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

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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...

Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is John doing embryology? Or genetics? Wouldn’t you like to know. 😉

Damn. I want to be a postdoc with Mansi Srivastava…. 🤯🤯🤯 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Are you at #2025ICDB @socdevbio.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social? Do you want a free pretty notebook? Please come find me and say hi! I have a bag full of them! It features a gorgeous image from a cilia paper from @jbwallingford.bsky.social’s lab! doi.org/10.1016/pj.d...

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If you haven’t, you really should.

Not sure what’s the bigger win: My son taking me to see Highlander on the big screen for Father’s Day or learning that one of the Highlanders assumed names was Wallingford. (jk, totally the first one)

St. Hildegard was also the first person to document the use of hops as a preservative for beer among her scientific volumes about the usefulness of plants. beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/H...

We all know scientists who are also musicians In fact, one of my favorites just dropped a new album last month. I was surprised me, though, since she died over 800 years ago. Turns out she might also be the first woman to ever write about developmental biology. 🧵 1/16

Totally hammering today on #1000wordsofsummer, btw. #devbiolwriteclub

Happy Prince’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

Close enough! #1000wordsofsummer #devbiolwriteclub

1000 words is the length of a typical OpEd. Anyone doing this challenge should devote at least a few of those days to writing an OpEd explaining how research knowledge and democracy itself are under attack.

Anyone out there in #devbiolwriteclub joining me for #wordsofsummer? Great opportunity for any woking on their thesis or maybe there job app docs. I'll be openning a blank Word doc every morning and getting after it 'til i hit my mark. Let's go! 💪

Woot! Only 12:41 and I've already hit my mark for Day One of #1000wordsofsummer. So, so stoked. See y'all tomorrow. #devbiolwriteclub

Starts tomorrow! 🫣

What a fantastic essay by last year's @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology students! A perfect paean to the most wonderful science: "It's exhausting; it's exhilarating; it's Embryology." journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

So, I found an in situ probe in the cold room from 2007. Who thinks it's gonna work? Who thinks it won't? Discuss.

Ok #devbiolwriteclub, who’s ready to suffer? I’ll be taking on this year’s 1000 Words of Summer. I’ll try to write 1000 words a day for two straight weeks starting May 31. Who’s with me? 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/1000wordso...

Finally some good news! www.wsj.com/articles/aus...

Learning who my friends are….

“Punk isn’t a hairstyle; it’s getting your friends together to make useful stories outside approved systems” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...

…and here is why we do this work. Graduation day! Congrats @neftaliv.bsky.social

Hive mind, how many zebrafish labs are there (worldwide)? @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @mads100tist.bsky.social

Writing mood.

Oh yeah!

"...for the egg alone can resolve our disagreements; it lives outside our quarrels and has but one way to develop.” I LOVE old embryologists and i love being able to translate them with ChatGPT. You'll have to wait for the next episode of the The Long Bibliography for the details.

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Ok hive mind: Who coined the term "reverse genetics"? And when/where? @matthewcobb.bsky.social @amartinezarias.bsky.social @philipcball.bsky.social

Literally gave this speech to first year PhD students a month ago. Very important.

For Conrad Waddington’s 50th birthday, his colleagues made him a working “epigenetic landscape pinball machine.” I learned that because I write on Saturday mornings.