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Osman Lab @osman-lab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🧬 New preprint from our lab! After years of work, we're excited to share our story: the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) — best known for feeding the TCA cycle — has a second, non-catalytic role supporting mitochondrial DNA gene expression in yeast.

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congratulations to Wallace Marshall of UCSF, recipient of the 2026 Keith R. Porter Lecture, honoring innovative leaders advancing our understanding of cell biology. www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-anno…

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Ximena Garcia Arceo @quexarce.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I now have TWO apps that are necessary for doing basic tasks on Microsoft Outlook, e.g. logging in and opening a PDF. This is beyond Kafkaesque. Demonic forces are at play here.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Don't stay on twitter so long you stop believing in sunscreen" sounds like an idiom people 200 years in the future will be using but won't remember what it means

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Ximena Garcia Arceo @quexarce.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As if we need more dogs from breeders in this world. This is an abominable use of gene-editing technology. Meanwhile there is great research into causes and treatments of allergies. Gene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies - ABC News share.google/Aac7bdAp3dyp...

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Gene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Congratulations everyone!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/07/2026

If this is what happens to a scientific field as a whole when LLMs dominate the workflows of researchers, I can only imagine that the outlook is even worse for any individual researcher who is soldiering on without using them. 😞

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Gladfelter Lab @gladfelterlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

You're probably already doing science advocacy — you just might not call it that. Our new commentary (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes the case that every scientist has a role, and that advocacy takes many forms. Find and embrace yours! @natcellbio.nature.com @vfarm15.bsky.social

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Every scientist has a role in advocacy - Nature Cell Biology

In this Comment, we call on scientists to share their stories. Through casual conversation or prepared presentations, with images or essays, scientists can advocate for their research and reach taxpay...

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI is to a scientist what a calculator is to a mathematician. Basing the future of science on AI is as deep as basing the future of mathematics on calculators

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.”

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ChiliDishGambino @chilidishgambino.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

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🇲🇽 Leonardo Collado-Torres @lcolladotor.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Si conocen a mexicano/as 🇲🇽 en @jhu.edu (o afiliada/os) y/o profesionistas en Baltimore, avísenme. Organizo un grupo de WA de mexas en Balto que estoy buscando revivir. Voy a aprovechar que estoy organizando una fiesta con mariachis 🎺 🎤 y así intentar fomentar nuestra pequeña comunidad. ¡Gracias!

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...

Scanning electron microscopy image of the ciliate Euplotes gigatrox on the cover of the journal PNAS. Distinct punk rock vibes

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

you've heard alot about how cells are or are not crowded at the molecular scale, but what about at the organelle scale? in her new preprint, @marymirvis.bsky.social develops a quantitative way to ask this question in budding yeast - see her thread below www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Mary Mirvis @marymirvis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

2/13 A nice model system for this geometric question is budding yeast - simple rigid shape, easy to synchronize, and amenable to whole-cell imaging and reconstruction with high throughput.

whole-cell reconstruction of budding yeast Uchida et al 2011, Wei et al 2012, and Kichuk et al 2024

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Mary Mirvis @marymirvis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Link in the main post was cut off! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Mary Mirvis @marymirvis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

1/13 So excited to share our new preprint!! How do organelles pack together in a crowded cytoplasm? we know organelles interact via contact sites, but how does competition for space contribute to organelle morphology and interactions? @wallaceucsf.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Images of packed cellular interiors from Maritan et al 2022 and Heinrich et al 2021.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

1/23 New preprint! Been thinking about the origin of cellular life. Specifically, how protocells (or *any* compartments) just aren't enough to support the evolution of increasingly complex cells. You gotta de-Darwinize the parts! The ribosome/genome do this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

reminds me of a t-shirt I designed in grad school for our dev bio program retreat, which said "Death, the final stage of development"

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s starting to seem like changes in cell volume are turning up in many different cases of cell state transitions. Would be nice to collect examples.

