This is fucking nuts

“Pesto” and “pestle” share a linguistic ancestor: “pinsere,” which is Latin for “to crush.” This is a great time to harvest all your basil and think about your enemies.

Congratulations to the winners of our image competition with the @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course. The winner of the Editor’s choice is an image of a anole lizard eye, acquired by Arthur Boutillon @campaslab.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/results-from... #devbio 🔬🎉

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social More info below ⬇️

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Free speech censorship Political hit lists Detentions w/o due process Internment camps Military in our streets Corrupted law enforcement Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions MSM amplifying state propaganda We are not barreling towards fascism. We are in it.

And we’ve made it to the next level

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

This is a good article (gift link) that effectively shows what's at stake and how the administration went about attacking NIH. I do have a quibble though... (1/7) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Wow. Is this real?

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

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

1/11 In @science.org: A new perspective on how our intestines renew. Cells are not “pushed out” by crowding or die from apoptosis. Instead, cells play a mechanical tug-of-war, where weaker cells extrude, reframing gut renewal as force-regulated. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please be aware!

New preprint from some of my postdoc work on lungs! Co-led with Kaleb Hill, we studied smooth muscle and epithelial development in lizard lungs. Stay tuned for more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle. "I can already see children getting healthier," he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. "The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking." His left ear drops off.

You can now sign up for the lottery to speak at the next mtg of RFK's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice 9/18-9/19. Especially since they removed med orgs as liaisons, this is the only way they will receive critical feedback. www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...

Oh ffs

In the judgement

What a time to be alive, honestly

Started/going

Hey @mckey-lab.bsky.social @jenmckey.bsky.social this you?’

Don’t have your hard work get tossed on a bureaucratic technicality. Make sure all the docs are included!

Framing this as a typical political win rather than a crisis for democracy once again demonstrates how legacy media refuses to meet the moment.

Fish can do anything!

The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art

Need? Want?

I’m first gen American and I belong. I believe that all of us with our varied histories and backgrounds belong here. Together.

I am America. Mayflower descendant on my father's side, and of 20th century Finnish immigrants on my mother's side. And everything in between.

A stunning forensic account of how ignorance of vaccine efficacy was systematically manufactured. Steier exposes the anti-vaccine playbook: how flawed studies by discredited researchers created false doubt about vaccine safety, while 40+ rigorous studies of 5.6M+ people found no autism link.

Absolutely gorgeous work!

Absolutely predicted

Here we go again.

What does the claustrum actually do? This study explores how this mysterious brain region processes sensory signals and connects across the cortex. While the evidence for its role is still incomplete, the data offer a useful foundation for future work. buff.ly/gfE6Gjt

Brief update on Multi-Year Funding at NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/b...

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Maybe I have understood crypto all along…

I don’t know who needs this today, but here you go..

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

Early embryonic developmental pathways are activated during regeneration phase in Xenopus 🐸 --by Aniket Kshirsagar, Rachel Ronan, Ana Lúcia Rebelo, Siobhan McMahon, Abhay Pandit, and Gerhard Schlosser www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Xenopus #regeneration #DBfeature

NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.

There are a lot of details in yesterday's sweeping executive order, but the bottom line is that it gives political appointees immense power over scientific grants, which have until now been stewarded by career civil servants and experts. My reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.” Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3

Apple snails can regrow their eyes & @popsci.com is talking about it. #Research published in @natcomms.nature.com from the @planaria1.bsky.social and @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs reveals how these snails rebuild complex, camera-like eyes after injury. 📰 Read the feature: bit.ly/45kXdIn