Milindu Liyanapathirana
@liyanapathir.bsky.social
Biomedical science professional with global lab experience in molecular biology, cancer biology, and neuroscience. Seeking PhD or research roles in basic or translational biomedical science.
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Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul
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I'm hiring! Come and work with me at UCL to try and understand how the brain's blood vessels go wrong and promote dementia: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I'm hiring! Come and work with me at UCL to try and understand how the brain's blood vessels go wrong and promote dementia: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Looking forward to this next week!
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Looking forward to this next week!
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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18 Fully Funded PhD Studentships – October 2026 Start
Join our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme in Infection Biosciences, tackling global challenges like emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, and food insecurity.
Learn more & apply: www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
Join our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme in Infection Biosciences, tackling global challenges like emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, and food insecurity.
Learn more & apply: www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
18 Fully Funded PhD Studentships – October 2026 Start
Join our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme in Infection Biosciences, tackling global challenges like emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, and food insecurity.
Learn more & apply: www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
Join our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme in Infection Biosciences, tackling global challenges like emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, and food insecurity.
Learn more & apply: www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
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Listen, there's a ~75% chance that if you phone bank with @standupforscience.bsky.social during the session that @jeremymberg.bsky.social is in, you'll get to hear him rant about something!
So, sign up for Saturday and Sunday!
So, sign up for Saturday and Sunday!
I will be phone banking for Aftyn this weekend.
I am trying to have something else to be thankful for next week.
The more the merrier
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
I am trying to have something else to be thankful for next week.
The more the merrier
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
TAKE ACTION! Hit the phones with us on Saturday and Sunday for @aftynbehn4tn, and help bring sanity back to science policy. Sign up at zurl.co/5aOiP (linked in our bio) to get started. All you need is a phone and a zeal for action!
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Listen, there's a ~75% chance that if you phone bank with @standupforscience.bsky.social during the session that @jeremymberg.bsky.social is in, you'll get to hear him rant about something!
So, sign up for Saturday and Sunday!
So, sign up for Saturday and Sunday!
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A new strategy developed at @vallhebron.com will improve diagnosis and monitoring of #glioblastoma.
VHIO’s Joan Seoane & Raúl Herance’s @VHIR group have created ImmunoPET, a technology that helps select patients and track their response to therapy.
🗞️ in @pubs.acs.org
➕ linke.to/ImmunoPETVHIO
VHIO’s Joan Seoane & Raúl Herance’s @VHIR group have created ImmunoPET, a technology that helps select patients and track their response to therapy.
🗞️ in @pubs.acs.org
➕ linke.to/ImmunoPETVHIO
A new strategy developed at Vall d’Hebron will support the diagnosis and monitoring of glioblastoma
linke.to
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A new strategy developed at @vallhebron.com will improve diagnosis and monitoring of #glioblastoma.
VHIO’s Joan Seoane & Raúl Herance’s @VHIR group have created ImmunoPET, a technology that helps select patients and track their response to therapy.
🗞️ in @pubs.acs.org
➕ linke.to/ImmunoPETVHIO
VHIO’s Joan Seoane & Raúl Herance’s @VHIR group have created ImmunoPET, a technology that helps select patients and track their response to therapy.
🗞️ in @pubs.acs.org
➕ linke.to/ImmunoPETVHIO
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Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
November 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
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#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs.
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
neuroimaging | Satterthwaite Lab | UPenn
www.satterthwaitelab.com
Homepage for Satterthwaite lab
neuroimaging | neurodevelopment | adolescence | psychiatry | machine learning | network science
www.pennlinc.io
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs.
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
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I am looking for a PostDoc to join my group at Genentech to drive the development of proteomics technologies to fuel target and therapeutic discovery and development. Check out the link below!
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I am looking for a PostDoc to join my group at Genentech to drive the development of proteomics technologies to fuel target and therapeutic discovery and development. Check out the link below!
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
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Funded-PhD opportunities @livunihss.bsky.social! Come do a #PhD with me on #care and #decolonising the #museum collections engaging with local & #indigenous communities!
Expressions of interest (300 words) deadline: 1st December 2025
Expressions of interest (300 words) deadline: 1st December 2025
How to apply | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Funded-PhD opportunities @livunihss.bsky.social! Come do a #PhD with me on #care and #decolonising the #museum collections engaging with local & #indigenous communities!
Expressions of interest (300 words) deadline: 1st December 2025
Expressions of interest (300 words) deadline: 1st December 2025
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Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool
Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC) 2026 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
ltrr.arizona.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool
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🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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$40,000 for future STEM leaders at HBCUs.
Mentorship, internships, AND real-world skills — not just tuition support.
Applications are open. Don’t miss it.
🔗
bit.ly/3JTbu8u
Mentorship, internships, AND real-world skills — not just tuition support.
Applications are open. Don’t miss it.
🔗
bit.ly/3JTbu8u
FOSSI | Future of STEM Scholars Initiative | AIChE
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
$40,000 for future STEM leaders at HBCUs.
Mentorship, internships, AND real-world skills — not just tuition support.
Applications are open. Don’t miss it.
🔗
bit.ly/3JTbu8u
Mentorship, internships, AND real-world skills — not just tuition support.
Applications are open. Don’t miss it.
🔗
bit.ly/3JTbu8u
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The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Nicolas Rivron from Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is recruiting!
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Nicolas Rivron from Institute of Molecular Biotechnology is recruiting!
