Researchers: please read & share this excellent piece in @sigmaxi.bsky.social ‘s magazine @americanscientist.org by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social about the importance of communicating about your work to non-scientists, and how to do it! #scicomm www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

5 small joys you can cut out of your life and still not be able to afford a home

Learned this week that after having been forced to use Office 365, and only Office 365, for the entire lab, and having restructured all our collaboration and documentation practices to comply with that directive, we are now also expected to pay for every single account we have. 💸/💸💸

Our "goal is to create a stable, independent non-profit organization that ensures [bioRxiv & medRxiv] remain open...governed by and for the research community, not a single funder...or any one stakeholder." Some common questions about openRxiv answered: openrxiv.org/qa-governanc...

We’ve just wrapped up Session 2: Creating Clarity: Crafting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that Simplify and Succeed! 👏 Thank you to Janet Rothberg, for leading such an insightful and interactive session on best practices for crafting SOPs that are clear, effective, and streamlined!

We’re excited to share the first publication from our lab, now out in @EMBOPress! @shayma-a.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Using live imaging in the mouse embryo, we tracked how heart progenitors migrate and assemble into the heart tube.

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

“How about eye colour?” I hear you ask. “We all know the story behind blue eyes - caused by recessive alleles of a single gene. If both parents are blue-eyed, a child’s eyes must be blue, yes?” Nope! A myth busted long ago: a 1908 study found non-blue-eyed children in 12% of blue-blue pairings. 6/n

👇🏾💥💥💥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

WOWOWOW! What a race! What a finish 😍 #AGR25 🥇 Mattias Skjelmose 🥈 Tadej Pogačar 🥉 Remco Evenepoel

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 That’s a pretty good flex to be honest 💪🏻 #MvdP #ParisRoubaix 🪨🪨🪨

CODA for the masses! Valentina Matos-Romero, Ashley Kiemen and team have put together an ultra detailed protocol to use CODA for 3D single-cell mapping of tissues, organs, and organisms. Use CODA by downloading this protocol here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I urge folks to sign this letter and share it with their university colleagues to get critical mass.

first up, including "fantasy author who popularized a make-believe version of the species and also investor" as an author on this is, uhh, A Choice?? i know of PIs who won't give authorship to lab techs or undergrads bc "their paycheck is their compensation" so this is. hmm. not great imo?

Float like a butterfly, sting like a BEE!! How is this even real?!! 🥹🦋🐝

Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6

Fantastic opportunity if you are interested in moving your lab to Montreal, Canada! Through this program, Chairholders will be awarded up to $1 million per year for a period of 8 years. Contact me if you are interested. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

If you’re interested in moving your lab to beautiful Montreal Canada, this program offers chairholders funding of up to 1M$ a year for 8 years. See link for details. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Bird flu is hitting the U.S. hard. Now, migratory birds are flying north. How Canadian scientists are ramping up efforts to curb the virus that could cause the next pandemic, by Jennifer Yoon www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca #H5N1

At a time when bike lanes are under threat—both in Ontario and south of the border—it’s great to see... cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/new...

Come and Stand Up For Science in a city near you this Friday standupforscience2025.org

Fight between bald eagle 🦅 and Canada goose ‘highly symbolic, says photographer. Eagle gave up after 20 minutes of squawking. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

Happy to share the lab's latest publication from @eli-elder.bsky.social and team in @narjournal.bsky.social ! What happens when #DNAmethylation maintenance is transiently interrupted in mouse embryonic stem cells? Let's dive in (1/11). doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

The notion that one can build a virtual cell from its genes and their interactions www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... is an interesting folly that highlights the extremes the #GeneCentric view of Biology can reach 🧵

Two days left to submit your abstract for #WeinsteinCVD2025! DEADLINE: Friday, Feb. 21 @ 11:59 p.m. CST! Submit Here: www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency

Snow much? ❄️❄️❄️

#DevPres speakers are chosen from @dev-journal.bsky.social's PI programme applicants but sometimes they're virtually all based in Europe or the US. Help us diversify by nominating yourself to speak if you're currently based outside of these regions. Details & eligibility on @the-node.bsky.social ⬇️

I love this reddit. "Your work is your rebellion". 🧪 ✊ www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the brilliant women in our community and highlight articles by #WomeninScience to keep the conversations going(1/3) @davislab.bsky.social discusses gender inequalities in academia and shares her story of becoming a mother-scientist:

🚨 The Ghersi Lab is Hiring! 🚨 If you're passionate about hematopoietic stem cells, developmental biology, and cutting-edge research, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to share. 🩸🐠 📍 Montreal, Canada 📩 [email protected] and Ghersilab.com

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

🚨We are hiring!🚨 We have postdoctoral positions available! If you're passionate about studying cardiac regeneration and development, join our team in vibrant and beautiful Montreal! Please help spread the word 🫶 For more details see here research.chusj.org/RECHERCHE/fi...

Our happy hour poster is probably the most important work the lab has done.

Join us for the 2025 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference in Milwaukee, May 14-16! Registration and abstract submission are now open!!! Please share, retweet, and distribute! #WeinsteinCVD2025 REGISTER TODAY HERE childrenswi.org/weinstein

What do we mean by ‘mechanism’ anyway? @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @katherine-brown.bsky.social gives her perspective on the recent article "A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology" by @biyolokum.bsky.social @swathiarur.bsky.social and Mansi Srivastava:

Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference at childrenswi.org/weinstein. The conference will be held in Milwaukee, May 14-16! Please share, retweet and distribute ❣️❣️❣️#WeinsteinCVD2025

Extra! Extra! If you're into cardiovascular development and regeneration, and you want to hobnob with all them awesome scientists, then follow @weinsteinconf.bsky.social and submit an abstract for the 2025 Weinstein Conference in Milwaukee!! #favorite #conference #ever

Important retrospective study, led by Gregor Andelfinger, in JACC: Basic to Translational Science, showing that MEK inhibitors improved cardiac status and survival in patients with RASopathy with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (RAS-HCM). Original manuscript below. Press release: shorturl.at/sJUA4

The Gregor Andelfinger and Alexandre Dubrac labs in Montreal are looking for a research assistant to investigate Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome. (1/3)

The first one is fill, but let me know if you'd like to be added to the second one! go.bsky.app/HADh3gB

For new folks on Bluesky - I made some starter packs! These first two feature model organism reachers using their systems to study disease mechanisms. go.bsky.app/MhUwjSx

1/🚀 Excited to share RegVelo, our new cell model combining RNA velocity with gene regulatory network (GRN) dynamics to model cellular changes and predict in silico perturbations. Here's how it works and why it matters! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.11.627935v1

The Gregor Andelfinger and Alexandre Dubrac labs in Montreal are looking for a research assistant to investigate Multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome. (1/3)

Dutch championships headwind cycling this Saturday! They cycle in the South west of the Netherlands on normal bikes with one gear and need to battle winds of 6 beaufort or more over 8.5km. #couchpeloton #cyclist #cyclingbluesky #zeeland www.bicycling.com/nl/events/a6...

Created a starter pack focusing on disease modeling in a dish using stem cells! 🧪🔬 Please (self)nominate anyone you think should be added to the list and repost so it finds the right people ❤️ hPSC Disease Modeling: go.bsky.app/EpWsxNG For a good general stem cell pack go here: go.bsky.app/UTW4d7b