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Seth Tomchik

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Neuroscientist studying learning & memory and genetic disorders. Some photography on the side. Views are my own.

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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The American public has clearly weighed in on OMB's proposed rule that would politicize science funding. An overwhelming majority of comments submitted - 94% - oppose it. www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...
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The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If you haven't yet submitted a comment on the new OMB rule re: federal funding of research and would like to, now is the time. Your voice matters!
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Caught a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Riverside Theater in Iowa City on Thursday. The performers and production were amazing. What a gift to the community. No photos allowed during the performance so this will have to suffice.
An clsssic wood framed outdoor Shakespearean theater, photographed in the evening, with a large banner advertising the current performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream hanging from the front
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"When we use AI ... we lose the most important part of the writing process: thinking." I don't use AI for this reason. E.g., when writing up a research manuscript, the goal is to publish, but the writing process represents an intellectual review of the project. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI
Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right.
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience
Tools that track specific molecules in neurons have enabled researchers to probe previously unexplored aspects of neurobiology — although important caveats remain.
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Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her) @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
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Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733
The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"If NOAA’s forecast holds, Thursday could bring an even higher chance of seeing the northern lights as a Kp index of 7 has been issued for tomorrow night"
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Nature @nature.com · 29/10/2025
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ
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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
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Camilla Ferreira Wenceslau @camillawenceslau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🌟We’re hiring! 🌟 The Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy at the @UofSCSOMC is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor to join our collaborative and dynamic team! ❤️ Focus: Cardiovascular, cellular, and molecular research Review begins Dec 1, 2025 uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/196...
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Assistant Professor
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
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Director of Biology Teaching Labs
The Director of Biology Teaching Labs provides leadership and direction in the management of the Biology Department's undergraduate laboratories and will be responsible for the undergraduate laborator...
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NPR @npr.org · 20/10/2025
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The framing of the article (and others like it) is wildly misleading. Academia does not have a sweetheart deal and never did. Universities produce knowledge and educate students, and are funded to do those things. It is hard, undercompensated work, with extreme competition at all levels.
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Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Bess Frost @bessfrost.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We are excited to announce a new open search for a tenure track Assistant Professor position within the Brown University Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175427
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Are you advancing #Drosophila neurogenetics? 🧠🪰 Nominations are open for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture—$5,000 + present at #Dros26! 2025 recipient Qili Liu shared groundbreaking work on protein-specific appetite. Who’s next? Apply by Nov 6: buff.ly/kTdkONE
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this: Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING. You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A new series of postdoc career development seminars launched this semester. The first, "Postdoc to PI" featured new Assistant Professors (i.e., with fresh experience) to coach postdocs looking to hit the academic job market soon. Keep an eye out for more upcoming events: uipda.grad.uiowa.edu
Postdocs seated in a sunlit room, facing a panel of five professors seated at a table in the front of the room, who are in front of floor-to-ceiling windows.Close-up view of five professors seated at a table in front of windows, engaged in a panel discussion with an audience that is not pictured (behind the camera)Flyer for the Postdoc to PI panel
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
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Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty
The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...
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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My department at Case Western Reserve is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor of Neurosciences - come be our colleague! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Tina Tootle @tinatootle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
One month left to apply! The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an assistant professor in genetics whose research focuses on a fundamental mechanism that can be applied to cancer. Apply at: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view.... Come join our vibrant department!🧪
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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Familiar spaces can take on such a different look if the light hits just right
An indoor atrium with afternoon light coming through a set of windows and casting long shadows on a concrete floor. Several tall round concrete pillars are visible and the atrium is lined with scattered tables and chairs. The photograph has a desaturated, almost grayscale appearance
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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Case Western Reserve Department of Biology is hiring! We're recruiting for a tenure-track position focusing on eukaryotic microbiology, especially microbial/environment interactions. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174456
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Lab get-together at Wilson's Orchard on the outskirts of Iowa City. The day included live music, sampling apple cider donuts and pizza and picking apples from the orchard. We sampled several varieties in season now, including Song of September, Honeygold, Chieftain, and Jonafree.
