Vote worm! by @wormkaiden.bsky.social Kaiden Power in our lab .. although I've got to say those Malpighian tubules are looking sharp too!

Another great resource for the worm pickers.

#CellBio2025 Note that the app won’t list you as an attendee unless you manually add yourself to the list using your Profile link (under the little wheelie tool) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social

#aECM at #CellBio2025 On Sunday, the Sundaram lab will have 2 posters on #Celegans aECM - boards 223 and 225

#aECM at #CellBio2025 Deepak Krishnamurthygave a fascinating talk about how choanoflagellates use glycans to help build 3D basket structures or « lorica » around themselves

#CellBio2025 Andy Garcia gave a great talk about Archaea and how their unique lipids help them survive in extreme environments - excellent science communication that fully engaged this non-expert!

WormTagDB: A Systematic Survey of Endogenously Tagged Proteins in C. elegans and Roadmap Towards the Tagged Proteome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691955v1

The #CellBio2025 app is telling me I don’t have any friends! 😭😭😭

I so needed this thread, I think you do too!

Late to the party, but I think of this one from time to time. www.theonion.com/affluent-whi...

Every day there is something 🤬

I find it really sad that a society whose constituents generate hundreds of beautiful scientific and artistic images both by using a scope and grabbing a pencil and paper, uses AI slop to promote something 🧪 Image description: an AI-generated advent calendar with a bunch of model organisms

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

All hail Caenorhabditis elegans, one of the most researched organisms on Earth. Collaborative data sharing in the nematode research community led to four Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about human development and disease. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uNqU50Xyj4e

It still hasn’t been cold enough for a full ginkgo drop, but it’s starting… #Philly

“There were some cells in there that were very messed up” In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man go.nature.com/44yj4MN

Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#aECM folks take note!

From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism - a perspective written by 11 scientists, six of whom are Nobel laureates www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I have posted about this before, but... Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 1/6

"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the [US]." #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Our November #TheMeshwork seminar dives into proteomics & proteolytic ECM remodeling in cardiovascular pathologies 🫀Featuring Dr. Salvatore Santamaria and PhD students Tina Burkhard & Alex Minns @uniofsurrey.bsky.social 📅 Nov 25 | ⏰ 1 PM UK 🔗 Register: forms.gle/EY6aiWgsS3Rb...

#aECM Cub starts next week Nov 18 with talks on patterning the Drosophila lens, mouse tectorial membrane, and C.elegans cuticle furrows. You can still sign up for access using the link below.

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be…What a gift it is…to have no choice in the matter.” 🔥🔥🔥

#Spokane #WA Hunger is no Game #VisibilityBrigade

An obituary any scientist would be proud of imo

We’re excited to expand our partnership with @reviewcommons.org in a new collaborative model reshaping scientific publishing to streamline peer review, reduce redundancy, and improve the author and reviewer experience. Read more: buff.ly/h6SfMXF And meet our Editorial Board! 👋

Just tried q.e.d. by @odedrechavi.bsky.social et al. with a few papers including by myself & others where I knew a claim within was flawed based on a misunderstanding of the signal. 1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about. 2) it hallucinated. www.qedscience.com Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

Oof, Richard Scarry was a formative part of my youth and this is brutal. There is an election on Tuesday Nov 4. Vote to change this.

From the lab of Maxwell Heiman discussing the interesting topic of apical ECM and the function of sensing organs and how these ECM proteins can both mechanically and biochemically modulate the organ's functions. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

The ECM is no longer in the back seat when it comes to development. Check out our special issue "Dynamics of the extracellular matrix in development, cell physiology and disease" with 8 selected articles to learn more: A 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

A Rutgers University report released Monday reveals that corporate investors are gobbling up about 25% of all residential units in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Philadelphia, raising concerns about increased evictions, higher rents, and reduced homeownership.

🪰 folks! Despite Harvard lawsuit outcome, FlyBase NIH grant was not released. FlyBase now runs on the public, like NPR, PBS etc. If we don't step up, it can go away! Donations site on flybase.org homepage. Note: it links to IU stock center, but its for FlyBase, see instructions. pls give+share! 2/2

Beware #Philly bike commuters: Problems on the Schuylkill river trail www.phillyvoice.com/schuylkill-r...

Abandoning Merit for Compliance: Unpacking The Compact for Higher Education substack.com/@joshuasweit...

We were all relieved that this didn’t happen on 9/11.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

And the next one: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00585-z . Super-fun collaboration with @partchlab.bsky.social & @gotworms.bsky.social to find similarities between developmental and circadian clocks – supported by @fmiscience.bsky.social Facilities and, financially, @snsf.ch and @erc.europa.eu . 1/n

Latin American worm meeting in beautiful Merida Mexico, February 24-28, 2026. Abstract deadline is October 31. meetings.embo.org/event/26-worm

Photo Essay: Millions of Americans Join No Kings Demonstrations Across the County to Protest Trump | “Big rallies like this give confidence to people who have been sitting on the sidelines but are ready to speak up,” @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told @apnews.com. MORE PHOTOS: bit.ly/475cEoQ

Photo Essay: Thousands of Democracy Defenders Protest Trump at #NoKings Rallies Throughout Bucks County | Doylestown, Morrisville, Perkasie and New Hope were among the locations where local residents protested Saturday because they love their country.

PHILLY I stepped out to walk across Philly last night and get a sense of things. City Hall always captures me here, Philadelphia has maintained its European layout and much of its early architecture.

Buck’s county PA #nokings

Watch Lucas' amazing artistic/musical rendition of C. elegans larval development and our work on developmental timing and molting here youtu.be/-hGHYRvw87w and read on his inspiration and challenges below