Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

👀 Coming soon! Cabinets of Curiosities: One Scientist's Specimens - My first solo ceramics show as a part of a new series curated by Kasper Lorene Haase at the Intersect Arts Center. Stay tuned for details :) www.intersectstl.org #SciArt

Registration and Abstract Submissions for the 15th International Polychaete Conference is now open!! #IPC15 polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026 #IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

The multi-year NIH funding of grants tagged to 2025 allows Russell Vought to reduce the number of grants funded this year because he insists that a 5 years of $$$ has to be committed. This is bad. We could see a cut in actual grants by 1/3 or more. Spread the word. www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/n...

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

I am in love with Veronica 😍

House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now. - $400M increase - Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels. - No line item for BRAIN Initiative text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

The appropriations bill that includes NIH is being finalized. The Senate bill includes a bipartisan amendment from Senators Capito (WV) and Baldwin (WI) limiting multi-year funding of grants. The House version does not and OMB has issued a veto threat if the House includes such language. 1/3

For the future #WormWednesday

"Science is doing okay..." according to NYT, choosing to highlight that unfortunate quote from somebody from AAAS. We beg to differ. Just look at some of those in: www.trumpactiontracker.info h/t @chrischirp.bsky.social

Today!

We’re hiring! @jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community! Details below👇

I highly recommend @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social - she transcribed the diary of Joseph Bell for me while I was writing SLEUTH-HOUND. I think she's the only person in the world who can read his atrocious handwriting! She's a brilliant researcher, and she just passed her viva (congrats, Dr. So!)

It’s finally out!! Congrats @vivijou.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#WormWednesday 🪱😎🪱😎🪱 😎🪱 #EvoDevo #DevBio @clarkuniversity.bsky.social

🚨 Join us this Friday for an exciting webinar on retina regeneration! Featuring Alice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social of UC Davis and Jeff Mumm @jsmumm.bsky.social of Johns Hopkins. isrbio.org/event-6502506

And these knitted objects for #sicb2026, tagged and ready for the @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction. Come bid on things Monday night!

Great post to start the new year, the first hours of a new life :-) Also tagging @mofrawe.bsky.social here, her handle is a tad difficult to find, but worth to watch and follow ;-)

We all should remember that by publishing in a journal, we financially support their existence, and intellectually support their values and approach to publishing. Publish in journals that give back to your discipline, that give back to science. Such as Development and Developmental Biology

“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.” From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

I'm so sad I can't go 🥹 Make sure to check out the auction! My plates just made it to Portland according to USPS :)

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

I am beyond excited to announce that the Bisson Lab has a new home!!! Starting January 2026, I will join the Biology Department at Indiana University Bloomington as Associate Professor with tenure. I am actively recruiting scientists across all levels. More in our website: bissonlab.com/join [1/4]

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. (Turkish band Nekropsi, instrumental album, highly recommend)

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

December 2025 #InverteFest book! (You may find my ceramics somewhere in there as well). 🥰

A bit late but a paper from our lab has been published! Human fingertip regeneration is a fact, it happens in children and adults (not only in children as it has been long believed). We describe here the regenerative phases and analyse the proteome of wound exudates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas📷 Join us on December 19th at 12pm US East Coast Time featuring Ahmed Mahmoud from @sbpdiscovery.bsky.social and Juan Manuel González Rosa from @bostoncollege.bsky.social on #HeartRegeneration🫀 Find all details at isrbio.org/event-6479231

If you're going to #SICB Portland 2026, be sure to stop by and purchase see the fantastic #art of @noahwithfish.bsky.social Long time SICBer and @sicbjournals.bsky.social co author) Noah is our featured SICB Journals booth #artist !🙌 See Noah's site noahbressman.wixsite.com/noah and stop by.

From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical animation, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to pin to your skyline. And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳

🚨Last day to apply‼️‼️

Are you going to SICB in Jan2026? I can't but I'll be there in spirit with these plates I am donating for the Division of Invertebrate Zoology Libbie Hyman Auction. Show up and support student travel funds by bidding for them! Featuring #membracids #acoels #cnidarians #rotifers @sicb.bsky.social

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper from our lab and @friedrich-group.bsky.social !! Insights into morphogen gradient scaling to regenerate a limb at the appropriate size. #axolotl, #limbregeneration

"Having this experience … allowed me to explore my interests, goals, & work towards what I want to do in the future.” — Ariana Rodriguez, Summer Undergraduate Research Program alum 🧪 Rising junior or senior? Apply by Dec. 22 — no lab experience required! bit.ly/CechFellows

#Cellbio2025, #hemesky, #medsky, #ASH2025, #academicsky: Add the SciArt Feed 🐡 to your skyline, and you’ll see: 🎨 Hundreds of artists 🧪 Science-focused 🥳 No NFTs or gen AI ✨ Inspiration every day 🧡 Pin & Like here:

***Important*** BIO will host a Virtual Office Hour (VOH) on Thurs, Dec 18th, 2025, 1 - 2 pm ET. In this VOH, we’ll be joined by leadership to outline updates to NSF’s review process & share news relevant to all areas of research funded by BIO. Register here: nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...

Drosophila colleagues--Please submit nominations for the Larry Sandler Award. which recognizes excellent recent graduates who have completed a PhD in Drosophila research. Details are below and at this link: genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2...

2025? Pretty bad for US science. That just motivated us more. In 2025 we reached people on the street, at the bar, in the classroom, at the rec center, in the park, & more How much we accomplish next year is only limited by how much we can afford. Support our org at givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

Looking for another 25-35 responses from PCOS patients to give this student at least 50 to analyze in their honors research. We've had no luck with physician/provider responses, it may be too tough out there in 2025, but the patient responses are interesting. #MedSky

All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Oooooh perhaps my next pottery project?!

New platter with all kinds of inverts! #sciart #ceramics #handbuilding #pottery #larvae #annelids #seaurchin #octopus #embryo #cnidarians #nematostella #veliger #snail #ascidians #nudibranchs

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.