what do the kids say these days....? Oh yeah: WORD!

WTF!! The default Word and Powerpoint fonts are now different???

Hey BPS motility folks, come check out the Hancock Lab posters on this fine Super Bowl Sunday:

The Mickolajczyk Lab Rutgers - RWJMS Office for Research is hiring! We are looking for both a postdoc and a research specialist to join us in using single-molecule techniques to study ATPase motor proteins in ribosome biogenesis. Please RT and share! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/222215 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/222166

Good start here: Successful scientists take into account a combination of biological importance, timeliness, feasibility, available resources, scientific environment, competition, plausi- bility, and fit to a trainee’s skills, capabilities, and ambitions.cell.com/action/showPdf…

Simple request to the community: Before uploading your BiorXiv paper, just do the simple step of embedding the figures in the text rather than keeping them at the end like some out-of-date journals still require. Be kind.

Dear Professor You are invited to submit original research article as per your research expertise. Article can be submitted if: The articles are within the scope of the journal. The article is original. Plagiarism of the article is less than 15%, including references. WHAT???

This is a great change in F31/F32 that should stop students of assistant professors and the stray undergraduate C from negatively affecting scores. nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Here's some nice biophysics research toward sustainability Biophysical Society

BPS Launches Committee on Sustainability biophysics.org/bps-bulletin/b…

Agreed. One place you see this is a first year grad student starting on an 'easy project to get going', which morphs of course into a long project that in some cases becomes very interesting and many others, not so much.

And another place you see this is when the new grad student is just 'going to finish up some loose ends from the just graduated student's project to get an easy paper out'. Appealing for the PI to finish the line of research, but often a boring result.

Good read. The difference between 'grin and bear it' endurance and real resilience is feeling the feelings: Are we more resilient than we realise? - My Site sciencewithoutanguish.com/1/post/2024/05…

Thanks for sharing our article about Charlie Anderson and his team's work!

Congrats and well deserved!

Cool alert! MAKING CHEESE IN A FLOW CELL. Single-molecule imaging of protease digesting a casein micelle. Transient protease binding events observed while casein signal goes down over time. Also evidence for long-lived processive proteolytic episodes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A protein condensate that carries specific mRNAs! The kinesin-3 KIF1C undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation for accumulation of specific transcripts at the cell periphery embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Hey cytoskeletal folks, the BMB department at Penn State has an open faculty search on. Come do excellent interdisciplinary science in beautiful Happy Valley with us!

Yo, once again people: for preprints and submitted manuscripts, PLEASE embed the figures and their legends in the text. Life is hard enough already, can't we just do this one thing to make it easier?

So let me see if I understand Biorender copyrights. You are required to acknowledge in the legend, every figure you publish or show in a talk that used Biorender? A parallel would be to acknowledge Microsoft Word in every paper you publish. Is this fixed? Ignore? Boycott?