I am beyond excited to be at EuroEvoDevo #EED2026 in Glasgow to see some awesome EvoDevo work! Come say hi and we can have a chat. I will also be representing @natcomms.nature.com at the Roundtable on Scientific Publishing in EvoDevo on Thursday June 11th so you should come to that as well!

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

“I find your lack of ctenes disturbing.”Credit original #sciart to @joanjsoto.bsky.social. #MayTheCtenoforceBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #ctenophore #scicomm

Headed to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 this week? Our #DevBio and #regeneration editors @ebardot.bsky.social and @keatonschuster.bsky.social will be there! Find them to learn more about publishing with Nature Communications.

And the “de-extinction” grift continues. Your regular reminder that it's only a dire wolf if it comes from the Late Pleistocene epoch, otherwise it's just sparkling dog.

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. nyti.ms/3OtR0pf

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...

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.

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.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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.

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

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 🧪

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.

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

🚨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

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

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...

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"

Just gonna put this here for now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

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.

You are a Post-Padawan now!

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....

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...

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!

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". 🐼💀

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

I’m crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

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.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Remember, EuropePMC is actually better than #PubMed because it includes ALL preprints in search results, not just those including NIH-funded research. europepmc.org

🚨ISRB Webinar - Zone 2: Europe, West Asia & Africa on March 11th at 4pm Central European Time 📷 featuring Uri Frank and Stefano Tiozzo #ColonialRegeneration

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.

Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system.

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.

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):

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

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🧪

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

And my mom is always proud of me, no matter what Reviewer 2 says. 🧪 #academicsky

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

In case some mentors may want to read this. #Nature #PhD #scisky #student #mentor Source: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Jesus welcomed sinners, tax collectors and Samaritans, so yeah, pretty sure he’s okay with diversity, equity and inclusion.

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.... 1/8

South Korean President backs down from declaring martial law. Why? Because people showed up to protest. Just want folks to remember this.

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.

“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...