The CSMB is concerned that, despite new investments, Federal Budget 2025 weakens rather than strengthens Canada’s research ecosystem. Sustainable research funding is essential for innovation and competitiveness. Read more: csmb-scbm.ca/csmb-stateme... #CSMB #Budget2025 #ResearchCanada #Science

🧪 “There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Grant submitted. Time for walk @dalhousie.bsky.social, leaves blanketing the ground. The cloudy calm before the hurricane fuelled weather tomorrow.

We are looking for graduate students to start in the summer or autumn 2026. Open to students with BSc or MSc degrees. Come explore the maritime region of Canada and do developmental and cellular neuroscience. Please see attached poster. Appreciate reskeets. #DevBio, #Neuroscience 🧪

Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Dinosaur with hooves? Remarkable fossil find, including detailed skin impression, from Alberta. Hooves are eg of convergent evolution. But for what, fast, efficient, locomotion?

Thanks for the [email protected] @brchfx.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social #DevBio

🎆 Join us for an unmissable finale to 2025! 🎆 We're thrilled to bring our #cilia & #centrosome community together 25/11/2025 15:00-17:45 GMT! Our 53rd @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium schedule is live: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... /1

It’s Friday. And today I’m thinking of rivers in a time of dryness. And @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s new book “Is A River Alive”. As I read, I think about Peter Gabriel’s lament: “Living river, carry me on Living river, carry me on River, river, carry me on To the place where I come from”.

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Happy Saturday everyone. I got a joke for you: Why do bees have sticky hair? Because they use honeycombs!

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Interesting to know that John Maynard-Smith, like John Gurdon, went to Eton College, are both were made to feel that science was not for them. Fortunately for us, they decided to not listen to their masters at the college and contributed brilliantly to biology.

Well, this is interesting.

Philip nicely summarizes recent findings from Sebé-Pedrós and colleagues that the origin of multicellular life may come down to extrusions of DNA topology, juxtaposing far-flung genomic regions in the spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression.

Quite the start for John Maynard-Smiths classic little book: “Shaping Life: Genes, Embryos, and Evolution”. #DevBio

Tunneling nanotubes connecting neuronal dendrites in mammalian brains pass ions, allowing propagation of electrical signals in networked clusters of neurons. Also large enough to pass proteins like beta-amyloid, possible mechanism for spread of neurodegeneration.

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

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Our lab’s recent blog on our 12th Annual Developmental Biology Symposium held @dalhousie.bsky.social. Grateful for the support of an outreach grant from @anatomyorg.bsky.social and organizational support from @brchfx.bsky.social.

#neuroscience 🧪 @brchfx.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social

Glad to post our latest preprint, led by former graduate student Sam Moore, with help from Danielle Stanton-Turcotte, Karolynn Hsu, and Emily Witt. We found a surprising role for Mllt11 in hippocampal neurogenesis by controlling radial glial progenitor differentiation to transit amplifiers. #DevBio

A powerful statement by the Dave Mathews Band on the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall. "Hope is an act of resistance when the world is run by cruelty and greed"

I’m a citizen scientist working to protect Nova Scotia’s forests. Tim Houston is threatening to put me in jail. Commentary by Nina Newington

We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social www.libd.org/careers/ Links to individual positions in the thread below.

A breakthrough in the treatment of a debilitating neurodegenerative disease. Made possible by modified viral delivery of gene therapy. This is where discovery research leads to. Congratulations to the researchers involved, grateful for hope it provides for patients.

PM Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social, your 15% proposed cuts to Tri-council funding will run counter to your election promise to accelerate Canadian innovation. Canadian scientists are among the lowest funded of the top 10 world economies. More funding of discovery science is a priority.

For #FluorescenceFridays I thought I’d try something a little different. Below is an artistic blur image of a mouse embryonic spinal cord stained for the expression of Sonic Hedgehog protein (green) in floorplate cells and Tag-1 (red) on commissural crossing axons. Great as a desktop image.

