🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨The 1st International Symposium on Ancient Pathogen Genomics will be in Mexico on April 12-13, 2025. Calling for researchers at all levels to exchange ideas and promote/strengthen connections. Check out our fantastic speaker lineup 🦠 More info coming soon!

So humbled to receive the Rice University Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus Award. A short nostalgic trip to Houston visiting CTBP, Rice University Bioengineering Center for Academic and Professional Communication and meeting friends & collaborators. BE, IISc IISc Bangalore Biopatrika BSBE@IITK Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine SERB Rakesh Kumar

A student asked me a question: I am sometimes told that it is “easier” for me in STEM as a student from an UR background because of all the grants available to me. How do I respond to this? I wanted to expand on my answer a bit here…

Saturday afternoon argument/ discussion/disagreement with the spouse “You said you were only going to eat one chocolate chunk cookie. That’s 3 cookies.” Me: “Well these were stuck together so I kind of ate only one cookie” (Now I’m trying to decide whether that was 1 or 3 🙄s)

Mackenzie Scott is at it again! Changing lives with her donations! apnews.com/article/macken…

REBEL RIDGE: If this is a Netflix original, it's one of the best. A thinking man's RAMBO. No diss to David Morrell.

JD Vance’s signature achievement as Trump’s running mate so far is whipping up a pogrom against his own constituents

This is reckless, racist behavior from a presidential candidate and his running mate. A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. We must turn the page.

The events in Springfield, i.e., weaponizing against a community using false allegations & 'othering' them, threatening their safety & that of others in the community (schools, hospitals), is from the Project 2025 playbook for all of the US; great senator you have there, Ohio!

Harmit S. Malik Edel Pérez-López I have been filling pages lately with lines like “other reviewers may insist that additional confirmatory work is needed or that the paper lacks “mechanism.” Allow me to explain why these are not necessary and why you should publish this fascinating paper as is.”

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we present The Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists. This resource showcases the scientific excellence of nearly 400 outstanding scientists. #LatinxAtlas #HispanicHeritageMonth fredhutch.org/en/about/about…

We're officially less than 1 month out from the deadline for the WashU Medicine Department of Genetics faculty recruitment application! facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Detail… See details below on why I think you should become my colleague, and as always, please feel to reach out by email or DM with any questions

Congrats to MCB's Nicholas Ingolia Nicholas Ingolia on his promotion to MCB Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology! 👏🥂 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-event…

Come work with us at Duke Biology ! Openings for ***Three*** Assistant Professors in Ecology, Evolution or Organismal Biology... biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs

JOB SEARCH University of British Columbia ZOOLOGY CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Assistant Prof - we are looking for applicants with an innovative research program using cellular, genetic, and/or genomic approaches to address fundamental mechanisms of animal development. Please RT! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28131

NEW GSA Award Announcement📣 The Hugo Bellen and Catherine Tasnier Drosophila Neurogenetics Lecture will recognize an early career scientist for outstanding achievements in genetics as applied to neuroscience in Drosophila. Submit a nomination: bit.ly/3Xruqhs 1/2🧵

An experimental census of retrons, now published in Nature Biotechnology. We synthesized more than a hundred new retrons and put them through their paces, improved recombineering rates and precise editing in human cells up to 40%. nature.com/articles/s4158…

There is a major lack of microbial/music parody stickers. Thankfully I'm here to change that! pinkpetri.etsy.com

Why we need professional journalists: JD Vance rep tells @wsj about Anna Kilgore, a Springfield OH woman whose cat went missing in August, so Kris Maher drives to her house. She found the cat in her basement and apologized to her Haitian neighbors.

Excited to head to Cornell University for a seminar hosted by lab alumna Anna Wood (now senior grad student in The Cohen Lab Paula Cohen); will be discussing work by postdoc Ching-Ho Chang and lab manager Aida de la Cruz