Congrats to Bernadette Chua, who brilliantly defended her PhD thesis! Dr. Chua made incredible discoveries transforming how we think about proteostasis in stem cells. She was also central to building our kind, collaborative & supportive lab culture. My most joyous day as a PI!

BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by UAW, are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.

Happening now! UCSD picket line is surrounding the faculty club. We are told Chancellor Khosla is inside. #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike #UCstrike

Several members of the UCSD PDA are in support of the Academic Worker strike at the University of California and show their solidarity for #FairContractNow. See our statement attached, UAW Local 5810 @uaw2865 Student Researchers United-UAW

I have been in university setups for 20 yrs, from UG until now. Never in those many yrs, I have seen a strike/protest organized by the faculty demanding a change to status quo. Never. Not once. That is one of the reasons why we're in this "poorly paid ECRs" situation in academia.

Breakdown of PhD student cost on a grant: tuition $45K stipend $35K fringe $10K indirects $60K -- total paid by NIH to university: $150K total paid by university to student: $35K (this is just a toy example to illustrate a point, not real numbers but same ballpark)

For 50 years we've known that recycling helps keep our planet healthy. Now we know it's also essential to boost stem cell fitness & longevity.

Happy to be part of this fun collaboration with Nick Baker- in this study led by Virginia Folgado, PhD and Kristina Ames we show that the ribosomal protein RpS12 is required for skeletal development and hematopoiesis in mice doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Mechanisms of readthrough mitigation reveal principles of GCN1-mediated translational quality control Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Ribo-ITP enables ribosome occupancy measurements from single cells. Our first application revealed insights into allele-specific ribosome engagement in early development (nature.com/articles/s4158…). #RiboITP #singlecell

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

Out now! Unveiling the mystery of TRiC/CCT chaperonin assembly! 🥳Our paper uncovers how its unique double-ring architecture forms through a step-by-step hierarchy. Many congrats to the first authors Miranda Collier Karen Betancourt Moreira! 😍 Check out more here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Did you ever wonder why our marrow is located inside of our *bones*, #MedTwitter? There’s no a priori anatomical reason it should be sited there. Blood cells could form in our spleens & livers, as they do during our fetal lives; or elsewhere, as in some animals. Let’s discuss! /1

🆕 nature Rejuvenating the aged immune system with antibody depletion of blood myeloid stem cells @justsaysinmice nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/d4158… Kim J Hasenkrug Robert Signer Yasar Arfat T Kasu Big implications

Can anti-aging antibodies revive the immune system? In Nature News & Views we previewed the latest breakthrough from Irv Weissman's team in nature that used immunotherapy to deplete aging stem cells. Yasar Arfat T Kasu nature.com/articles/d4158…

Ribosomes take a break from their usual role go.nature.com/4bV9NAl