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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8h

My quote of the day

Nancy Hopkins et al., A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT (1999)

They found that discrimination consists of a pattern of powerful but unrecognized assumptions and attitudes that work systematically against women faculty even in the light of obvious good will. Like many discoveries, at first it is startling and unexpected. Once you "get it", it seems almost obvious.

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Emily Liman @emilyliman.bsky.social · 3d

Wow - Congratulations, Ish!

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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 6d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

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Nature @nature.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 11d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Science Magazine @science.org · 11d

Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕

"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb

People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d

More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

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Emily Liman @emilyliman.bsky.social · 12d

Students/Postdocs - a great opportunity to work with an incredible scientist, and wonderful mentor!

Cornelius Gati @gati.bsky.social · 13d

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania! Our lab will be relocating to the Department of Pharmacology in Jan ’26. We’re hiring at all levels—reach out if you’re interested! @isbupenn.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social

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Emily Liman @emilyliman.bsky.social · 12d

A huge loss for USC. We will miss you Cornelius. Come visit (often, and with your kid!). We have a guest room!

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 12d

Our 6-hands review/perspective: "Hacking 3D printers as laboratory robots" is now on ChemRxiv.
In there, we show how many robots you can make by simply modifying a 3D printer. #chemsky 1/n

with @sandersays.bsky.social and @supersciencegrl.co.uk
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 13d

I have to take this Research Security training to be eligible to submit Federal grants and as I'm going through it the contrast between what is being presented and how the current Federal administration is acting is enraging

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 16d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18d

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 17d

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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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 18d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Maria Paz Fernandez @mariadelapax.bsky.social · 20d

Ed Kravitz passed away yesterday.
He was a remarkable scientist and mentor- brilliant, curious, creative, and kind. I am grateful to have learned from him. His legacy will endure through his science and through the many people he inspired.

We will miss you, Ed.

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 19d

A true honor to perform “American Tune” with #PaulSimon and the incredibly talented students at Juilliard. As I said in the article, I remember first looking at the lyrics of “American Tune” and going “Oh, my God — did you write this yesterday?”

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Stephen J. Tucker @profkalium.bsky.social · 29d

Translational ion channel research at its best. The 2025 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award goes to Michael Welsh, Tito González, and Paul Negulescu for their role in developing a novel drug treatment for cystic fibrosis.

Targeting cystic fibrosis where it counts

YouTube video by Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · Aug 29

This rule would have meant I couldn't do my Ph.D. in America.

I did do it in America. Became a professor. 12 thriving U.S. labs are now headed by trainees from my research lab. Like me, they are all working hard to enrich American knowledge and society.

With this self-harming rule, none of that.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students

Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

www.forbes.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · Aug 29

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out"

"A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding."

🎁🔗

Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out

www.nytimes.com

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Manu Ben-Johny @manubenjohny.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very excited to share our most recent work on using de novo design to custom engineer a small peptide that can restore proper sodium channel function in disease … to be able to “write” proteins to do whatever we want them to do, is just remarkable …

Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Aug 18

Now online! De novo design of a peptide modulator to reverse sodium channel dysfunction linked to cardiac arrhythmias and epilepsy

De novo design of a peptide modulator to reverse sodium channel dysfunction linked to cardiac arrhythmias and epilepsy

De novo protein design was used to engineer a peptide that reverses gain-of-function deficits in voltage-gated sodium channels linked to cardiac arrhythmia and epilepsy.

dlvr.it

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · Aug 18

We are deeply saddened to share that our friend and colleague Jim Hudspeth passed away on Saturday. We will remember and continue to be inspired by Jim’s integrity, his humility, and his unwavering commitment to discovery.

A. James Hudspeth, neuroscientist who unlocked secrets of hearing, has died - News

A. James Hudspeth, a Rockefeller neuroscientist who discovered how sound waves are converted into electrical signals in the ear's cochlea, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. A pioneering scientist and dedicated mentor, he was the university's F.M. ...

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Trump administration, seemingly determined to hobble the NIH, continues to devise new and insidious ways to politicize what has long been considered the crown jewel of US research.
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

Politicizing Scientific Research Comes With a Hefty Price

More oversight at the National Institutes of Health is slowing down innovation that could meaningfully improve people’s lives.

www.bloomberg.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 6

RFK Jr and HHS just ended all US supported mRNA vaccine development
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

www.hhs.gov

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