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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My kingdom for a reference manager that maintains proper italicization of gene and species names.

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In 2026, ASAPbio Cell Biology Crowd worked really hard to publicly review preprints! You can visit one of their reviews here 👉️ buff.ly/VFRvX1X Want to learn how to review preprints and contribute to Open Science practices? Join this group! buff.ly/eI0JpxS

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PREreview of Chromosome-arm-specific telomere length governs dual modes of structural genome evolution in IDH-mutant astrocytoma

Authored by Joseph Biggane, Timothy En Haw Chan, Joseph Biggane, Debraj Manna, Haofu Huang, Nitya Khetarpal, Briana E. Pinales, Chinyere Mary-Cynthia Ikele, Sarah E. Gilmour, Diptarup Mallick, and 1…

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PomBase: The S. pombe knowledgebase @pombase.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.

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Sarah Gilmour @sarahgilmour.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🚨Preprint alert! If you you’ve been following the centromere field recently, you’ve seen some (excellent) work showing that repeat copy number is highly variable in centromere region leading to massive variation in size. Here we try to understand how that variation impacts centromere functionality:

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Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A new analysis confirms what has long been suspected: grant cuts at NIH hit women and early-career researchers the hardest. As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social told me, the findings here are unsurprising, but “documenting the damage from current policy is critical” 🧪

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NIH grant cuts hit women, early-career scientists the hardest: analysis

Last year’s funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) disproportionately impacted women and early-career researchers, according to a | Last year’s funding cuts at the National Institutes...

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3] 📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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How Stowers Scientists Found the DNA Site Where Robertsonian Chromosomes Fuse

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

And now the last talk of the day from Stowers’ own Brandon Fagen, presenting "5S IRNA regulatory changes in fission yeast are dynamic and rapid". #OddPols25

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 23/05/2025

#Fungal infections are hard to treat due to #DrugResistance. @blakebillmyre.bsky.social &co use a high-throughput #TNseq system in #Cryptococcus neoformans to identify >1400 essential genes & reveal a role for #mitochondrial genes in #fluconazole sensitivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dz3iVm

Schematic of TN-seq in C. neoformans. Top left: Transposon insertions (orange arrow) into nonessential genes results in viable cells. In contrast, insertions into essential genes will result in dead and nonrecoverable cells. Top right: TN-seq works by generating a library of cells where each cell has a single independent transposon insertion in a random location. As in A, those insertions into essential regions cause the cells to die and are nonrecoverable. As a result, the total library (bottom) is depleted in insertions in essential regions. Bottom: The Ac/Ds transposon was split into an Ac transposase and a Ds transposon containing a neomycin resistance marker. This Ds transposon was integrated into an intron of URA5 and the Ac transposase was integrated into the safe haven locus. The resulting stain is ura− and neomycin resistant. Upon initiating transposition via growth on galactose, the strain becomes URA+ and mutant at another locus (depicted here as YFG1).

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Stowers Grad School @stowersgrad.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Each year the Behrensen – Guzmán Palma Award recognizes excellence in graduate #research. This year’s award goes to @jupeloggia.bsky.social whose research sheds light on how environment and #genetics together guide sensory organ development. www.stowers.org/gradschool/n...

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Former Stowers Predoc receives the Behrensen - Guzmán Palma Award

The annual award honors the memory of Stowers Predoctoral Researchers Camila Behrensen and Pablo Guzmán Palma.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 28/04/2025

Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 28/04/2025

This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

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Women end up doing the academic housework

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

happy International Day of [banned] and [banned] in Science [under review] from the US

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Sarah Gilmour @sarahgilmour.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Thanks to the entire @stowersinstitute.bsky.social scientific community for a great discussion!

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Thank you to @takashiakeralab.bsky.social for joining us for a fantastic #WednesdayLectureSeries presentation! Hosted by the Gerton Lab.

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Jana Helsen @helsenjana.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Centromere evolution isn't a sudden switch! Our study shows centromere transitions are a step-by-step process driven by a combination of drift and selection. Discover how the kinetochore interface shapes this gradual change in our new preprint 🥳 doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633479 🧵(1/8)

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This beautiful #MicroscopyMonday shows a #zebrafish karyotype, the complete set of chromosomes in its cells. @michaydiez.bsky.social (Gerton Lab)

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Today at #CellBio2024, Andrew Bestul presents a poster on Uncharacterized meiotic protein, SPAC4C5.03 (fss1), Facilitates Starvation Sex through proper gamete formation and maintenance. @ascbiology.bsky.social See a full list of our talks and posters: www.stowers.org/events/cell-...

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PomBase: The S. pombe knowledgebase @pombase.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

OK Pinterest, I see where you are coming from

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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Another great week of #FridayScienceClub with presentations from @michaydiez.bsky.social and Alex Von Schulze! 👏

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup

A Reese's butter cup with scientific papers, images and data coming out of it

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 21/10/2023

The hacked the @nanopore sequencer to read amino acids and PTMs along protein strands. This opens up the possibility for barcode sequencing at the protein level for highly multiplexed assays, PTM monitoring, and protein identification 🧬🧪🤯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Multi-pass, single-molecule nanopore reading of long protein strands with single-amino acid sensitiv...

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