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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 4d

And if my sci-fi recs were too mainstream, I can heartily recommend a somewhat overlooked fantasy series: Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist series.

Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 4d

If you like the Bobiverse, you’ll probably like the Murderbot series, Children of Time series, Old Man’s War series…

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HuranovaLab @huranovalab.bsky.social · 6d

Today is the #BBSGlobalDay — an opportunity to raise awareness of this rare condition and offer support to everyone living with BBS and their loved ones 🌍 🌎 🌏
www.img.cas.cz/2025/10/8758...

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 6d

Karl’s putting on a good performance this morning.

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 7d

I’m excited to read this!

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 9d

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

journals.biologists.com

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement!

(This is _actually_ on the "journal" website)

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Screenshot from journal website. There is a picture of of Count Dracula. Text:

BEST AUTHOR Of The Month

Professor Thomas Count Dracula, MD, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Haematology Head — Experimental, Historical & Sensory Haematology Vlad the Impaler University, Wolf’s Lane, Wooden Stakes Grove 666, Transylvania.

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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 15d

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists.

Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 15d

Yifan Cheng to Receive 2026 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award buff.ly/ooI1UDy

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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 16d

I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 20d

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

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Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · 24d

Apply by Oct 15 - please spread the word!

Martin Kampmann @kampmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications!

We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology.

Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community!

aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 24d

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 26d

Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures.
@nachury.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia

Neuronal cilia have emerged as crucial signaling hubs, yet their molecular composition and integration with synaptic communication remain poorly understood. Using a newly developed Arl13b-TurboID mous...

www.biorxiv.org

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 28d

Congrats to Lucy Shapiro, a pioneering microbiologist, for winning the 2025 Lasker-Koshland Award. So deserving!

laskerfoundation.org/winners/pion...

laskerfoundation.org

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 29d

Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars: "...conclude that the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars - Nature

A geological, petrographic and geochemical survey of distinctive mudstone and conglomerate outcrops of the Bright Angel formation on Mars reveals textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and or...

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · Sep 9

Some of us will be disquieted until the 4-headed data are acquired. From Popovchu:

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · Sep 6

Congratulations to Thi Nguyen for an excellent, insightful, rollicking defense!

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ahh! The classic Bay Area fall triad: fog, soccer and geese coexisting.

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm loving the @idlesband.bsky.social-fueled soundtrack for Caught Stealing. The album cover is a chest X-ray most notable for the six foreign objects in the lung fields. Also notable is the right-sided cardiac apex. Does this individual also have heterotaxia?

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Elphege Nora Lab at UCSF @elphegenoralab.bsky.social · Aug 16

New preprint with @gfudenberg.bsky.social

We find the rate of cohesin loop extrusion in cells is set by NIPBL dosage and tunes many aspects of chromosome folding.

This provides a molecular basis for NIPBL haploinsufficiency in humans. 🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NIPBL dosage shapes genome folding by tuning the rate of cohesin loop extrusion

Cohesin loop extrusion is a major driver of chromosome folding, but how its dynamics are controlled to shape the genome remains elusive. Here we disentangle the contributions of the cohesin cofactors ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Sep 2

I know there is A LOT going on but just a heads up: TOMORROW, 9/3, is the last day to apply for a talk (or early poster) at #CellBio2025 in December!

There will be a #Meiosis4Eva: The Cell Biology of Reproduction
minisymposium on 12/7 at 10am. Please apply if you are interested in giving a talk! 🧪

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · Aug 31

Gordon Ramsay had a basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Protect yourself and your loved ones from too much sun, and avoid misactivating ciliary Hedgehog signal transduction! www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Gordon Ramsay reveals skin cancer diagnosis: 'Please don’t forget your sunscreen this weekend'

The British celebrity restaurateur said he got the skin cancer removed, sharing a picture showing a line of stitches from his earlobe to his neck.

www.nbcnews.com

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · Aug 29

Research team @nadlerlab.bsky.social, A. Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social, B.Drobot @hzdr.bsky.social, M. Hof @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. @nature.com www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Fat microscopy: Imaging lipids in cells

Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.

www.mpi-cbg.de

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