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Juan C. Landoni @jclandoni.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We're hiring! 🔬🏔️ Looking for curious, open-minded, and multidisciplinary #PhD candidates to research at the intersection of #mitochondria, #metabolism, #imaging & #physiology, with the #Alps as a backdrop. Sounds like you or someone you know? Link below! @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

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Deepa Rajan, PhD @deeparajan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

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Juan C. Landoni @jclandoni.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Landoni Lab opens this summer at UNIL! @fbm-unil.bsky.social 🔬 Quantitative #imaging + systems biology to decipher how #metabolic architecture & #mtDNA dynamically shape tissue development, #aging and #mitodisease. Beyond excited to fire up the lasers, open positions soon! 🧪 #mitochondria #newPI

Landoni lab & UNIL logos, featuring fluorescent images of mitochondria and nematodes

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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to our sixteen NSF-GRFP awardees and Honorable Mentions!!

Flyer of the 16 GSMI scholars and program alumni who received the NSF-GRFP Award or an Honorable Mention

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Terrible question phrasing.

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(GIRISH)MALI LAB @dyneinassembly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Normally, motile cilia beat vigorously on the cell surface, just like they do on our lung cells to keep us healthy.

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Matt Lycas @lycasworks.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The longstanding mystery for how mitochondria segregate and position their DNA has been solved! Read all about it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @jclandoni.bsky.social Here is Juan and I at the 4th of July parade at MBL physiology

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This (along with the ethical reasons, and the environmental reasons, and the "if you have to push it on me that hard I automatically don't trust it" reasons) is a big part of why I don't use GenAI - I'm not done learning yet! I've still got things I want to **know** how they work.

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Juan C. Landoni @jclandoni.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Our paper is now out in Science! Super excited to share our discovery that #mitochondria #pearling is the elusive mechanism driving the regular distribution and inheritance of #mtDNA nucleoids 🧬 [1/6]

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 02/04/2026

“Why Did This Evolve? It Didn’t. It Was Already There” - @jclandoni.bsky.social 👉 www.iflscience.com/why-did-this...

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Janelia Conferences @janeliaconf.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🚨 Deadline approaching (Apr 16)! Don’t miss your chance to join our student-led #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop. Meals, accommodation + reasonable travel covered for accepted participants. Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

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Carter Lab @carter-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today is the start of Impact Week, a week-long celebration of the people and philanthropy that power the MBL. Each day, we’re highlighting a different area of impact, beginning today with #research, the foundation of breakthroughs in Woods Hole. Donate: mbl.edu/give

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Daniel Cortes, returning to the MBL this year as a Whitman Fellow, discovered a new, never-before-described species of Stentor. He and his colleagues named it Stentor stipatus. 🔗 Read about it here: go.mbl.edu/stentor

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Ewa Bomba-Warczak @ebomba.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🚨 Our lab is hiring postdoctoral fellows in two different areas of research: (1) mitochondrial biology and (2) reproductive science. Postings are below, and you can visit bombawarczaklab.com to learn more about what we do! Repro: apply.interfolio.com/183045 Mito: apply.interfolio.com/183230

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Gladfelter Lab @gladfelterlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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RNA-specific local translation is patterned by condensates for multinucleate cell growth - Nature Cell Biology

Geisterfer, Jalihal et al. show spatially distinct effects of Whi3 condensates on target translation in Ashbya syncytia. In vitro, translation is enriched at condensate–solute interfaces but repressed...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

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NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking

Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This post is about biologists' obligation to speak up for trans rights, in case I need to spell it out directly.

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We're wrapping up at #bps2026! See you next year at #bps2027 in Philadelphia, February 20-24, 2027!

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Great thread, worth the read in its entirety

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Azusa Kage @azusakage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

New preprint alert! 🦠🔬 We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga. Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Fun find in the free library at work: Greg's Microscope. Never knew this existed. Warms my heart to see some ciliates in a children's book. I forgive them for referring to protists as animals...

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Janelia Conferences @janeliaconf.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more. ✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered 🔗 janelia.news/THB26 @allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social

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Chih-Hsuan (Sherry) Hsu @sherryhsu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Thrilled to share that the first part of my PhD work from @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social lab is now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check out the threads below:

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Does tubulin acetylation dictate organelle behavior? We used quantitative multispectral imaging to simultaneously profile 8 membrane-bound organelles and decipher how tubulin acetylation shapes organelle architecture and interaction networks during neuronal differentiation. 4/9

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