Want a sneak-peak at the Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting? Check it ⬇️! >20 slots for talks chosen from abstracts! New PI Keynote to be selected from abstracts! Dedicated new PI Session! Scott Fraser workshop! Career Workshop! Plenty of time for co-lab building! 🔥😱😍🔥 🐟🪰🪱🐭🔬🧬 scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Yo! Anyone got a recent successful LSRF postdoc fellowship application they would be willing to share with my super talented postdoc?

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is gonna be awesome! DEADLINE to register is June 1st! Sign up now! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Did you know Scott Fraser will be at the Santa Cruz Dev Biol meeting? He's President of Dynamic Imaging and Head at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative BioHub, and a developmental biologist! He'll speak about his 40 years at the interface of academia, industry, and philanthropy. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Good question FishRock! Abstract submissions are in the same site as the registration. Just click the register button! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Did you know the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting has an entire session just for NEW PI Talks? And a New PI Keynote Talk? It does! These will be chosen from the abstracts. New PIs, sign up! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

If you don't take your cell biology class on an art walk, you're doing it wrong. #toomuchstemisbad

Gorgeous piece of science history here. Many in the @socdevbio.bsky.social will know the story's protagonist, Victoria Foe. And shout out to those of us who did PhDs @utaustin.bsky.social. aeon.co/essays/far-f...

If you need an awesome science illustrator contact @neftaliv.bsky.social. Thanks for making us an awesome poster, Neftalí!

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26 @flybase.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @geneticssociety.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Let's get this hashtag started! The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is happen this August! We will share updates using #SCDB26. Can't wait! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

A fantastic line up of speakers! Register is now open.

Scheduled for 24-28 August 2026 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This meeting will not disappoint!

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word! @mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Join us! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Hey Frog-Folk, I saw that @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social recently used Crispr-Cas13 for mRNA depletion. Anyone else used this in a published paper yet? @goodfrognosis.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social @frogwranglers.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social

Looking for an academic job? Check out GetHIRED! from @socdevbio.bsky.social! This course provides expert advice and stories from leading investigators and reading and writing assignments that guide you through preparing all your job packet materials. www.sdbonline.org/gethired

Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com. Check it out! #cilia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So stoked to see this highlight of postdoc Nayeli Reyes-Nava after her awesome paper in @dmmjournal.bsky.social! Congrats Nayeli!

Meeting Alert! Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! 👇 @socdevbio.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @bscb-official.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting website is LIVE!!! Go see the incredible list of scientists who will be speaking at the meeting next summer! (...and check the site early next year for info on registration and abstract submission.) scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting website is LIVE!!! Go see the incredible list of scientists who will be speaking at the meeting next summer! (...and check the site early next year for info on registration and abstract submission.) scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

@socdevbio.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word! tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word! tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Save the date for the next Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting next summer.

Such a wonderful and unique meeting. Small scale, very interactive, amazing speakers and participants and all on the remarkable UCSC campus,. HIGHLY recommended!!!

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

Gentle reminder that everyone should read Jacob and Monod, 1961. And then read it again every once in awhile. A master-class on clear writing (and, ya know, Nobel Prize winning stuff, too). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stoked to have this perspective about my favorite organelle out in JCS! Give it a read, then let's argue!

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

Somehow, i missed this paper during the pandemic, but... Wow. You know you've done something cool when the title of the paper has no verbs, no adjectives, no adverbs. Only nouns. Four of them. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Everyone knows I suffer from Drosophila envy. I blame C.W. Woodworth. He studied the fly's embryos in W.E. Castle's lab; Castle would be the first to use them for genetics. The rest is history. Woodworth's gorgeous 1889 pictures of butterfly embryos are below. Enjoy! 1/3 @socdevbio.bsky.social

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

Interested in Science Communication? Love #devbiol? Apply for the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComms Interns Program! www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...

This is totally, totally awesome! Thanks to Mark Terasaki for this astounding gift to the education mission of @mblscience.bsky.social. www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...

R.I.P Flaco Jimenez. 😥🪗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

Ok nerds, let's have fun. Thought experiment: NASA asks @socdevbio.bsky.social to provide a single image to be shot into space to tell the universe about #devbiol. Just one image. What is it? Waddington's landscape? Antennapedia? Spemann/Mangold's two-headed tadpole? What? Respond and RT, pls.

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...

Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program! #devbiolwriteclub @socdevbio.bsky.social

One the best things about a life in science is that your heroes often become your friends. My entire career stems from two papers by Ray Keller and I'm just thrilled to have a new piece out with Rob Huebner highlighting those classic papers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't know about y'all, but i am not scared of AI taking over the world. At least not today.

Truth: I am writing the renewal for an NIH grant and i am totally, totally jazzed. Stoked to be doing science today. That is all.

Last chance to tell the NIH if you think animal models are important for biomedical research! 👇👇👇👇

Birth defects kill twice as many children as cancer. Animal model are crucial; no stem-cell or computer models can yet recapitulate the embryo's complexity. If you support birth defects research tell NIH that animal models are important! Click & scroll below to comment. tinyurl.com/mr3he6bx

The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments! www.fda.gov/news-events/...

You want this job!!!!

Morphogenesis alert! A unifying physical principle links gastrulation in frogs, fish and flies! Stoked to be part of this new paper with Xin Li in Dave Thirumalai's lab and Robert Huebner in my group and a co-lab with @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and Margot Williams. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...