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
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The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
Diedrichsenlab
diedrichsenlab.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
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Trump has brought a national chill to U.S. science. But what about state actions? 🚩🏛️
For @science.org, I spoke with researchers across disciplines, career stages, and geography to find out how being a red state researcher can stoke fear, and acts of resistance 🔬🏳️🌈: tinyurl.com/4yf8pf62
For @science.org, I spoke with researchers across disciplines, career stages, and geography to find out how being a red state researcher can stoke fear, and acts of resistance 🔬🏳️🌈: tinyurl.com/4yf8pf62
In red states, many academic researchers feel fear–and resolve
State-level mandates prompt changes and small acts of resistance at universities
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Trump has brought a national chill to U.S. science. But what about state actions? 🚩🏛️
For @science.org, I spoke with researchers across disciplines, career stages, and geography to find out how being a red state researcher can stoke fear, and acts of resistance 🔬🏳️🌈: tinyurl.com/4yf8pf62
For @science.org, I spoke with researchers across disciplines, career stages, and geography to find out how being a red state researcher can stoke fear, and acts of resistance 🔬🏳️🌈: tinyurl.com/4yf8pf62
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We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Postdoctoral Fellow - H Yardimci Lab
www.crick.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to study mechanisms of DNA replication stress using single-molecule imaging tools. If you are excited about microscopy, replisome dynamics, and genome stability, we’d love to hear from you.
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Application deadline: 24 December
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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There’s just ONE WEEK left to apply to join our amazing PhD programme next year!
Visit our website for more information: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Applications close on 2nd DEC 2025
Visit our website for more information: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Applications close on 2nd DEC 2025
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
There’s just ONE WEEK left to apply to join our amazing PhD programme next year!
Visit our website for more information: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Applications close on 2nd DEC 2025
Visit our website for more information: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Applications close on 2nd DEC 2025
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💉 UpSurgeOn’s hyper-realistic spine deformity simulator:
✅ Avoids the use of live animals
✅ Is cadaver-free
✅ Offers trainees the experience of working with bleeding tissue
✅ Integrates mixed reality
✅ Is compatible with mobile X-ray
www.upsurgeon.com/spine-deform...
#MedEd #Medsky
✅ Avoids the use of live animals
✅ Is cadaver-free
✅ Offers trainees the experience of working with bleeding tissue
✅ Integrates mixed reality
✅ Is compatible with mobile X-ray
www.upsurgeon.com/spine-deform...
#MedEd #Medsky
Spine Deformity
Spine Deformity is an advanced platform featuring complex spinal surgery cases, engineered to replicate the biomechanical challenges of correction.
www.upsurgeon.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
💉 UpSurgeOn’s hyper-realistic spine deformity simulator:
✅ Avoids the use of live animals
✅ Is cadaver-free
✅ Offers trainees the experience of working with bleeding tissue
✅ Integrates mixed reality
✅ Is compatible with mobile X-ray
www.upsurgeon.com/spine-deform...
#MedEd #Medsky
✅ Avoids the use of live animals
✅ Is cadaver-free
✅ Offers trainees the experience of working with bleeding tissue
✅ Integrates mixed reality
✅ Is compatible with mobile X-ray
www.upsurgeon.com/spine-deform...
#MedEd #Medsky
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
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We are up to 7 callers!
The goal is 20!! I have 13 thousand followers...surely 13 of you can sign up?
LET'S GET AFTYN TO CONGRESS!
The goal is 20!! I have 13 thousand followers...surely 13 of you can sign up?
LET'S GET AFTYN TO CONGRESS!
DORKS! @standupforscience.bsky.social is running health and science focused phone banking to Get Out The Vote in TN-07!
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our goal is 20+ callers per session, today's session (7-9p et) has 5 callers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET PRO-SCIENCE FOLKS TO CONGRESS!
SIGN UP HERE 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We are up to 7 callers!
The goal is 20!! I have 13 thousand followers...surely 13 of you can sign up?
LET'S GET AFTYN TO CONGRESS!
The goal is 20!! I have 13 thousand followers...surely 13 of you can sign up?
LET'S GET AFTYN TO CONGRESS!
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🚨 BREAKING: It’s being reported that the CDC in the US is ending its experiments on monkeys! Approximately 200 macaques currently used in harmful research will be affected; future research on primates will also be discontinued. 🐵 🙌🏼
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🚨 BREAKING: It’s being reported that the CDC in the US is ending its experiments on monkeys! Approximately 200 macaques currently used in harmful research will be affected; future research on primates will also be discontinued. 🐵 🙌🏼
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For anyone wondering what phone banking with SUFS is like, here you go!
You dial one (1!) number and our system does the rest, just walk through the script.
You dial one (1!) number and our system does the rest, just walk through the script.
The zoom is a short training and we give you the link to do the phone banking. We stay on the zoom (you can turn off camera and sound!) for questions and a debrief at the end!
You only dial one number, only get a caller when someone says “hello”, and then you walk through the script!
You only dial one number, only get a caller when someone says “hello”, and then you walk through the script!
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
For anyone wondering what phone banking with SUFS is like, here you go!
You dial one (1!) number and our system does the rest, just walk through the script.
You dial one (1!) number and our system does the rest, just walk through the script.
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🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease?
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease?
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
🧵 1/4
Please repost 🙏
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
🧵 1/4
Please repost 🙏
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I'm guest-editing a collection on "Enhancer-promoter interactions" at Genome Biology. Please send us your exciting stories!
link.springer.com/collections/...
link.springer.com/collections/...
Enhancer-promoter interactions
Genome Biology is calling for submissions to our Collection on enhancer-promoter interactions.
Enhancer–promoter interactions are central to the regulation ...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I'm guest-editing a collection on "Enhancer-promoter interactions" at Genome Biology. Please send us your exciting stories!
link.springer.com/collections/...
link.springer.com/collections/...