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Developmental/Regenerative Biologist. Associate Editor at Nature Communications
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The New York Times
11 days ago
An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing replete with errors created by artificial intelligence, including “hallucinations” that fabricated case citations.
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A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says
Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for submitting a court document that had fake citations created by artificial intelligence.
https://nyti.ms/3OtR0pf
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 2 months ago
More lies from George Church's company. They cannot do what they claim. Perhaps not surprising from a scientist whose work was funded by Jeffrey Epstein
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can
Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/colossal-biosciences-resurrects-dire-wolf
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Walker Bragman
about 2 months ago
Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come: Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.
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Puff the Magic Hater
2 months ago
Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.
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WeRateDogs
3 months ago
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Constantine
3 months ago
A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.
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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/ivermectin-for-cancer-national-cancer-institute-preclinical-study/
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God
3 months ago
REPUBLICAN 2026 PLATFORM: - Republicans hold the unfettered right to abduct, rape, and murder any American citizen and get away with it. 2026 CENTRIST DEMOCRAT PLATFORM: - ICE agents just need a little more training. Hugs! 🤗 WHAT AMERICANS WANT: - Stop murdering us - Abolish ICE - Nuremberg trials
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Nature Portfolio
4 months ago
A study published in August in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history.
#Paleosky
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Extreme armour in the world's oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.
https://go.nature.com/4n1Wgfl
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Anthony Berndt
9 months ago
As someone who ended up using non-model systems after doing his PhD with Drosophila, you don't realise just how amazing FlyBase or WormBase are until you try to genetics without them.
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Society for Developmental Biology
5 months ago
The December 12
#SDBPostdocSeminar
with
@weiyiqian.bsky.social
from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Robyn Allen of
@universityofky.bsky.social
has been posted. Thank you to moderators Olya Yarychkivska and Anthony Galenza. Watch here:
youtu.be/yKFlB_nB2lo
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SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Weiyi Qian and Robyn Allen
YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology
https://youtu.be/yKFlB_nB2lo
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International Society for Regenerative Biology
5 months ago
🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas📷 Join us on December 19th at 12pm US East Coast Time featuring Ahmed Mahmoud from
@sbpdiscovery.bsky.social
and Juan Manuel González Rosa from
@bostoncollege.bsky.social
on
#HeartRegeneration🫀
Find all details at
isrbio.org/event-6479231
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Nature Communications
5 months ago
We're hiring! We are looking for an Associate or Senior Editor to join our cell and developmental biology team Apply here:
https://bit.ly/3MzdaFg
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Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his)
5 months ago
Very happy to see this piece on the Tunicate Ciona published. Grateful to
@alexandrejan.bsky.social
and
@chiaracastelletti.bsky.social
for the Illustrations, and to
@natmethods.nature.com
for the opportunity to showcase our ever emerging model organism
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The tunicate Ciona - Nature Methods
The ascidian tunicate Ciona, one of the closest relatives of the vertebrates, inhabits shallow temperate waters in the worldwide ocean. A unique combination of simple stereotyped embryogenesis, regula...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02936-4
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John Scalzi
5 months ago
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk
6 months ago
Just gonna put this here for now
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
bsky.app/profile/jlst...
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Marc Dionne
6 months ago
James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.
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Dr. Lutz Böhm
6 months ago
You are a Post-Padawan now!
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Lionel Christiaen, PhD (he/him/his)
6 months ago
Could not be more happy/proud/relieved to finally see this longstanding study published. Bluetorial to follow.
@msarscentre.bsky.social
Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors | The EMBO Journal
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors | The EMBO Journal
imageimageDuring development, multipotent cardiopharyngeal progenitors express both cardiac and pharyngeal muscle transcriptional programs. This study in the tunicate Ciona shows that cell cycle-regul...
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-025-00613-y?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251103&utm_content=10.1038%2Fs44318-025-00613-y
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Jason Shepherd
10 months ago
While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! See my article in Gen News.
www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...
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Why We Still Need Animal Research in a World of AI and Organoids
The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.
https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/why-we-still-need-animal-research-in-a-world-of-ai-and-organoids/
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Rachel Smith-Bolton
11 months ago
So excited that our latest work is out! We have been working to understand how damaged tissue exits regeneration and returns to normal gene expression, and found a major role for the pioneer transcription factor Zelda in flies. Kudos to
@anishbose.bsky.social
@keatonschuster.bsky.social
et al!
