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K. Skruber

@skruberk.bsky.social
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Interested in how molecules work together to become cells and how we can work together to build a better world. Asst. professor in Biology at Gonzaga University they/them

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Scientists: Your voice is needed. New federal regulations could reshape research funding, publishing, and collaboration. Comments close July 13. www.ascb.org/science-policy/propose…
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What would it mean for colleges and universities to be organized around learning rather than around teaching, rankings, revenue, and prestige? Today's crazy idea: "What if learning was at the center of college?" via @insidehighered.com
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What if learning was at the center of college?
A guest post laying out a path forward for all institutions.
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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Despite it being chaotic, active nematic turbulence can give rise to arrested labyrinthine patterns! Check out our new paper @physrevresearch.bsky.social! Work led by Ido Lavi, with Jean-François Joanny and Jaume Casademunt. journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
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Sam Lord @samjlord.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Update: our #PeerReplication idea is now published in EMBO Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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Peer replication - EMBO Reports
EMBO Reports - To address the replication crisis and instill confidence in the scientific literature, we introduce a new framework for evaluating scientific manuscripts. “Peer...
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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/12/2025
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/12/2025
I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.
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K. Skruber @skruberk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
So incredibly cool to get the chance to be part of this project and so much fun watching these fast, dynamic cells move! Congrats to @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social and everyone involved!
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
Wendy surrounded by synthesizer keyboards, computers, and audio gear, holding one of her siamese cats with another perched on an equipment rackWendy sitting in front of multiple computers with her keyboards visible to the side, holding one cat while another two cats and a parrot are on top of the monitorsa color image of Wendy sitting side-on to a computer or similar device, with all of her gear along the wall, and a cat and fluffy dog sitting on the carpet next to her looking up at hercloser in of the previous device she was sitting at that seems to have a roll printer built in, she's behind it with her hands on two synthesizer keyboards and one of her cats is  on top of it batting at the fan exhaust in a series of images
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 15/10/2025
If you don’t frequently see families with kids traveling to destinations by bike, your bike network isn’t safe enough (&/or your zoning forces sprawl & car dependency).
3 people who appear to be two parents and a  child wait for a light on their bikes. They’re riding on Bryant - a sidewalk level protected bikeway
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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Take a sneak peak at The Paradox of the Organism at Google books books.google.com/books?hl=sv&... Don’t forget to pre-order!
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The Paradox of the Organism
Leading evolutionary theorists and philosophers come together to understand how organisms persist, even as they’re riddled with internal conflict, from cancer cells to selfish genes.How does a vast me...
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K. Skruber @skruberk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I wrote about how revoking access to medical care for trans people affects all of us in science. reskeets (are we calling them that?) appreciated. www.ascb.org/society-news...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
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angela oliverio @oliverio.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes" doi.org/10.1101/2025... We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵 #protistsonsky #microsky
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Twelve species of human parasites make up half of the literature on microbial eukaryotes
Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most research focuses on only a few species of human parasites. Her...
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K. Skruber @skruberk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our study tracking the route actin monomers take from the cytoplasm into branched actin networks is now up on biorxiv! In it we learned that most actin is delivered into branched actin networks from polymerases on a membrane surface, not directly from the cytoplasm.
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K. Skruber @skruberk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We built (part of) a microscope!
Building part of a microscope by aligning the laser using a series of mirrors on adjustable mounts
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Louis Johnston @ldjeconomics.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social
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The Myth of Objective Data
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.
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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 20/10/2024
Bluesky's topped 12 million users! For any new joiners out there who are into SFF - welcome! There's a great community here. And here's a thread of Starter Packs that might help you find your people: 1/
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