@quexarce
Current postdoc in Wallace Marshall Lab at UCSF🦠 🌁 | PhD at UCSD Chemistry 🧪⛱️ | BS at UCSB Physics🔬 🌊 Hoping to stay in academia if science and education survive🤞🏻so I can think and talk about stochasticity, entropy and geometry in cells
Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.
“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”
This post is about biologists' obligation to speak up for trans rights, in case I need to spell it out directly.
We're wrapping up at #bps2026! See you next year at #bps2027 in Philadelphia, February 20-24, 2027!
Great thread, worth the read in its entirety
New preprint alert! 🦠🔬
We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga.
Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fun find in the free library at work: Greg's Microscope. Never knew this existed. Warms my heart to see some ciliates in a children's book.
I forgive them for referring to protists as animals...
Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more.
✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered
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@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that the first part of my PhD work from @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social lab is now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Check out the threads below:
Does tubulin acetylation dictate organelle behavior? We used quantitative multispectral imaging to simultaneously profile 8 membrane-bound organelles and decipher how tubulin acetylation shapes organelle architecture and interaction networks during neuronal differentiation. 4/9
During #NeuronalDifferentiation, #organelles dramatically reorganize. #Microtubules are essential tracks for transport. But are they just highways, or can they instruct organelle behavior? Are tubulin modifications a regulatory code that guides organelle position or function? 1/9
"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face."
"I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @plosone.org brings together perspectives from Section Editors and an insightful conversation with @clairebrockett.bsky.social from @sheffielduni.bsky.social on why inclusion matters ⬇️
#IDWGS2026 #WomenInScience
Aa foretold by the prophecy
messaged w/the organizers behind this—they say it's real
"We sincerely believe what we’re saying. We think most American billionaires have had greatly positive societal impacts..."
they want to challenge anti-billionaire views by “highlighting their contributions"
San Franciscans were poised to walk out of workplaces & schools on Friday, flocking to Dolores Park to join the national "ICE Out" strikes.
A few hours before things start, the only visible signs were "ABOLISH ICE" stickers plastered over street signs.
missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-i...
Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!
Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."
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Chlamydomonas in lab have a new year's resolution to practice their interpretive dances even if a flagellum/cilium falls off. I hope you enjoy as much as I do even if this is potato quality compared to fluorescence. (50 seconds long video)
Interested in the MBL Physiology Course in Woods Hole and want to learn more before you apply?
Join myself and Cliff at our Virtual Open House TOMORROW 2–3 PM ET. You will hear what the course experience is like and get all your questions answered.
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🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?
20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026
✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️
🔁 pls!!
www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
GO! I went in 2024. It set me up for my career since then and brought amazing people into my life.
Esquire's 20 Best Podcasts of 2025
If Books Could Kill Have you ever come across a book, most likely a self-help or motivational book, flipped through a few pages and thought, There’s no way people are falling for this crap, right? And then you find out that the author of that book just appeared on a podcast or nine. Turns out they’re the star of the moment, and their grand theory about whatever pop psychology du jour is making the media rounds. But, seriously, no one’s falling for this, right? Right? Thankfully, If Books Could Kill tactfully takes down these books that are often heralded as works of genius when in reality they are, to put it diplomatically, maybe not as deep as they think they are. And it’s not just mean-spirited hating. The hosts, Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, are sure to back up their claims with thoughtful research for counterarguments. But, sometimes, you also just have to call out bullshit when you see it.
Still got it baby
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Schrodinger would've loved this
Meet Pilar Osorio-Godoy from Grupo Cultural Latinos en Rochester! As a math ambassador for our #InfiniteSums initiative, she is creating community-led #math programs: https://infinitesums.simonsfoundation.org/math-ambassadors-pilar-osorio-godoy-from-the-grupo-cultural-latinos-en-rochester/
