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Thomas A. Brinkley

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Grad Student @ Hopkins, researching motile multiciliogenesis @ Stony Brook, and figuring out life somewhere in between 🧬🔬🧫🥼

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our journey began with a simple question...
Multi-panel cartoon by Tom Gauld.
A person is giving a tech presentation to unveil a new company product, standing in front of a sign that reads "peoplBOTS". The presenter's speech goes as follows:
"Our journey began with a simple question: Can we create a robot that is enormously powerful, but also completely safe?"
It is revealed that the person is standing next to a large robot. 
The person continues: "The answer to that question was no."
The robot is armor-plated, runs on caterpillar tracks, one of its arms is a huge flame-thrower, and the other is a giant pincer-claw.
"So I give you Dangerbot900!!"
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Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Congratulations 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.
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Monica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The 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
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Department of Biology, ETH Zurich @eth-dbiol.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The 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-...
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NPR @npr.org · 23/09/2025
The 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.
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Did Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trial
The 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.
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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I have hundreds of these in my gel room. Any good ideas on how to repurpose them? 🧪🔬
plastic tip holders from p10 pipette tip boxes
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
These 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-...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
write good papers and die happy
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Society 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
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EMBO @embo.org · 27/05/2025
Mark 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
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Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The membrane topology problem inherent in ciliogenesis is solved by ciliary recruitment of a phospholipid flippase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Postdoc 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...
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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This 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/4iGt8Yi
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MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp | Marine Biological Laboratory
Director:  Ed Munro, University of Chicago
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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thankful to receive a Best Poster Award at a research conference last week! 🏆🔬 #cilia #cellbio #devbio #bioinformatics
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/03/2025
Exclusive: 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/4iVm7mY
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Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research
Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics
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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Asgard 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
Credit: Margot Riggi (@margotriggi.bsky.social), Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry (@mpibiochem.bsky.social)
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EMBO @embo.org · 13/03/2025
Save 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 🧪
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv 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
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Karen Schindler @schindlerlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sharing 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.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I stood up today - and so did Beaker! #standupforscience2025 #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 03/03/2025
Drosophila 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....
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/03/2025
On March 3rd, he asked me what day it was. It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Screencap from Mean Girls. In this scene, Cady and Aaron are in math class. Aaron is turned backwards in his seat and asking Cady what day it is. She, of course, responds "It's October 3rd."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/02/2025
More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”
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Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE
Twenty-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 ...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 24/02/2025
Caspases 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
Top: Graphical representation of current working model. Bottom: Representative immunofluorescence images of SKBR3 parental, DKO or CASP3 + 7-WT re-expression in DKO cells treated with 0.25 µM DALGreen in fed (top row) or starved (bottom row) conditions. BafA1 in both fed and starved conditions serves as controls.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025
The 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.
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NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The 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.
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Biological Imaging and Neuroanalysis Core Facility @csu-bin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Happy #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
Cyan - TH
Red - Iba1
Green - GFAP
Blue - DAPI
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Scott 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. 🧬💻
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Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand
An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new genomes.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025
Scientists 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/4328LAD
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‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests
New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome 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
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Sally 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
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Weekend 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...
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