Reposted by Priya ShahTamanash Bhattacharya @tamanash.bsky.social · 16hThe Raman lab is open for business! Pravrutha is an amazing scientist and a wonderful mentor, so for folks who are interested in chromatin evolution and want to work across multiple model systems, this is a can’t miss opportunity. Spread the news! 11715
Reposted by Priya Shahfoaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train 394596781
Reposted by Priya ShahUC Faculty Association @cucfa.org · 07/10/2026Class sizes are growing, and Instead of investing in faculty, UC invested in management and administration. Now, faculty are feeling the effects. www.sacbee.com/news/local/e...sacbee.comUC is hitting its enrollment targets. But permanent faculty hiring lagsFaculty say the University of California’s reputation for academic excellence and its contribution to new ideas and innovations is at stake. 01814
Reposted by Priya ShahNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Once the midterms are over, they say, Trump officials who have retreated from some moves after heavy blowback may feel free to pursue more radical changes in the federal research landscape during Trump’s last 2 years in office...'It’s hard to know what’s up Russell Vought’s sleeve.'” 089
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Taco Bell near gate A68 in DTW. It was no Tortas Fronteras but I am not ashamed to admit I loved it. They closed it down several years ago. The monorail and water fountain are still great though. 000
Reposted by Priya ShahMichael Baym @baym.lol · 04/10/2026Ran is cooking with: ‘the only data point I have about this candidate is this: “they had an important task that could determine the rest of their career, but it required a little effort and personal reflection, so they used AI to complete it.”’ 27921
Reposted by Priya ShahSasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A searchable mapping between NIH study sections and program officers that doesn't suck. (Claude one-shot) sashagusev.github.io/po-study-sec... 43716
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you discover something cool in cells, viruses probably did it first and did it better! 021
Reposted by Priya ShahGEValT @gevaltcrispr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgInfectious transgenesis in arthropodsIn the last decade, there has been an explosion in the development of in vivo germline genetic editing technologies in arthropods, first pioneered by the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo ... 24318
Reposted by Priya Shahderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure. 494951374
Reposted by Priya ShahTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 432073934
Reposted by Priya ShahMart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Why did some #viruses evolve to be #giants while others did not? Our perspective piece on this topic with Eugene Koonin. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgWhy did some viruses evolve to be giants while others did not? | PNASViruses are ubiquitous mobile genetic elements that are obligate symbionts of cellular life forms and replicate exclusively within host cells. The ... 09639
Reposted by Priya ShahThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026*clears throat* Baby Gagapagesix.comExclusive | Lady Gaga welcomes first baby with fiancé Michael PolanskyThe singer previously spoke about wanting to become a mom someday. 963171308
Reposted by Priya ShahElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)youtu.beModern Day Typographer - Elle CordovaYouTube video by Elle Cordova 701861420
Reposted by Priya ShahbioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Powassan Virus NS5 Antagonizes TYK2-Mediated Immune Signaling Pathways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 001
Reposted by Priya ShahProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547731905
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Feeling this very much after sending a draft to collaborators. You’ll get there, babe. As I tell my trainees, a shitty draft is better than no draft. You can’t edit a draft that doesn’t exist. 053
Reposted by Priya ShahElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 254116883321
Reposted by Priya ShahIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 01/09/2026inpreparation.substack.comNIH Simplifies Grant Scoring To 👍 🤷♂️ 😂BETHESDA, MD—The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it would replace its 50-year-old numerical scoring system with a streamlined three-emoji format, in which grant applications will ... 0175
Reposted by Priya ShahJosh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/aiandeducation.mit.eduReport – AI and Education 11619271
Reposted by Priya ShahCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/08/2026The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z 1021158
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026She doesn’t use AI to code because she is still a beginner. 110
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Last night was a watershed moment for me as a parent. My daughter asked me for help debugging her Python code. As you correctly predicted, it ended in her hating my (correct) advice. 140
Reposted by Priya ShahDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026States receive more funding because they submit more applications. I.e. there is not ZIP Code bias. 1146
Reposted by Priya ShahDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s completely legal to edit the horrible default charts provided by Excel. 1172