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

I would like to thank all the @dalhousie.bsky.social students (& their families), with special acknowledgment to the leaders in the #DalStudentUnion, for supporting us at @dalfaculty.bsky.social to #KeepDalStrong. It meant a great deal - we will work to ensure the semester is successful for you!

It’s postdoc appreciation week, and I’m thankful for Dr Emily Witt (UNC alum) who has been “holding the fort” in the lab while I was on the picket line due to the @dalhousie.bsky.social lockout, which, hopefully, will soon be resolved. #KeepDalStrong

Tentative deal reached @dalhousie.bsky.social between the Board of Governors and @dalfaculty.bsky.social. Waiting to hear about the back to work schedule, when to email students to return to classes, and reorganizing lectures. #KeepDalStrong

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Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition) #ModelMonday

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece: ‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’

Here I am. Savouring a cup of Joe before my return to the picket line. Locked out, week 4 by @dalhousie.bsky.social. Haven’t seen my students. Writing grants for my lab’s continued existence, but will any of it go forward? A recalcitrant Board, unable to cut a fair deal, another wasted weekend.

This is who you REALLY are. You are not a reflection in a mirror. There are no liposuction or fillers to prevent your neurons from showing your actual age. Support basic scientific research so that one day we may learn how to grow new neurons in the brain. #FluorescenceFriday

With several grant deadlines coming up in the next few days, @dalfaculty.bsky.social researchers remain locked out by @dalhousieu.bsky.social and won’t be able to submit. #keepdalstrong

"Here we are, with a legally-trained President once again electing to violate the duty to bargain in good faith as a tactic". Every member of the @dalfaculty.bsky.social wants to work. Stop this nonsense @dalhousie.bsky.social & bargain in good faith! #KeepDalStrong www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

The intensity of my FOMO & desire to tackle the mess of my inbox is fully countered by my rage at this gesture that is essentially an invitation to scab. Also found out admin is promoting research skill modules created by DFA librarians 😡 That’s OUR labour! Solidarity all the way. #keepdalstrong

This year's Lasker Awards went to scientists who studied the wiring diagram of life, a new state of biological matter, and a potent treatment for cystic fibrosis. Here's my story with Gina Kolata. Gift link: nyti.ms/4mZlH1F

Naert et al. (Nature Biotechnology) present Pythia editing enabling predictable, accurate genome editing in diverse cellular contexts, both in vivo (Xenopus and adult mouse brains) and in vitro. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

How does the #cochlea achieve its spiral shape? @prakash-patterns.bsky.social @earlab.bsky.social &co show that the expression of adhesion & polarity proteins pattern the #OrganOfCorti and drive the compartment-specific organisation to achieve the cochlea spiral @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nmD8IW

Global segment focusing on the impact of the @dalhousieu.bsky.social lockout on nursing. #keepdalstrong

@Dalhourie.bsky.social’s faculty lockout risks millions in research & student funding. CIHR + SSHRC deadlines are here, but faculty can’t access systems. A Potential $5M+ loss in grants & scholarships. This hurts students, research, and Dal’s future. Support @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong

Which city is the best for Cytoskeleton research? Dresden? Barcelona? Cambridge ? Noooo ... you all know its Paris, right? 😎 Registering to the annual meeting on Friday 14th of November is now open: pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Keynote speeches by @carter-lab.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht !

This week was supposed to be my lectures on neural development in our neuroanatomy undergraduate course. Students typically chuckle when I talk about a protein call Sonic Hedgehog and its influence on ventral specification. I explain how it was named, which immediately ages me. #KeeoDalStrong

It’s disappointing that some of these so called leaders are in the health care industry. Yet their failure to negotiate & faculty lockout has crippled our ability to advance biomedical research & educating health care professionals. They are causing lasting damage to @dalhousie.bsky.social