Karolin Luger

Daaaaamn!!! Go Georgia! 😳

this is the argument I'd like to see from anyone and everyone who wants to lead us out of this wasteland

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years the Ig Nobel ceremony will move to Europe. "There are no immediate plans to return the ceremony to the US."
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Food for thought for conference steering committees.

Also... The speed!!!! 280 kmh...

Just ONCE I want to travel by train @deutschebahn.com in Germany without delays, missed connections and cancelled trains. Today was not that day. I'll keep trying. Still beats driving by a long shot!

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

Susan Polan, PhD speaking at the Take Back Our Science Rally in Washington D.C.!

Susan Polan, PhD speaking at the Take Back Our Science Rally in Washington D.C.!

#March7
#March7DC
#StandUpForScience
#science
#savescience

yes you can vote, and yes I take orders from nice ppl. F1 thinks its an 'imposition' to gift friends with a quilt without warning, since not all people like quilts, and then they have to pretend they like it. Should I care? Opinions?

second #quilt from my Greenland series ready to be shipped out. just ignore the weird sun spots on the picture. turned out better than the first one I think. Experimenting with different styles while trying to capture the Greenland coor palette

This has to be one of the best tree trunks of all time.

from my colleagues at National Renewable Energy labs. I can't even.

The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade

Buffalo Stand Up for Science speaker announcement: Dr Joyce Ohm! Meet the star of a recent Super Bowl commercial, a department chair, great scientist, and fantastic mentor! (I can’t find a picture of her speaking last year, so here’s Ethan.)
@epigenohmics.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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Blankie: check. Corey: hard pass

@nucleosomepolice, henceforth known as 'Special envoy for the prevention of bad nucleosome cartoons'. Booking my lip injections and hair extensions now, so I can look like Noem.

Bless @alondra.bsky.social for opening this Pandora’s box at the end of midterms week

Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea - Nature Reviews Microbiology The Asgard archaea have become a cornerstone of archaeal research, particularly for studies aiming to unravel the origin and early evolution of eukaryotes. This Review outlines the current state of th...

Just over ten years after the discovery of the first Asgard archaeal genomes, we revisit the rapid expansion of this remarkable archaeal lineage. From diverse genomes and metabolisms to eukaryotic signature proteins and the first cultured representatives.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD and Postdoc Transition Program | Gilliam Fellows | HHMI The Gilliam Fellows Program supports PhD students and their faculty thesis advisors to advance cutting-edge research, facilitate the transition to postdoctoral scientist, and foster the development of...

2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!

very cool!

The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 Nature - PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.

New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

Please RT:📢We are hiring a Post-Doc in Structural Biology to join our multidisciplinary team.

Project: study molecular mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer using cryo-EM and integrative structural biology.

Apply: shorturl.at/ecrVL

#StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Postdoc

Shout out to Boston

There is a new PhD in the house. Congratulations to Dr. Mando Ramirez (Shirts and Hough lab) for an amazing PhD defense! 💯🎉💯

idk that seems to be the understatement of the week. this is actually happening, postdocs and RAs are being let go, and projects falter. 'could face funding gaps'? this is actually happening at a large scale. 'Worry' doesnt reflect the existential crisis that many of my colleagues are in.

UW announced departure from X (formerly known as Twitter) UW is no longer using X, formerly known as Twitter, which they announced in a post on Feb. 27.  Before this announcement, the university posted periodic updates about closures, safety alert systems, ...

Wonderful news: my university has announced it will stop using X. uwimprint.ca/uw-announced...

And no, this does not violate institutional neutrality, properly understood. Nothing about neutrality in communications requires a university to use any and all platforms.

Join us!

100 % agree. inaccuracies are good. the quilt above is not assembled yet, just arranged the blocks to see what I've got. still about same number of blocks to go and then assemble.

Been cutting up pieces of cotton and stitching them back together randomly... For some reason it helps. #quiltsky

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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