Emily Goldberg
@dremilygoldberg.bsky.social
Immunologist, metabolism enthusiast. Assistant Professor. Woman in science
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Happy Pre-Thanksgiving weekend everyone! In the spirit of overindulgence I invite you all to feast on a cornucopia of Arey lab preprints (okay only two)! And fittingly their themes happen to be in the realm food and drink! Settle down next to the metaphorical fire as I share the stories...
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Happy Pre-Thanksgiving weekend everyone! In the spirit of overindulgence I invite you all to feast on a cornucopia of Arey lab preprints (okay only two)! And fittingly their themes happen to be in the realm food and drink! Settle down next to the metaphorical fire as I share the stories...
Sorry but this is not news. Everyone knows exactly where this bullshit came from
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sorry but this is not news. Everyone knows exactly where this bullshit came from
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Dear Admissions Committee,
If only I could hand over the keys to my lab to them. I am sure they will achieve tenure before even taking their qualifying exam. My recent grant is based on their drunken doodle.
*Recommendation letter not sent, no deadline included in email request.
If only I could hand over the keys to my lab to them. I am sure they will achieve tenure before even taking their qualifying exam. My recent grant is based on their drunken doodle.
*Recommendation letter not sent, no deadline included in email request.
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Dear Admissions Committee,
If only I could hand over the keys to my lab to them. I am sure they will achieve tenure before even taking their qualifying exam. My recent grant is based on their drunken doodle.
*Recommendation letter not sent, no deadline included in email request.
If only I could hand over the keys to my lab to them. I am sure they will achieve tenure before even taking their qualifying exam. My recent grant is based on their drunken doodle.
*Recommendation letter not sent, no deadline included in email request.
Northern lights visible in the bay area!
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Northern lights visible in the bay area!
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Who wants to discuss innate immunity and host defense?
Join us in Banff to share your exciting research.
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Join us in Banff to share your exciting research.
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Innate Immunity: Diversity in Host Defense and Disease | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Innate Immunity: Diversity in Host Defense and Disease, March 2026, in Banff, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Who wants to discuss innate immunity and host defense?
Join us in Banff to share your exciting research.
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Join us in Banff to share your exciting research.
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Incredible sunset for tonight's ferry commute
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Incredible sunset for tonight's ferry commute
The sky is really putting on a show tonight
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The sky is really putting on a show tonight
Reposted by Emily Goldberg
Some (+)ve news to lighten another heavy weekend: our latest preprint (c/o Mattiroli + Ramani labs) is up!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A tour-de-force by 1st authors Bruna Eckhardt & @palindromephd.bsky.social, focusing on chromatin replication. RTs welcome; tweetorial in 3,2...(1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A tour-de-force by 1st authors Bruna Eckhardt & @palindromephd.bsky.social, focusing on chromatin replication. RTs welcome; tweetorial in 3,2...(1/n)
The eukaryotic replisome intrinsically generates asymmetric daughter chromatin fibers
DNA replication is molecularly asymmetric, due to distinct mechanisms for lagging and leading strand DNA synthesis. Whether chromatin assembly on newly replicated strands is also asymmetric remains un...
www.biorxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Some (+)ve news to lighten another heavy weekend: our latest preprint (c/o Mattiroli + Ramani labs) is up!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A tour-de-force by 1st authors Bruna Eckhardt & @palindromephd.bsky.social, focusing on chromatin replication. RTs welcome; tweetorial in 3,2...(1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A tour-de-force by 1st authors Bruna Eckhardt & @palindromephd.bsky.social, focusing on chromatin replication. RTs welcome; tweetorial in 3,2...(1/n)
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You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!
There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆
There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆
September 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!
There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆
There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆
Courage is contagious. Visibly fighting back empowers others to do the same
.@ezraklein is right: We need to take risks to stop this creeping fascism. Saying no — whether states, Democrats in Congress, universities, health systems, law firms — is scary & painful. But it’s our only option. Otherwise fascism is normalized. We can’t let that happen.
September 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Courage is contagious. Visibly fighting back empowers others to do the same
Send quack-o-grams to your congress members
🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥
🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥
Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social
🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥
Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Send quack-o-grams to your congress members
PUT YOUR ACTIVISM SHOES ON
As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
For some scientists fighting partisan attacks, the goal is to defend their work from political interference. But in retaliating, @katherinejwu.com reports, they also run the risk of advancing the narrative that they want to fight.
