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Colm Atkins, PhD
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Research Associate, Daniels Lab, Rutgers. AAUP-AFT Local 6323. Socialism, dogs, virology, books, music, sports. he/him. New Brunswick, NJ. http://colmatkins.com/
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At #SfN? Check out super talented graduate student Esther's poster on how acute alcohol modulates cell specific in vivo cortical activity. You can also congratulate her on recently defending her Masters thesis!!
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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📢Our bargaining survey launched earlier in November! To all our members: if you haven't taken the survey yet, check your email inbox. This is an important tool for establishing the core demands of our next contract campaign. We want to hear from YOU!
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Any of my followers have peristaltic pump suggestions, we have been happy with this from VWR , but it seems to have left their catalog, just PBS and 4% PFA for mouse perfusions.
Avantor is setting science in motion for a better world | Avantor
www.avantorsciences.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IRELAND
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🎉 Heading to SfN? Come vibe with the BIN fam at our SfN Social on Nov 17! Good food, great people, and even better energy 🖤
🗓️ November 17
🕢 7:30–10:30PM
📍 San Diego |

Register today!
🔗 blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-6419762
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
OH MY GOD GIMBAL HAS A REPUTATION AT DAY CARE FOR BEING A PERVERT
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Updated guidance about study sections and due dates during the shut down. (Given the number of emails about issues with submission/letters of rec I had, this will help with those). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH
grants.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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With the imminent and uninvited arrival of Trump’s Bull Connor in Charlotte, thought I’d share this episode from the first season of the award-winning podcast I cohost with Robert Greene, Our New South, for the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Nuevo Sur
Podcast Episode · Our New South · 02/07/2024 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
hashtag data science
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Big Jeopardy run by an @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social member!
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i'm going to be on jeopardy! tomorrow
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the vengabus comes,
It comes for thee.
The Vengabus is coming. It is happening again.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I never met Watson. But he gave a public seminar at my undergrad. Don't remember the talk but do remember the incredibly disturbing and degrading misogynistic comments he made at the female biology majors given the honor to meet him.

A real piece of shit! World class.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Tech extraordinaire Eduard presenting at work in progress today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Men will literally say they’ve never kissed instead of going to therapy.
This is apparently something called a “Kiss and Ride” drop off. A maze for cars next to a train station. I have never heard of this term, but it echos what @volts.wtf has said that we waste transit projects that still serve suburban commuters and cars over moving people to places they want to be
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Do I know anyone who works with shiga toxin, ideally in mice?
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Unearthing The Hidden History Of A Singular Trans Punk Zine | Defector
I wasn't ready for how much it loved trans people.
defector.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"By the end, Cuomo had no platform or political vision to offer New York City's voters. All he had was a request: Use the ballot box as a place to register and honor your racial animus."

from @toley.bsky.social

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Defeat Isn't Enough For Andrew Cuomo And His Pack Of Lunatics | Defector
A New York City mayoral election is, definitionally, not anyone outside of the city’s business. That this year’s campaign, which ended in Zohran Mamdani’s victory on Tuesday night, became everybody’s ...
defector.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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It was a momentus election night in the tristate area! Congrats to the new Governor of New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill, and to everyone who helped canvas. We hope this win will bring a better future for the Rutgers community and New Jersey.
New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor.

I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I'll be riding the dopamine rush of the freezer service tech saying '[your] service report comments make troubleshooting much easier' all day, thank you.
November 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
All aboard the Bumble Beeagle
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM