Lerit Lab
@lablerit.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Cell Bio at Emory. Fan of centrosomes, RNA, legal egalitarianism.
Hitting the postdoc search? Consider applying to be part of the Winship postdoc recruitment cohort @winshipcancer.emory.edu
apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/...
Eligibility requirements and participating faculty are listed in the link✅
apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/...
Eligibility requirements and participating faculty are listed in the link✅
Winship Postdoctoral Fellow Recruitment Event
apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu
January 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Hitting the postdoc search? Consider applying to be part of the Winship postdoc recruitment cohort @winshipcancer.emory.edu
apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/...
Eligibility requirements and participating faculty are listed in the link✅
apps.winshipcancer.emory.edu/admin/Event/...
Eligibility requirements and participating faculty are listed in the link✅
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Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.
Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.
nyti.ms
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.
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We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it
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We are currently in the first S4 Solar Radiation Storm since the big one over Halloween of 2003. Keep an eye out for aurora!
S4 (Severe) Solar Radiation Storm in Progress, January 19th, 2026 | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
www.swpc.noaa.gov
January 20, 2026 at 12:09 AM
We are currently in the first S4 Solar Radiation Storm since the big one over Halloween of 2003. Keep an eye out for aurora!
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Can't wait to serve again as co-director of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course this year! 🧪🪰👀
Application Deadline: March 27
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social
@cshlcourses.bsky.social
Application Deadline: March 27
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social
@cshlcourses.bsky.social
Drosophila Neurobiology: Genes, Circuits & Behavior
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
meetings.cshl.edu
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Can't wait to serve again as co-director of the CSHL Drosophila Neurobiology course this year! 🧪🪰👀
Application Deadline: March 27
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social
@cshlcourses.bsky.social
Application Deadline: March 27
meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
@cshlnews.bsky.social
@cshlcourses.bsky.social
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
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Marco Rubio, June 2012.
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Marco Rubio, June 2012.
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NIH funding underlies all of these advances--support fundamental science, and the bridge from there to the clinic 🧪
For the first time, the five-year survival rate for all cancers has reached 70 percent, according to a new report, a trend that reflects the effectiveness of early prevention and detection strategies, and advancements in treatment and care, experts say. https://wapo.st/45T6Zm3
January 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
NIH funding underlies all of these advances--support fundamental science, and the bridge from there to the clinic 🧪
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President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward someone shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:06 AM
President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”
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Happy to share that the our manuscript "Cyclin CLB2 mRNA localization and protein synthesis link cell cycle progression to bud growth" is now finally out in its final form @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Below a short🧵 with the key findings!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Below a short🧵 with the key findings!
January 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Happy to share that the our manuscript "Cyclin CLB2 mRNA localization and protein synthesis link cell cycle progression to bud growth" is now finally out in its final form @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Below a short🧵 with the key findings!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Below a short🧵 with the key findings!
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In another legal win for U.S. universities, a panel of appellate judges has upheld a lower court ruling blocking the National Institutes of Health from sharply reducing the funding it gives institutions to cover the overhead costs of supporting their NIH grants. https://scim.ag/45C2KLt
Appeals court agrees that NIH cannot reduce overhead payments to academic institutions
Judges uphold injunction by lower court against a 15% flat rate for indirect costs
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
In another legal win for U.S. universities, a panel of appellate judges has upheld a lower court ruling blocking the National Institutes of Health from sharply reducing the funding it gives institutions to cover the overhead costs of supporting their NIH grants. https://scim.ag/45C2KLt
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"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot."
A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 AM
"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot."
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Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
lu.varbi.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
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Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
NGL, I had to look it up. Let’s go!
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
NGL, I had to look it up. Let’s go!
Checking in on my flies, keeping the plants alive.
This beauty is over 20 years old! (Yes, Lewis, but also this Christmas cactus gifted to me by a former boss from one of my ugrad jobs)
Happy 2026!
This beauty is over 20 years old! (Yes, Lewis, but also this Christmas cactus gifted to me by a former boss from one of my ugrad jobs)
Happy 2026!
January 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Checking in on my flies, keeping the plants alive.
This beauty is over 20 years old! (Yes, Lewis, but also this Christmas cactus gifted to me by a former boss from one of my ugrad jobs)
Happy 2026!
This beauty is over 20 years old! (Yes, Lewis, but also this Christmas cactus gifted to me by a former boss from one of my ugrad jobs)
Happy 2026!
✅ watered plants
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
December 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
✅ watered plants
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
✅ flipped fly stocks
✅ set OOO message
✅ wrote to-do list to remind myself what I do at work
Happy holidays ☃️
A work of art! Bonus: little guy thinks the cookie tastes good.
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A work of art! Bonus: little guy thinks the cookie tastes good.
Go big or go gingerbread home.
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Go big or go gingerbread home.
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Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
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I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....
December 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have an announcement to make. It's huuuge.....
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I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
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WaPo: “Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later” per three immigration lawyers
H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.
H-1B holders who returned to India this month to renew their visas had consular appointments canceled, stranding them far from their homes and jobs, lawyers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
WaPo: “Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later” per three immigration lawyers
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Breaking news: The government has admitted fault in the Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River, opening the door for the families of the 67 victims to pursue a monetary settlement.
Government admits failures by Army and air traffic controllers in DCA crash
The Jan. 29 collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport killed 67 people.
wapo.st
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Breaking news: The government has admitted fault in the Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a commercial jet over the Potomac River, opening the door for the families of the 67 victims to pursue a monetary settlement.
The lab did a great job getting us in the running for our department’s door decorating contest! Very creative theme: Rudolph the red-eyed fruit fly!
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December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The lab did a great job getting us in the running for our department’s door decorating contest! Very creative theme: Rudolph the red-eyed fruit fly!
🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁
🪰🎅🏼🎄🎁