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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RING domain origin is so … underwhelming (Really Interesting New Gene)

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

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Rasmus Jensen @rasmusjensen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎉 Out today in Cell: the paper I've been looking forward to sharing for a long time 🎉 We used cryo-ET to find a molecular machine nobody knew existed on the surface of a minimal bacterium, and worked out what it does. 🧵(1/7) #TeamTomo #cryoET

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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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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe you have heard about our Alaska stickleback introduction experiment? You might want to apply for our multi-PI freshwater science postdoctoral position. The video below is of one of our source lakes for the intro. scasscsa.mcjobboard.net/jobs/235865

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good old Coomassie Brilliant Blue G250 can be used as a fluorescent gel stain. And done right, it performs as well as Sypro Ruby, if you have access to an infrared scanner like the LiCor Odyssey.

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Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!

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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

AlphaFold Server’s ligand menu just got a lot bigger and I almost missed it! You can now add any ligand from the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary. Just enter its CCD code 🥳

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Michael Feldbrügge @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two PhD positions in the Feldbrügge Lab at HHU Düsseldorf within nEXt-RNA: 🔬 DC1: Live-cell imaging of RNA transfer and function 📦 DC10: Mechanisms and applications of RNA delivery RNA biology, fungi, extracellular vesicles and advanced imaging. www.mikrobiologie.hhu.de/en/

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

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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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William Garland @willgarland.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Postdoc in Nuclear RNA Biology at Aarhus University! Interested in mammalian nuclear RNA production and turnover? Come join Torben Heick Jensen’s team in Aarhus 🇩🇰 www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

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Postdoc position in Nuclear RNA Biology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved RNA-biologi og -innovation, Aarhus Universitet

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I had this discussion this morning with my next-door colleague , after mentioning the “GAPDH” promoter nomenclature issue to him. Many of their tetrahymena experiments are done in starvation conditions, for convenience. A bunch of the genes in the pathway they study just turn off unexpectedly

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A reminder to budding yeast researchers: if you use the "GAPDH" promoter to drive constitutive expression, please be careful about how you describe this. The gene GPD1 encodes glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, not Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. The TDH3 promoter is probably what you use

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Rytis Prekeris @prekerislab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Looking for a postdoc to join our project studying actin and membrane dynamics during cell migration. If interested, please reach out to me via email: rytis.prekeris@ucdenver.edu

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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Im looking for a postdoc to help with protein engineering efforts. If you know who could be a good fit send them my way! see details below:

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The choice was more about song structure: "grandkids" provides an imperfect rhyme with "granted" from the previous line

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“O-li-gos”: too many syllables! When I get around to posting my parody from last year, look for the line “your BamHI is as old as me”, with video proof 😄

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's not much to laugh about these days in the research enterprise. A few yrs ago I began performing science-themed parodies at the Annual Retreat of our Molecular Biology PhD Program @molbcu.bsky.social (I am Associate Director). I hope this one from 2024 makes you smile youtu.be/HqPldJ_OIZI

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"Wanted": a PCR Parody from the CU Anschutz Molecular Biology PhD Program 2024 Annual Retreat

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One of my favorite parts of this paper full of beautiful experiments is the finding that phosphorylation of a regulatory helix switches the direction of transport. Imagine trying to figure this out using only in vitro reconstitution and recombinant proteins! No chance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A molecular switch for coordinating kinesin and dynein transport of mitochondrial cargo

The cellular distribution of mitochondria in response to stress and local energy needs is governed by the relative activities of the microtubule-based molecular motors kinesin and dynein. The mechanis...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

looks like “buffer” and “volume” were also mistranslated

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This article includes an abstract in Brazilian Portuguese. It is our first article with an additional language abstract. For more details about this option: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/jo...

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Juan Carlos De la Concepcion @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs

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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

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John F. Rawls @jfrawls.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Rawls Lab is hiring! We are seeking a motivated research technician to support cutting-edge studies in gastrointestinal physiology using zebrafish & mice. To learn more about this hands-on & in-person position at Duke University in Durham NC, click here: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-R...

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When I called it out on the mistake, Gemini replied: "My mistake on that transcription error—thank you for catching that missing nucleotide in the middle of the sequence." Like, how hard is it to keep track of 29 characters??

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I asked Google's chatbot, Gemini, to help me install & run an RNA structure/sequence analysis program on my Mac. It asked me to paste the sequence for analysis, and it would make the input file. Output looked a little funny… it had deleted one of the 29 nt from the middle of the pasted sequence!

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Barack Obama's Confused Reaction

ALT: Barack Obama's Confused Reaction

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...

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University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas

Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

Caption:
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
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Liz Miller @lizmillercu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Job alert! I'm recruiting a new post-doc to work on mechanisms of co-translational quality control in the ER. Looking for expertise in ribosome biology and yeast genetics/cell biology. Please reach out to me with any questions. www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2336

Closing date: Thursday 27 August 2026, 23:59

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Sofia Luengo-Woods @sluengo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)

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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

RNA-seq tells us how much RNA is present in the cell. But to understand gene regulation, we need to easily measure the synthesis and decay rates driving this abundance. We introduce AIR-seq: analog intrinsic recoding sequencing. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Analog intrinsic recoding measures RNA dynamics without chemical conversion

Steady-state RNA abundance measurements mask the synthesis and decay rates that shape gene expression. Analog intrinsic recoding sequencing (AIR-seq) repurposes the base-pairing properties of N4-hydro...

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

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Tatiana Moiseeva @tat1anamoiseeva.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

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Tatiana Moiseeva Lab

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m curious about the return on investment for that expenditure

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MichaelMcMurray lab @mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Any known examples of an RNA localization element in the 5’UTR?

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Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Rafa) @rafomics.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

1/10 🚨Preprint! One RING to rule them all (phages)👑💍⚔️ Bacteria build giant DNA-scaffolded RNase rings (larger than the ribosome!) to shut down viral infection🧬🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Join us in a fun, crazy and interesting interdisciplinary research project that combines protein biophysics, evolutionary genomics, biomolecular archaeology, and textile research to resolve species identity and post-translational modifications in the structural proteins collagen and keratin

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HittingerLab @hittingerlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A tenure-track research position is available for application at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute @westerdijkinst.bsky.social located in Utrecht Science Park in the Netherlands. Please share with colleagues and see the link below for more info: wi.knaw.nl/news/details...

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Kaplan Lab at the University of Pittsburgh has received funds to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to establish a multiplexed assay of variant effect for a disease gene. This relates to our studies on RNA Polymerase II. This project requires experience with human cell lines and genomics 1/

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Post Doctoral Associate

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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