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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 13h

Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds - Nature Cell Biology

As biomedical research prioritizes human models and translational promise, classic model organisms are increasingly dismissed. Here we argue that they have a lasting value, both in enabling discovery and in cultivating scientific thinking, by training researchers in systems reasoning, integrative thinking and independent inquiry.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 1d

Society journals rock – and here's 120 years' track record of great science to prove it! Working out of the ASBMB offices for Public Affairs Advisory Committee through tomorrow, will get a look myself –

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #TBT post celebrates 120 years of the Journal of Biological Chemistry! The first issue of JBC was published in Oct. 1905. Here's the ASBMB Membership Committee w/a copy of that first issue! It was a fun moment looking back as the membership committee looks to the future.
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Eleven members of the ASBMB Membership Committee smile and pose for a group photo at ASBMB's offices. They are standing in front of a bookcase lined with issues of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Members of the ASBMB Membership Committee gather around a member who is holding a copy of the first issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which was published in Oct. 1905. They issue of the journal is opened and two members are taking photos on their phones.

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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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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 11d

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics (Hefei) announced on Sunday that they have successfully generated a steady magnetic field of 35.1 Tesla with a fully superconducting magnet, setting a new world record english.news.cn/20250928/a00... #NMRnews #NMRchat 🧲

photo taken on Sept. 28, 2025 shows the superconducting magnet developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Wu Huijun)

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 14d

We are planning more action to urge NSF support those excluded students. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 16d

A paper describing the performance of our new TWT powered 263 GHz pulse EPR spectrometer is now available as a preprint

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Very high frequency (263 GHz) pulse EPR spectroscopy of high spin transition metal centers

Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy provides powerful tools for examining species with unpaired electrons, such as organic radicals and metal ions, in a wide variety of interest...

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 18d

Glad to be part of the movement!

Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 18d

That is the way.

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 18d

UK’s most powerful NMR Facility to open at the University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social The University has received a 1.2 Gigahertz NMR spectrometer, one of only two in the UK, to enable groundbreaking research in biomolecular mechanisms www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/uk... #NMRchat 🧲

UK’s most powerful NMR Facility to open at the University of Birmingham
The University has received a 1.2 Gigahertz NMR spectrometer, one of only two in the UK, to enable groundbreaking research in biomolecular mechanisms.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26d

Wayne Thiebaud, Happy Birthday, 1962

Painting of two identical birthday cakes, one in front of the other, with "Happy Birthday" written on both

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 27d

For many of the JFK terminals, that is a high point, yes. Refresh your senses at the TWA Hotel if you have time

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Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 28d

"I think the consensus that #science was a route to national #well-being and #prosperity was widely shared by people across the political spectrum until very recently. It’s only been the past few years that we’ve seen a rising lack of trust in #scientists." 🧪

How the US became a science superpower

America's leadership "isn't some fixed, unchanging feature of the scientific landscape," says one UC historian.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 28d

Tomato Nation, 2025.

Photo of various sizes and shapes of tomatoes laid out in a colour gradient style mosaic on a wood background.

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 29d

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#cysticfibrosis #Lasker2025 #LaskerAward

Scientists who revolutionized cystic fibrosis treatment win prestigious Lasker Award

Three scientists who revolutionized the treatment of cystic fibrosis and prolonged the lifespan of patients with the deadly disease have won the Lasker Award.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 29d

This year's Lasker Awards went to scientists who studied the wiring diagram of life, a new state of biological matter, and a potent treatment for cystic fibrosis. Here's my story with Gina Kolata. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZlH1F

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NY-CURES @nycures.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀

Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.

Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Updated update

I downloaded the data from NIH Reporter too soon. The large end of the month update had not occurred.

Here are the results as of this morning.

NIH grants management staff have been busy making awards.

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A graph of NIH funding to date showing a substantial increase in the rat of funding in the last month.

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.)

Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April.

But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.”

According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Updating my analysis now that August data should be relatively complete.

Not great news...

The rate of investment of the appropriation is not increasing and it seems unlikely that the entire appropriation will be committed this year.

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · Sep 8

More personally, this is also the first time I’ve taught in awhile without a kid in undergrad myself. Neat seeing univ education through their eyes, complementing my experience as a prof parent. Thanks to the great @berrycollege.bsky.social and @okstate.edu faculty I repeatedly heard about -

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · Sep 8

Proud to be back teaching CCNY Biochem I this semester, with great questions from the 70 students in the class. Thanks as always to my profs at @ucdavis.bsky.social for providing excellent intros to this field & great teaching when I was on the other side of the lectern!

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very glad to have you and your lab as part of ASRC Structural Biology, Daniel! congrats on the promotion & tenure, looking forward to many more discoveries (and puns!) from the Keedy lab -

Daniel Keedy @dkeedy.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm pleased to report that my job title has changed! (Except for the 1st 3 letters of the 1st word & the entire 2nd word... 😉) keedylab.org/members/ Grateful that I get to do fun science & train young scientists in an inspiring environment here at @asrc-gc.bsky.social & @ccnyscience.bsky.social!

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · Aug 27

Timeline cleanse, beautiful evening for WAS @ NYY tonight. Back to science research, teaching, and advocacy in the AM!

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