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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

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Beautiful crow against a black background

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Elisa Zhang, Ph.D. @elisazhang.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to have started as an @hhmi.org Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! Incredibly grateful for this opportunity and am excited for some very cool new directions! We are *HIRING*, especially postdocs! Please reach out if you’re interested in uterine and pregnancy biology. Please repost!

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Lucy Dornan @lucygdornan.bsky.social · 22h

After many years of hm-ing and haw-ing about why some of the fusion proteins I’ve cloned showed cytoplasmic background I’ve finally found the culprit

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 2d

Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org

Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement

www.ma3challenge.org

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 2d

Omg, that's what my favorite spaces are outside my family. Nice people being smart (or clever) together.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

And everybody is so NICE. People at these things are so often mean. Nice people being smart together is definitely my favorite.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect it's both. But the pre-game entertainment is something new & I can't imagine it bringing enough donations to cover the additional costs. But what do I know.

I do know that (1) all the venerated coaches from these parts were hired young and (2) college kids ain't the same as pro athletes.

Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 2d

Not to mention the entertainment event that now happens before the games. Last weekend they had Ludakris (sp?) performing live.

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 3d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 4d

I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d

Every week I recruit more archaeologists and every week I run out of archaeologists again. Lol.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 5d

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How does mitosis keep track?!

Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 6d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

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This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 6d

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 7d

Hey. It’s Friday. Have a nice bug.

A yellow butterfly with green eyes and some red accents around the face and legs and edges of their wings, standing in some grass

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 9d

A must-read.

From 1941, & yet, the portraits she paints... It's terrifying the people you'll instantly recognize.

The concluding paragraphs ⤵️

It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes Nazi?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific personalities.

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 9d

Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n
spire.unc.edu/program-info/

About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE)

SPIRE’s Mission:

1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences

2) To promote effective teaching and research partnerships between research intensive institutions and partner institutions with a large population of underrepresented students

The four major components of the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program include:

Research
Teaching
Professional Development
Additional Opportunities

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Johan Duchêne @johanduchene.bsky.social · 11d

⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?

Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk

Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

OGA - Only Good Antibodies Community

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 11d

According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 11d

Last day to comment - this proposed rule change on foreign students' stay will be disastrous for PhD students and programs. Please add your comments TODAY here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety

Who knows what will happen now

Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )

a cartoon of donald trump with the words be prepared above him

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Duncan Kountz @dkountz.bsky.social · 13d

Does anyone have a good, reasonably up-to-date review of cryo-EM uses and methodology for (relatively) high-resolution protein structure determination? For someone who doesn't have a cryo-EM background.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13d

Whether you think limiting student visas to 4 years is a good or bad thing, please comment. Be heard.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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