Jennifer Biddle

Pls share: Tenure-track faculty position (Asst Prof) at Cornell in "Using bacteria to address 21st century challenges." Part of an ongoing cohort hire spanning several departments in the area of "Harnessing the Power of Synthetic Biology (SynBio)." academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33098

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

I had 2 grad students freak out on me this week because they don’t understand how they will have employable skills when robots and AI exist. Anyone else getting this? Am I not talking about story telling and critical thought enough? Why do kids not think the robots still need overlords?

You couldn’t make this up if you tried. Trump called Google Maps and asked if they could handle a name change for the Atlantic. Google Maps responded, “No, no, no. This time, I’m not doing it. Oceans are different, as they border a lot of countries.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This should be a criminal act.

Just me, finally hoping someone is using the transcriptional activation of additional chaperones to determine true physiological preferences, but no....I mean, what does growth temp really tell us? Sure Topt means something, but I want to know when they freak out.

While you're here...we're also hiring a marine biologist, but the job ad isn't quite posted yet

🚨 Our department is hiring! Looking to fill an endowed position in genetics/genomics to join us in beautiful Oregon. Search is at the Associate/Full Professor level. See below for details and share with your colleagues!

Sometimes eldercare means navigating complicated legal issues that deal with large sums of money and deadlines. Very thankful for friends, and the brother of my sister in law who is a lawyer, for their free advice. Seriously get yourself a realtor friend, they love to run comps and know lawyers.

This is a heist. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

For whom it concerns - the BJs house brand Wellsley Farms blended red wine is really good. And it’s $7.99.

You know it’s a slow day of fishing when you literally catch a shoe

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Elder care update of today. One of Dad’s new friends at independent living has never been to Aldi. Dad’s flabbers are gasted!!!

Next RATM album cover loading….

How I know I’m not dissolving into a total pessimist despite living through what seems to be a constantly burning dumpster fire : I’m 698th in line for a Libby book. Delaware libraries…pay nothing in taxes, get little in services. This is the way.

If you’re ✨reimagining the future of science✨and the room: - is full of people over retirement age - doesn’t include include anyone trying to change systems - is mostly white guys - has lots of retired leaders You’re actually just ✨reinstating the status quo✨ Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk 💁🏻‍♀️

Apparently the Tucson zoo was expecting a FedEx shipment of a Komodo dragon yesterday, and FedEx lost the Komodo dragon

Planning to bike around handing out sour candy on Halloween on my Citric Acid Cycle 🍬🚲

First, Rudy Giuliani booked Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Then Senator Schmitt confused the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Now a GOP super PAC spent $25,000 campaigning in the wrong Portland. These people want to redraw America's borders but can't find the places on a map.

This Indigenous Peoples' Day, we honor and recognize the Lenape and Nanticoke peoples, whose ancestral lands include Delaware, and whose resilience and contributions have long enriched our state.

This is me. youtube.com/shorts/v6FJG...

Long live the day I girl bossed too close to the sun and managed to get my email address on the main account for the entire university so every month I get everyone’s QIAGEN invoices for my entire university. 🤘

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

Live look in to your university’s administration

Our department has collected $750 in doordash gift cards and has already filled 3 weeks of a meal train schedule for our ill student. My heart is full, hopefully so is their belly.

It’s a quintessential French experience when your institution is blockaded by protesting students. This is precisely what American students should have done when their institutions began capitulating to the Trump regime.

Here's the ad for the Genome Sciences faculty positions ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”

The problem with the lack of an algorithm is that we are going to keep seeing people independently discover this trash of a movie.

Just day drank with the grad students. We were all at a 5K fundraiser and I had already grabbed a table to manage food and beer and told them to join my friends so they could do the same. Gotta look out the kids, right? Gave one of them my wristband for more beer.

Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...

I see one positive change. At present, changes to IBC permit (eg. addition of BSL1 organism or even protein expression plasmid) requires the full IBC meet (which only happens monthly here). This change would allow one or a subset of IBC members to approve certain changes.