Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD
@caitlyncardetti.bsky.social
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📖Editor at BMC Biology
🦠Part-time community college prof
🧘🏻♀️200 hour RYT
📍 Philadelphia
Past:
🔬Postdoc Thomas Jefferson University
🧬PhD @stonybrooku.bsky.social
🧪BS @mnstatemankato.bsky.social
📖Editor at BMC Biology
🦠Part-time community college prof
🧘🏻♀️200 hour RYT
📍 Philadelphia
Past:
🔬Postdoc Thomas Jefferson University
🧬PhD @stonybrooku.bsky.social
🧪BS @mnstatemankato.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! May you find peace, love and support this holiday season with your chosen family.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! May you find peace, love and support this holiday season with your chosen family.
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Calling for your papers for the upcoming #BMCBiology collection “Regeneration: Wound Healing, Reprogramming, and Tissue Engineering.”
Excited to serve as Guest Editor and can’t wait to read your submissions!
🔗 www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
Excited to serve as Guest Editor and can’t wait to read your submissions!
🔗 www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Calling for your papers for the upcoming #BMCBiology collection “Regeneration: Wound Healing, Reprogramming, and Tissue Engineering.”
Excited to serve as Guest Editor and can’t wait to read your submissions!
🔗 www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
Excited to serve as Guest Editor and can’t wait to read your submissions!
🔗 www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
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New paper from Dr. @kuldeep-verma.bsky.social Lab @lid-cdfd.bsky.social at CDFD, in BMC Biology on a new paradigm in Rab biology.
@navyaka.bsky.social
Read for more: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#RabGTPase #Selfassociation #Multivesicularbodies #Ubiquitination #Entamoebahistolytica
@navyaka.bsky.social
Read for more: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#RabGTPase #Selfassociation #Multivesicularbodies #Ubiquitination #Entamoebahistolytica
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New paper from Dr. @kuldeep-verma.bsky.social Lab @lid-cdfd.bsky.social at CDFD, in BMC Biology on a new paradigm in Rab biology.
@navyaka.bsky.social
Read for more: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#RabGTPase #Selfassociation #Multivesicularbodies #Ubiquitination #Entamoebahistolytica
@navyaka.bsky.social
Read for more: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#RabGTPase #Selfassociation #Multivesicularbodies #Ubiquitination #Entamoebahistolytica
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Looking forward to attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 next month! Please come chat with me. Please, please, please!!
a woman is putting her hand on a man 's shoulder while talking to him .
Alt: A scene from Parks and Rec - Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) is repeatedly and annoyingly tapping Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) on the shoulder begging him to talk to her.
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Looking forward to attending @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 next month! Please come chat with me. Please, please, please!!
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If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit.
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit.
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶
"By anthropomorphizing failures as “hallucinations,” the blame falls on the creation rather than the creator, as if the model possesses autonomous agency."
Amen! We need more accountability from the creators.
Amen! We need more accountability from the creators.
Worth a read:
Responsibilities beyond experimental outcomes. Ethical importance in the time of AI.
Frankenstein and the problem of abandonment | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Responsibilities beyond experimental outcomes. Ethical importance in the time of AI.
Frankenstein and the problem of abandonment | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Frankenstein and the problem of abandonment
A new adaptation of the cautionary tale is an opportunity to reflect on scientific stewardship
www.science.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"By anthropomorphizing failures as “hallucinations,” the blame falls on the creation rather than the creator, as if the model possesses autonomous agency."
Amen! We need more accountability from the creators.
Amen! We need more accountability from the creators.
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The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof
More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...
www.gavi.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... via @gavi.org
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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At BMC, we work together with a diverse community of editors and authors to shape the vision of our journals and represent the views of researchers in their communities.
Explore how we are advancing open, trusted and community-led science for the future:
bit.ly/4qPbFCf
Explore how we are advancing open, trusted and community-led science for the future:
bit.ly/4qPbFCf
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
At BMC, we work together with a diverse community of editors and authors to shape the vision of our journals and represent the views of researchers in their communities.
Explore how we are advancing open, trusted and community-led science for the future:
bit.ly/4qPbFCf
Explore how we are advancing open, trusted and community-led science for the future:
bit.ly/4qPbFCf
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The Punctuation Collection™️
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Punctuation Collection™️
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org
Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.
Please share.
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org
Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.
Please share.
ANTONY LAB SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Edwin Antony Lab Website
www.antonylab.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org
Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.
Please share.
We need a structural biologist to work on several CryoEM datasets. For more information, please visit: www.antonylab.org
Expertise in structure refinement and model-building are required.
Please share.
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity.
The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
web103.reachmee.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Reposted by Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD
Reposted by Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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This phrase has been living in my head rent-free all day. Truly perfect
"decision-based evidence-making"
Chilling. Perfect description.
Chilling. Perfect description.
A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:
www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This phrase has been living in my head rent-free all day. Truly perfect
Ummm what? 👀
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Ummm what? 👀
When team building takes the building part literally
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When team building takes the building part literally
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Hey! Northern hemisphere folks:
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
this is my annual reminder to myself and perhaps also to you that if you have the schedule autonomy to permit it, get out for a walk or whatever during daylight hours! It's important!
You can work more when it's dark but you need whatever sunlight is available!
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#Review
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#Review
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Reposted by Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD
🧪 NEW STUDY from the UK finds higher PM 2.5 air pollution inside homes with gas stoves. 1/2
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Inequalities and indoor air pollution: a prospective observational study of particulate matter (PM2.5) levels in 309 UK homes from the Born in Bradford cohort study - BMC Public Health
Particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Evidence suggests socioeconomic and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately exposed to higher outdoor air pollu...
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🧪 NEW STUDY from the UK finds higher PM 2.5 air pollution inside homes with gas stoves. 1/2
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate.
apply.interfolio.com/177622
Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025.
@columbiasysbio.bsky.social
apply.interfolio.com/177622
Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025.
@columbiasysbio.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate.
apply.interfolio.com/177622
Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025.
@columbiasysbio.bsky.social
apply.interfolio.com/177622
Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025.
@columbiasysbio.bsky.social
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NIH grant applicants:
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-005: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities NOT-OD-26-005. NIH
grants.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NIH grant applicants:
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...