Don't forget to tune in tomorrow! Zoom link is available on Slack and in the email.

Experiential #DataScience training opportunity for undergraduate students to strengthen programming, statistics and genomics skills! 📅 January 3 – 17, 2026 📍 @jacksonlab.bsky.social (Bar Harbor, ME) 💸 Full scholarships cover travel, housing, meals 🔜 Apply by October 15: www.jax.org/education-an...

Very excited to present my research focussing on the evolutionary differences of epiblast morphogenesis across amniotes next week at the kick-off of @vgzt2021.bsky.social season 7! A story of 🐁,🧍,🐓 & many 🦎🦎🦎🦎

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers: 👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social) 👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

Very excited to be one of the organizers for the 7th season of the amazing #VGZT seminar series. Stay tuned for the first talks coming October 2nd!

Thrilled that our preprint on anole oocyte formation is now online @holyanole.bsky.social ! Such a great collaboration merging our expertise in anole reproductive tract morphology and early embryogenesis to understand how egg cells form!

Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans! sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...

@a-weberling.bsky.social & I characterize oogenesis from initiation in the germinal bed to ovulatory follicles for the first time in the brown anole, a powerful reptile model for evo-devo & functional genetics! Full preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Sosa Lab website is now live! www.sosaneurolab.com We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.

It's good to say this and reinforce that there is no link, but it's just as important to say this: Even if there were a link between MMR and autism, YOU SHOULD STILL GET VACCINATED! I am autistic and my life is not worse than dying of measles!

I'm excited to share that I've started my lab @stanford.edu in the Neurobiology Department! neurobiology.stanford.edu/who-we-are/f... #stanford #newPI #neuroscience

So happy to be a part of this awesome collaboration that started in the heart of lockdowns. Looking forward to many more cool discoveries to come.

Injecting some joy in the skyline - today was my first day as an assistant professor! 😊

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

Joaquin Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social will receive the SDB Trainee Science Communication Award #ICDB2025 for his role in promoting Developmental Biology and Zebrafish in social media 🐟🧪

I brought my six year old son to a talk that I gave today. I think he got a lot out of it!

Okay I know you all are watching some sort of train crash, BUT our 4-yo just marched into the room and said “You know what? I LOVE BOOKS. I love books more than probably anyone.”

Putting out the #zebrafish batsignal (or I guess fish signal). Does anyone in the US have ccdc40 mutant embryos they would be willing to send me? Also potentially interested in mutants in other motile cilia genes.

My paper being cited in the wild! 🥹🦎

Welcome to the Stowers Institute!

1/2 Very excited to announce the publication of our study on early anole embryogenesis @devdynamics.bsky.social Read the full article here! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social @loyolachicago.bsky.social

Politicians, lawyers and journalists who left behind autocratic systems in Europe, Asia and Latin America see the Trump administration employing similar methods.

The Comparative Genomics and Data Science (CGDS) Core at MDI Bio Lab is looking for a Bioinformatician/Programmer to join our team. This position blends research support with teaching. If you're passionate about #datascience, #genomics, and mentoring, we want to hear from you! 🧪 🤝 🖥️ 🧬

Controversial post. I want #HHS to stop shaming autism. You are not broken. People with autism do have jobs, make friends, and have fulfilling lives. Stop making parents think they have failed when their children have autism. Stop making autistic people feel subhuman.

It seems like the Lizard Wizard nickname is pretty official now! Feeling incredibly honored to be featured as a wonderful four years at Rice comes to an end 💙🦉 youtu.be/SI5l6CGeVIo?...

If you want to know if a recession is coming, ask me, a Millennial, if I'm about to transition to the next phase of my career. If yes, then yes.

Rejection is a part of science and life. I keep in my desk a copy of the rejection letter I got from the SDSU PhD program in 2014. I am a Professor here now. Keep going. ! 🧪

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

Be careful online today. This is the one day a year when people post false information on the internet

😂😂😂 This reminds me of sectioning on a cryostat while pregnant 🤰

Nothing like a little face-to-fume hood contact 😌 🦖

An outbreak of measles in southwest Kansas has already doubled in size. State health data shows 23 people in six counties tested positive for measles since the start of this year. It comes as state lawmakers in Topeka consider a bill that would loosen vaccine requirements in child care regulations.

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.

(R)esearcher: oh what lab is this going to? (M)e: My lab R: yes but whose lab is that? M: Mine R: Yes but whose lab is it? *Slow like I'm dumb* M: It's my lab. R: But whose the PI? M: ME I AM THE PI OF THE LAB! It is MY lab. R: Shock and realization! Y'all are exhausting!

#DanioDigest (February 2025) ‪Dr. Joaquin Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social‬ wins the SDB Trainee Science Communication Award. Prof. Teresa Bowman receives inaugural Dr. Fernando Macian-Juan Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. (1/39)

Very excited to be teaching this workshop next week together with 🐊 #scicomm expert @crocodiledunphd.bsky.social 🎓📱

I live w awareness that, based on who I am, for most of Yale’s history, I would not have been able to participate in the institution, regardless of merit. I am also aware I can occupy the spaces that I occupy today thanks to seeds that were planted before. #StandUpForScience is not just about today.

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

I took it! It was fantastic. I had all my materials ready well before the start of the job market season. I also made friends who went with me into the trenches of the job market, where we provide continuous support for each other.

Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo 🧪🐣 #devbio

Order free tests before they incinerate them. Don’t wait covidtests.gov

Worst snow day ever. Both adults are expected to work remotely, and it is literally 0F outside. This day will be entirely too long with too much cartoons watching.

Cool facts indeed! We have two hybrid species at @stowersinstitute.bsky.social named after the first scientific director and his wife. What I find fascinating is that despite having lived in climate controlled environment for decades, somehow there is still seasonality to their egg laying.

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social

I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well. Please send leads, please amplify!

Despair not (yet) "If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."

This is so troubling. Measles, in particular, is no joke. There's a reason schools require the (safe & effective) measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine for entering students. (1/11)

🎉 Congrats to Investigator @aussiebiologist.bsky.social for receiving the Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award from @anatomyorg.bsky.social! His groundbreaking work in craniofacial and #devbio is paving the way for new insights into rare congenital disorders. #AAA Read more: bit.ly/40x5s2V