Jordan Beach
@myosincity.bsky.social
Cytoskeketal cell biologist
Associate Professor in Cell and Molecular Physiology at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
Opinions are my own or sampled from other people who are smarter or funnier than I.
Associate Professor in Cell and Molecular Physiology at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
Opinions are my own or sampled from other people who are smarter or funnier than I.
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Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
Meet Paul Maddox
Paul Maddox is a world-renowned cancer researcher, two-time entrepreneur, and native son of Western North Carolina–and now, a candidate for U.S. Congress. ....
www.maddoxforcongress.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/
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Thrilled to announce the launch of my lab
@cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January!
We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.
@cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January!
We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.
We're growing! Our newest Investigator @henrydebelly.bsky.social will join the CRI Tissue #Regeneration Program in January 2026. Learn more about Henry ➡️ cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr... and 📌apply to research in his lab cri.utsw.edu/careers
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thrilled to announce the launch of my lab
@cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January!
We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.
@cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January!
We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.
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We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...
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A myosin hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation disrupts the super-relaxed state and boosts contractility by enhanced actin attachment
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A myosin hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation disrupts the super-relaxed state and boosts contractility by enhanced actin attachment
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a leading cause of cardiac failure among individuals under 35. Many genetic mutations that cause HCM enhance ventricular systolic function, suggesting that these H...
www.biorxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A myosin hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation disrupts the super-relaxed state and boosts contractility by enhanced actin attachment
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The UI Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in genetics, beginning in the academic year 2026. Review of applicants will begin on November 1, 2025. For more information about the position and to apply, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
July 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The UI Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in genetics, beginning in the academic year 2026. Review of applicants will begin on November 1, 2025. For more information about the position and to apply, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
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Our new preprint is out! Led by @stefanosala89.bsky.social sky.social we investigate the difference between molecular tension sensing and global tension on the focal adhesion. Follow along for a thread of our findings:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
LIM Domain Proteins link molecular and global tension by recognizing strained actin in adhesions
Mechanotransduction is fundamental to cell signaling and depends on force-sensitive adhesion proteins. How these proteins differentiate and integrate their responses to tension remains an open questio...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our new preprint is out! Led by @stefanosala89.bsky.social sky.social we investigate the difference between molecular tension sensing and global tension on the focal adhesion. Follow along for a thread of our findings:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
July 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Interested in nuclear #mechanobiology? Join us for the first ever FASEB Science Research Conference on the Mechanobiology of the Nucleus #MBNSRC.
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
Find more information and register at: events.faseb.org/event/Mechan...
Submit abstracts by August 31, 2025. Please share and see you in October!
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👏new paper👏 ! Our preprint is now accepted at MBoC @ascbiology.bsky.social
Congrats to co-1st authors Junnan (new PI at OSU!) and Weiyi (now a Yale grad student) and 🙏 to collaborators Melissa & Jordan @myosincity.bsky.social
Funded by NIH grants & NSF GRFP!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to co-1st authors Junnan (new PI at OSU!) and Weiyi (now a Yale grad student) and 🙏 to collaborators Melissa & Jordan @myosincity.bsky.social
Funded by NIH grants & NSF GRFP!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The PCM scaffold enables RNA localization to centrosomes
As microtubule-organizing centers, centrosomes direct assembly of the bipolar mitotic spindle required for chromosome segregation and genome stability. Centrosome activity requires the dynamic assembl...
www.biorxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
👏new paper👏 ! Our preprint is now accepted at MBoC @ascbiology.bsky.social
Congrats to co-1st authors Junnan (new PI at OSU!) and Weiyi (now a Yale grad student) and 🙏 to collaborators Melissa & Jordan @myosincity.bsky.social
Funded by NIH grants & NSF GRFP!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats to co-1st authors Junnan (new PI at OSU!) and Weiyi (now a Yale grad student) and 🙏 to collaborators Melissa & Jordan @myosincity.bsky.social
Funded by NIH grants & NSF GRFP!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Good times exploring Santiago, Chile with #neurocyto2025 rock stars @stephgupton.bsky.social @myosincity.bsky.social and Melissa Rolls
April 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Good times exploring Santiago, Chile with #neurocyto2025 rock stars @stephgupton.bsky.social @myosincity.bsky.social and Melissa Rolls
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From a source at NIH:
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From a source at NIH:
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
“Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed.
The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad.
