Kudos to the real Epop pioneer @paulchammas.bsky.social

Finally out on @devbiol.bsky.social‬: we find that Epop mutant mice have near-perfect Polycomb phenotype (orderly posterior shift of vertebral identity🩻) linked to accelerated HOX clock⏰.

Bonus: Epop has maternal effect!

Study co-led by the the labs of Bernie Payer and @lucianodicroce.bsky.social

Columbia has dragged its feet for years on implementing protections against bullying that we won in our contract. As part of a meeting with the Vice Provost today, postdocs and associate researchers delivered a petition signed by the majority of our coworkers demanding action—no more delays!

Did you know that there is so much DNA packed inside a phage capsid that the pressure is 10X higher than in a bottle of champagne? In our latest preprint, we wondered how that is contained in a phage that lives at extremely high temperatures. /1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪 Looking to gain a fundamental understanding of the field of paternal inheritance and sperm epigenetics? Check out this review by @epididymosome.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40163890/

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This afternoon, UMass Chan postdocs and graduate workers filed to form our union with the Massachusetts Department of Labor with more than 70% support!

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There used to be a website these folks made that was meant for exactly those types of questions. Super useful. I believe it’s not online anymore tho.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...