This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work
"had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated,"
www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
I'm now on Bluesky!🤗 Excited to share our preprint, reviving
Kristy Red-Horse's interest in the placenta from her PhD ~20 years ago! We find using 3D imaging that the mouse placenta is far more invasive than previously thought. Furthermore, we find a surprise from our favorite chemokine CXCL12...🧵:
first part of my phd work is now available on bioRxiv!
Zamin Iqbal
One of my recent commissions: "Weird Yet Thriving," naked mole rat edition!
#weird #nakedmolerat #biology #SciArt
🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
James Zwierzynski
Claire Lavergne, MSc
Please don't post your preprints without material and methods @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Very excited to share our newest findings! A very long team effort pursued by multiple team members -to frantically reproduce everything over and over-, we show mTOR-Polycomb synergy at promoters of developmental master regulator TFs in ESCs prior to their expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
