Avital Rodal
Dances with endosomes, frolics with fruit flies. Speaking for myself.
- Reposted by Avital RodalCalling #CanFly2025 attendees! Genome Journal is now accepting manuscripts for the CanFly Collection, featuring cutting-edge Drosophila research across genetics, development, and neuroscience. Submit by June 30, 2026 ▶️ ow.ly/LFph50XBE3b #DrosophilaResearch
- Reposted by Avital RodalNow we don't even know where we are on #TheStupidestTimeline.
- Reposted by Avital Rodal@ascbiology.bsky.social 's Women in Cell Biology (WICB) has yet another fantastic event today at 4pm, room 126A. A networking panel on "Thriving in Uncertain Times: Navigating Career and Funding Challenges". #cellbio2025.
- Reposted by Avital RodalWe take advantage of the characteristic geometries of dendritic spines--their saddle-like necks and bulbous heads--to eliminate (or at least significantly decrease) the need for the painstaking work of manual image segmentation.
- Reposted by Avital Rodal#cellbio2025 The Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Committee has put together some truly fantastic events for this year’s meeting! We can’t wait for you to check them out:
- Reposted by Avital RodalToday, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...
- Reposted by Avital RodalAre you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
- Reposted by Avital RodalDear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
- Reposted by Avital RodalPolitical parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
- Reposted by Avital RodalA university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.
- Reposted by Avital RodalDespite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏
- Reposted by Avital RodalWith apologies to @xkcd.com
- Reposted by Avital Rodal🧪 I was going to say that I’m happy to share my latest, but I’d much rather be without the reasons to write it: The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... via @statnews.com
- Reposted by Avital RodalOkay but the Portland farmers market is a well known hotspot for the notorious Venezuelan gang Trendy Arugula
- Reposted by Avital RodalNation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving
- Reposted by Avital RodalThe New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.
- Reposted by Avital RodalLungfish xkcd.com/3064
- Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.
- Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...
- Reposted by Avital RodalNext Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...
- Reposted by Avital RodalHighly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼 #sciencecareers #scientificediting #journaleditor #careersoutsidescademia
- Reposted by Avital RodalThe GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- Reposted by Avital RodalConfused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
- Reposted by Avital Rodal📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to shekhar@emory.edu. More info: www.shekharlab.org
- Reposted by Avital RodalOf course I signed this! Please join us.
- Launched today! Join 6 Nobel Laureates, 27 Members of the US National Academies & the Scientific Advisory Board of @accountabilityji.bsky.social in signing this petition demanding RFK Jr.'s resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
- Reposted by Avital RodalIt bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!
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- Reposted by Avital RodalWe are hiring a lab technician! Join our group studying signaling networks in #Drosophila, with a possibility to carry out a research project. Please RT. Job posting: employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... Veraksa lab website: www.faculty.umb.edu/alexey_verak...
- Reposted by Avital RodalKnow an outstanding early career scientist in Drosophila neurogenetics? Nominate them for the Hugo Bellen & Catherine Tasnier Lecture! Winner gets $5K, conference travel, & a talk at #Dros26. Self-nominations welcome. Due Nov 6, 2025. buff.ly/5PqSXHw
- Reposted by Avital RodalHi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!
- Reposted by Avital RodalJust to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
- This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read. And that's saying a lot. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Reposted by Avital RodalWe're looking for a research assistant to work in our neuroscience lab at @princetonneuro.bsky.social @hhmi.org where we study learning and decision-making circuitry. Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21001/r... Pls share w/ anyone who might be interested!
- Reposted by Avital RodalAcademia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Reposted by Avital RodalSpamming you with this knowledge of a tariff waiver for scientific instrumentation which you can apply for retroactively! bsky.app/profile/sara...
- Ok well, I'm giving this a go #chemsky 🧪 #NMRchat for buying an autosampler. Allegedly the tariff on this would be ~$3100. I'll link to the form below, but sections 7,8,9 require longer-form response. Here's my draft, you should be able to comment. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Avital Rodal#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Avital Rodalfew outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
- Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew. “Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- Reposted by Avital RodalA #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon! www.nesmicroscopy.org
- Reposted by Avital RodalPost Sunday morning shows Bhattacharya email...
- Reposted by Avital RodalOur lab is looking to recruit a new postdoc to join our team. You can visit us at leritlab.org to learn more and submit applications here: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/149999/... (or scan the QR in the ad below!) Review will commence in early August.
- Reposted by Avital Rodal"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted
- Reposted by Avital RodalHonored that our work with @rodallab.bsky.social and Jonathan Beats has found its final home @jcb.org. We identify a presynaptic actin core at the Drosophila NMJ—a long-lived, NMII-dependent structure that may help synapses withstand mechanical stress. 🧵 1/5
- Reposted by Avital RodalFinally out in Nature Chem Bio: SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you Steffi and Veselin.
- Reposted by Avital RodalKarolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...
- Reposted by Avital RodalExtracellular vesicles in the nervous system! With keynote @erikaholzbaur.bsky.social! So many great speakers and chairs, to name a few @rodallab.bsky.social @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social. Lots of slots for ECR talks. See you in Montreal! www.isev.org/2nd-isev-sym...
- SAVE THE DATES OCT 29-31 2025 & don’t miss the 2nd Conference on EVs in Nervous Systems by ISEV with McGill! ✳️ Registration & abstract submission open soon ✳️ Check the program: lnkd.in/eiSYjS2t In-person confidential conference to foster data sharing.
- Reposted by Avital RodalWhat does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump
- Reposted by Avital RodalTwo tenure-track positions at Amherst College www.amherst.edu. apply.interfolio.com/168795 (molecular genetics and biochemistry) apply.interfolio.com/168794 (molecular/cellular neurobiology)
- Reposted by Avital RodalBut this is happening to people around us: foreign professors, teachers, students, postdocs, neighbors. And sometimes much worse. Please don’t assume this can’t happen where you live. And if you witness it, say something. Silence is complicity.
- Reposted by Avital RodalSharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵
- Reposted by Avital RodalLet's give mega flowers to the NIH and NSF POs, and admins who are doing their best to keep "business-as-usual". They are the true heroes right now, and we are more than ever grateful for their support and any of the NOAs that manage to muscle through. We see you and we owe you! Thank you 🙏
- Reposted by Avital RodalResearchers from @biozentrum.unibas.ch developed a new method to phosphorylate endogenous Myosin in a light-inducible manner that achieves specificity and precise temporal control. Learn more about this #optogenetics and proteomics #Drosophila toolbox in #G3journal: buff.ly/jlINw2g
- Reposted by Avital Rodalmust be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
