📢Time to voice our concerns about the #WissZeitVG once again! ➡️17 scientific societies, which together represent more than 55,000 scientists, are speaking out! 👉Please share our initiative! 🔁Please RT

Some of the best discoveries emerge from projects in which there really was not a very detailed plan initially. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz The Night Science Podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mag…

Already a word of warning: It appears that AlphaFold 3 folds a lot of unstructured regions into alpha-helices (on AlphaFoldserver.com). #Hallucinations

What is the origin of our body? Our paper Cell shows that when a human embryo is one day old and comprises just two cells, only one cell will create most of the fetus in addition to placenta, while the other cell will create placenta. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

The Journal Club by Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is a nice format to revisit papers having an impact on the field. Thanks for the opportunity to write about the study by Jih et al. on distinct roles of H3K9me2/me3 describing how #heterochromatin can be transcribed while still being silenced.

It's interesting to read critiques of papers in 'high-profile' journals that end up with SO MUCH data that could probably be at least four papers. Yet few people comment on the fact that the paper was in review for two years (cue jokes about that's how long it took to read it) 1/

After a successful faculty recruitment that brought in two stellar new Assistant Profs, we're not resting on our laurels: WashU Medicine Genetics is hiring again. I'm on the search committee this year, and we're prepared to make a bunch of offers. Let me tell you why you should apply 1/6

We are thrilled to announce the return of the #G4webinarseries! Starting October 3rd, 2024, and running through January 2025, we'll be hosting weekly webinars featuring cutting-edge research on non-canonical nucleic acid structures.

🧑‍🎓Looking for a PhD in 2025? Interested in epigenetics, chromatin and cancer biology? We have an exciting new project as part of the CRUKCOLcentre PhD programme between my lab and Nnennaya Kanu at UCL. Please RT.👇 🗓️deadline: 5th November 📩apply: colcc.ac.uk/2025-phd-proje…

Thanks Oren for summarizing what many of us feel💔. Take a moment to read👇

We’re pleased to share our substantially updated (more below on that…) version of our manuscript exploring the relationship between conservation in sequence/function for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds Cathleen O'Grady reports Science Magazine science.org/content/articl…

Today I sent a version of this letter to each of our senators from Missouri. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, I trust you'll do the right thing.

Happy to share our new protocol for direct cDNA cap analysis of gene expression for paired-end patterned flow cell sequencing. Here, CAGE (cap-analysis gene expression) technology must adapt to new specification of sequencing instruments. star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4027

About a month after Donald Trump took office as the 47th US president, almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some are considering changing jobs or leaving the country. Others say them might abandon research altogether.

I went to the US in the late 1970s. I had heard so much about “America” and must say, it did live up to my expectations. I owe much to the US, not only my PhD. 🧵

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Lo strazio di Alaa, la pediatra che ha perso 9 dei suoi 10 figli in un raid a #Gaza Il racconto di padre Ibrahim Faltas per 𝐀𝐯𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐫𝐞 avvenire.it/mondo/pagine/g…

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝟭-𝟮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗜 Something that might sound crazy: when I finished my postdoc, I didn't have a job lined up. No position, no safety net. As the academic job market is brutal, taking time