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Associate Prof @Fred Hutch (+ @UW_NBio) Glia fascinate me. Worms are rad. singhvilab.org
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Carolyn Bertozzi
11 days ago
If said women work for your competitors, I guess maybe
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Meera Sundaram
about 1 month ago
Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds
@ishmailsaboor.bsky.social
exactly what we were talking about re your
#Celegans
background setting you up for creative work in other systems!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Karolinska Institutet
about 1 month ago
The 2025
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
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PLOS Biology
about 2 months ago
How are
#circadian
rhythms established during development? This study shows that maternal metabolic signals oscillate in the fetal
#SCN
before the endogenous
#clock
becomes functional, offering a plausible mechanism for maternal entrainment of the developing clock
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/3VD45fZ
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Drug Monkey
about 2 months ago
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb1564
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Piali Sengupta
2 months ago
Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures.
@nachury.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia
Neuronal cilia have emerged as crucial signaling hubs, yet their molecular composition and integration with synaptic communication remain poorly understood. Using a newly developed Arl13b-TurboID mous...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.10.675452v1
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Travis Faust
2 months ago
Thrilled to share our new paper
@cp-cell.bsky.social
: “Microglia–astrocyte crosstalk regulates synapse remodeling via Wnt signaling.” This work demonstrates the necessity of glia–glia communication and coordination during synapse remodeling. 🔗
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Faust et al., Cell 2025
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John Borghi
3 months ago
A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.” Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.
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Kavita Babu
9 months ago
The first one is some crazy work by
@monmitabhar.bsky.social
, Tanumoy,
@hari-flies.bsky.social
and Kamal Kishore. They eavesdropped on worm conversations and found the exciting phenomenon of movement of memory from one worm to another 2/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Extracellular vesicles aid in the transfer of long-term associative memory between Caenorhabditis elegans
Memory formation is necessary for the survival of animals across phyla. Here, we elucidate the mechanism underlying the formation of long-term associative memory (LTAM) formed by treating Caenorhabdit...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640282v1
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Neuromatch
3 months ago
📣 Calling all early career
#neuroscientists
!
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
& Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to support
#EarlyCareer
Researchers. Whether you're a student, postdoc, or launching your career, we want to hear from you. ➡️
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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Fred Hutch
4 months ago
Fred Hutch researchers created a gene-expression map of glial cells in tiny worms, adding the missing component that completes an atlas of the entire nervous system of a multicellular adult animal at the molecular level.
@singhvilabglia.bsky.social
@manusetty.bsky.social
bit.ly/47353c3
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Mapping molecules of an unsung brain cell
Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing component that completes for the first time an atlas of the entire nervous sy...
https://bit.ly/47353c3
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John Wallingford
4 months ago
Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program!
#devbiolwriteclub
@socdevbio.bsky.social
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John Wallingford
4 months ago
Interested in science administration? Want to meet and work with senior members of the SDB? Want to help chart the future of the SDB? Then apply for the Strategic Planning Internship!
@socdevbio.bsky.social
www.sdbonline.org/strategic_pl...
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Society for Developmental Biology | Strategic Planning Internship
https://www.sdbonline.org/strategic_planning_internship
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Shane Liddelow
4 months ago
fantastic work from
@melcooperphd.bsky.social
- what are these beautiful networks doing in our brains?
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Hadley Bergstrom
4 months ago
Vassar College is seeking a biologist with a focus on Developmental Neurobiology on the tenure-track. Please spread widely!
vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Tenure Track
Department Biology Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions conc...
https://vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar-External/job/Poughkeepsie-NY/Assistant-Professor-of-Biology_R00030614?jobFamilyGroup=71e2c39500161003e7c502c9a45f8212
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K.T. Elliott
4 months ago
🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!
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Assistant Professor - Biology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
https://tcnj.taleo.net/careersection/00_ex_faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=25000811&tz=GMT-04%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York
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Miriam B. Goodman, PhD
4 months ago
Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.
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John Tuthill
4 months ago
i wrote an essay for
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-while-the-system-is-burning/
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Firat ever Singhvi lab "reunion" at a meeting (how did we get this old a lab already? 🤔🫢😲) -with Liza Severs, Sasha Kravchuk, & alum
@glia-maria.bsky.social
#worm25
4 months ago
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Jason Shepherd
4 months ago
www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...
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Why We Still Need Animal Research in a World of AI and Organoids
The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.
https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/why-we-still-need-animal-research-in-a-world-of-ai-and-organoids/
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Dr. Ahna Skop
5 months ago
2025 Worm Show
youtu.be/HXgUZzLJ-b0?...
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Worm Show 2025
YouTube video by Morris Maduro
https://youtu.be/HXgUZzLJ-b0?si=CeWYZTfnF-t6pQ0g
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callista yee
5 months ago
c. elegans, ba-ba-bah
#worm25
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Absolutely agree!
#Worm25
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
was amazing on many levels.. Thank you
@cswormlab.bsky.social
and
@baristursun.bsky.social
..and cheers to the fabulous worm community!!👏🏼❤️
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Franki Compere M.S
5 months ago
Worm comedy show
#worm25
this year was amazing, it made my 4th worm meeting very special, thank you!!
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Congratulations to all the 2025 awardees!! 👏🏼
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Laura Herndon
5 months ago
It doesn’t get any more classic than this
#worm25
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Such a blast to hang out with these badass Women of Worms (WoW!!)
