This week, the PhD candidate Cait Seluzicki visited us from Johns Hopkins Medicine and shared her great research in neuronal response to heat shock! The lab is busy this semester and we had to keep it together to support our undergrads, like Joy, who presented her summer project! 😊

Just saying it one more time: We are hiring 3 folks, y'all!

Inspired by Dr. Rey Tirgar, we started an "Appreciation Box" that we open 1x a month in our lab meeting. It was a great moment to celebrate the #kindness and support in the Silva lab. These are some of the general ones as people took their notes with them! Highly recommend!❤️

it’s finally here! my first book comes out in feb 2025 with University of California Press (is on Bluesky)! Tackling the Everyday is a black feminist take on the exploitative college 🏈 system through black players’ experiences preorder now! hope Oprah Winfrey sees it 😎 ucpress.edu/books/tackling…

I'm not sure if I should be happy or concerned that even my email is starting to look out for me. 😅

Cool! Cluster hire of 8 junior faculty this year, with more to come. Focus on great science and people who promote inclusive excellence.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 2025: I’ah Donovan-Banfield (@idb_virology), Dr Ariangela Kozik (@dr_kozik), Dr Nikea Pittman (@nikeapittman), Dr Chelsey Spriggs (Chelsey Spriggs, Ph.D.), Dr Ninecia Scott and Dr Kishana Taylor (@kyt_thatsme).

So thankful this week for my amazing WRAP community! Having Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement. @DukeSocialEQ share incredible insights about how to advocate for yourself and learning more about how he has trained so many amazing scholars was the exact thing I needed this week! @DukeFacultyAdv Duke University

100 years coming to ABRCMS and I still can't get my ribbons right! Super excited to support the students and witness the future of science! Check out the roll call this morning! We Ready! #ABRCMS2024 #biochemistry #MolBio

Everything is better when you have a community around you and a faculty legend to look up to. Met SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) during my first event at Duke, attended his course on Michael Jackson, and here we are celebrating this together!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾

The BTT congratulates the newly tenured Associate Professors at Duke: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (Literature), Tolu Oyesanya (Nursing) and Silva Lab at Duke - @thesilvalab.bsky.social (Biology)! Learn more about their work here: facultyadvancement.duke.edu/news/celebrati…

No study section...no grant reviews No grant reviews...no grants awarded No grants awarded...no research No research...no functional NIH And if your salary was funded by NIH, no paycheck either if this lasts indefinitely

As this is a delicate political moment, in which words are being weaponized, can we get some of the language right? DIVERSE is a feature of a group, not a person! A person is what they are. There is no such thing as a diverse hire/employee. Thank you. scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/di…

When they came for Black&Brown folks, or #DEI efforts, I heard little commotion Only with these new NIH directives has the scientific community become concerned with the future of academic institutions. It will not stop here If you are not rich & conservative, you are at risk

Flooding social media with good news today. Sonya Neal received a NoA! Grateful our NIH R35 MIRA renewal is funded to support our ongoing work on membrane protein quality! 🙏🙏

Congratulations to Professor Gustavo Silva, one of 10 Duke University faculty to be named Bass Chairs in 2025 in recognition of his excellence in scholarship, teaching and mentoring: today.duke.edu/2025/04/ten-fa…

Congratulations to our undergraduate student Jorge Mato, named a 2025 Faculty Scholar!! Faculty Scholar is the highest honor given by Duke University faculty to undergraduate students for academic and research excellence!! today.duke.edu/2025/06/four-u…

I'm so excited and relieved that our NIH R35 grant has been renewed!! NoA received and grant actually started this July!! We will continue to advance our research on ubiquitin and translation control for the next 5 years!! Hoping to see more posts like this from y'all too🙌🏾🙌🏾

📣In a collaboration with the Alicia Darnell , we discuss the complexity of the ribosome ubiquitin code and what the field has done to crack it! "The ribosome ubiquitination code: fine-tuning translation under stress" Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…