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If you are a PhD student in microbial interactions or natural products that is displaced by this political bullshit and looking for a new lab, I have room for one (or potentially two) PhD students in my group in the fall when I move to UW. Feel free to reach out via email.

Our crowd-sourced spreadsheet of controlled vaccine RCTs just hit 189 trials - spanning Adenovirus to Zika & 2.1 million participants. Every row links to the primary paper. More to come... docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… cc Brad Spellberg

I didn't realize glasses actually take a while to make and now my eyes are tired and it's hard to do a lot of things

It’s very rare, but sometimes I wish someone would suggest me for an award. Doesn’t have to be anything flashy - I don’t even have to win it. Although I tell you, I would cherish a “you’re surely hanging in there” award. Can be modeled after this:

Anyone who's aware of the situation of both countries would know this. Sometimes I wonder what's the criteria for publication cause I struggle to get some of mine accepted

"There are no Amish with autism" There are "Vaccines aren't tested against placebo" They are "MMR has never been studied as a possible cause of autism" It has. It's not the cause. I apparently need to say this stuff over and over and over and over again. And again.

How to pick the right lab for a postdoc if you want to stay in academia. [based on my experience in the US and partly Europe] 1. Make a list of possible groups in advance. Meet their students & postdocs at conferences. Listen to their feedback. Get opinions from the faculty in

Before vaccines, 1 in 5 kids never made it to their first birthday

List of university presses that offer free access to academic books (links included): You can read books online for free and also download their PDFs. If you know any press like this that's not included in the list, please post about it under this thread.

At this point, all I want is a house and a lab and it feels like I'm asking for a lot.

No lie this is sad: search.app/5ngM2

We’re hiring postdocs in the Shen Lab! We're seeking candidates with expertise in: 🧪 Natural product discovery 🧬 Genome mining ⚗️ Synthetic chemistry & biocatalysis (esp. for ADCs) Interested? Email Professor Shen with your CV + references: 🔗 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5213…

How do #lichens attach to the substrate? How do #holdfast or #rhizines appear? The main types of attachment are illustrated in the new panel of the Handbook of Lichenology at ial-lichenology.org/wp-content/upl… and examples of the variation between species will be shown on following plates.

Why is it so hard for people, especially some wellness influencers, to admit this simple truth…. You can do everything right. You can eat the kale, take the supplements, walk 10k steps a day, lift the weights, meditate, sleep 8 hours, avoid sugar, avoid seed oils, avoid

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PhD program applicants: if your PhD program is not direct admit into a specific lab, I recommend at least waiting until the interview phase to contact PIs. I also do not recommend applying to programs if there are only 1-2 labs you may want to join. There should be several.

Today, NIH announced a new policy to cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their work publicly accessible. This reflects our broader effort to restore public trust in public health by creating an open, honest, and transparent research atmosphere.

Get excited for the return of pharmacognosy.us newsletter!!! Be sure to watch your email for the full issue release. While you wait check out this article on the upcoming meeting in Grand Rapids!! Hope to see you all there! pharmacognosy.us/asp-2025-a-gra…