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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · 11h

HIRING! STOP lab is looking for a Research Assistant (Technician) with experience in protein expression and purification. Job & project description and how to apply here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/367610

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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · 9d

@forumakademickie.bsky.social @wyborcza.pl

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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · 9d

Please consider signing a petition to increase the spending on science in Poland / List otwarty w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym @ncn.gov.pl www.petycjeonline.com/list_otwarty...

List otwarty do Prezydenta RP, Marszałka Sejmu RP, Marszałka Senatu RP, Prezesa Rady Ministrów oraz Wiceprezesów Rady Ministrów w sprawie finansowania nauki, w tym zwłaszcza Narodowego Centrum Nauki

Szanowni Państwo, W niniejszej petycji prezentujemy List otwarty, który będzie wysłany do Kancelarii Prezydenta, Marszałków Sejmu i Senatu, Prezesa Rady Ministr&oacut...

www.petycjeonline.com

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Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social · 11d

We have an open post-doc position in my group to study mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation using biochemical reconstitution and cryoEM.

Please get in touch if you are interested in joining this amazing team! 🔬🧬🤩
#RNA #cryoEM

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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · 14d

The most optimistic article I've read for a long time - highly recommended!
Also: thank you @anneapplebaum.bsky.social !

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14d

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.

www.theatlantic.com

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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 20d

Thrilled to share that our Group Leader Prof. Azim Surani, together with Prof. Davor Solter, has been awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 🎉 for discovering genomic imprinting—a breakthrough that reshaped genetics and launched modern epigenetics.

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Jan Żylicz @jzylicz.bsky.social · 20d

Genes are not On/Off switches. In a new preprint we show that HDAC3 is key to establish correct transcriptional dose in development. Gr8 work from N. Stamidis @ucph.bsky.social and collab. @jamiehackett.bsky.social @gregersenlab.bsky.social . Huge thx to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

HDAC3 prevents enhancer hyperactivation to enable developmental transitions

Dynamic gene regulation requires precise cooperation between transcription factors and chromatin modifiers at regulatory elements to achieve not only activation or repression, but also appropriate tra...

www.biorxiv.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25d

I can't stress enough that this is how is exactly how genocides are incited. They always use language to couch it in self defense to justify violence against their targets.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Wikipedia entry for “Accusation in a mirror,” a hate speech incitement technique. The text explains that accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a method where one falsely attributes their own motives or intentions to adversaries. It is described as a form of psychological projection, often linked with dehumanization and cited as a cloaked form of incitement to genocide. The technique has been associated with genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide. By framing actions as collective self-defense, it is used to justify genocide, in a way similar to invoking the right of self-defense in individual homicide cases.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25d

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

www.nytimes.com

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Alicja Gardulska @alicjagardulska.bsky.social · 29d

Nauka miała być filarem rozwoju kraju a pozostanie tak samo niedofinansowana jak dotychczas. "To jasne, że nie jestem zadowolony z tego budżetu" - mówi min nauki @marcinkulasek.bsky.social. O tym, jak miało być i co z tego wyszło piszę tu:
wyborcza.pl/7,75398,3223...

Nauka przegrała z armią i deficytem. "Gasimy światło czy walczymy?" - zastanawiają się naukowcy

- Nie jestem zadowolony z tego budżetu - przyznaje minister nauki. Zabiegał o prawie 4 mld zł więcej, dostał 120 mln zł. Wydatki na naukę pozostaną na poziomie procenta PKB - jednym z najniższych w os...

wyborcza.pl

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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social · Sep 4

We the people are the job creators who keep showing up and making America great right now!

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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Woohoo Hanneke! Enjoy the moment and much looking forward to the science you produce!

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Bas van Steensel lab (NKI) @basvansteensellab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!

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dfachinetti.bsky.social @dfachinetti.bsky.social · Sep 4

#1 Centromeres are epigenetic loci defined by CENP-A, positioned in unmethylated DNA flanked by highly methylated regions. Our work, published in @natgenet.nature.com in collaboration with @naltemose.bsky.social investigates the role of DNAme at human centromeres www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DNA methylation influences human centromere positioning and function - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide and targeted perturbation of DNA methylation at centromeres affects CENP-A positioning and centromere structure, resulting in aneuploidy and reduced cell viability.

www.nature.com

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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · Sep 4

Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!

Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease

The Max Perutz Labs - one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences - invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. We are seeking outst...

www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at

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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing news! Have fun with the project!

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Kinga Kamieniarz-Gdula @stoplab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cool! Congratulations!

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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎊 Congratulations to Juliane Glaser (@julianeg.bsky.social) and Valentin Flury (@flurylab.bsky.social) on being awarded each an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant! – #ERCStG

www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/6057908/2025...

Two ERC Starting Grants for Max Planck in Freiburg

Two young scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, Juliane Glaser and Valentin Flury, have each received €1.5 million in ERC Starting Grants to conduct research into epigenetic mechanisms...

www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Sep 4

Apropos of nothing....
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.

Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.

Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

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IMBB AMU Poznań @uam-ibmib.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us on Monday for @UAM_IBMiB
seminar of Takeshi Matsui from the Tokyo University of Technology to learn about keratinocyte-specific cell-death in formation of epidermal barrier! PhD students/postdocs are welcome for the cereer advice meeting! #cellDeath #corneoptosis #ID_UB

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · Sep 3

BREAKING: Trump unlawfully canceled Harvard's research grants, US judge rules reut.rs/46m6HVu

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IMBB AMU Poznań @uam-ibmib.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚀🧬 Exciting space science! Yeast engineered with tardigrade genes have been launched to the International Space Station for pioneering experiments by Hanna Kmita's group @uam-ibmib.bsky.social ! Check out the movie for more details! #ISS #tardigrades #space #radiation

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IMBB AMU Poznań @uam-ibmib.bsky.social · Sep 3

Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak , the director of the IBMiB UAM, has been elected to the prestigious group of corresponding members of the Polish Academy of Sciences - congratulations !

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IMBB AMU Poznań @uam-ibmib.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us this Friday morning @uam-ibmib.bsky.social for the seminar: Prof. Kashmir Singh from the Panjab University, India will give a talk on the role of long Non-Coding RNAs in fungal infections in grapevine! #lncRNA

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