Everything is stopped”
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The U.S. authorities denied entry to a French scientist and then deported him because his phone contained message exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed his “personal opinion” on the Trump administration’s science policies, said the French government. nyti.ms/4iAZR2l
March 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The U.S. authorities denied entry to a French scientist and then deported him because his phone contained message exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed his “personal opinion” on the Trump administration’s science policies, said the French government. nyti.ms/4iAZR2l
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A 5 alarm fire for US governance and democracy and for you. 🚨
If Trump and Musk can do this criminal shredding of USAID w/ no consequence they will come for you next.
Democratic Senators and House members shld stop their days and head down to USAID w/ the Capitol Police and cameras and stop this.
If Trump and Musk can do this criminal shredding of USAID w/ no consequence they will come for you next.
Democratic Senators and House members shld stop their days and head down to USAID w/ the Capitol Police and cameras and stop this.
March 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A 5 alarm fire for US governance and democracy and for you. 🚨
If Trump and Musk can do this criminal shredding of USAID w/ no consequence they will come for you next.
Democratic Senators and House members shld stop their days and head down to USAID w/ the Capitol Police and cameras and stop this.
If Trump and Musk can do this criminal shredding of USAID w/ no consequence they will come for you next.
Democratic Senators and House members shld stop their days and head down to USAID w/ the Capitol Police and cameras and stop this.
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The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next.
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy. Projects studying mRNA vaccines may be next.
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
Important story by my colleague Sara Reardon in @science.org
🧪 #IDsky
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I wish my US colleagues and friends will have better times and I'm supporting them with all my heart. That said, there's also a possibility to come and be my colleague in beautiful Marseille!
www.404media.co/french-unive...
www.404media.co/french-unive...
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I wish my US colleagues and friends will have better times and I'm supporting them with all my heart. That said, there's also a possibility to come and be my colleague in beautiful Marseille!
www.404media.co/french-unive...
www.404media.co/french-unive...
shocking. I'm shocked that American customers will end up paying the tariffs. shocked.
March 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
shocking. I'm shocked that American customers will end up paying the tariffs. shocked.
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Neuroscientist Sarah Heilbronner is a proud product of Martin County schools in Florida 🌴. However, federal budget cuts threaten important work she's doing in brain research. 🧪🏠
@srheilbronner.bsky.social
www.tcpalm.com/story/opinio...
@srheilbronner.bsky.social
www.tcpalm.com/story/opinio...
Federal budget cuts threaten the work of neuroscientist with Martin County roots | Opinion
Sarah Heilbronner is a proud product of Martin County schools. However, federal budget cuts threaten important work she's doing in brain research.
www.tcpalm.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Neuroscientist Sarah Heilbronner is a proud product of Martin County schools in Florida 🌴. However, federal budget cuts threaten important work she's doing in brain research. 🧪🏠
@srheilbronner.bsky.social
www.tcpalm.com/story/opinio...
@srheilbronner.bsky.social
www.tcpalm.com/story/opinio...
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Thanks to the Chicago Sun-Times for this amazing coverage of our Chicago team!
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Chicago scientists reel from Trump funding cuts: 'We are just going to abandon all those discoveries'
On Friday, scientists will leave their labs to protest cuts to research in Chicago and across the country.
chicago.suntimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thanks to the Chicago Sun-Times for this amazing coverage of our Chicago team!
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
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The institution of American science is on the front lines in the fight against fascism.
This is more than just indirect cost caps.
On March 7th, we stand for the freedom of thought, the power of knowledge, and, ultimately, democracy.
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
Please share widely!
This is more than just indirect cost caps.
On March 7th, we stand for the freedom of thought, the power of knowledge, and, ultimately, democracy.
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
Please share widely!
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The institution of American science is on the front lines in the fight against fascism.
This is more than just indirect cost caps.
On March 7th, we stand for the freedom of thought, the power of knowledge, and, ultimately, democracy.
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
Please share widely!
This is more than just indirect cost caps.
On March 7th, we stand for the freedom of thought, the power of knowledge, and, ultimately, democracy.
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
Please share widely!
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OK folks--here is the answer. They are not simply removing programs because of their political biases--they are terminating existing NIH grants. Yours or mine could be next! 🧪
Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org
TheRiseRegistry.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
OK folks--here is the answer. They are not simply removing programs because of their political biases--they are terminating existing NIH grants. Yours or mine could be next! 🧪
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March 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our birthday fundraising campaign this month as we celebrate 29 years of independent journalism. If our work matters to you, please donate. Every dollar counts!
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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
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Very important to get this word out!
I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Very important to get this word out!