunity for experienced faculty!

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Very cool story from the Sardana lab strongly suggesting that cystinosin, which is best known for it's roles in getting small molecules out of the lysosome, almost certainly has roles outside of the lysosome and that important for the pathological consequences of mutations. A great read!!

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Help needed! Does anyone know of a lab that has glass (pigmentless) guppies? We are interested in getting them for a project

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧪I'm fed up with the Mr. Frosty (TM) brand cell freezer. I can't get them open and then they make a fricking mess when they are warming up after use. Do people use the foam ones? Do they work?

A foam freezing vessel labeled corning cool something.

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As you may know, NIH abruptly terminated funding to FlyBase curators based in the United Kingdom. Please help us retain these curators and thereby enable ongoing curation of bibliographic, genetic and phenotypic data by contributing annually (tinyurl.com/4jw65mbb). Thank you. #FlyBase

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Cassandra Hayne @cassandrahayne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at #UChicago is looking for a new junior faculty member to join us. If you or someone you know would be a good fit, please apply or encourage them to apply! apply.interfolio.com/191981

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Garcia-Mata Lab @rhopower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TOLEDO CellulART. Registration deadline this Friday if you want to be considered for a short talk! Same deadline for the image competition by @ibidicells.bsky.social . Send us your best picture! Remember, registration is always FREE.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Michigan peeps: CVS is now scheduling updated Covid shots. (I haven't checked out other pharmacies, but I bet they are too).

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Mushroom season is finally here. Our golden oyster logs petered out last year so it’s been a long mushroom free summer. Got >55 shiitakes 1.25

Me holding a 3ft log covered in small mushrooms.

A pile of mushrooms two held aloft about the size of an adults palm.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Alright everybody, time to text the teachers in your life. The fall semester is open at SkypeAScientist and we are ready to match classrooms, scout troops, library groups, and more with scientists! Tell the educators in your life, and send them to SkypeAScientist.com

A frog uses its comically long tongue to catch a fleeing fly and the words say “send this to a teacher” pointing right. Then under the tongue it says “Skype a scientist matches classrooms with scientists for free Q&As” and there’s a little pond scene with lily pads and spatterdock flowers and a rock with a snail on it and a salamander with the words get a match at Skype scientist.com

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MRC-LMB Cell Biology Division @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great tribute to the discovery by Barbara Pearce of clathrin, the first protein found to act in membrane traffic, along with her mentoring and support of the pioneers (many of whom were other women) who revealed the workings of this key player in cellular function.

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lovely recollection of some of the key steps in the discovery of clathrin by three women who defined key aspects of this important protein complex and its function. (CW-discusses a bit of the literal butchery that went into the early discussion)

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Peter Carlton @carltonlab.org · 28/08/2026

🇦🇺↔🇯🇵 for undergrad/masters students studying in Australia and interested in short-term research opportunities this summer (Jan 7 – Feb 18 2027) - please check out Kyoto University's KU-STAR program: www.kugd.k.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/ku-star-p... ! Application deadline is Sep. 25, happy to take questions.

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KU-STAR Program AUS

What’s the KU-STAR Program? KU-STAR Program, Kyoto University Short-Term Academic Research Pro

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you are thinking of applying to the @uwgenome.bsky.social PhD program this fall, we have a couple of zoom info sessions set up for Oct 6 and Oct 22. Please register at the link. Our website also has a ton of useful information about crafting your application. www.gs.washington.edu/news/graduat...

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Graduate Program Information Sessions – UW Genome Sciences

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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

💡 Looking for a publication in SGD? Quick tip: 🧬 The Locus Summary shows footnotes for that specific page 📚 The Literature tab has the COMPLETE reference list organized by topic. Find all curated publications for any gene there! Read more: www.yeastgenome.org/blog/finding... #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬

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Belle in Beauty and the Beast Library

ALT: Belle in Beauty and the Beast Library

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Garden update: two years of growth on the fig tree (bush in MI) and we have figs!, lots of royal corona bean plants, too many cucumbers, sunflowers, tromboncino and yellow squash, zinnias for the pollinators!

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Worm peeps doing WGS - what is fastest even if not necessarily the cheapest? U of MN is great and cheap (although they just got a bit more expensive - although $35 as compared to the $6K I paid for the first WGS yrs ago) but their turnaround time is now close to 1.5 months.

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ok why are all of these festivals suddenly following me?

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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My MCDB Dept is hiring, again! Assistant Professor Faculty Search. Please Repost! Applications Due Oct 1st We welcome applications from all areas of cellular/molecular biology in prokaryotes, plants, and animals. More information can be found HERE: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679540/a...

