Mark Peifer (He, him)

peiferlabunc.bsky.social

17 October 2026 23:10

Curiosity is the driver behind all good science. This wonderful story reveals how curiosity & the ability to excite others about questions that excite you can pay off with exciting new discoveries with implications about cell signaling & chromosome segregation🧪 1/n www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽

needhibhalla.bsky.social

17 October 2026 16:35

However, I am deeply worried about how that shift will happen in this hyper competitive and precarious reality, when bias and resentment can be as powerful during assessment as a deep appreciation of how things work

Jonathan Eisen

phylogenomics.bsky.social

17 October 2026 15:52

At the memorial symposium in honor of J. Craig Venter of the @jcvi.org they had an event on the Midway Aircraft Carrier. They had a nice display of Venter achievements / pics on the walk to the deck. I made a gif of some pics I took.

#DefendResearch

defendresearch.bsky.social

16 October 2026 19:29

NSF awarded just 91 social science grants in 2026—down 89%. More than 30 research areas got ZERO. This is a crisis for scholarship. #Censorship #DefendResearch #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky www.science.org/content/arti...

James Gurney

jamesgurney.bsky.social

16 October 2026 17:47

New preprint from the Gurney Lab, on bioRxiv: The Phage Time Continuum: Genome Organization Constrains Anti-CRISPR Success. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I think this is one of the cooler things I'll ever do. Work lead by @sczerwinski.bsky.social he coined the term Phage Time Continuum. 1/10