Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleySimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Our journey began with a simple question... 042
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter. 11696131611055
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyMonica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 23/10/2025The CRG PhD call is open! 🌟 A truly special place, world-class facilities, an inspiring community, and a training team that really cares about helping each student reach their full potential. My lab will be recruiting (moving next year), as will many amazing new colleagues! #CRGPhD2026 #CRGBarcelona 0119
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyDepartment of Biology, ETH Zurich @eth-dbiol.bsky.social · 20/10/2025The centriole is crucial for cilia formation, but its molecular architecture is not known. Research from the @Wieczorek Group at ETH Zurich reports structures of the centriole’s A-C linker, revealing how it crosslinks neighboring microtubule triplets. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-... 0127
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyNPR @npr.org · 23/09/2025The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.n.prDid Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trialThe U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards. 3528672
Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I have hundreds of these in my gel room. Any good ideas on how to repurpose them? 🧪🔬 130
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyDenis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 6313201
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/08/2025write good papers and die happy 0204
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleySociety for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social #Microscopy #DevBio 1446
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyEMBO @embo.org · 27/05/2025Mark your calendars! The next ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 is taking place in Philadelphia, US, 6–10 December 2025: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/ 🧪 @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBiology #research 034
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyCell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 27/05/2025The membrane topology problem inherent in ciliogenesis is solved by ciliary recruitment of a phospholipid flippase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 052
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyKat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia. Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease? Find out more and apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 26434
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyMarine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 01/05/2025This fall, we are offering a Light Microscopy Bootcamp for graduate students, postdocs, and advanced researchers! 🔬 Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link! bit.ly/4iGt8Yibit.lyMBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp | Marine Biological LaboratoryDirector: Ed Munro, University of Chicago 02510
Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Thankful to receive a Best Poster Award at a research conference last week! 🏆🔬 #cilia #cellbio #devbio #bioinformatics 030
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyScience Magazine @science.org · 25/03/2025Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mYscim.agSaying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 researchGrant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics 31367253
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyPilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6 7257110
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyEMBO @embo.org · 13/03/2025Save the date! Cell Bio 2025, the joint ASCB | EMBO meeting, will take place in Philadelphia, US, 6 – 10 December 2025: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/ #CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social 🧪 0189
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyopenRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv 3409231
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyKaren Schindler @schindlerlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Sharing some oocyte spindle love-an image taken by PhD student Phia Maddocks. This beautiful work is supported by our NIH funding. Without this funding, we cannot understand the complexities of fertility genetics. With declining fertility rates, this work is essential to human health. 1529
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project. 22877215
Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I stood up today - and so did Beaker! #standupforscience2025 #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social 0134
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyThe EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 03/03/2025Drosophila Alms1 proteins are general regulators of #centriolar cartwheel assembly, exhibiting distinct centriolar localization patterns and enabling Plk4-Ana2 interaction #RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Véronique Morel, Bénédicte Durand and colleagues www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... 044
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/03/2025On March 3rd, he asked me what day it was. It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉 238148
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/02/2025More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”apnews.comFederal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGETwenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ... 911640373
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/02/2025Caspases have well known roles in #apoptosis, but roles in other cellular processes are emerging... This study shows that #caspase -3 & -7 promote cytoprotective #autophagy in response to non-lethal stress by modulating PARP1 activity in #BreastCancer cells 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/41xfLVm 0122
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyNPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.npr.orgNIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research fundsThe National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies. 16135471474
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyBiological Imaging and Neuroanalysis Core Facility @csu-bin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Happy #fluorescencefriday to the microscopy folks of Bluesky! 🧪 Please enjoy this image hot off the slide scanner piloting our new decon module in a murine #Parkinsons model 0283
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 20/02/2025🧪 Evo-2, the largest AI model for biology, is here. Trained on 128K genomes, it can generate entire chromosomes and decode noncoding DNA linked to disease. Scientists see it as an "app store" for biology. 🧬💻nature.comBiggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demandAn artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new genomes. 0198
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyScience Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LADscim.ag‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protestsNew group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies 2723360
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence 289114575402
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleySally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025🧪 Clickable interactive site that lets you look up each organ system damaged by #LongCovid and then further click on that page brought up to see many research papers supporting each lot of organ damage longcovidsux.com#body-map 23721
Reposted by Thomas A. BrinkleyChristophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Weekend reading: three nice preprints published yesterday. First is @mkiwanski.bsky.social et al. in Lucas Kapitein's lab using Motor-PAINT and expansion microscopy to visualize micotubule orientation in developing neurons: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 15310