Y'all. @accorsi-alice.bsky.social was my baymate in Alejandro's lab and I got to see this work up close. Check it out, it's SUPER cool!

A new feature in @iflscience.com explores how researchers in the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs uncovered the apple snail’s remarkable ability to regrow its eyes & what that could mean for human #medicine. Originally published in @natcomms.nature.com. 🔗 bit.ly/4lbdTId

South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

The W-S lab is seeking to hire a research scientist! This person will lead wet-lab innovations in our team as we combine AI and experiments to understand and design dynamics! Thanks for sharing/RTs! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/scienti...

The research carried out by the National Institutes of Health continues to revolutionize treatment of diseases from cancer to heart disease to diabetes to rare disorders. This cool online tool allows you to see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

This is GORGEOUS.

Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

Good script included to help you get started.

Your Action Is Needed! Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy www.ascb.org/science-poli...

Feel like you have no control over what's going on? Call your local reps. Don't like talking on the phone? Thoughts run away like cockroaches when the lights come on? No problem. 5calls can help you out with scripts and even hook you up with the numbers to dial. 5calls.org

I'm really happy about the new databpy module by @bradyajohnston.bsky.social. This enables so many new workflows, e.g. this exploration of a world population dataset. Through a python notebook, there's a direct bridge from the Excel table to the Blender viewport.

🤩 Art by @drewberry.bsky.social @loliboldu.bsky.social @patriciabondia.bsky.social @jayeperview.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @molmir.bsky.social @munafomarzia.bsky.social @snowotarski.bsky.social @marykoreilly.bsky.social @biyolokum.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @bryanwelm.bsky.social

I have always wondered how this works! Super exciting!

We have an exciting lineup for our #CellBio2024 #SciArt subgroup on Tuesday! Enjoy fascinating talks by @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, @hudrewthis.bsky.social, @snowotarski.bsky.social, Jessica Heebner, Hermina Nedelescu, Leah Krevitt, Igor Siwanowicz, and Yan Yu. Hope to see many of you there!

It's the last week to get matched with a scientist in 2024! Our last match of the year will be this Wednesday, so if you want to be matched with a scientist for a free virtual Q&A session, now's the time! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hello Science friends at #CellBio2024 and San Diego locals! Come join the #SciArt Show & Reception on Dec 17, bringing together amazing researchers and artists inspired by the wonders of biology. I'll be here along with some of my collaborative work. RSVP here: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

Excited to do a live stream with @skypeascientist.bsky.social tomorrow about microscopy! www.skypeascientist.com/livestreams....

Excited to share our latest findings, now published @NatureNeuro www.nature.com/articles/s41... We found unmyelinated axons exhibit pearls-on-a-string morphology's due to their membrane mechanical properties. Threads will follow!

"Do you really need yet another COVID-19 shot? As a geriatrician who exclusively cares for people over 65 years of age, this is a question I’ve been asked many times over the past few years. In early 2024, the short answer is yes." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

I almost replied to someone’s bad post but then I remembered Elinor 🙅🏻‍♀️

I forgot that you existed: Role of memory accessibility in the gender citation gap. "the proportion of female experts recalled by women matched the percentage of more senior female faculty at R1 institutions, whereas the proportion recalled by men was much lower" #AcademicSky #PsySciSky #philsky

Y'all. It's WHOLE camera-type eye regeneration! I cannot stress enough how awesome this biology is from @accorsi-alice.bsky.social. It's super straightforward and showcases how we have so much to learn about what animals can do! Congrats on having this massive amount of work out in the world Alice!

Had reason to reference a paper I have always loved today: Victoria Foe's Development 1989 mapping of mitotic domains in Drosophila. It's a lovely characterization and I'm always happy to look at it thought you might be too. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Deadline for applying to the Embryology Course at the MBL in Woods Hole, MA is near! 6 weeks of a unique hands-on experience. Substantial aid available. Due date: January 10. Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

A reminder to renew your Scientific Society memberships for the year. I'm grateful to be a part of and benefit from ASCB, SDB, and MSA.

Let's talk about the animal with ONE MOUTH and a HUNDRED BUTTS: Ramisyllis multicaudata. I'm going to give you the "short" version and then point you at a wonderful article written by Jennifer Frazier for the Scientific American.

Something I constantly think about is how many artists and makers society isn't getting because housing is too fucking expensive. You can fit a small desk in a bedroom, but you can't easily store, mix, and rinse paint and keep drying racks around unless you have an utterly ascetic existence.

One of the truly insidious things about the post-docalyptic culture of moving every few years is that you not only never get to build a community in place, but it also deprives communities of young, talented experts who can serve on things like school boards and county commissions.

Do you live in the United States? Do you make comics? Then you qualify for one of our $500 inaugural CAG Mini Grants! We hope you apply!

Y'all. If you are in Boston for #CellBio2023 go see Mol's talk!!

Headed to #cellbio2023 in boston end of this week. Hope to see some of y'all there!

Excited for Blender 4.0 but like didn't I JUST figure out WTF is happening in the last version?! (Throws up hands and groans)

Reminder:

Thinking it might be time to move here from "X"... Anyway, here's a fun fact: you can sneak peek an inverted image in illustrator by creating an object (like these circles) and setting the fill to pure white and the blending mode to "Difference."

"The cell interior is a highly crowded ‘active material’: ATP-consuming, non-equilibrium activities help fluidize the cell interior. Without metabolic energy, the crowded environment can become ‘glassy’ or solid like." www.cell.com/trends/cell-...

Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...

“A caring supervisor not only nurtures their students’ development but also provides guidance and mentorship to help them effectively communicate their work with their intended audience. Publishing our work is not just a choice; it is our responsibility as scientists.”

No winners in this battle of snake v lizard. A true case of "eyes bigger than stomach", this eastern racer couldn't swallow its lizard lunch. Bonus: stomach contents for the lizard - tasty bugs! Thanks to #oVertTCN, download the CT data here: www.morphosource.org/concern/media/000486260?locale=en

Global warming is happening. Sure, convert your home into a literal homemade solar heater by painting it all black. Tell me more about how high your electric bills are too.

A very well documented phenomenon is that when women experience promotion they experience much higher expectations for university service roles, and assume positions of leadership with a high labor/status ratio.

Sure, women are growing in representation among undergrads and grad students. But then there's this. Fig by Rissler et al 2020. The research by social scientists has shown that this isn't a passive filter. It's caused by harassment, discrimination, and overt bias. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

I'll be looking to hire another research associate (>$100k/year + benefits & retirement) shortly. Experience in molecular biology and pharmacology would be ideal, but not essential. Job ad will go up in a bit, but if anyone knows anyone looking I would be happy to chat with them.

A bit of cell motility. Movement patterns of four different Euplotes species, vannus, parkei, eurystomus, aediculatus, visualized by max intensity projections of background subtracted dark field video recordings over 10s.

My department is hiring. Apply!

OTD in 1674, Antonie von Leeuwenhoek sent the first of many letters to Henry Oldenburg of the Royal Society of London describing the “animalcules” he had observed in rainwater using a microscope. www.dbnl.org/tekst/leeu02... #histsci 🧪