August 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
PUT YOUR ACTIVISM SHOES ON
Especially important to read the fine print on who's paying for the flyers in your mailbox during contentious elections
🚨📣 HEADS UP, Californians! 📣🚨
This absolute nonsense propaganda is coming to your mailbox, and you need to see it for what it is and warn everyone you know: (1/x)
This absolute nonsense propaganda is coming to your mailbox, and you need to see it for what it is and warn everyone you know: (1/x)
August 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Especially important to read the fine print on who's paying for the flyers in your mailbox during contentious elections
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💯this. The window for stopping the total destruction of US science is short - ask a scientist in Hungary. This is a time for bravery, resolve and action, not for putting your head down and “focusing on the science”. We need all hands on deck.
If you believe that data, evidence and expertise should inform policy, then you should fight for it.
And that may make you an activist (temporarily), but that’s where we are now.
Otherwise, we will lose the very institutions that contributed to this country’s cultural and economic success.
And that may make you an activist (temporarily), but that’s where we are now.
Otherwise, we will lose the very institutions that contributed to this country’s cultural and economic success.
August 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
💯this. The window for stopping the total destruction of US science is short - ask a scientist in Hungary. This is a time for bravery, resolve and action, not for putting your head down and “focusing on the science”. We need all hands on deck.
Thrilled to finally write up a little thread on our recent paper with @gburslem.bsky.social describing how HDACs reversibility contributes to protein lactylation!
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
August 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Thrilled to finally write up a little thread on our recent paper with @gburslem.bsky.social describing how HDACs reversibility contributes to protein lactylation!
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
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New paper online from our long-standing collaboration with @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social on lysine lactylation catalysed by HDACs! www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Class I histone deacetylases catalyze lysine lactylation
Metabolism and post-translational modifications (PTMs) are intrinsically linked and
the number of identified metabolites that can covalently modify proteins continues
to increase. This metabolism/PTM ...
www.jbc.org
August 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New paper online from our long-standing collaboration with @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social on lysine lactylation catalysed by HDACs! www.jbc.org/article/S002...
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There is no common ground with those who don't see you as a full human being. You can't change minds but you can make their goals untenable. While the attention economy has rotted our collective brains, use it. Fight smarter and be vicious.
There is no high road in hell.
There is no high road in hell.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There is no common ground with those who don't see you as a full human being. You can't change minds but you can make their goals untenable. While the attention economy has rotted our collective brains, use it. Fight smarter and be vicious.
There is no high road in hell.
There is no high road in hell.
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Happy to get to contribute to this perspective in JEM!
#WomenInSTEM becoming independent: People should feel free to be themselves and do great science. We asked ten women researchers about their science and the process of setting up a lab as an independent researcher: rupress.org/jem/article/...
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy to get to contribute to this perspective in JEM!
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Thank you @sophialiu.bsky.social, Margarida Saraiva, @cbartman.bsky.social, Nathalie Saurat, @pcrosato1.bsky.social, @licona-limonlab.bsky.social, @thepenkpanther.bsky.social, @guthmillerjenna.bsky.social, @coraline-mly.bsky.social, and @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social! rupress.org/jem/article/...
Women in STEM becoming independent: People should feel free to be themselves and do great science | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press
In this viewpoint, we hear from a cross section of women, across multiple research fields, discussing their science and the process of setting up a lab as
rupress.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thank you @sophialiu.bsky.social, Margarida Saraiva, @cbartman.bsky.social, Nathalie Saurat, @pcrosato1.bsky.social, @licona-limonlab.bsky.social, @thepenkpanther.bsky.social, @guthmillerjenna.bsky.social, @coraline-mly.bsky.social, and @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social! rupress.org/jem/article/...
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
I had fun thinking about this and reading the advice from other women that I really respect! Thank you @jem.org for the opportunity.
Find your people and do science with your friends
Find your people and do science with your friends
The first Viewpoint in our 2025 #WomenInSTEM series is up! Take a look here 👉 hubs.la/Q03BYXzY0
August 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I had fun thinking about this and reading the advice from other women that I really respect! Thank you @jem.org for the opportunity.
Find your people and do science with your friends
Find your people and do science with your friends
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They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
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I never went into academic science because I wanted to be wealthy—I fully knew the opposite is true. Instead I went into academic science because I have a lot of questions about how our cells work and I enjoy mentoring young scientists.
August 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I never went into academic science because I wanted to be wealthy—I fully knew the opposite is true. Instead I went into academic science because I have a lot of questions about how our cells work and I enjoy mentoring young scientists.