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NPR @npr.org · 21d

The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.

Did Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trial

The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards.

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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have hundreds of these in my gel room. Any good ideas on how to repurpose them? 🧪🔬

plastic tip holders from p10 pipette tip boxes

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Aug 10

write good papers and die happy

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jun 6

✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social
#Microscopy #DevBio

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EMBO @embo.org · May 27

Mark your calendars! The next ASCB | EMBO Meeting #CellBio2025 is taking place in Philadelphia, US, 6–10 December 2025: www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/ 🧪

@ascbiology.bsky.social‬
#CellBiology #research

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Cell Biology J-Club @cellclub.bsky.social · May 27

The membrane topology problem inherent in ciliogenesis is solved by ciliary recruitment of a phospholipid flippase www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · Apr 30

Postdoc position in my lab: investigating how the microtubule motor protein dynein-2 works in cilia.

Here's dynein-2 at work translocating microtubules - how is this activity regulated? How does dynein-2 malfunction in disease?

Find out more and apply:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · May 1

This fall, we are offering a Light Microscopy Bootcamp for graduate students, postdocs, and advanced researchers! 🔬

Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link!
bit.ly/4iGt8Yi

MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp | Marine Biological Laboratory

Director: Ed Munro, University of Chicago

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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thankful to receive a Best Poster Award at a research conference last week! 🏆🔬 #cilia #cellbio #devbio #bioinformatics

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Science Magazine @science.org · Mar 25

Exclusive: Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by NIAID, including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. scim.ag/4iVm7mY

Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research

Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics

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Pilhofer Lab 🦠❄️🔬 @pilhoferlab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

Credit: Margot Riggi (@margotriggi.bsky.social), Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry (@mpibiochem.bsky.social)

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EMBO @embo.org · Mar 13

Save the date! Cell Bio 2025, the joint ASCB | EMBO meeting, will take place in Philadelphia, US, 6 – 10 December 2025:
www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/
#CellBio2025 @ascbiology.bsky.social 🧪

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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · Mar 11

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

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Karen Schindler @schindlerlab.bsky.social · Jan 29

Sharing some oocyte spindle love-an image taken by PhD student Phia Maddocks. This beautiful work is supported by our NIH funding. Without this funding, we cannot understand the complexities of fertility genetics. With declining fertility rates, this work is essential to human health.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Nov 9

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · Mar 7

I stood up today - and so did Beaker!
#standupforscience2025 #standupforscience
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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · Mar 3

Drosophila Alms1 proteins are general regulators of #centriolar cartwheel assembly, exhibiting distinct centriolar localization patterns and enabling Plk4-Ana2 interaction
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Véronique Morel, Bénédicte Durand and colleagues
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Thomas A. Brinkley @tabrinkley.bsky.social · Mar 4

Do you mind if I use it for my poster on Friday? It’s a great idea.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 3

On March 3rd, he asked me what day it was.

It's March 3rd... FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Screencap from Mean Girls. In this scene, Cady and Aaron are in math class. Aaron is turned backwards in his seat and asking Cady what day it is. She, of course, responds "It's October 3rd."

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Feb 25

More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE

Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Feb 24

Caspases have well known roles in #apoptosis, but roles in other cellular processes are emerging... This study shows that #caspase -3 & -7 promote cytoprotective #autophagy in response to non-lethal stress by modulating PARP1 activity in #BreastCancer cells 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/41xfLVm

Top: Graphical representation of current working model. Bottom: Representative immunofluorescence images of SKBR3 parental, DKO or CASP3 + 7-WT re-expression in DKO cells treated with 0.25 µM DALGreen in fed (top row) or starved (bottom row) conditions. BafA1 in both fed and starved conditions serves as controls.

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NPR @npr.org · Feb 22

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

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Biological Imaging and Neuroanalysis Core Facility @csu-bin.bsky.social · Feb 21

Happy #fluorescencefriday to the microscopy folks of Bluesky! 🧪

Please enjoy this image hot off the slide scanner piloting our new decon module in a murine #Parkinsons model

Cyan - TH
Red - Iba1
Green - GFAP
Blue - DAPI

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · Feb 20

🧪 Evo-2, the largest AI model for biology, is here. Trained on 128K genomes, it can generate entire chromosomes and decode noncoding DNA linked to disease. Scientists see it as an "app store" for biology. 🧬💻

Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demand

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new genomes.

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