Yesterday, we were excited to meet with Congresswoman Katherine Clark to share stories of how cuts to federal funding and attacks on international workers are impacting our jobs and the research we do at UMass Chan. Thank you for your support, @whipkclark.bsky.social !

Kudos to the real Epop pioneer @paulchammas.bsky.social

Finally out on @devbiol.bsky.social‬: we find that Epop mutant mice have near-perfect Polycomb phenotype (orderly posterior shift of vertebral identity🩻) linked to accelerated HOX clock⏰.

Bonus: Epop has maternal effect!

Study co-led by the the labs of Bernie Payer and @lucianodicroce.bsky.social

Columbia has dragged its feet for years on implementing protections against bullying that we won in our contract. As part of a meeting with the Vice Provost today, postdocs and associate researchers delivered a petition signed by the majority of our coworkers demanding action—no more delays!

Did you know that there is so much DNA packed inside a phage capsid that the pressure is 10X higher than in a bottle of champagne? In our latest preprint, we wondered how that is contained in a phage that lives at extremely high temperatures. /1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪 Looking to gain a fundamental understanding of the field of paternal inheritance and sperm epigenetics? Check out this review by @epididymosome.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40163890/

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This afternoon, UMass Chan postdocs and graduate workers filed to form our union with the Massachusetts Department of Labor with more than 70% support!

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There used to be a website these folks made that was meant for exactly those types of questions. Super useful. I believe it’s not online anymore tho.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...