What I’ve learnt over 29yrs: •MH services are underfunded •People with a mental illness are some the strongest people I know •We don’t support carers enough •Continuity of care is golden •Compassion and authentic hope vital •MH needs more funding #WorldMentalHealthDay

My experience in grad school at this point of the semester be like:

I am happy to conclude my trilogy on Cas9 specificity with our new preprint from the @MartinJinek lab! We solved a staggering number (15!) of crystal structures of Cas9 bound to bona fide off-targets to investigate the nature of mismatch tolerance. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's weird to me that people talk about "choosing to leave academia." Many #phds leave b/c they've been insulted, undervalued, underpaid, exploited, and have 0 real options left. Hell of a choice. @academicchatter

A sense of belonging. It reinforces us when things go wrong. It helps us thrive at work. It encourages us to take risk. Now, imagine this feeling is gone. Because… - Your contributions during project discussions are dismissed (or attributed to someone else). - You are

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but giving a mentee space is not: ❌ Ignoring mentee requests for feedback/help ❌ Being unavailable to meet ❌ Dropping the ball on critical deadlines (letters, applications, etc.) 👎 Neglect ≠ supporting independence

#hiring 3-Year Post-doc position available in our lab. Great project on serine #metabolism & #leukaemia funded by Blood Cancer UK Background reading: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Please RT! Apply: jobs.ac.uk/job/DCL717/res… University of Glasgow UofG MVLS UofG Cancer Sciences @CRUK_BI POG Research

RZZ-#Spindly complex & #CENPE (kinesin-7) are intimately connected & reciprocally required for their own #kinetochore recruitment, dynein/dynactin localization & expansion of the kinetochore fibrous corona Verena Cmentowski et al Musacchio Lab @AndreaMusacchi1 embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Happy to see this now published! Huge thanks to @AndreaMusacchi1 for the invaluable support. Special thanks to Giuseppe Ciossani and Ennio d'Amico for their amazing contributions. embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

New #research from Ayantika Sen Gupta (Jennifer Gerton Lab), published in Nature Communications explores the organization of human chromosomes at their centromeres—regions of #DNA typically located near the center, corresponding to the midpoint of the ‘X.’ MORE: bit.ly/46O36wh

I’ve said it before and l’ll say it again, neglect is a form of trainee abuse. If you don’t have the bandwidth to effectively mentor, don’t take trainees. And if you see neglect, don’t say it’s due to busy PIs or big labs - that’s excusing bad behavior & discounting the trainee

Excited to see this collaborative effort in its final stage @JuaSchweig1 @AndreaMusacchi1 @MarionPesenti

I really like this new article on psychological safety (a belief that we can speak up, take risks & make mistakes without fear of being judged, humiliated or punished) at work. It sets out a series of activities/approaches that all of us can use to build psychological safety in