Two exciting Assistant Professor opportunities in Toronto! apply.interfolio.com/172703

Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish: www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Very happy to be part of this amazing work from Jason Moffat and Sanna Masud - Victoria Saba Echezaretta's rescue experiments are remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky! postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Teaching stream faculty position in molecular genetics! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Enhancers are "just DNA" - finding all of them in the genome is hard. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great swims by Summer Macintosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey, but the 4th place swimmer (Yu Zidi) is 12 YEARS OLD!!! 😱

Also see: career.sickkids.ca:8001/psc/CRPRD/CA...

Great opportunity to join the vibrant developmental biology in Toronto (and boss around me and @wbderry.bsky.social). jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/673968/p...

RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025) here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)

A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)

A nice run of free-er time to read and think science lately and cut into the very deep pile off paper pdfs I have accumulated. Happy to report that I have dug into it by downloading 2-3 new papers for each one I read! So I should be done by... :-(

Slow to the game, but the Collaborative Dev Bio program at U of T is finally on BlueSky - @devbiouoft.bsky.social

It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):

There is still time to apply! Come and join us!

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

❣️You still have time! We are accepting abstract submissions for this year’s conference. Please find important dates and details at the link below. www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

Deep into editing MSc and PhD theses right now - also such a treat to see students get their accumulated thoughts and perspectives down after all their hard work and development.

Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5 wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...

Looking for a high qualtiy scientific meeting being held in Canada this year? The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting (Regional SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting) is happening May 25-28 in Kelowna BC. Registration is now open! www.sdbonline.org/meeting?Reso...

Let’s spread the wonder and beauty of developmental biology! This was such a fun project to be part of with the @bsdb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social and Cambridge Film Works. youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ

So thrilled to announce Mike Levine. PhD from @princetonmolbio as one of our two keynote speakers at #WeinsteinCVD2025, May 14-16! Don't forget to submit your abstracts before FEBRUARY 21 and register at childrenswi.org/weinstein

The Weinstein Committee is soliciting nominations for the 2025 Markwald Award. If you have a scientist you'd like to nominate send it to [email protected] by February 7th!

Join us in Toronto for the next Canadian Zebrafish Meeting! Registration and abstract submission will open soon.

Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference at childrenswi.org/weinstein. The conference will be held in Milwaukee, May 14-16! Please share, retweet and distribute ❣️❣️❣️#WeinsteinCVD2025

This is breathtaking. Aurora borealis... from *above*. Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station

Calling all cardiovascular scientists.... @WeinsteinConf is in Milwaukee May 14-16! Abstract submission now open. Registration portal is imminent! childrenswi.org/weinstein Are you a trainee and want to be considered for a platform talk - abstract due Feb 21!

@weinsteinconf.bsky.social is now up and active! Start planning for May 14th-16th in Milwaukee for this fantastic trainee presentation-based CV development meeting.

Coming soon: We have a Scientist position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health Program at SickKids. Should post details later this week. Stay tuned.

#WIP #womeninSTEM trading cards #1000portraits The first 10 portraits are now available as collectible cards. If you have any comments, please let me know. There's always room for improvement. 1️⃣-1️⃣0️⃣ (link aninfinityofhypotheses.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...)

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

16 year-old can now legally drive on his own: it is a brave new world!

Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3