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.

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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

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***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.

This is also me when I see AI generated images in talks. I can't help it.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Support artists, buy your holiday gifts from people who bring so much joy to our lives.

I am grateful for an important ability I am still developing with so much support from wise and experienced people over the years: Having tough conversations, such as giving an employee tough feedback, or getting into a difficult topic with a supervisor, or letting somebody know they were hurtful.

🚨Deadline approaching!!🚨 Don't miss your chance to apply for #StowersGrad #PhD program by 12/1⬇️

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Emails that don't pass my fool proof (enough) sanity test don't get an answer. It's nearly always exactly the AI written ones bsky.app/profile/maxf...

This post also has really good advice: contemplativemammoth.com/2013/04/08/s...

A thread 🧵 of suggestions: 1. Show you've done your homework. Too many people will send emails about how they are super excited about protein synthesis in yeast to me, a crustacean researcher. I don't do yeast. I can't help you. 1/

So much this! 😂 My research "truly resonates" with like, I don't know, 5-10 people on the world. There is no way an undergrad gets any of what we do specifically. It makes me laugh every time I receive this kind of email.

I would prefer brief, sincere, and open-ended to word salad b.s. So, "Your research on X is really interesting to me. How can I learn more? What could a student do next?" is 10,000x better than word salad.

Be authentic. 1/Articulated, coherent explanation of why you're interested in that lab's particular focus: extra points. This is rare. 2/Statement that you're just interested in the general area: no extra points but plenty get hired with just this. 3/Word salad that looks like BS: negative points

Before LLMs we still got many copy-paste materials! My favorite was a CV that started "My squid-like head is a masterful problem solver and I hope that I can bring world domination to your organization." If you google the first phrase you can find dozens! They unwittingly copied a joke C'thulhu CV.

Students applying for grad school, or reaching out to professors. I have an important piece of advice for you: STOP DOING THIS 👇 (a thread) #STEM #PhD #gradschool #academictips

Drawing together findings from several projects over many years, we make a case that neural cell types in the Clytia larva have two embryological origins: i-cells and ectodermal. bioRxiv 2025.11.17.688882; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our paper on the role of neurons in Nematostella head regeneration is now out at @currentbiology.bsky.social Big thank you to all collaborators, it was a pleasure! Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪 OCEAN STRIDERS!!

Do we still do starter packs on here? I’d love it if you’d share this post, and let me know which ones I’m missing! go.bsky.app/MRgGsPy

Creatives from any industry more than welcome to submit auction lots - whether it's a half hour chat about breaking into your industry, a piece of art, a poem, a curated booklist by a librarian, say! Sign up and more info here! #Creatives4Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan www.sudancoup.com/auction

#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries. Find more info, download past art book, and submit here: invertefest.com/#artbook

🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas📷 Join us on November 14th at 12pm US East Coast Time on #LiverRegeneration featuring Nick Baker from the Kalsotra Lab and Soumita Ghosh from the Mamatha Bhat Lab @uhnresearch.ca

This article seems to sum up the Franklin, Wilkins, Watson, Crick story pretty well. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE!!! #worms youtu.be/L7sUusPNj5M?...

Choose Development! An amazing program for undergrads to do research in the summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Do...

Gonna leave this great video about Rosalind Franklin here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIP0...

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...