NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 Clinical Trial Optional) NOFO is posted. Applications due Aug 17th. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Truly honored to have this alongside my favorite articles on what it means to be a scientist! These thoughts have been with me for a few years, since we built the neurotransmitter atlas. A recent conversation with David on serving the scientific community gave me the courage to put them into words.

Many thanks to David @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social, Ben Szaro (PhD advisor), and Oliver Hobert (postdoc advisor) for encouraging me to share it more widely. And if anyone is curious about the side project itself, here it is without the emotional backstory: elifesciences.org/articles/95402

“The side project was a two-and-a-half-year detour from my main project, but it clarified my identity as a scientist: I am a member of the scientific community, and the core of that is to serve the people in this community.”

At long last! The PhD students who have been waiting since the April ~forecasted~ due date can officially submit their proposals. May the odds be ever in your favor!

Science peeps, particularly trainees: When reviewing grants, it really, really helps if you have a Google Scholar page, an ORCID account, or a website that makes getting information about you, easy. Some sort of web presence. I'm begging you. Make it easier for study sections to give you money.

Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology! The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?

If you are an ASCB member, please consider nominating a junior colleague with a strong, promising research program who is already demonstrating leadership in their field, department, and the broader community for the WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. www.ascb.org/award/women-...

NOFO for the K32 postdoc award is published. NCI, NIDCR, NIAID, NINDS, NIBIB are signed on. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Our June issue is here! rupress.org/jcb/issue/22... The cover shows a maximum intensity projection from a confocal image stack showing an angiogenic sprout emerging from an engineered microvessel. From @lakynm.bsky.social et al. of the Matthew Kutys lab: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton

FAM83H couples keratin organization to Notch signaling during epidermal morphogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727959v1

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Agree and I think this is why updating one's ORCID, both with papers AND a link to MyBibliography, may be useful here

just a heads up! it looks like the guidance from these FAQs supersedes the NOFO: "The only hyperlinks currently allowable are the ones generate by SciENcv for the ORCID iD and the product citations of the Biographical Sketch Common Form." I am removing the link to MyBibliography from my biosketch

PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

#WeinsteinConf2026🫀- first session in, every single talk has slides with red-green LUTs in fluorescent pictures. 6-8% of us face color vision issues, especially for red-green. Alternative, more visible color combos are easily implemented. As scientists, we can do better. #WeTheColorBlind #devbio

Lakyn Mayo, Matthew L. Kutys et al. (UCSF) detail a new mechanism by which the morphogenic regulator Scrib directly organizes cortical #actomyosin architecture and dynamics to regulate endothelial #AdherensJunctions and ensure nascent sprout integrity during #angiogenesis rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Excited to share our @natprot.nature.com paper on using RNA proximity labeling to map subcellular RNA transcriptomes. We’ve been working in this area for a while and wanted to create a resource paper to guide the uninitiated reader. rdcu.be/fblvI

I’m excited to be on the leadership ballot for an @ascbiology.bsky.social Council position. The past and present Council members are amazing scientists, mentors, and community members, so thank you to whoever suggested that I might be a good fit! It’s honestly an honor even to be nominated. ❤️

There is accumulating evidence that sperm miRNAs function to regulate embryonic gene expression and transmit inherited phenotypes to offspring but how does this work since sperm cargo is massively diluted in the egg upon fertilization. Here we directly address this ? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

Deadline extended: Submit your research on splicing in development and disease to the Differentiation special issue led by Guest Editors Natoya Peart and Karine Choquet by June 30, 2026. Learn more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/322731/splicing-in-development-and-disease

Collect #NeuralCrest Cells for #SingleCell #RNAseq from any vertebrate. Our new paper, present an antibody-guided #FACS method to collect NCCs. No trans-genesis or in ovo manipulation required. Demonstrated in wall #lizard #embryos using #microscopy, #RTqPCR and #scRNAseq. doi.org/10.1111/ede....

Two ways to move together: force coordination in collective #chemotaxis. Jessica Pacheco & Erica Hutchins @drericabiophd.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social discuss study from @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) in Spotlight rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Group Leader Call at the @cbitoulouse.bsky.social in Genome biology, projects at the interface with devbio will be given particular attention. please share :) cbi-toulouse.fr/wp-content/u...

In @jcb.org Spotlight, Pacheco and @drericabiophd.bsky.social discuss new study from @mayorlab.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) which reveals the distinct force-generating mechanisms used by epithelial and mesenchymal cells during collective cell migration rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Pacheco & @drericabiophd.bsky.social discuss new study from @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) which reveals the distinct force-generating mechanisms used by epithelial and mesenchymal cells during collective cell migration rupress.org/jcb/article/...

We had the privilege of contributing a @jcb.org Spotlight about the exciting new work from @mayorlab.bsky.social ! Check them out! Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/... Featured article: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

The latest preprint from @drericabiophd.bsky.social lab is now out! Chick out (check out) my lab mate Arvind's preprint for his single-cell atlas of the developing chick trigeminal ganglion!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New data release: Justin Cotney’s lab - @justincotney.bsky.social - generated a single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) atlas of critical time points during human and mouse craniofacial development, now openly available through FaceBase. Read all about it here: www.facebase.org/2026/01/20/r...

Our department at RPI is hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of Cell/Neuro Biology. Come join our collaborative and highly interdisciplinary department! careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/49...

Come discuss recent breakthroughs in RNA biology, from molecules to organisms, at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'The complex life of RNA'! 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-12-bl Submit your abstract by 7 July and present your research at #EESRNA 🥼

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

New preprint 🥳! We made photoclickable HaloTag ligands to precisely control protein labeling on living cells. With it, we can do some cool multicolor stuff. Huge congrats to Franzi and all co-authors! Check it out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the first time, ISSCR, Society for Developmental Biology and Allen Institute are collaborating to present a three-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists. Learn more: https://ow.ly/bBQ250XrhtO

PROPEL builds community in science! Hear directly from our scholars at our 5th annual PROPEL Symposium!

Join us at #BARC2025 @sfbayrna.bsky.social BARC.ucsf.edu Register by 11/14! Trainee presentation awards will be handed out and generously supported by @rnasociety.bsky.social

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Applications to the @stowersgrad.bsky.social #PhD in #Biology are open! Apply now: bit.ly/44VM6DI

1/ Excited to share our new study with @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social, out in @natbiotech.nature.com! P-bodies selectively sequester RNAs encoding cell fate regulators, often from the preceding developmental stage. Releasing these RNAs can drive changes in cell identity. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756

From MBoC: Timothy J. Stasevich, Colorado State University, developed All Probes Plasmids (APPs) to simplify single-mRNA translation imaging—just 2 plasmids for multicolor, long-term tracking. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Finally .. incredible much awaited wok on deriving avian naive ESCs “Derivation of embryonic stem cells across avian species” www.nature.com/articles/s41...