Don’t Use A.I. to Do This www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o... Love this take by one of my favorite writers. 🤣

Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me

New @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grants: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education. Up to $500,000 for orgs focused on helping remove obstacles for undergraduates who want to pursue advanced STEM degrees. Deadline is June 1. Please share & apply if this is you! sloan.org/programs/hig...

Dev Bio Science Communication opportunity! The John Doctor Prize is open for 2026 (Deadline June 1). More info here below - Please share and encourage folks to submit videos! www.sdbonline.org/john_doctor_...

Congratulations, @taylormlanier.bsky.social! So proud of you! grad.uga.edu/a-students-d...

the culmination of one year of collaborative work on a #SciArt zine discussing gynecological issues, finally in print form! from a lovely team from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with special thanks to Dr @talkswithdrsesay.bsky.social and Dr Gioia Canciani for reviewing the contents! 🥼🩸

Five(+) women authors by whom I’ve read (and loved) at least five books: Margaret Atwood Octavia Butler NK Jemisin Barbara Kingsolver Nnedi Okorafor Martha Wells Zadie Smith (That was fun to look up and illustrates my reading preferences pretty well!)

cognitive reframing ahead of quals: ❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me ✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌

“Because it’s always been done that way” should never stand in the way of imagining and building a new system that aligns better with our core values. Sometimes the hard and even the nearly impossible possible is worth it to create the future we envision.

We wrote this piece as a call to action before what has been happening in MN. The myth of neutrality is a luxury scientists can no longer afford— we all have a role to play. Please repost w/ links to local orgs to help connect scientists to existing collectives they can join. rdcu.be/e1Tvv

A few other highlights: We were joined by three awesome undergrads this semester - Kathleen, Zoe, and Ella. They have contributed to the lab intellectually, scientifically, and socially - such a great team. Here they are at their end-of-term presentations. 1/4

I got behind in posting updates this fall, but want to make sure I highlight some of the fun and amazing things that we (mostly my trainees) have been doing this fall and winter! Let's start off with our semester's high point - @taylormlanier.bsky.social's defense and graduation! 1/5

ASCB President Mary Munson awards Francis Collins the ASCB Public Service award, noting this is the first time it’s been awarded for defense of science #cellbio2025

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot A Perspective by @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social, @kaliceaphd.bsky.social, Jamy Peng, @spiraldoc.bsky.social & @rogerslabucd.bsky.social on how to combat scientific misinformation journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In our newest paper, we show that expression of a familial natural short sleep mutation in flies extends lifespan through enhanced mitochondrial physiology. First first-author paper for former graduate student Pritika Pandey! @pritika26.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social

So jealous that I'm not at #PRC10 (because I haven't yet figured out how to clone myself and be in two places at once) but the programme looks so brilliant. I really hope there's some discussion about how framing peer review as pedagogy may be a useful way forward too wonkhe.com/blogs/peer-r...

🧪🪰We are hiring, please help us get the word out! The official ads will be up very soon & I'll link to them later. My lab is looking to recruit/hire at all levels: 1. A technician/post-bacc researcher to start ~fall 2026 2. A postdoc to start sometime in 2026 3. At least one graduate student (RA)

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex... #DevBio

Happy to highlight our recent preprint by the amazing Skylar Settles, with her undergrad student, Kathleen. Skylar started with the goal of carefully (& tediously) describing the in vivo cellular environment of planarian stem cells, unusual for their adult pluripotency. 1/6 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Last CBIO retreat and departmental presentation (until defense) for Taylor! Bittersweet! @taylormlanier.bsky.social

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Spicebush swallowtail for our 3rd challenging swallowtail ID of the week!

Up at the parents’ farm for Poppy/Deedee camp (M) and a pre-semester meditative/writing trip (me). Today I spent a while making sure I can tell apart pipevine swallowtails and dark female eastern tiger swallowtails.

Cluster hire in ecosystem ecology at UGA! Come join us! 🌎🌱

"As the demographics of our Nation evolve, ensuring individuals from underrepresented communities across the country can enter and sustain a career as part of the STEM workforce is essential to securing the workforce going forward...

Sounds super fun - GRC in Neural Dev is one of my favorites and I need to bookmark this for next year!

Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

One of the largest voter registration cancellations in history began Thursday with 478,000 letters mailed to Georgia voters whose registrations will be removed unless they respond within 40 days. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

I had SOOO much fun writing this Dispatch on the Davies Lab's latest paper for @currentbiology.bsky.social! It was so enjoyable to dive into the literature and I had such a fun paper to highlight! Thanks Current Biology for the invitation! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Let’s go, Georgia!

UGA science folks need to remember these decisions literally affect the USFS building on our campus only ~100m from your office and with lots of great, terrified, science colleagues. Make your calls!!

To @dbmenke.bsky.social and other lizard colleagues, look what you have done. (Anolis pictures from PR.)

The highlight of my @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting was attending with post-bacc student Saraí Rivera, who is a brilliant researcher with unlimited potential. Our post-bacc program was lost to NIH cuts and it has been heartbreaking, since our outcomes and participants have been so very extraordinary.

Had a great trip to Puerto Rico with my family before the SDB meeting last week! PR was beautiful and it was so special to explore it with my favorite people!!

PSA: around 5-8% of the population has a color vision impairment for red/green. Many talks at #2025ICDB still use red-green LUTs on slides that are not accessible to everyone. Changing to more accessible colors is doable and easy. We can do better. #devbio #ICDB2025 #WeTheColorBlind

Excited to welcome everyone to San Juan for #ICDB25

i'd rather ask ursula from the little mermaid for a favour and life advice than ask chatgpt anything

I am speaking at 20th International Congress of Developmental Biology. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! I hope to see you there! #DevBio 💪🏽 @socdevbio.bsky.social

Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depoliticize the agency and reverse spending cuts.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

My little cautionary note on posting hurricane models outcomes 2 weeks out

If you see this post a flower. 🌵 I rescued a piece of this Eastern Pineland Prickly Pear (Georgia’s only native cactus) a few years ago and this year she had dozens of blooms! 🥰

Check out our work on bioRxiv!! @kendallbclay.bsky.social @awormwelcome.bsky.social

A bit of happy news. I'm very excited to share the newest from the R-G lab, a preprint focusing on regenerative neurogenesis in our favorite worms! Grad students @kendallbclay.bsky.social and @taylormlanier.bsky.social co-authored this awesome manuscript. 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy anniversary, NSF! As a former REU trainee, GRFP fellow, and CAREER awardee, I am a product of NSF through and through. Grateful for all those who have served and continue to serve our nation and scientific community at NSF! ❤️

The trainee impacts are always the most heartbreaking. Just gutted for colleagues and their groups.