Billy Joel plus this cozy corner were the keys to unlock my productivity this morning. Where’s your favorite spot to work?

This #MicroscopyMonday is a developing Apple Snail embryo. On the left is the shell, the middle the body & the foot at the bottom. On the right the head with the eye (green circle) & the tentacle bud. (@planaria1.bsky.social lab) #ResearchSky #SciSky

From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪 plos.io/4edGlY4

Big #octocoralFriday news! featuring colleagues from @floridamuseum.bsky.social @corallab.bsky.social @miselab.bsky.social www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/worl...

On today’s episode of “Things I would like to put in a cryo-electron microscope”… 👀🧪🔬

Many proteins “multitask”, simultaneously performing multiple functions within cells. But how exactly do they do this? In a new paper, Dr. Sumeda Nandadasa and his team peer into the secret life of TMEM67, an important protein that regulates both cilia formation and Wnt signaling. 🧪 #cilia

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High-resolution optical imaging of the meninges within the brain of an adult zebrafish. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social & #WeinsteinLab. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

For #FluorescenceFriday, a GFP reporter shows nuclei (fire) nestled between lots of lipid droplets in this set of adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology

#CellMigration 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨! Excited to share this video on #FluorescenceFriday 🌈 Today as a GIF to circumvent video compression 😅! Migratory Nascent Myotubes on #Drosophila Testes. Marker: Lifeact-eGFP. Scope: 980 Airyscan (@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social) #cellbio #sciart #devbio #science #microscopy

You mean more than 6 times back to back in a single day because your parents weren’t home and you had nothing better to do… right?

Just updated the #SciComm community directory on my website! www.virginiaschutte.com/scicomm-comm... I added a "meet IRL" section that includes @capscicomm.org and 5 groups for folks around England, those lucky ducks Want me to add a place you hang out? LMK who to get sharing permission from!

What an incredibly good idea! At UNC alone PhD students come from hundreds of hometowns across the nation. If you're a scientist help your home community see the value of your work & the importance of supporting the next generation of scientists by bring it home to them. Happy to share an example RT

Please join us next Monday for this webinar where @ecbrooks96.bsky.social will be talking about a very cool story (with gorgeous images) about the role of cilia in craniofacial development! @isdb.bsky.social @diffjournal.bsky.social

🧪TOMORROW 15:00 BST 22/04/2025🧪: gather round for the latest in #cilia & #centrosome research including curious #kinases, co-translational assembly, cilia in #meiosis & spermatogenesis, AND complexes controlling ciliary content from the field's rising talent! Free & open to all... just register!

Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!

A week until our 51st @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium: 15/04/2025 15:00-17:15 BST. Still not registered for the series- join us here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... Free and open to all! /1

Highly recommend looking through these #HandsOff Protest photos for a shot of energy. Not just the places you'd expect, either!

Hundreds of protesters in Port Huron MI. We could see folks gathering across the river in Canada, and some even came to cheer us on from their boats! #handsoff #standupforscience

Port Huron MI showed up! #Handsoff

HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY! *Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together. 🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨 In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... #standupforscience #handsoff

These grant terminations are targeting the best & brightest and the literal future of our profession. We should all be outraged. Every grant was earned & stood up to intense review. They deserve to continue their work. They matter. Their science matters. We have to stand up against these attacks

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Rosalind Franklin (to father)

Bombastic side eye, brought to you by St. Patty’s Day.

Stop collaborate and listen! 😀Yesterday was a great day for science! Thank you @standupforscience.bsky.social !The real work begins now. People are listening! We need to challenge misunderstandings and show that investment in science is crucial for our health for our economy and for our future!

Scientists out here with their thermo fisher box signs 😂🥰

Join us on Friday, March 7th at Stand Up for Science in Boston, D.C., or find your nearest city: buff.ly/vxGuGhX To attend Boston's event, register (for free) here: buff.ly/LQHZOra #scienceisforeveryone #standupforscience2025

On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone. Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️

Always relaxing to do a little arts and crafts over the weekend. standupforscience2025.org

I work in amazing place: UNC-Chapel Hill Biology. Our faculty of ~50 includes folks engaged in both basic science & pedagogical research. We have an opening for a new Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor to join us in July 2025-happy to answer questions RT unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

She’s been sorted into… Griffindog!

500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE! We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist SkypeAScientist.com

If you want to join our starter pack please do comment below - we are going to start a third one soon And if you asked to be in in the past but now feel you are at risk for being in them, do DM us and we will remove you. #StaySafeStayStrong go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ

20+ hours of focused writing time x 9 junior faculty members + 5 iCAP staff = 1 very productive week. @marymunson4.bsky.social

Yesterday’s hike break! Fresh air and movement are soooo important when writing all day for a week.

Writing retreat warriors. 💪

Taco Tuesday (lunch) followed by Thai food Tuesday (dinner) has made for some very full and happy writing retreat participants!

So excited to be kicking off the iCAP Winter Writing Retreat! Anyone else geek out over writing/school supplies the way that I do?

My puppy turned 1 this weekend! Hope this picture brings you even a fraction of the joy it brings me 😂🥳🥰

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Reminder that I made a starter pack of folks who post (at least sometimes!) about the practice and history of scientific writing - advice, context, etc. If you know someone who does that, and I've missed them, let me know! go.bsky.app/TwZVnjU

This will be a wonderful conference - come discuss the origin of metazoans and enjoy fruits de mer with us in Roscoff!

If you came to my talk today at #SICB2025 (or didn’t!) and want to get a copy of the science communication logistics worksheet, check it out at bit.ly/heySICB

One last question for 2024! Was Seuss's Grinch inspired by a larval bryozoan? Barrois 1877 (plate 16, fig. 8, colorized).

The big 4 of grant writing: 1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise 2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it 3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic 4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question

Change your illumination a bit and everything looks new! Radiolarians illuminated from the side rather than using transmitted light. I think this is mimicking a type of reflected light microscopy since there is no light passing directly through the specimens. #protistsonsky #protistaday