"So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry." www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Explain to me how Editorial Manager can have so may different journal accounts, but not manage to let you log in with one password and switch between journals? Each time to try to login I am told the password doesn't work - but it did yesterday for a different journal 😡

I encourage everyone to show up and make your voice heard at upcoming town halls and via any other channels: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html • Bilingual session: Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET • English session: Wednesday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET • French session: Thursday, June 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET

One month left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab at UBC! Funding is available for up to five years #DevBio #cellbio

SAVE THE DATE for the 13th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference — March 7–10, 2027 — bringing together researchers, trainees, and innovators in developmental biology from across Canada and beyond.

Our lab website is live! 🚀🐟 www.vasilevalab.com We use genetic #zebrafish models and molecular oncology approaches to study pediatric cancer and discover new therapeutic strategies. We’re growing and recruiting postdocs and research technicians! #PediatricCancer #Zebrafish #PostdocJobs

Musee d'Orsay - Turkey!

PL retweet. Developmental Biology Course (Quintay). More information: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

I saw this letter and thought it was gone but apparently not... See this letter. bsky.app/profile/drjk...

Excited to be attending VanFly2026 being held at UBC today! Vancouver area Drosophila (and mosquitos!) research meeting.

The Hoffman Lab at Yale is hiring! We’re currently recruiting for a Lab Manager and Post-Graduate Research Associate positions. If you're interested in understanding the function of neurodevelopmental disorder genes in the developing brain using #zebrafish, we'd love to hear from you! #researchjobs

I'm not teaching this term, but I have so much sympathy for folks who are using Canvas and affected by the system wide collapse. Having to pivot on short notice at this time of the term is brutal.

Looking for a #postdoc outside the US, focusing on gut microbiome, AMR dynamics & phage-bacteria interactions. Bridging wet lab and computational approaches🦠👩‍💻. Hartmann Lab, Northwestern University, defending late 2026. Boosts appreciated 🙏🧫🧪 #microbiome #metagenomics #MicroSky

Huge congrats to lab PhD alumna Vil Fernandes on winning this prestigious award!

Wow! That is such fun! If only everything were this simple 😂 Wordle 1,781 2/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I love this. I use embroidery to beautify former moth holes and extend the life of my favourite clothes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/s...

I'm shocked and saddened to hear the news about Juliet. She was an inspiring colleague and passionate cancer researcher. My condolences to her family and friends.

Wonderful to see my undergraduate student Colin featured in this post!

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Excellent post. Scientific inflation is likely 2X that of retail price index. Add to this the creep in the amount of data now required to support a grant application or paper and the fact that grant values still do not cover all expenses and we are between a harbour wall and an approaching tsunami.

Seeing the first genetic medicine for hearing loss get FDA approval is a spot of much-needed good news.

Disc is also used in the context of imaginal discs in #Drosophila and other insects. Imaginal discs - serve as precursors to adult #insect structures like wings, legs, eyes and gonads. #devbio

I was just offered an honorarium for a grant selection committee I serve on. Have I become so Canadian 🇨🇦 that I feel sheepish asking for the money💰?

What great news to wake up to: "I am happy to tell you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication in Disease Models & Mechanisms" 🥳🎉 It's been a bit rough lately, so hopefully this will start a new trend 🤞

Did you know the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting has an entire session just for NEW PI Talks? And a New PI Keynote Talk? It does! These will be chosen from the abstracts. New PIs, sign up! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

Any UC Berkeley grads who are early career faculty? Im first gen academic and didn’t get my regalia for years after starting as faculty because I didn’t know why I’d want it, but it’s sooo nice to wear when your own grads are crossing the stage! #AcademicSky 🧪

Moon joy indeed!

I have been holding my breath - I didn't know how badly I needed this to go well. Will be relieved when we hear their voices!

Soundds amazing!

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

Sharing this again as it is so cool to watch this mission. issinfo.net/artemis.html

This is so cool. I hadn't realized that the moon is of course moving so as they head towards it, it is also moving. In awe at the calculations involved to make this work! issinfo.net/artemis.html

Love seeing recognition of the Canadian presence on Artemis II.

Have been a Mac user since working on my PhD since the early 90s. Helping my mother sort out her PC running Windows 10 is making me want to rip out my eyeballs.

Gripping

April fool's day indeed

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

On my CV and biosketch, I list motherhood (2000, 2002, 2004 - present). Then I wanted my reviewers/critics to know. Now I want ECR women to know. Ask for help. Find your support network. It is critical that us senior women in science support and advocate for ECR #womeninSTEM. PAY IT FORWARD

For other NSERC watchers this week:

I love this - such small simple gestures that show people are bing listened to.

I love this wordless video imagining this conversation - especially given how insane 2020 was!

Are there dates for the announcement of #NSERC DG and RTI funding decisions?

Nobel laureate in Physics, Donna Strickland, will be giving a free public lecture entitled "Extreme Light: Unlocking the Power of Superfast Lasers" this Friday, 7 PM, at SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC. #YVR ⚛️ 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬 🎢 Ticket info here: events.sfu.ca/event/48309-...

A great tribute to a pioneering researcher who discovered fundamental insights into signaling, gene function and cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...

My son turned 25 today. Feels momentous.

There has never been a better time to study functional and mechanistic biology at the organismal (!) level than now in the age of AlphaFold and CRISPR.

Looking forward to giving a talk at Université de Sherbrooke (Québec) tomorrow hosted by Steve Jean. Will be talking about using Drosophila to understand tumor-host signaling.

Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