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New research project: Lluminate - an evolutionary algorithm that helps LLMs break free from generating predictable, similar outputs. Combining evolutionary principles with creative thinking strategies can illuminate the space of possibilities. joelsimon.net/lluminate

I’m excited to share our latest research from Musser Lab , published today in nature. Using two-color 3D MINFLUX, we directly visualized nuclear import and export events through transport-active nuclear pores. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats to Alexandra Long Alex Long, the second student from our lab to start their own lab! Her lab is in Univ. Kentucky's Biology Dept, studying the evolutionary cell biology & biophysics of cellular organization. Check it out! alonglab.org

GLP-1 agonists have transformed life for many people with type 2 diabetes and obesity. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize honors Daniel Drucker, Joel Habener, Jens Juul Holst, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and Svetlana Mojsov for seminal contributions to GLP-1's discovery, characterization and

Last night I was honored to receive the 2025 #BreakthroughPrize in the Life Sciences, reflecting the efforts of many students, collaborators, doctors, and patients in labs around the world. I hope this 4-minute excerpt can inspire when science needs public support more than ever.

Here’s a new approach to treating diseases caused by mutated proteins, including the rare but lethal liver cancer fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC). Many diseases are driven by mutations: sometimes a single change, sometimes two proteins fused together. (1/9)

NYC Postdocs! Join us for Postdoc Night Science at the New York Genome Center on June 2nd for a discussion on the creative process of finding novel questions. This time we hit the bar after! Register & spread the word: docs.google.com/forms/d/1s9W78… Tim Stearns Kelsey Monson, PhD Ramon Massoni Badosa

Itai and I, along with Kelsey, have been doing these sessions with postdocs across NYC. Great fun and much science buddy interaction! Join us at the New York Genome Center on June 2 for the final meeting before we take a summer hiatus.

RIP Dick Garwin, who I had the pleasure of working alongside every summer for more than 20 years. A brilliant thinker and compassionate person, Dick is the perfect example of how high-level science advice has been critical to the success of the U.S. nytimes.com/2025/05/14/sci…

It’s time again for Cell Biology at Scale (CB@S), an annual gathering for researchers from diverse disciplines to share ideas on how new technologies can transform #cellbiology! Co-hosted by #CZBiohubNY & Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Learn more and register: czbiohub.org/events/cell-bi…

Exciting news! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. Nature Microbiology We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Join us at 5:30 PM tonight at the NY Genome Center!

Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.

Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.

An amazing group of Freeman Hrabowski Scholars from HHMI! Great to see Steve L. Bonilla, who is off to an outstanding start at Rockefeller University hhmi.org/programs/freem…

Are you an early stage researcher? Check out the newly released #FundingOpportunity for the #NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to fund exceptionally creative scientists proposing innovative, high-impact projects. Learn more: bit.ly/4jXnbXQ

Saw Elliot Kirschner’s new film about Robert Reich’s last class taught at UC Berkeley. It’s a film about Reich’s remarkable life, but also about the power of teaching and the classroom. Check it out!

Excited that our nucleolus mapping paper just came out today in Nature! Truly an amazing study from even more amazing due of Sofi Quinodoz & Lifei jiang w/ Denis LJ Lafontaine & Sebastian Klinge and other fantastic co-authors nature.com/articles/s4158…

In the July issue of #GENETICS, the 2025 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient Jason "boundless delight " Williams pens down a timely and pertinent essay—There’s never been a better time to be a STEM educator! Read here: buff.ly/sxE7wbv 1/2🧵

1/ Better late than never, here’s a long thread of threads summarizing our MOSAIC preprint. If you’re curious about the process by which a new microscope is conceived and brought into the world, this is the thread for you. If you’ve come for eye candy, there’s plenty of that too