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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · Feb 28

Great news for yeast tetrad dissectors: Singer has stepped up in the wake of the closure of Cora Styles Needles N Blocks to make dissection needles. My lab manager beta tested them & deemed them, and I quote, "flawless." So glad to have a new source! www.singerinstruments.com/product/sing...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Feb 9

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Feb 6

🧪 My department is hiring! Tenure track faculty position in genetics. Researchers using any eukaryotic model, including fungi and plants are encouraged to apply! We are a broad biology department with strengths across all kingdoms. Join us! Apply by March 1 tinyurl.com/y4evds8p

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Nicola Barber @nicolabarber.bsky.social · Jan 13

We’re searching for Biology Dept Head here at Oregon! Please share careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Jan 9

🚨🧪New lab preprint: "We therefore propose a model for cytoskeletal evolution in which pools of microtubule network components constrain and guide the diversification of the entire network, so that the evolution of tubulin is inextricably linked to that of its binding partners." tinyurl.com/27ck46nb

Figure one in our new preprint showing the diversity of microtubule binding proteins in different eukaryotic lineages. There are a lot of these proteins all across the eukaryotic tree!

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · Nov 29

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob

Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.ucsb.edu

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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Are you an ASCB member?
Submit you work to MBoC. From today, all members’ papers thoroughly reviewed. No desk rejection!

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Nov 21

The JCS “Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology" conference is accepting applications! Spain, 2024. Please spread the word! 🧪https://www.biologists.com/meetings/jcsevocellbio24/

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · Nov 18

🚨🚨🚨Very excited to present our latest preprint on the role of endocytosis in regulating Cdc42 oscillatory dynamics at cell ends to promote bipolarity. Fantastic work by Marcus Harrell and Bethany Campbell in collaboration with Tian Hong and Ziyi Liu from U. Tennessee.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Arp2/3 complex promotes periodic removal of Pak1-mediated negative feedback to facilitate antico...

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

www.biorxiv.org

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Michael Manhart @michaelmanhart.bsky.social · Nov 14

For microbiologists seeking faculty jobs: Rutgers has 4+ faculty searches in microbiology right now! Please share widely and see below for details and links on the individual positions 1/5

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Nov 4

Sightseeing in Toronto!

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Oct 20

Absolutely perfect!

Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Oct 19

Cable management is my passion

Large tangle of computer cables and headphones

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Oct 17

🐸🍄🚨New lab preprint! Genetic transformation of the frog-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪

Image of Bd sporangium with actin highlighted in green. Actin forms patches at the cell periphery as well as cages surrounding each nucleus.

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · Sep 20

Youtube now has all talks and lectures from the 4th Annual Workshop in Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics at Institut Pasteur Montevideo (2021): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Sep 19

Dug up the best meme I have ever made for a talk next week:

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Step one in making cheese curd agar.

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Sep 7

OTD in 1674, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek sent the first of many letters to Henry Oldenburg of the Royal Society of London describing the “animalcules” he had observed in rainwater using a microscope.

www.dbnl.org/tekst/leeu02...

#histsci 🧪

Sketch of animalcules as observed by Leeuwenhoek.

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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · Sep 2

Phylogenetics faculty job! Colorado State 👍. Love to see it specified, bc resolving the tree of life is a scientific grand challenge for humanity.
🧪 #AcademicSky #SciJobs

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/131...

Assistant Professor in Phylogenetics

The successful candidate will develop a research program, specifically developing a research program in the area of phylogenetics, that interfaces with an integrative and collaborative department of e...

jobs.colostate.edu

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.

Beaver dam between two ponds of water in the evening. A hockey stick with a broken paddle sits among the branches of the dam. A beaver swims through the still water next to the dam.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey new Plant Scientists,
follow this feed to keep track of all #PlantScience related stuff posted here on Bluesky (see the screenshot for hashtags that are indexed).
bsky.app/profile/did:...
You can add it to your feeds and pin/like, which will make sure that the content shows up in your time line.

Header of the "Plant Science Research" Feed. There is a big button at the top named "Add to my Feeds", which is circled to show new users that this is how to follow.

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Jason Munshi-South @urbanevol.bsky.social · Aug 31

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Biology at Fordham University! Search is broad but interested in phylogenomics, evol genomics, and people that can teach computational bio and/or biostats. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/128986

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Aug 31

Early work found no REM in sleeping echidna, suggesting REM sleep arose in other mammals after diverging from monotremes. Later work discovered REM in the only other living monotreme genus. What do platypuses look like when dreaming, you ask?

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#evolution

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Lil (Lillian Fritz-Laylin) @fritzlaylin.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Major federal funding program for childcare is about to sunset. Rs have suggested they won't extend it & Biden left it out of his supplemental budget request
Nationwide, 70k providers expected to close altogether; 3.2m kids forecast to lose childcare slots www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

www.washingtonpost.com

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