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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10h

#glycotime!

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 21h

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 19h

Applications are due tomorrow! Apply to come and join us @stanford-chemh.bsky.social -- it's a truly wonderful place to launch a career in interdisciplinary molecular research.

Sarafan ChEM-H @stanford-chemh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Open faculty position!
We're seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation. Apply here: stanford.io/45MF3Qa

Open Faculty Position: Assistant or Associate (Untenured) Professor

Application deadline: 11:55 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Sarafan ChEM-H is seeking candidates with research programs that exist at the interface between molecular science and computation.

Click the link above to learn more & apply!

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11h

“American higher education has more women enrolled than ever before. More people of color than ever before. An educated populace is a civically engaged populace, a populace capable of critical thinking…that success threatens the wealth and power of those orchestrating these attacks.”

Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 1d

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack www.commondreams.org/opinion/univ...

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack | Common Dreams

Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they've failed to do, and resist accordingly.

www.commondreams.org

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22h

Yes!! @stanfordaaup.bsky.social

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 1d

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22h

President Roth of Wesleyan Univ is once again right on point

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

With its "Compact for Excellence in Higher Education," the government is, as in so many other areas of life, saying that if you want preferential funding treatment, you join the Loyalty Club.

Remember when conservatives were against that sort of thing?

What’s a College President to Do in the Trump Era?

Not going on bended knee to Washington would be a good start.

www.thebulwark.com

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HHMI @hhmi.org · 1d

🎉Congrats to Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award! His research will explore how sense of touch contributes to communal behaviors.

Congratulations
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Image of Ishmail in his lab

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Nature Metabolism @natmetabolism.nature.com · 2d

#Throwback 🧪

REVIEW | Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism

M Abu-Remaileh, K Birsoy et al.

Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism - Nature Metabolism

Kenny and Scharenberg et al. provide a broad overview of the fundamental aspects of choline metabolism and cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 3d

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece by Joachim Frank, a Nobel laureate at Columbia from Germany who has been standing up for science and democracy throughout this year.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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www.usnews.com

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

It was a typo at first but I like it too 😂

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

Then we talked about why the algorithm didn’t cast her as the professor and him as the diner /fin

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

Second prompt: “Eating at Shake Shack” 4/n

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

First prompt: “Stanford professor giving organic chemistry lecture” 2/n

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 3d

My 14-yr-old and I were playing with Sora, gave it two prompts of things I/we had done that day 1/n

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 5d

Great Job - Great Colleagues - Great Science👍
Help us pick the next generation of @hhmi.org Investigators, Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, Hanna Gray Fellows, Gilliam Fellows
Relocation to DC is required, perfect for academic PIs looking for their next chapter
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Senior Director - Scientific Officer

Primary Work Address: 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the disco...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 5d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Department of Chemistry, Stanford University @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Next Week: 2 Talks by Dept Faculty

🗓️ 10/13 (3PM | Sapp Aud)
@stevenbanik.bsky.social kicks off the 25-26 SHC Series w/a chembio talk on how protein abundance shifts signal cell state/function 🧬 🔬

🗓️ 10/16 (3PM | Sapp LH)
Zare will give a talk on spices—chemistry, evolution, and culture. 🌶️🌿

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 4d

🙏 MIT

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 4d

“Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America’s research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.”

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 4d

“We freely choose these values because they’re right, and we live by them because they support our mission – work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States”

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 4d

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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