Thrilled to announce that later this year, I'll be joining the lab of @mariasachkova.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to research the evolutionary history of neurons in #Ctenophores! I'm sad to be leaving #zebrafish but I'll still hover around the community for the next few years at least. 1/2

First paper as first & corresponding author, out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🎉 napariTFM brings traction force & monolayer stress microscopy into napari, accessible via GUI; open-source, validated and no coding required. 😉 Check it out 👇

Reminder for @ucdavis.bsky.social early career faculty! Tomorrow is the first of our NSF CAREER infosessions! #academicsky #nsfcareer #nsffunding #grantwriting

IL-17RA signaling promotes the dedifferentiation of Paneth progenitors through ADAM17 to regenerate gut epithelium post-irradiation @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Spatial transcriptomics uncovers vasculature-centered cellular interactions driving Japanese encephalitis progression in a mouse model @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America, putting hundreds of journalists back to work

OPINION: "[Wil] Haygood’s books are not produced quickly. He is a meticulous researcher and constant traveler—a 'solo voyager,' he likes to say. He needs four to five years to produce each book," Richard Campbell writes.

This is Stinky and Binky. Their human jokingly started offering ad space on their backs, but then people actually started buying spots. Good thing Binky is running a special. 14/10 for both (TT: toocutelabs)

I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts. It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!

This is Goose. He wants to know where you're going. If it's not too late, he'd like to suggest the park. 12/10 (IG: goosethelab_)

Engineering an in vivo charging station for CAR-redirected invariant NKT cells to enhance cancer therapy @natbiomedeng.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ahem. Also faculty positions.

Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

ERC starting grant eligibility window increased to 10 years post-PhD defense: www.ukro.ac.uk/news/changes...

Introducing #CtenophoreCtuesday where we'll share cool #sciart & fun facts about your favorite #Ctenophore species! This first post shows the life cycle of Mnemiopsis leidyi, which can undergo REVERSE development when fed after periods of stress 🤯 Credit illustration to @beziostudio.bsky.social. 1/2

THATS WHAT THAT WAS!!!

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

2 weeks more to submit your abstracts for #AstrocyteCafe2026 👀 Deadline is April 1st!!!

Forget ‘Marty Supreme.’ Meet the Real Table Tennis Champion of New York. Yasiris Ortiz, a 28-year-old star from the Bronx, is helping to bring free table tennis programing to children across the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/n...

It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... +🧪

Congratulations to Michael Wen and Andrew Gillis on this exciting paper out today! Shared competence forms the basis of gill arch and paired fin serial homology | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am thrilled to announce that our group has received a new grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to study the neural dynamics of vocal learning in children! I am looking for a postdoc to join us in this effort, currently funded for 2 years. Please reach out with CV and letter of interest.

Got a notebook you’d like to turn into a desktop app? Explore the LabConstrictor GitHub repository 🔗 github.com/CellMigratio... And check out this demo repository built with LabConstrictor to see a simple example of the result 🔗 github.com/CellMigratio...

Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍 Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this! Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.107... or follow this thread ⬇️

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

This is a collaboration with @drjuliawester.bsky.social and @whysharksmatter.bsky.social. Science communication is an incredibly diverse field, and we want to summarize what is happening, how well people are surviving on science communication as a career, and where we need help as a field.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

1. Over the last few days I have received a set of queries about my research. The first one I thought was legitimate, and I was planning to answer when the second arrived, and then the third, from the same sender. Viewed together, they’re clearly LLM generated.

4. As Jevin West and I have been saying for several years now, because a seemingly credible message no longer implies a human sender, LLMs will push us toward more emphasis on reputation and status — and as such serve as an anti-egalitarian force in all aspects of society, science included.

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... Another thoughtful article from Elizabeth Ginexi on the dramatic reduction in the Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) published by the NIH in 2025 and 2026.

"Now, after months of delays, we have U.S. Department of State data on visa issuances during the critical summer months of May to August 2025. The actual decline in new foreign students: 36 percent. Only once have incoming overseas enrollments contracted as much or more — during the Covid pandemic."

Norepinephrine imaging, pushed further. Our latest NE sensors enable highly sensitive monitoring across recording modalities, Have you been using GRABNE2 sensors? the toolkit just got a major upgrade. Interested in trying them in your system? Reach out.

“There are 36 countries on Mr. Trump’s travel ban or restriction list. Twenty-nine of them are in Africa.” “Nearly 90 percent of African immigrant visa applicants are now banned…” via @nytimes.com

Single-cell Proteomics🔥 #MarfanSyndrome Aortic Root Fbn1 C1041G/+🐭 2.4k proteins 3.5k cells 487 proteins/cell👈 7 Smooth Muscle Cell subtypes Prss2, Lrp1 as modulated SMC markers vs scRNAseq +SeqIF (21 Ab) #AortaEd Sarah Parker lab #MolCellProteomics 2026 www.mcponline.org/article/S153...

Here is the FindAPhD weblink to our BHF-DRI PhD programme! Deadline: *April 14* Please spread the word!! eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

A recognition-building and supplemental funding opportunity for early-career researchers, and your essay could be published in Science 📖: www.science.org/content/page... Deadline June 15, 2026

An amazing example of actin imaging with our expansion microscopy probe for actin HAK-actin™. These are U-ExM expanded platelets stained with HAK-Actin (magenta bottom), (anti-integrin αIIb magenta top), and fibrin (fibrinogen-A488, green). Movie from preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪

Link to the paper:

A first-in-human mRNA vaccine for Nipah virus. NiV kills 40–75% of those infected, causes near-annual outbreaks in Bangladesh, & has no licensed vaccine. mRNA-1215 (NIAID/Moderna) targets both surface glycoproteins F and G a first for any NiV candidate in human trials www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had. Let's have it 1/🧵 www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicChatter

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win the best cinematography #Oscar, taking home the award for “Sinners.” bit.ly/4urujCl

Michael B. Jordan's reaction to winning his first ever Oscar. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

some news: i just received word that i’ve officially been granted tenure and promotion :)

Download our database of free database of postdoc fellowships. 276 funding opportunities. For entry, we provide eligibility/requirements, amount, deadline, link, description, etc. Download database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

Confocal micrograph of a transgenic adult zebrafish heart with cardiomyocytes in 🧡, blood vessels in 🩷, and cell nuclei in 💙. Credit to Dr. Aaron Scott (prev. w/ @beckrichardson.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social). #ZebrafishZunday 🧪