Reminder that the Career Catalyst Mentorship Bootcamp is starting tomorrow with a webinar on 'Identifying and delivering your research vision'.

Celebrating our award winning trainee talks from the recent ISRB Conference in Madison given by Rannyele Passos, Pierre Gillotay and Wouter Masselink and proudly sponsored by Developmental Dynamics @devdynamics.bsky.social and Development @dev-journal.bsky.social

🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 2: Europe, West Asia, Africa📷 Join us on September 9th at 4pm Central European Time. Featuring Jordi Solana @jordisolana.bsky.social and Leo Otsuki @leootsuki.bsky.social

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG... #Art #SciArt

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com

I absolutely loved the ISRB 2025! Madison was such a wonderful place for this conference. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic event. New insights, new friends, and a presentation award — I couldn’t ask for more. Truly grateful! @isrbio.bsky.social

This is a must watch. Here is an interview of Francis Collins, former director of the NIH w/ Stephen Colbert. He ran the NIH for 12 years. "Medical miracles don't happen overnight. You have to invest in them. "Our investments are in trouble." The brain drain is here. 🧪 youtu.be/lW9c6t4potU?...

Global patterns and drivers of untracked industrial fishing in coastal marine protected areas | Science 🦑🧪🌎🐟 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...?

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪

Raising awareness isn’t enough. Real change in sustainability depends on alignment, not just information. My latest post explores why collaboration, context, and practice matter more than persuasion. 🌍🧪 🧭 learningforsustainability.net/post/shiftin... #behaviourchange #sustainability

Sign up for the ISRB Pre-Conference Trainee Meeting is closing tomorrow, 1st July. Don't miss out trainees! morgridge.org/event/isrb-p...

Nobel winners of worms! Curiosity driven science is essential! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱 #DevBio #EvoDevo

“In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well.” Some will disagree with aspects of Seemay’s analysis but this point is undoubtedly true open.substack.com/pub/asterain...?

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 This stretchy neural implant grows with an axolotl’s brain https://go.nature.com/4kFaXEn

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.

Celebrating my recent paper published in Development with a new art from my #sci-art project Wormly Speaking. “With Maturity” #annelid #worm #art #comics #love #resilience #peace #polychaete #WormWednesday Visit Wormly Speaking: rannypribeiro.github.io/sci-art/comi...

Issue 7 is complete! On the cover: Live images of mature Platynereis dumerilii. Upon maturity, males look white and red, while females glow yellow with yolky eggs. Their reproduction occurs in a fascinating ‘nuptial dance’. See Ribeiro et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Our paper is out in Development—and we made the cover! 🪱✨ We share insights into annelid reproduction, including sex-biased expression of genes like dmrt1 and the protostome-specific (psmt). Check it out! 🧬🧡

Sex-biased gene expression precedes sexual dimorphism in the agonadal annelid Platynereis dumerilii Read this Research Article by Rannyele Ribeiro @rannypribeiro.bsky.social, Ryan Null and B. Duygu Özpolat @biyolokum.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

March in preprints In this latest monthly preprint list, we look back at the #DevBio and #StemCells #preprints that came out in March. (Let us know if we've missed anything!) thenode.biologists.com/march-in-pre...

#sturgeonsaturday on a thursday 😱 whaaaaat!! 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬🦑 new paper and illustration 🥲 we investigated what happens to the gill transcriptome during development in lake sturgeon turns out bb sturgeon are using epigenetics (histone mods & dna methylation) and cell death (apoptosis) to make grown up gills

A letter from many of us STEMM faculty at Penn, led by Andrea Liu, with a simple message: our values aren't for sale, and preserving science funding by giving up our rights is simply not worth it. 🧪 www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Developmental biology research leads to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. RNA Interference. Fire et al., 1998 PMID: 9486653. Worm image by Tokiko Furuta (Arur Lab) @socdevbio.bsky.social 12/12.

A highlight of today was spending time with a young scientist as part of my contribution to the carleton.ca mentorship program. We talked a lot about the importance of communication and scientific writing. It’s always time to write! 🧪 🔗 shorturl.at/OxkWf

All scientists, regardless of their discipline or location, are potential targets for online hate. But there are things you can do to protect yourself, and resources that can help. Nature provides five steps to get started. #Academicsky 🧪

New paper from my laboratory in EMBO Reports doi.org/10.1038/s443.... Our study challenges what we know about #mitochondria & #aging.

Thrilled to promote our session at the 2025 NPA Annual Meeting! As members of the WashU Postdoctoral Society, we’re excited to share our #outreach initiatives #postdoclife #postdocs 🎓🎬📰🗞️🌟

Word of the Day Estrogen When people mention estrogen, they usually refer to 17-beta-estradiol, the most potent estrogen. It is part of a FAMILY of estrogens, which include estrone and estriol. Estriol is weakest form. The ovaries convert testosterone to estrogen. Women need testosterone too. 🧪🧬

Stop the division

More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

Lots of people at the rally in New York! Josh Dubnau from Stony Brook gave the speech the moment demands: attacks on science funding are bad, but they’re downstream of fascism, and we need to fight the fascism even when we’re not the targets

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

Jefferson City, MO #StandUpForScience

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

So glad to attend the Stand up for Science rally today in Denver with many colleagues and friends! #standupforscience #womeninstem

My honors student and I are developing a mobile app to help Cape Cod oyster farmers estimate the level of Polydora worm infestation in their crops throughout the growing season based on water quality inputs. Our main issue is that we more data to train our model! #polychaetes #shellfish #diseases

To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, we're launching an image competition together with @focalplane.bsky.social! Enter your best biological research images 🧪🔬 Shortlisted images will be presented at the #Biologists100 conference in March. Details: thenode.biologists.com/enter-the-no...

In this #SciArt profile, we meet @biyolokum.bsky.social, an assistant professor studying regeneration in segmented worms. Duygu enjoys making pottery pieces of worms, bugs and other “creepy” animals to show people the wonders of these organisms. Find out about her art pieces and artistic influences:

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:

We have a star at my lab, and her name is Dr. Ranny Passos Ribeiro! @rannypribeiro.bsky.social She just won a $15K seed grant from WashU's Center for Regenerative Medicine. It was a new style of choosing grantees, via a fun pitch event where the finalists presented 5-min pitch & she rose to top 2!

It was such a fantastic experience to contribute to @the-node.bsky.social. Thank you for the opportunity and consideration, @joyceyu.bsky.social! 🙏✨