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Great week in the lab, including the Carver College of Medicine Investiture. Thank you to the Roy J. Carver Charitable Foundation for supporting our research. It was an honor to reflect on, and speak about, the influence of my mentors, and the work of our lab members, past and present (pictured).
Tomchik lab members pictured in front of the green wall outside the Prem Sahai auditorium at the University of Iowa. Seth is in the center of the group, wearing graduation regalia and a Caver medallion from the ceremony.
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Maria de la Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday. He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired. We will miss you, Ed.
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C. Andrew Frank @candrewfrank.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We have an uncorrected proof published for Bhagaban Mallik's study on Mitochondrial Complex I and how it regulates synapse function. You can find it in @plosbiology.org. I am so proud! H/T collaborators: Drs. Sajad Bhat and Xinnan Wang @xinnanwanglab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Mitochondrial Complex I and ROS control neuromuscular function through opposing pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms
How do neurons adapt to mitochondrial dysfunction in different tissues? This study shows that Mitochondrial Complex I depletion triggers ROS-driven compensatory signaling in motor neurons that preserv...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Replacing “duration of status”, eg while enrolled in graduate studies no matter how long it takes, with a fixed term. Note that most US biomed grad programs run average time to PHD of 5-6 years, not four.
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Some moments from the Fine2Day Fest at Codfish Hollow Barnstormers. A bunch of great bands performing in a barn-turned-music-venue in Maquoketa, Iowa. Pics here are Susto Stringband, She Returns From War, and Johnny Delaware.
Band playing on a stage illuminated with colored stage lighting inside a converted barn in Maquoketa, IowaA barn and grain silo at Codfish Hollow Barnstormers, a music venue that is located in a converted barn in IowaJohnny Delaware playing guitar seated on a stage illuminated with colored stage lighting inside a converted barn in Maquoketa, IowaBand playing on a stage illuminated with colored stage lighting inside a converted barn in Maquoketa, Iowa
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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Trump's Harvard cuts threaten a giant in biomedical research: A database about the tiny fruit fly
This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.
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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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NPR @npr.org · 14/09/2025
Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and now the science is precise enough to test one of Stephen Hawking's key ideas.
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After 10 years of black hole science, Stephen Hawking is proven right
Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and now the science is precise enough to test one of Stephen Hawking's key ideas.
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University of Iowa Department of Biology @uiowabiology.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
On Monday, September 15, our two iBio Graduate Student Seminar speakers will be Brady Williquett (Manak Lab) and Kelsi Mann (Houston Lab). The first seminar will begin at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (BBE101). All are welcome, and we hope to see you there supporting our incredible graduate students!
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Moments from the University of Iowa Neuroscience Graduate Program Welcome Picnic 2025 at Picayune Creek Farms
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Seth Tomchik @sethtomchik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mike Welsh, Jesus (Tito) Gonzales, and Paul Negulescu, were awarded the Lasker award today for developing a treatment for cystic fibrosis. The fascinating story: www.the-scientist.com/triple-drug-...
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Triple-Drug Combination for Cystic Fibrosis Wins Lasker Award
Jesús (Tito) González, Paul Negulescu, and Michael Welsh received the 2025 Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for the development of a life-saving cystic fibrosis treatment.
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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Amazing work: transient developmental hyperexcitation leads to autism phenotypes in mice. Huge amount of cross-disciplinary work by this team!
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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#ScienceJobs !! 🧪🧠
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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...
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MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...
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Ali D. Güler @aguler.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! 🧪 @uvabio.bsky.social UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. 🧠 Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172892 #Neuroscience #FacultyJobs #NeuroJobs #Biology #UVA
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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
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Josh Dubnau @joshdubnau.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
1/2 Multiple faculty positions available at Stony Brook University, in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior. Its a wonderful environment, with great colleagues and students at a public AAU. @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social School of Medicine positions: apply.interfolio.com/170252 A&S search next post
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Robert Rosenbaum @robertrosenbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments. Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions. And please share! apply.interfolio.com/173031
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