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Worms, Tubes, Matrix. In Philly
#Celegans
#aECM
Editor at GENETICS
pinned post!
#aECM
(apical extracellular matrix) is a subset of
#ECMatrix
that is distinct from stromal matrices or basement membranes. Anybody out there studying
#mucins
#ZPproteins
#cuticle
#glycocalyx
#surfactant
or the like? We need to find each other and start talking!
over 1 year ago
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Maureen Barr
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The International C. elegans meeting
#worm27
is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027!
genetics-gsa.org/celegans/
Organizers: Erik Andersen
@erikandersen.bsky.social
, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu
@kavita-babu.bsky.social
, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University
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I-75 Scientist
5 days ago
Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026.
files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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Wyoming Wormboy
27 days ago
I have a position open for a Research Associate - Postbac opportunity. For those with curiosity and tenacity, a chance to delve deeply into a project, learn new techniques, and publish papers, all in a friendly environment. Suited for recent college (BS) grads with prior relevant experience.
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The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab
13 days ago
Elephants in the spotlight! Two recent features highlight research from the Milinkovitch lab:
@quantamagazine.bsky.social
on the mechanics behind African elephant skin cracking, and Horizon on how elephant trunk biomechanics inspire versatile soft robotic grippers.
www.lanevol.org/news/article...
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Ida Bae Wells
18 days ago
There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.
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Wyoming Wormboy
22 days ago
Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.
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Faculty Position – In-Residence
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05877
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Shobita Parthasarathy
24 days ago
His wife: "We believed that the United States welcomed international students, professors, and academics from around the world....We believed that freedom of speech was real. We believed that the U.S. was moving closer to its democratic ideals. But now...none of this seems to be working anymore."
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Wife of Virginia Tech PhD student detained by ICE says 'status story is just an excuse'
Aliyeh Hashemi says her husband Yousof Azizi was never a member of any terrorist-linked organization and was in the country legally when ICE agents arrested him.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/yousof-azizi-ice-department-homeland-security-aliyeh-hashemi-iran-conflict/65-6415d42b-d6ee-4353-a4e9-5063dc90fa19
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MichaelMcMurray lab
25 days ago
Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic
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Stefan Luschnig
25 days ago
We´re hiring a
#PhD
student - if you´re interested in combining genetics, cell biology and state-of-the-art imaging to study
#epithelial
tissue dynamics in
#Drosophila
, apply to the CiM-IMPRS PhD program by May 1st (see below) Please RT
@uni-muenster.de
@sfb1348.bsky.social
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bioRxivpreprint
2 months ago
Apical spectrin organizes cortical actin filament bundles to pattern C. elegans cuticle ridges
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709908v1
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bioRxiv Cell Biology
26 days ago
The AGEF-1/ARF-1 GTPase/AP-1 trafficking pathway differentially regulates LIN-12/Notch signaling in a tissue specific manner in C. elegans
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.17.719071v1
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Michalis Averof
28 days ago
These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 1 month ago
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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callista yee
about 1 month ago
It is with great sadness that I'm sharing the news that Dr. Don Moerman passed away this weekend. He was such a legend in the
#Celegans
and Canadian science community.
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Max Heiman
about 1 month ago
New preprint! "A stereotyped glial attachment determines the morphology and function of neuronal cilia"
doi.org/10.64898/202...
We find that C. elegans neuronal cilia attach to glia, we identify a protein required for cilia-glia attachment, and we show that glial attachments alter cilia signaling.
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Grosshans Lab
about 1 month ago
Looking forward to seeing you all at the
#aECM
club today!👇
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Pujol lab
about 1 month ago
👉 3rd aECM club Apr 14th 10 am NYC-4 pm Paris
#aECM
invertebrate cuticle and molt cycle
@gotworms.bsky.social
@labgrosshans.bsky.social
program
sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl..
. 👉 join our Slack
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aECM Club Seminars
A virtual seminar series to highlight work on apical ECM across different systems Organizers: Meera Sundaram, UPennMax Heiman, Boston Children’s, Harvard U.Nathalie Pujol, U. Aix MarseilleJor…
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c0nc0rdance
about 1 month ago
Velvet worms shoot rapid-hardening glue at their prey (other invertebrates). Within seconds, the sprayed liquid hardens to plastic-like consistency, trapping or slowing the target. This marvelous glue has possible human applications in recyclable bioplastics & surgical sutures that dissolve.
