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@vesiclesmasher

Actually, these days I mostly encourage others to smash vesicles. Associate professor in the Department of Physics at Lehigh University.

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“We’re Hiring! Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, Firefly Specialist”

“We’re Hiring! Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, Firefly Specialist”

Join Xerces & help protect fireflies! 🪲💡

Job Title: Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, Firefly Specialist
🌎Location: Remote (IA, IL, MO preferred. Will consider AR, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, ND, NE, OH, OK, SD, WI)
💲Compensation: $65,998/yr
📅Apply by: Mar 5

Learn more & apply at xerces.org/jobs

17.02.2026 21:06 👍 30 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 3
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Measuring the traction forces of upstream-migrating hematopoietic-like KG1a cells under shear flow Cell migration is critical to leukocyte function, enabling leukocytes to patrol tissues and respond to inflammatory cues. Upstream migration is a distinct form of cell motility that enables…

Cells vs. the flow! In Dong-hun Lee et al. 2025, KG1a blood-cell “kayakers” paddle upstream against shear like pros—using stronger traction forces under flow than at rest. Think tiny rowers gripping ICAM-1 oars and powering against the current!

10.02.2026 15:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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My lab in the NIH Intramural Program (Bethesda, MD) will be recruiting postdoctoral fellows over the next year with flexible start dates. We work on nanoscale cellular imaging of the plasma membrane and related organelles. Please reach out if you’re interested. www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdp-053...

22.12.2025 14:57 👍 59 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 3

BRING THE TRAINS!

23.12.2025 02:31 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.

19.12.2025 21:56 👍 365 🔁 115 💬 9 📌 5
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We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 (SOMC26), taking place in Glasgow from 21st July – 30th July 2026!

Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.

05.11.2025 15:40 👍 29 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 2
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Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!

09.10.2025 18:24 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 4

Co-sign this!

09.11.2025 18:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Fred Alert! Fred Alert!

07.11.2025 14:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there a hashtag for STEM internships?

Merck is accepting applications for internships in cell biology and assay development, immunogenicity, protein metabolism, biostatistics, vaccine communications, DMPK, and discovery and process chemistry.

05.11.2025 22:15 👍 18 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology
We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly
defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join
our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell
Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our
department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular,
cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health
and disease. The candidate should have an active research program
that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of-
the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our
expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in
gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected
to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research
for students, trainees, and the community across various life and
professional experiences.
• Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in
physiology or a related field.
• Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or
functional anatomy to professional or graduate students.
• Experience with grant writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, and a demonstrated ability to work
cooperatively and collegially within a diverse
community.

Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular, cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health and disease. The candidate should have an active research program that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of- the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research for students, trainees, and the community across various life and professional experiences. • Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in physiology or a related field. • Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or functional anatomy to professional or graduate students. • Experience with grant writing. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse community.

Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Sunrise in Davis CA

Sunrise in Davis CA

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

22.10.2025 22:44 👍 41 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 10
tall trees with bright yellow leaves near a curving staircase that leads up a grassy hill

tall trees with bright yellow leaves near a curving staircase that leads up a grassy hill

Not bad looking, Lehigh

05.11.2025 19:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

great news for abortion rights in Pennsylvania

05.11.2025 02:33 👍 1131 🔁 149 💬 5 📌 1
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Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future. Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potential. Being of an undesirable categorizat...

Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy.

tinyurl.com/2j9hxmjb

#WomenInSTEM

04.11.2025 15:13 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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04.11.2025 15:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MS and PhD Graduate Program | Physics This is the dedicated graduate program website of the Physics Department at Lehigh University, providing information to students interested in pursuing ...

The Lehigh Physics Dept is accepting MS/PhD applications for Fall 26. I am recruiting students for our biophysics group! We cover several areas of physics. Check out the virtual info session on Nov 19, as well as two free application weeks (Nov 3-8 and Dec 1-6)!
physicsgraduate.lehigh.edu

04.11.2025 13:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Application Application

Interested in more basic research?
Also offering a project with Munehiro Asally at the School of Life Sciences.

Probing molecular diffusion in living cells in vivo and in vitro

Apply through the same program #MIBTP
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

31.10.2025 13:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨 #PhD Opportunities 🚨
🧵

How does plasma membrane structure underpin tissue development?
Let’s find out!

Opportunity to do a PhD with me, co-supervised by Darius Koester, at Warwick.
Fully funded studentship by #MIBTP.

🔬✨🐟

More info:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested? Reach out!

31.10.2025 13:33 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

This is amazing work. There is actually a switch we can flip to eliminate the gender gap in physics education!

24.10.2025 17:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Following years of sustained effort, I recently achieved this status at my favorite burrito place

24.10.2025 17:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Brandeis University, Biology Department Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

22.10.2025 23:28 👍 86 🔁 102 💬 1 📌 3

This is the most frightening thing I've seen all October

20.10.2025 22:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We invite abstracts for “Physics of the Cytoskeleton” at the 2026 APS Global Summit in Denver. Join speakers Margaret Gardel @squishycell.bsky.social (Univ of Chicago) and Colm Kelleher (Syracuse)! This is @aps-dbio.bsky.social and @apsdsoft.bsky.social Session 04.01.03 with deadline Oct 23, 2025.

15.10.2025 13:01 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Oh I see. So we are all comb jellies!

15.10.2025 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is an opening for a faculty position in biophysics at Carnegie Mellon... and the accompanying, VERY Markus Deserno thread full of delight in nature and physics succinctly demonstrates what an awesome colleague you will have!

26.09.2025 15:43 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social! This announcement makes me proud to be a member

24.09.2025 18:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wooooo! Yay for SARAH!

24.09.2025 19:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Biomembrane Days 2025 Membranes form the intricately shaped compartments of life. The Biomembrane Days are a triannual workshop that highlights recent advances in understanding the morphology and molecular organization of ...

Major cool membrane conference coming up next week! The Biomembrane Days 2025, organized by an amazing team from the MPI for Colloids and Interface Science @mpici.bsky.social: Rumy Dimova (@dimovalab.bsky.social), Helge Ewers, and Thomas Weikl. I'm so very much looking forward to attending! 🤩 🧪

23.09.2025 14:15 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 2
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We have a postdoc opening for a protistologist with biophysics inclinations to join our @hfspo.bsky.social project! (focus will be on characterising the morphology, ultrastructure and behaviour of excavates) #protistsonsky

Apply by Sept 17th (RTs appreciated!)
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

06.08.2025 19:19 👍 47 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 0
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Gen Z stands up to expose corruption in Nepal Youth-led demonstrations against corruption erupted throughout Nepal on Monday September 8, 2025, resulting in at least 19 deaths and over 350 injuries.

The protests in Nepal, and the governments violent repression of them, are an increasingly important story right now. @globalvoices.org has reporting from Nepal on the "Nepo Kid" movement, including what the "international media" are getting wrong

09.09.2025 08:12 👍 89 🔁 63 💬 2 📌 6