#Worm25
@ahnaskop.bsky.social
@senguptalab.bsky.social
@barrlab.bsky.social
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Liz Ronan, PhD
5 months ago
“Do you have any advice for aspiring young scientists?” “Do genetics.” *mic drop*
#worm25
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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬
5 months ago
For
#worm25
, here are updated lists of 200+ researchers for the
#Celegans
community to easily follow: C. elegans #1 (150 full) -
go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (50+) -
go.bsky.app/J7soTHG
==> Reply to this if you'd like to be added! cc:
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
#CeleganSky
🪱 🧪 1/n
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Swathi Arur
5 months ago
And to you and your student for the inaugural Brenner award last year!!!! 🙌🏽
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Max Heiman
5 months ago
This opens up (literally) a lot of possibilities! I thought the eggshell was needed as a mechanical constraint for morphogenesis. This image of a comma stage embryo happily letting it all hang out in the world with nothing around it is wild!
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A happy smiling start traveling to
#worm25
with the fun
@linadahlberg.bsky.social
!!
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Dan Garisto
5 months ago
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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Meital Oren
5 months ago
C. elegans enthusiasts - join me and
@stern-lab.bsky.social
for a pre
#worm25
meeting online workshop on *Monitoring inter-individual diversity across multiple levels and timescales* - Jun 26, 2025 12:30 PM Eastern Time
us06web.zoom.us/j/8544967372...
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Nikki Zabik, PhD
5 months ago
Plugging my favorite website for multi-color figures
davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#...
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John Murray
5 months ago
Happy to announce our paper comparing embryonic gene expression between C. elegans and C. briggsae, work led by Christopher Large with Rupa Khanal and in collaboration with Junhyong Kim and Bob Waterston.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lineage-resolved analysis of embryonic gene expression evolution in C. elegans and C. briggsae
The constraints that govern the evolution of gene expression patterns across development remain unclear. Single-cell RNA sequencing can detail these constraints by systematically profiling homologous ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu8249
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Happy to present a single cell atlas of ALL glia, in BOTH sexes of an animal (in vivo validated!)! Fab work by postdoc
@glia-maria.bsky.social
, team, & collaboration with
@manusetty.bsky.social
. Find insights into glia, new analytics and ML models, and browse our companion website (
wormglia.org
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https://wormglia.org
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Thank you
@klingensteinorg.bsky.social
Philanthropies team and Klingenstein family for a fantastic conference (as always), and support of our research! It was a blast to share our recent work and talk science with this fab group of fellow neuroscientists and Scientific Committee members.
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Super-worm alert! Worms make Castells (super-organism pyramid/tower) to disperse...! Whoaw - Together They Stand. Congratulations to Siyu Serena Ding and team for this cool insight:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Perez et al. report that self-assembling nematode towers occur in nature and can function as collective dispersal structures. Using Caenorhabditis elegans, they establish a tractable empirical model t...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00601-3
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EMBO Press
6 months ago
📣 Job alert: we're looking for a scientific editor at
@emboreports.org
to provide a 12-month absence cover. Prior editorial experience is not required. For details and to apply:
www.embo.org/vacancy/scie...
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Scientific Editor (Absence cover) – EMBO
About us EMBO is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. We fund talented researchers at all career stages, facilitate scientific exc...
https://www.embo.org/vacancy/scientific-editor-absence-cover/
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Agree, this one was a blast! Thank you
@gtavosanis.bsky.social
@hilliardlab.bsky.social
Claudia Bagni, Nektarios Tabernarakis - and
@embo.org
- for such a fabulous gathering!!
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6 months ago
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7 months ago
Attention Vision Scientists. The Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA has a faculty position open at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. I'll be at
#ARVO2025
so feel free to reach out via DM or email if I can answer any questions.
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10092
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Vision Science Faculty at UCLA Stein Eye Institute
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10092
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Mariko Bennett
7 months ago
Our lab's 1st paper, led by
@fchrisbennett.bsky.social
&
@waisenberg.bsky.social
. A decade thinking how to directly assess the impact of microglia replacement. Yrs of hard work. This kind of work is needed to expand brain disease care for kids & the vision for safer, more effective cell therapy.
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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist
7 months ago
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
@sarareardon.bsky.social
reports
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01299-2
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Javier Apfeld
7 months ago
Love worms, molecular genetics, and big questions? We’re hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biology
About the Opportunity Job Summary The Apfeld Lab at Northeastern University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how genes work together to determine the maximum lifespan of the nematod...
https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate--Biology_R132827
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A breath of fresh air and energy - a tribe I love
@klingensteinorg.bsky.social
in the NYC I love! Blown away by the cool blue sky science, Day 1 of the Fellows meeting!!
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Beth Stevens
7 months ago
Excited for this meeting ! Please share and pass the word
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the Node
7 months ago
Would you like to be the Node’s new Community Manager?
#JobOpportunity
If you're interested in
#SciComm
and passionate about
#DevBio
, consider applying to this job to join the
@dev-journal.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social
team! Find out more about what the role entails:
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Would you like to be the Node's new Community Manager? - the Node
After two fulfilling years working at the Node and Development, I have decided to move on and embark on a new adventure. That means, my job is up for
https://thenode.biologists.com/would-you-like-to-be-the-nodes-new-community-manager/news/
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Coleen Murphy
7 months ago
🧪#Celegans - I am very excited to announce the publication of our latest finding in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (TEI) of learned pathogen avoidance - • C. elegans transgenerational avoidance of P. fluorescens is mediated by the Pfs1 sRNA and vab-1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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C. elegans transgenerational avoidance of P. fluorescens is mediated by the Pfs1 sRNA and vab-1
C. elegans’ TEI of learned pathogen avoidance is induced by a third bacterial small RNA, Pfs1, from P. fluorescens 15.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3850
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Juan S. Bonifacino
7 months ago
Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdoctoral fellows to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to
[email protected]
. Please share and repost!
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