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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · 10d

But nice views of the wastewater treatment plant on approach!

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · 10d

We replaced the gaskets on the gel pouring rigs with foam weatherstrip a few months ago. No leaks yet!

Photo of gaskets for gel pouring rig (left) and roll of foam weatherstrip (right)

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 11d

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!

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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 23d

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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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 26d

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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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · Sep 11

New paper! Kudos to first author Jaeeun Lee, who is a fantastic and hard working student. We showed that at photoreceptor presynapses, ELFN1 enrichment depends on postsynaptic mGluR6.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Confocal microscope images of the outer plexiform layer of WT or nob3 (mGluR6 null) mouse retina labeled with antibodies for ELFN1 (cyan) and PSD95 (magenta). In nob3 retina, ELFN1 is still localized to rod spherules, but synaptic enrichment is compromised.

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · Aug 30

The mysterious non-PSD localization of PSD95 🟣 in the retina outer plexiform layer... co-stained for postsynaptic TRPM1 🟢
#FluorescenceFriday

Confocal microscope image of mouse retina section labeled with antibodies for PSD95 (magenta) and TRPM1 (green).

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Graham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · Aug 27

Dalhousie University invites applications for the position of Dean, Faculty of Medicine. This is a pivotal leadership opportunity to shape the future of medical education, research, and healthcare across the Maritime provinces in Canada.
5 yr renewable appointment dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19319

Dean of Medicine

Dalhousie University invites applications for the position of Dean, Faculty of Medicine. This is a pivotal leadership opportunity to shape the future of medical education, research, and healthcare acr...

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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · Jun 25

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

I updated my funding curves last night.

Here are the results for new and competitive renewal grants.

The rate of investment has dropped substantially. This is apparently due to a requirement for DOGE review.

I am calling this effect the "Downward DOGE"

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A graph showing NIH funding for new and competitive renewal grants for FY2024 and FY2025 showing a much lower rate of investment for FY2025.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 7

Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at
grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis.

Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · May 29

Posted by @mit.edu on another platform

Quote from MIT President Sally Kornbluth's commencement address: "We believe in the beauty and power of fundamental scientific discovery - that incredibly intricate, maddening, heroic, intoxicating process of exploration and testing that somehow got stuck with the bland label 'basic research.'"

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David Solecki @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social · May 26

Wonder doesn’t flinch. It’s our compass pulling us toward curiosity, creativity It reminds us: #science & #discovery are good. Here’s a moment that stirred mine: a new PI(3,4)P₂ probe illuminating the cell membrane & endosomes. Marvel with me. Captured on #FluorescenceFriday for #MicroscopyMonday

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · May 2

An elegant ON bipolar cell expressing ER marker mEmerald-Sec61 🟦 and co-stained with mGluR6 antibody 🟥. #FluorescenceFriday More info in this old paper: www.eneuro.org/content/5/3/...

Retinal ON-bipolar cell expressing mEmerald-Sec61 (blue), and labeled with mGluR6 antibody (red).

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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course @aqlm.bsky.social · May 1

Have you ever seen the black box that is the inside of a microscope objective? Today Dr. Stephen Ross of Nikon gave a fascinating lecture on what goes into the design and manufacturing of an objective.

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Lab lunch 😀

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Jim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!

Assistant Professor (tenure track) – Chromatin, Epigenetics - Vancouver, British Columbia (CA) job with The University of British Columbia (UBC) | 12837841

Assistant Professor (tenure track) - Chromatin Regulation, Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms, Epigenetics, Epigenomics

www.nature.com

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Peri Kurshan @pkurshan.bsky.social · Mar 26

FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!

Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Medical Education | Biomedical Research

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · Mar 15

PIs and trainees in the US need to be supported now more than ever, not vilified. They are being targeted, and their work and livelihood are in jeopardy.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Mar 15

as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech
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Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · Mar 15

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Mar 3

🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.

Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience

Thread👇🧵

Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · Mar 6

An excellent opportunity! And I'm not just saying that because I'll be teaching an imaging and comparative retinal anatomy workshop during this course 😁 👀

Financial aid is available!

Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · Mar 5

Hey, visual neuroscientists 👋 Interested in hands-on training in modern techniques and building a lifelong network of colleagues and friends? Look no further! 🧠

Apply for the MBL's Visual Neuroscience course by March 19: bit.ly/4kn48HH

#ScienceStartsHere

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Melina A. Agosto @agostolab.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thank you!