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Ben Doughty
about 1 month ago
"Our findings identify ECM composition and mechanics as a primary mechanism governing mammalian regeneration. By demonstrating that the ECM acts as a mechanochemical signalling hub, we show that “retuning” the physical environment from a stiff, collagenous state to a soft, HA-rich state can.."
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Ed Markey
about 1 month ago
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
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Steve Benen
about 1 month ago
After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:
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Congressman Dwight Evans
about 1 month ago
Trump’s statement is a direct call for war crimes. It’s deranged and sick coming from anyone, let alone the president of the United States. Any Republican who remains silent is complicit. GOP majority leadership must bring Congress back to DC NOW and rein in Trump’s warmongering. Enough is enough.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs
about 1 month ago
The President just threatened genocide. The Joint Chiefs of Staff must disregard any such military orders that violate federal and international law. Republicans in Congress can't hide anymore: we must consider all options – including impeachment – to stop Trump.
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Conor Lamb
about 1 month ago
Anyone else notice
@fetterman.senate.gov
lost his “moral clarity” right around the time Trump was threatening war crimes?
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Chris Murphy
about 1 month ago
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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Senator Ed Markey
about 1 month ago
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Mostafa Zamanian
about 1 month ago
How did we arrive at weak pushback against heinous war crimes? Because our media treats war like sport. Instead of questioning the legality of a war sold on false pretenses, we get critiques of strategy and timing. These are matters of International Humanitarian Law and Nuremberg, not gas prices.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 1 month ago
TODAY: Iranians are forming human chains around civilian infrastructure (bridges, power plants) as Trump threatens to kill them all
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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee
about 1 month ago
This is crazy and completely reckless. Speaker Johnson and House Republicans need to bring us back into session immediately to stop Trump’s power-hungry regime-change war. He’s killed thousands of people, and he doesn’t care if he kills a thousand more.
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Maxwell Frost
about 1 month ago
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
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Jordan Ward
about 1 month ago
Great to see this out. Practical guidance on how to use protein depletion systems in C. elegans
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Manuel Thery
about 1 month ago
Marseille bébé, be there or be square
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Harmit Singh Malik
about 2 months ago
Never seen a more compelling endorsement for submitting your work to GENETICS
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 2 months ago
Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?
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Stefan Luschnig
about 2 months ago
Apply by May 1st to join an outstanding
#PhD
program in a cutting-edge international scientific environment and highly livable city
@uni-muenster.de
! Apply at
www.uni-muenster.de/CiM-IMPRS/ap...
#CiM-IMPRS
@mpi-muenster.bsky.social
@sfb1348.bsky.social
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Colleagues can find and read your papers wherever you publish. Support your scientific society journals by publishing with and reviewing for them!
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Sarah J. Jackson
about 2 months ago
Seeing Rhiannon Giddens live tonight and it also happens to be a perfect day to revisit this
#nokings
#nofascists
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Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens "All You Fascists Bound To Lose"
YouTube video by Resistance Revival Chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa7aAIfLE
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Laurasaurus
about 2 months ago
Philly
#NoKings
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Dean Obeidallah
about 2 months ago
No kings philly!!
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Anthony S.
about 2 months ago
More of Philly telling Trump to go fuck himself...
#NoKings
#Resist
#AbolishICE
#Philly
#Philadelphia
#BlueWave
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Dance party at
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This is what Democracy looks like in
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Timothy Snyder
about 2 months ago
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th.
www.nokings.org
#NoKings
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Bucks County Beacon
about 2 months ago
Perfect Homework, Blank Stares: Why Colleges Like the University of Pennsylvania Are Turning to Oral Exams to Combat AI | "We’re doing this because students are actually losing skills, losing cognitive capacity and creativity,” said Penn Associate Professor Emily Hammer.
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"We’re doing this because students are actually losing skills, losing cognitive capacity and creativity,” said Penn Associate Professor Emily Hammer.
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/perfect-homework-blank-stares-why-colleges-like-the-university-of-pennsylvania-are-turning-to-oral-exams-to-combat-ai/
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