Collecting nest material. At the Saint Louis zoo. :)

Anyone interested in getting my job? Do not hesitate to apply, it's a pretty good gig

Today!

💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert

This Friday! PS: the QR code isn't working, so find the zoom details at: isrbio.org/event-6324623

A bluetorial on NIH funding and out year commitments: A historical perspective

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Transitions in development – an interview with Misty Riddle. We caught up with Misty from @unevadareno.bsky.social to find out about her path from the vet clinic to the lab bench, her research into cavefish and her transition to becoming a group leader: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

New paper! Maternal age and offspring diet interact to change reproductive timing, with consequences for fitness. #aging #gerosky #evosky besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to try this new rotifer stamp I made on clay! Reference photo is a beautiful microscopy image of the organism by Michael Shribak, Evgeny Ivashkin, and Kristin Gribble @mblscience.bsky.social @kristingribble.bsky.social #ceramics #SciArt #rotifers

This makes me feel less alone about being fully exhausted after teaching! And I enjoy teaching, I like my students, they ask good questions, but I am a shell of myself after teaching. AND the classroom thing! 😭 I miss the classroom I taught in my first year, never got it again, still grieving.

New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️ science.org/doi/10.1126/... @andrewpountain.bsky.social

Saying the quiet part out loud: NIH’s “Amanda Fine said..funding would become less dependent on reviewers rankings of grant proposals. This will ensure consistent, transparent & strategic funding decisions that align with the agency’s mission.. DT’s EO said peer reviews would be ‘advisory’ only.”

Win £200 for your post on the Node! Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing for a while? Post your piece by 30 September. One winner will be randomly selected for a prize of £200 and an interview with the Node. Find out more: thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri...

If you want to feel like you know nothing about biology, read this paper. 😭 I want to get it. But brain not cooperating.

Hi #WormWednesday, I need your help with terminology. What are these two structures highlighted in the image called. This is Tomopteris.

❗ATTENTION SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, WRITERS❗ Cohosted by me, Data Bloom LLC, & the UNL NoCoast SciComm Symposium — it’s the Science Remix Game Jam! 🧪🎮 No game dev experience needed! We’ll match scientists + devs into teams to make science games. More info below Signup here: 🔗 itch.io/jam/science-...

#WormWednesday so many cool worms here!

🚨ISRB Webinar Alert - Zone 3: The Americas📷 Join us on September 19th at 12pm US East Coast Time. Featuring Melanie Worley and Aiguo Tian.

Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)🦎 can regrow limbs, tail, spinal cord, heart, and even parts of its brain. Axolotls are champions of regeneration and also shed light on limb patterning, wound healing, and developmental plasticity. Image from Prayag Murawala #ModelMonday #DevBio

An epic thread.

Diatom art in progress :) #diatoms #handbuilt #ceramics #pottery #SciArt

Also, I loved that our undergrad who was leading the discussion, and who is completely new to single cell had this discussion question for us to chime in: "Are a set of markers enough to decide we have a single cell type? What more evidence would we need to be convinced?" We love our undergrads 💕💕💕💕

During lab journal this Friday, we came up with this motto and promised to remind it to ourselves whenever we are using and interpreting single cell RNAseq datasets (either ours or others') #singlecellRNAseq #scRNAseq

Another post for #InverteFest The Palo Verde Beetle, one of my favorite local invertebrates. They emerge during the monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert and freak people out due to their size and clumsy flying style. They're harmless and I love them. #beetle #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pottery

zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1376... - Amazing Annelid Key! You can download it as an interactive software. #WormWednesday

It is BEAUTIFUL, and I am in it with a Nereid! :) #WormWednesday

With a related Insight piece written by Alex Winsor and Paul Katz "Connectomes: The wiring diagram of an entire animal" https://elifesciences.org/articles/108573 @eLife

At long last, the version of record of our paper on the #platynereis #connectome "Whole-body connectome of a segmented annelid larva" is out. Explore the rich online presentation with all the videos, figures and source data here: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.97964 @eLife @biology […]

🚨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

It's dangerous to go alone....so what invertebrate are you taking with you? #Invertefest This guy

Open rank faculty search in my department. Please re-post!

Assistant Professor position open in my department. Please re-post!

Is anyone in continental Europe looking for a lab manager? I have a fabulous candidate - let me know and please RT!

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Remember to submit a comment by Sept 15 on the proposed NIH policy options for limiting publication costs on grants

Weird times, but you know what will NEVER change about this job for me, irrespective of whether there is funding or not? Seeing trainees grow into scientists! And you don't need expensive equipment, big sequencing projects for that. Just a few curious undergrads, a microscope, & a model organism.

Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6

Our postdoc Ranny won one of the best postdoc talk awards at the ISRB meeting in Wisconsin! We are so proud of you Ranny!

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

Worms love flies! Please consider donating to FlyBase. Model organisms unite! #celegans

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

now accepting species suggestions/requests for the #InverteFest art book cover. the more obscure the better. past covers are near the bottom of this page here www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work. I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...! www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

10 days left to apply for SDB #SciComm Internship. Deadline: August 15. www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...

Snails with human-like eyes?! Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq

PSA: Missouri is beautiful! :) From Shaw Nature Reserve. We saw so many different bugs and butterflies including hummingbird moths! And a few indigo buntings and probably a yellow-rumped warbler. ❤️ Nothing like a nature hike that makes me feel so alive and connected to this beautiful planet.

Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates rdcu.be/ezw0t

Majestic...

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.