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Assistant Professor - Ann Arbor, Michigan job with University of Michigan - Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology | 679540

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FACULTY POSITION IN CELL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND RELATED FIELDS The Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental B...

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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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Liz Miller @lizmillercu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

*JobAlert* One more week to apply for a post-doc position in my lab at Dundee to study co-translational protein quality control of secretory and membrane proteins. This is a collaborative project with @kulathu.bsky.social and @zeqiraj.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM201/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2336 at University of Dundee

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2336 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The unambiguous goal here is to make the process opaque enough that the grant system can be turned into a spoils system, wherein executive branch political appointees — apparatchiks —allocate funds to perceived allies and deny funds to perceived foes. There is *nothing* else motivating this.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

this lesson goes by multiple names, including "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" and "when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"

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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of my regrets is not writing reviews earlier in my career, in part so I could cite those brilliant, well established opinions in current paper drafts. I could have made it so easy for myself.

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🧪We're looking at desmosome components in stem cells and the desmosome proteins don't always co-localize. Dsp forms bright foci along cell-cell interfaces but only near the apical surface. Dsc and dsg are found along cell-cell interfaces uniformly from apical to basal. Is this weird?

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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are the official @aaup.org chapter of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Our mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance. You can learn more about us at umaaup.org.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We are gathering feedback from our readers, authors and reviewers about the use of AI tools in scholarly publishing. Have your say at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZBFC663

Community survey: The role of AI tools in scholarly publishing — announcement from The Company of Biologists, showing five stylized people and three speech bubbles to represent community discussion.

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As a component of aseptic technique, Bunsen burners do not universally decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This year marks 30 years since the S. cerevisiae genome was published-the first complete eukaryotic genome! "Life with 6000 Genes" meeting Aug 31-Sep 1 celebrates this milestone. SGD's 32-year retrospective coming in FEMS Yeast Research. #yeast #genomics #30years www.yeastgenome.org/blog/celebra...

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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

That’s def how I imagine the TGN to look like.

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🧪OK science peeps--why do people use DH5alpha's? JM109s are better for big DNA, higher eff, and grow so much faster--is that why people us it fewer satellites? Inertia?

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🧪Happy Monday morning! Manuscript accepted!!

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Folks, who is telling high school students -- who I am sure are smart and talented and ambitious -- to cold email college professors and volunteer to do research or collaborate with them? This is not a good idea. Please stop this.

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

After a (oof two month break) I'm back to my write for at least 30 min a day routine. It's so satisfying to check off each day, and I'm really making progress on several projects.

A photo of some cute little sheets labeled with each month and boxes for each weekday. Each sheet has silly birds on it. The top one is May and is not completely full. Then comes august which is looking to be on track with each day so far checked off.

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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

nsurp.org NSURP will ride again in 2027 thanks to an NIAID R25! Stay tuned!

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NSURP.org

National Summer Undergraduate Research Project

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Lezanne Ooi @lezanne.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you know someone that will be in Brisbane next week on Wednesday 19th August / is interested in #scicomm / #neuroscience / #DnD / #DungeonsandDragons / #improv / #comedy then please share this event! tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event... @arcqubic.bsky.social @mind-adcre.bsky.social

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have to upgrade a computer to the newest window. The computer is attached to an 17 yo plate reader. The software for the plate reader won’t work on the latest windows *and* the upgraded software requires a yearly 1k license fee. Can a virtual environment for windows work?

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Marko Kaksonen @kaksonen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Endocytic clathrin coats are surprisingly dynamic: triskelia turn over in seconds. How is the turnover regulated and what is it for? Read Anne-Laure Boinet's preprint with @rouxlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Does anyone know of any Microbiology, Coral, or General Bio focused journals that don't charge publication fees? Doesn't necessarily have to be open-access. I've been working with some talented high schoolers on a project for the past ~2 years and they wish to publish their findings

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 11/08/2026

If you’re an academic looking for a new place to host open scientific content, etc. here’s a friendly reminder to check with your institution’s library

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My C. elegans people: our large incubator is dying. Any suggestions for brands/approx cost? Thanks!

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Moira Rose: Let's Not Count Our Poultry

ALT: Moira Rose: Let's Not Count Our Poultry

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Mara Duncan @mcduncanlab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ok folks, it’s jam 2.0 blackberries are on sale at Meijer for 50 cents!! I thought last weeks $1 sale was great.

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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

With most 1st-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those with experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked.

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Choosing rotations and a dissertation lab - Help, I'm a Scientist!

By David Fay Choosing a lab in which to carry out your PhD is admittedly one of the more important decisions you’ll make in your early scientific career. But it’s important to have some perspective. F...

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