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Excited for #SfRBM2025!
Anyone else here heading to DC?

Hah! Even the iguanas in Miami are fashionable!

Haven’t seen one drop yet but the fur coats and Ugg boots are out in full force!

The local FL nursery where we got ours calls them dragonwing begonias. They’re so pretty!

-The Bun Also Rises
-Much A Dough About Muffin
-The Elves and the Choux maker

Sometimes I think Wordle is just trolling us…

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STUDY: Denmark tracked over a million children for 21 years, and found vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other conditions.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and the best way to eradicate preventable disease. Period.

I never fail to be blown away by the intricate beauty of the Blaschka glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The skill and dedication that went into making these botanical specimens is just mind-boggling.

A fine example of Nature and nurture

My 8th and final year as director of our SURF program - it’s grown a bit from the three students in the year I first took over😃
Couldn’t ask for a better person than our new director @chvolmar.bsky.social to take SURF upwards and onwards!

just one of many small actions you can take that make a huge difference in your community, especially now in the face of SNAP cuts — and seriously, no one can stretch a dollar like a food bank

When Wordle thinks it’s Spelling Bee🙄

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Congratulations, Becca - so very well deserved!!

As a lifelong sufferer of retinal issues, I’m always excited when I see studies like this. Now if only someone could figure out how to noninvasively get rid of ocular floaters.

Never thought I’d miss having a Twitter account but here we are…

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s more important than ever now to remember institutions don’t love you back. Focus on your science, your trainees and collaborators, and your own well-being. Institutions will always find a way to move the goalposts.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care?
1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

Thank you @itaiyanai.bsky.social for an exciting research seminar and an engaging Night Science workshop! People are still buzzing about all the cool stuff they learned during your visit. (Loved the reminder to seek out science buddies who raise our game and encourage new thinking - very timely).

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Changed my second guess at the last second from a more conventional one!

Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip Size and shape are critical discriminators between molecular species and states. We describe a microchip-based high-throughput imaging approach offering rapid and precise determination of molecular pr...

An amazing new enabling technology. Measurements of molecular size and shape on a chip. Couldn't be prouder of our friend Madhavi Krishnan of @ox.ac.uk this was and is one among the must fun collaborations I ever had. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My wonderful undergrad Bhipasha received the Outstanding Honors Thesis in Biology award for her project characterizing metabolic dysfunction markers in our obesogenic prostate cancer model. Seeing my trainees thrive and succeed right now gives me so much hope.

Looking forward to having you in FL! Congratulations

We are looking forward to your visit @itaiyanai.bsky.social

She’s just looking out for your health. I make similar selfless sacrifices for my spouse 😁

Looking to hire a PhD level scientist with a solid tumor biology background to work with us on an exciting translational project centered on redox-regulated signaling and metabolism in cancer. Here’s the link (please re-post!):
careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

My chocolate mint has come back to life so many times, it’s basically on the path to attaining nirvana…

So glad I rotated off study section before having to deal with this horror!

Quick question for New PIs: We’re hosting a New PI Success Essentials Workshop next Friday, April 11, from 10am to 2pm ET. Given the challenging circumstances many of you are facing, we’re making this session free for PIs in the US. Consider it our small contribution ;)

Thanks - I rarely get them before four tries but I did get one last week on try 2, so this is good to know for the next time this rare event happens and I want to flex!