Reposted by Priya ShahNIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 17/08/2026To be paired with this excellent post from Jennifer Troyer - they are complimentary and this one provides additional context substack.com/@jennifertro...substack.comNIH Funding: What Does the Unified Funding Strategy Actually Change?There have been substantial changes at NIH since the new administration came to power, and many of them have to do with how NIH funding is allocated. 0117
Reposted by Priya ShahJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is a must-read for anyone interested in NIH. formernih.substack.com/p/nih-direct... NIH_Leadership™ held a session full of half-truths about the "unified funding strategy" while they and HHS continues to play politics with NIH grants. Chilling, but a call to action! @standupforscience.netformernih.substack.comNIH Directors Decide, Except When HHS Says NoA June 2026 Nature report revealed that mandatory reviews by top officials, checking for a list of 235 disfavored terms, have left hundreds of meritorious NIH applications in administrative limbo (Koz... 28344
Reposted by Priya ShahMegan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Our vole preprint is officially published in Cell Genomics @cellpress.bsky.social as part of the T2T special issue! www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Lead author @mabuelanin.bsky.social also built this amazing website that we hope will be a useful resource to the vole community: voles.dennislab.org 🐭cell.comSingle-library chromosome-scale diploid assemblies of vole genomes resolve a species-specific duplication implicated in pair bondingAbuelanin et al. combine PacBio HiFi with low-coverage CiFi proximity-ligation reads in a single library and sequencing run to generate contiguous, near-telomere-to-telomere, accurately phased diploid... 1298
Reposted by Priya ShahKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026It took nine years, a New York times bestseller for people to dig into his work enough to suggest that Dan Ariely & co manipulated the data on his landmark 2012 paper on dishonestlyscience.orgFraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcherDan Ariely denies fabricating data, but can’t produce records to clear his name 543963
Reposted by Priya ShahAnne Whitesell @annewhitesell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026www.propublica.org/article/coll...propublica.orgThe Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” AuthorA group of services, often connected to pricey college counselors, has arisen to help high schoolers carry out and publish research as a credential for their college applications. The research papers ... 04712
Reposted by Priya ShahDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Holy shit. “the final overall impact score or percentile on which the categorization was based would not be released to any of these parties. “ 43920
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Clearly we are doing it right. We should definitely not try to change this number. No matter what the data say. 020
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026No wonder it took 7.5 million years to answer. 010
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Actually, it’s 42–the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. 251
Reposted by Priya ShahRuth Huttenhain @rhuttenhain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My lab at Stanford University School of Medicine is recruiting! We are looking for a postdoc at the interface of quantitative proteomics, structural biology and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...postdocs.stanford.eduOpen Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Ruth Huttenhain | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs 03831
Reposted by Priya ShahAmerican Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's been 7 hours and 13 days, since you left #asv2026 For this #throwbackthursday we highlight some of our favorite #lovevirology trading cards from the #asv2026 Communications Table! 182
Reposted by Priya ShahTom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Over-the-top great department. Faculty jobs don't get much better than this if you're a planty person. 095
Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It’s summer in Davis! That means it’s also time for the annual Shah Lab water gun fight! You might be asking yourself, is that a Shah Lab branded shield made from a plastic lid? The answer is 💯 140
Reposted by Priya ShahMagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue: the K99/R00. Devastating news for the international research training community, who strongly contribute to US biomedical research. All will feel this great loss! www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...statnews.comNIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenueThe NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S. 311586
Reposted by Priya ShahAmerican Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026We had a great pool of submissions for our first #asv2026videoabstract competition. Topics spanned basic to translational research. Participants were from all career stages, from undergraduates to faculty. There were so many great videos, and it was hard to choose just a few winners. 1/n 164
Reposted by Priya ShahAmerican Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Today, after Plenary Symposium IV, we announce our #asv2026videoabstract winners! There were so many great entries and unfortunately we can't recognize them all on stage. We'll be reposting the winners and other entries here and to our other social media channels next week. 011
Reposted by Priya ShahJeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgBalanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNASIn avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ... 22721274