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Tibor Rohacs @rohacstibor.bsky.social · 15h

The Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social is looking for an accomplished scientist to serve as the Director of the new Rutgers Center on Research in Pain and Pain Therapeutics. Feel free re-post and/or reach out to me if you have any questions
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/225...

Director of Center on Research in Pain and Pain Therapeutics at Rutgers Brain Health Institute

We seek an accomplished scientist, at the Professor or Associate Professor level, to join the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) and The Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) as Director of the n...

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 8d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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Samara Reck-Peterson @samreckpeterson.bsky.social · 9d

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Come join our collaborative research environment with state-of-the-art facilities in NYC! Application review starts Oct 22.
biochem.weill.cornell.edu/join-our-fac...

Join our Faculty | Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Call for applications:We invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the newly established Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. We are conducting an open search for ou...

biochem.weill.cornell.edu

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d

The fiscal year ends tomorrow.

Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.

The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.

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$A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.$

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

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

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Da-Neng Wang @danengw.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations, Yifan, for the Anatrace Award! Yifan’s work on the TRPV1 structure with David Julius helped launch the Resolution Revolution in cryo-EM. Not just in membrane proteins—hardly any area of biophysics today has remained untouched by the techniques Yifan pioneered.

Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 14d

Yifan Cheng to Receive 2026 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award buff.ly/ooI1UDy

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Da-Neng Wang @danengw.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations, Nuria! For many years, Nuria ran the Biochemistry and Biophysics of Membranes study section at the NIH. She trained generations of reviewers and taught many of us how to write a better grant.

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Ed Twomey @cryoet.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🧠🔬 A major breakthrough in molecular neuroscience:

I am excited to share a new story from our lab, published in accelerated format today by @nature.com:

"Delta-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels"

Read more here (free article link): rdcu.be/eGIKz

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Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · 22d

Re-upping this - applications will close - open to UK-based people too!!!

Stella Hurtley @smhsci.bsky.social · Aug 22

Come join us @science.org. We’re looking for a new editor to look after infectious disease and microbiome submissions.
Check out this Associate or Senior Editor opportunity recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...

recruiting.ultipro.com

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 23d

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities

www.biology.ox.ac.uk

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 29d

Did you hear? Biophysical Society has expanded its Bridging Funds Program, to support community members who are experiencing funding challenges. Learn more about how to apply or donate to the program www.biophysics.org/blog/biophys...

Biophysical Society Expands the Bridging Funds Program

At the Biophysical Society, we believe no scientist should have to step away from their community—or their science—because of a temporary financial setback. Bridging Funds, which are intended to…

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Get important feedback from your community and move your work forward. Share your research at #bps2026!

Submit an abstract today buff.ly/oOjstk6

BPS2026 Annual Meeting | Biophysical Society

The BPS2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco will showcase Biophysics by the Bay, highlighting the exciting advances in science and technology brought forth by big data and AI. This year’s program…

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Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mitochondria finally made the headlines, yay!

Oh wait, ... oh no ....

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Aug 27

via @acyn.bsky.social

RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

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berkeleyMCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social · Aug 20

We're Hiring! Assistant Professor of Molecular Therapeutics in MCB. Learn more and apply online:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05098

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Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 18

"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so.

Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.

A cover labeled "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' by Jeremy M Berg

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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. ...

www.rockefeller.edu

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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · Aug 12

$400M more for NIH in FY26 helps to improve the lives of all Americans. Join us in thanking the senators on the Appropriations Committee!

Click to send a letter: ow.ly/VIte50WEKY4.

Legislative Action Center

We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.

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Da-Neng Wang @danengw.bsky.social · Aug 5

The symposium also gave us an opportunity to thank Richard and Nigel for all they have done to guide and support others in the field. It was certainly the most special and memorable celebration I have ever attended.

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Da-Neng Wang @danengw.bsky.social · Aug 5

It was such a pleasure to attend this celebration: “The Structure of Bacteriorhodopsin 50 Years On: Electron Cryomicroscopy and the Dawn of Membrane Protein Structural Biology.”

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · Aug 4

The LMB recently hosted a symposium to mark 50 years since Richard Henderson and Nigel Unwin published the structure of bacteriorhodopsin, the first 3D structure of a protein determined by #cryoEM.

Read about the event and find more photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-structur...

#LMBNews 🧪🔬

Attendees of the recent bacteriorhopsin symposium, photographed from above.

Black and white photograph of Nigel Unwin and Richard Henderson sitting outside the LMB, 1991

Symposium attendees applauding in the LMB's Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.

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Jim Hurley @jimhurley.bsky.social · Aug 4

Want to share your work at the premiere meeting of the minds between basic membrane biology and therapeutics? Short talk deadline is coming up Oct. 8, 2025. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

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Da-Neng Wang @danengw.bsky.social · Jul 31

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Bernal Lecture 2025: The Harvest of an eclectic Mind: Alan Mackay and the Rewriting of the Book of Crystallography

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · Jul 30

Absolutely outrageous interference in NIH extramural funding by OMB dropping this evening. Damaging to our nation’s world leadership, innovation, and training today and for years in the future. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

www.wsj.com

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Harvard Med Cell Biology @harvardcellbio.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...

“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”

magazine.hms.harvard.edu

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Bronwyn Lucas @bronwynalucas.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you are going to M&M, also see postdoc @joshdcryoem.bsky.social's poster about tilted vs untilted data collection for in situ structural biology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

To tilt or not to tilt? Strategies for in situ cryo-EM data collection

Recent breakthroughs in single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and protein structure prediction have transformed our ability to resol…

www.sciencedirect.com

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