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EMBO @embo.org · 1d

Learn all things #cytoskeleton #research in an interdisciplinary environment at EMBO Workshop "Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton" in Paris, FR, 7–10 April 2026.

Deadline: 20 December 2025

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-cytoskeleton
#EMBOCytoskeletalFunction #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

Structure and Function of the Cytoskeleton

The cytoskeleton, a dynamic and intricate network of protein filaments, is found within the cytoplasm of all cells, from bacteria and archaea to complex eukaryotes. This essential cellular component …

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 1d

Are you in/near the SF Bay Area? Do you like Science? What about Festivals? Then you might want to check out the Bay Area Science Festival Oct 25. I’ll be there showing how single cells can learn!

www.bayareasciencefestival.org

Home - Bay Area Science Festival

Bring the whole family to experience 100+ jaw-dropping demonstrations, hands-on experiments, astounding games, behind the scenes lab tours, film screenings

www.bayareasciencefestival.org

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 4d

Become a Theory Fellow @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

🧪 Work alongside experimentalists to test and refine theories
🎯 Receive mentorship from leading computational scientists
🔁 Contribute to Janelia’s cross-disciplinary research environment

Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 18d

Vaccination and health mural by Diego Rivera, 1932, painted to highlight how science helped fight disease (Detroit Institute of Art)

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22d

Don't make me tap the sign

Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information

If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares

But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔

Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 22d

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Consider the implications if ChatGPT started saying "I don't know" to even 30% of queries
- a conservative estimate based on the paper's analysis of factual uncertainty in training data. Users accustomed to receiving confident answers to virtually any question would likely abandon such systems rapidly.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23d

Oh hey, it’s Hard Pass by WTF and Nope with a foreword by That Fucking Guy

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HOPE,
AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
GENESIS
HENRY A. KISSINGER
CRAIG MUNDIE
ERIC SCHMIDT
FOREWORD BY NIALL FERGUSON

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Tawni Marshall @tawnimarshall.bsky.social · 25d

"engagement can help bridge disagreements"

Turning Point Youtube video:

Charlie Kirk Decimates Radical "Transsexual Activist"

Turning Point Youtube video:

Charlie Kirk Smashes Radical Pro-Trans Student

Turning Point Youtube video:

Charlie Kirk Destroys Liberal Trans-Loving Student

Turning Point Youtube video:

Charlie Kirk Destroys Pro-Trans Pierced-Face Leftist

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 29d

What you're looking at is a brand new protist species! 🤯🔬
Isn't it beautiful?
This image is just a glimpse of what's to come. We can't wait to share our full findings soon, in partnership with Guifré @beaplab.bsky.social @luisjagago.bsky.social. Stay tuned! #NewSpecies #protistsonSky #diversity

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Bruce Taylor @brucedstaylor.bsky.social · Sep 8

I broke some shells of Galeripora artocrea, to look at their algal hostages...and accidentally created Pac-Man amoebae. #amoebae #peatlands #ProtistsOnSky

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Omar Quintero-Carmona, PhD @omqu.bsky.social · 29d

The @alleninstitute.org is organizing an "Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education" workshop on the Friday before the Cellbio25 meeting in Philadelphia. Check out this link for more information and to apply.

alleninstitute.org/events/open-...

Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education

Join the Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education Workshop in Philadelphia, PA on December 5, 2025.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · Sep 6

If we can just degrade the status of a targeted group a little bit more, I’m sure we can back away from the cliff edge of fascism

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

But we could also go much further. One idea might be to tax immigrants themselves at higher rates and restrict federal benefits until immigrants have met some threshold of tax payments or achieved permanent residency.6 This is not a prospect that brings me joy. But I do think that these are necessary preconditions to warming the public to the idea that the economic math of immigration works out in our favor.

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excited to be giving 4 lectures in Paris in October at the Collège de France. Free and open to the public!

Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · Sep 3

‘Our Ancestors the Fish’, a course by Prof. @neilshubin.bsky.social, Univ of Chicago, invited Prof @college-de-france.fr. in Paris @psl-univ.bsky.social. Four conferences, free access, open to everyone, with Tiktaalik as a guest star. Friends, colleagues and fossils in Paris and around, please RT🥁

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Sep 2

Jay Bhattacharya was nominated by Trump to spread lies to help the right’s political project.

Because that’s what Bhattacharya did for four years after 2020. Authoritarians and their lackeys need lies.

Truth is:
**Bhattacharya and RFK** politicized science, then and now.

Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay At least two of the authors of this piece were in charge of the @CDCgov during the era when it embraced politicized school closures and covid vaccine mandates. For them to criticize Sec. @RobertKennedyJr for his
efforts to restore gold standard science to the CDC harms public health.
The New Work Times
GULSE ESSAY
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering
Every American's Health

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Ben Larson @blarson.bsky.social · Aug 26

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Video by Vittorio Boscaro.

1/n

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Cells can form patterns within themselves just like embryos do. How? Connie Yan's new preprint shows how the anterior-posterior cytoskeleton pattern in Stentor is dictated by regionalized scaffolding proteins

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yogi Jaeger kicking off the Venice Summer School in Emergence and Evolution

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · Aug 15

An indigenous woman in San Francisco immigration court today spoke neither English nor Spanish. She seemed not to understand the proceedings, & even DHS agreed to postpone her hearing.

It didn't matter. ICE agents arrested her in the hallway anyway.

missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-i...

ICE makes unusual arrest of indigenous woman in S.F. immigration court

She did not appear to understand the proceedings, and her case was delayed for two months. ICE arrested her in San Francisco anyway.

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Ximena Garcia Arceo @quexarce.bsky.social · Aug 12

So good!

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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · Aug 12

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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · Aug 8

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 8

Breaking News: A Trump administration settlement proposal demands more than $1 billion from UCLA. It calls for the payout to contribute to a claims fund that would compensate victims of civil rights violations after a pro-Palestinian protest on campus.

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · Aug 9

200 days in, checking in on HHMI funding opportunities:

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program - not accepting applications

Gilliam Fellows Program - not accepting applications

Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program - not accepting applications

Investigator Program - not accepting applications

Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · May 17

This is not some small foundation -- HHMI has a $24 billion endowment. It is the world's 2nd richest biomedical research foundation.

If any funder can double down on their support for science right now, it's HHMI. But they are doing the opposite.

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Ximena Garcia Arceo @quexarce.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ok here's the thing. Me personally, I'm gonna ask an FAQ.

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NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social · Aug 5

Representing mitochondrial dynamics with abstract algebra

Explore new NITMB-Supported Research from Wallace Marshall (Professor, University of California, San Francisco) and Moumita Das (Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)!

Learn more at www.nitmb.org/supported-re...

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · Jun 27

New KITP Program! #MORPHO26

Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

Dates: 7/20/2026 - 8/20/2026

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