New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

Very excited to share this finding from my postdoctoral work that is now published in #ScienceAdvances. We show how the gut’s epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thread ⬇️ (1/n)

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

I had a great time at the #IgNobel prize ceremony! And what a show! Paper airplanes, an opera about digestion, all celebrating achievements that first make you laugh and then think.

New preprint! How are developmental cycles coordinated across cell types? It turns out that, like Geppetto's cuckoo clocks in the GIF below, individual cell types are each performing their own little crazy routine, but all in sync with each other.

New #postdoc position focused on ALS/FTD available in the Hart lab! Join the collaborative Brown Univ. #neuroscience community! Experience with invertebrate genetics (like #Celegans) and/or neurodegenerative disease is welcome, but not required. Details at apply.interfolio.com/172914

The lab is 10 years old, time flies! 🥳✨

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Make a band food: Red Hot Chili Con Carne Gustavo Cerati y Soda Bread Depeche Mole

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe. In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Make a band food: Andres Calamaro y Los Abuelos de La Empanada

Kid's favorite soccer ball got run over by a car. I can report that the 4 hour long surgery was successful. #FixedIt

Worms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans

I’m teaching a senior college seminar course focused on genetics. What’s your favorite stage appropriate paper that uses mouse, zebrafish, drosophila, or c. elegans models??? Let’s get these scientists excited 💫 #cancer #academicsky #scicomm #BAPlab

Increase a band: Los Gigantes Verdes

#celegans postdoc position in Boston!

The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

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Slightly diminish a band: Soda Mono

🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥 we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1

In this 1892 lecture, the poet A. E. Housman advocates for basic curiosity-driven discovery research: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poe... I've copied some of my favorite parts below. 1/10

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

I’ll be taking over our internal and external seminar series fall 2026. Any suggestions on what to do or not do to have an excellent series? For external, currently, we have 3 named lectures invited by students/postdocs and the rest are filled by an open call to faculty to nominate speakers.

He gave the the "yeah, I know, I feel the same way too" look.

It’s the end of an era! 🙁 Announcing the Final Release of WormBase blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...

Well, none of us may ever get funded again but in the meantime, here's some new science! Led by recent PhD Anjali Pandey w/ex-UG Maya Katz. Here we identify an asymmetric molecular mechanism that underlies symmetric context-dependent sensory plasticity in the AWC olfactory neuron pair in C. elegans

Check out my incredible colleague @snickclunk.bsky.social's new @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Leadership Dialogue interview on her journey across diverse academic environments! You are such an inspiration and represent #worm25 so well! youtu.be/_4rQZ-ho2GM?...

Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.

Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.

Bluesky is now giving notifications for likes on reposts to the reposter. Excited that this may help folks recognize how high engagement is here. Just a reminder that reposts are critical here without the algorithm. Late reposts are especially helpful for those who log in infrequently.

Huge thanks to Cathy Savage-Dunn @cswormlab.bsky.social and Baris Tursun @baristursun.bsky.social for an amazing #worm25 !! I want to call out the OUTSTANDING meeting they created! Talks and posters were A+++. Most of all they brought us together in one of the most challenging times we've had.

Worm show! ✨️🪱 #worm25

I'm so happy and proud to be part of the worm community! #worm25

The incredible worm community! #worm25

Go worms! #worm25

It is so nice to catch up with so many friends at the worm meeting! #worm25

I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌

#Worm25 is coming soon! We are very grateful that more than 1200 attendees from our community will gather at UC Davis on June 28 to keep Science-ing 🧪 #Celegans For those unable to attend, recorded content will be available after the meeting. It is not too late to register 👇

In 1975 "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Space Oddity" were on the UK top 100, and Ward, Thomson, White, and Brenner published the first reconstruction of the C. elegans sensory anatomy. A short 50 years later, we reconstructed the same neurons and glia in the embryo: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Super-worm alert! Worms make Castells (super-organism pyramid/tower) to disperse...! Whoaw - Together They Stand. Congratulations to Siyu Serena Ding and team for this cool insight: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Flybase is in trouble and needs emergency support. #Celegans community I know we have a friendly feud but maybe consider a donation to honor a fly colleague/mentor?

🪱C. elegans folks: If you can afford to keep this resource available for our fly colleagues, please help 🧪

Hey #Drosophila folks ! #FlyCROSS is back and #Mentor surveys are open NOW ! If you're a faculty/postdoc/ equivalent in any scientific career & have #Drosophila research experience - we'd be delighted to have you as mentors to empower early career scientists in the #Dros community !

Great explanatory essay by Peter Girguis.

Opening for a #postdoc in the lab available immediately. Please spread the word. DETAILS HERE: jobrxiv.org/job/baylor-c... cc: #academicJobs #postdocJobs #microbiome #Celegans #organoids #IBD #PathSky #Medsky #AcademicSky 🧪 🧬 🦠

BIO getting absolutely killed