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The pioneer transcription factor Zelda controls the exit from regeneration and restoration of patterning in Drosophila
The pioneer factor Zelda activates a specific set of developmental and structural genes to end tissue regeneration.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5743
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Stacey Ogden 🦔
12 months ago
www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
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There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research
The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/animal-models-research-nih-biology-medical-breakthroughs-nobel-prize/
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c0nc0rdance
over 1 year ago
Off the coast of Japan live a species of sea squirts, Clavelina ossipandae, the SKELETON PANDA SEA SQUIRT. These ascidians anchor to coral and spend their lives filter-feeding. Clavelina is Latin for "little bottle", and ossipandae means "panda bones". 🐼💀
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Randall Munroe
about 1 year ago
Lungfish
xkcd.com/3064
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🌈Dr. Frizzle
about 1 year ago
I’m crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 1 year ago
Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.
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The Lincoln Project
about 1 year ago
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
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Surfin' NuRD
about 1 year ago
Remember, EuropePMC is actually better than
#PubMed
because it includes ALL preprints in search results, not just those including NIH-funded research.
europepmc.org
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Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
https://europepmc.org/
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International Society for Regenerative Biology
about 1 year ago
🚨ISRB Webinar - Zone 2: Europe, West Asia & Africa on March 11th at 4pm Central European Time 📷 featuring Uri Frank and Stefano Tiozzo
#ColonialRegeneration
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪
about 1 year ago
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else. For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right? But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B. Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
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God
about 1 year ago
Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system.
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God
over 1 year ago
Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
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Nancy Kanwisher
over 1 year ago
RFkJr is a threat to human health: when the next pandemic hits we need disease tracking (CDC now silenced) and fast vaccine development (which he opposes). If you live in ME, NC, SD, LA, AK, ID, KY or SD call your senators to oppose his confirmation (hearing this Wed.). (continued, please retweet):
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Michael Sars Centre
over 1 year ago
A team of researchers from the group of
@lionlchristiaen.bsky.social
has established a new inland culture system for
#Ciona
🌊🧪 Without the limitations of field collection, they are ready to tackle their next research goals 🙌 Out now in Open Biology
@royalsociety.org
⤵️ 🔗
doi.org/10.1098/rsob.240340
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New insights into sea squirt physiology allow for better inland cultures
By conducting systematic observations of animals in the laboratory, researchers in the Christiaen group uncovered crucial information on the post-embryonic development of Ciona. Their results, includi...
https://tinyurl.com/mrys6pb3
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Development
over 1 year ago
Our Pathway to Independence programme aims to support postdocs going on the job market in 2025 with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Apply by 31 Jan 2025:
https://buff.ly/3VJGgDC
#DevBio
#StemCells🧪
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent
over 1 year ago
"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
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David Green, PhD
over 1 year ago
And my mom is always proud of me, no matter what Reviewer 2 says. 🧪
#academicsky
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TanentzapfLab
over 1 year ago
1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it gets taken for granted & consequently no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you will have less & less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
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Science News
over 1 year ago
In case some mentors may want to read this.
#Nature
#PhD
#scisky
#student
#mentor
Source:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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God
over 1 year ago
Jesus welcomed sinners, tax collectors and Samaritans, so yeah, pretty sure he’s okay with diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Tomàs Montserrat Ayuso
over 1 year ago
Not checking nuclear markers like MALAT1 or intronic reads in your scRNA-seq data?🚨 We show their power to flag low-quality cells—even in top public datasets. It’s time to prioritize better QC for cleaner, more reliable genomics research! Read more:
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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High content of nuclei-free low-quality cells in reference single-cell atlases: a call for more stringent quality control using nuclear fraction - BMC Genomics
The advent of droplet-based single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has dramatically increased data throughput, enabling the release of a diverse array of tissue cell atlases to the public. However, we...
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-024-11015-5
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Blue Rev
over 1 year ago
South Korean President backs down from declaring martial law. Why? Because people showed up to protest. Just want folks to remember this.
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This is a fantastic program! It has been an amazing experience and has been super helpful with my application process. Please consider applying if you are going to be on the job market next year.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
over 1 year ago
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us..
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Itai Yanai
over 1 year ago
It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.
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Michael Sars Centre
over 1 year ago
No need to travel very far to find our favorite organisms - check out this beautiful Ciona colony immortalized by
@emclaereboudt.bsky.social
near one of Bergen's neighboring islands 😍🧪
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Carolyn Bertozzi
over 1 year ago
Respect/beware of His tags
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Çağrı Çevrim
over 1 year ago
If you share our enthusiasm for
#regeneration
, share, follow, and (self-)nominate people to the list. 🧪
go.bsky.app/MGXL9Ra
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James Briscoe
over 1 year ago
New Development SI 'Uncovering Developmental Diversity' Studying diverse organisms crucial for understanding development & biodiversity Dev bio has been central to biomed research & will be key to understanding & addressing climate change
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
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Volume 151 Issue 20 | Development | The Company of Biologists
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/151/20
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