worms are tiny chemical detectives @wormsense.bsky.social @ #ceneuro26

hey @michaelhendricks.bsky.social wish you were here #ceneuro26 , hannah is crushing it

@ach-ceneuro.bsky.social If FLP-11 release is increased, why is there less sleep? #ceneuro26

increased vulval muscle activity is good, but too much activity is bad, reducing mating efficiency. cool stuff by @kevinemco.bsky.social #ceneuro26

Do you want to support the next generation of C. elegans researchers? We are looking for mentors with C. elegans experience, including postdocs, faculty, and scientists outside academia, to share their knowledge and career advice with early career researchers. Sign up to become a mentor!

getting ready for #EWM26 ceneuroeuro2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

bordeaux vibe

These stunning single-celled organisms can shape-shift & regenerate. Their trumpet-like shape inspired their name: stentor, after the herald in Greek mythology known for his booming voice. 📸: Confocal microscopy by Igor Siwanowicz, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus

new demo equipment has arrived! CSR biotech super-resolution spinning disk!

Christ on a cracker (the last supper, oil on saltine)

Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268

apply to be a postdoc in kenji's lab! he's got great neighbours (me and kota mizumoto)!

being able to bike to the lab is such a blessing 🙏

Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees. One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help. Please record a short video, and share!

attn @gotworms.bsky.social

These dazzling neurons belong to a fruit fly. Confocal microscopy images of them were taken & combined by researchers at our Janelia Research Campus like pieces of a puzzle to build a rough map of the ventral nerve cord, which coordinates walking, flying, & reflex.

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

The May issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/... On the cover, Zhang et al. describe an antibody-based therapy against drug-resistant S. aureus. The antibody conjugate selectively binds to the wall teichoic acid of the bacteria and enriches calcium on the cell envelope go.nature.com/3UaGItg

ayyy new pape from my superworm homie @celjauebel.bsky.social

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

A repressive regulatory cascade shapes temporal patterning of activity-regulated gene expression in a defined sensory neuron type https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.725236v1

The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

This mesmerizing timelapse captures the nonstop motion inside an animal cell. Red/orange streaks are the growing ends of microtubules, tiny “highways” that can rapidly assemble and disassemble to move proteins & other molecules within the cell. 📸: Andy Moore, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus

Hi folks! @bu-biology.bsky.social is hiring two (!!) lecturers in Cell and Molecular Biology. It is a sweet gig in an awesome department. Come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32034

My summer NSERC USRA student suggested this new addition to the family - baRACK obama 🥰

If you want to know what 3′UTRs with long conserved sequence stretches do, check out our BioRxiv preprint doi.org/10.64898/202.... They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.

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 🧪

We are saddened to share the passing of Don Moerman, a valued member of the genetics community and a former editor at #G3Journal. Don, a longtime researcher at the University of British Columbia, was an integral part of the Worm community. He will be deeply missed. Read more: buff.ly/qXY007J

Out in @natmethods.nature.com: More dyes. They work. Quite well. And blink. Pick the one that fits your target, your technique, and your labeling density. With too many collaborators and institutes to list, but anchored at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

abstracts back in the day were crazy work. Ed Hedgecock, 1981 #Celegans meeting at CSHL.

☕Hodgson, Huang, Lang et al. show that TDP-43 limits ribonucleoprotein particle condensation into paraspeckles in a concentration- and polymerization-dependent manner. They also link paraspeckle condensation to stress response and neuroprotection. bit.ly/3QBQmXa

Science is good. We should fund it.

Whole-organism spatial transcriptomics at single-cell resolution in C. elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.09.717568v1

The worm community has lost a true legend with the passing of Don Moerman. Don's impact on C. elegans research is beyond measure. A friend to many of us here in MN, his work has been invaluable, contributing >5,400 strains (VC & DM) to the CGC, 20% of our collection!

It is with great sadness that I'm sharing the news that Dr. Don Moerman passed away this weekend. He was such a legend in the #Celegans and Canadian science community.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-" Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

Download our database of free database of postdoc fellowships. 276 funding opportunities. For entry, we provide eligibility/requirements, amount, deadline, link, description, etc. Download database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Happy #WorldFrogDay!🐸 We apologize to all frogs and toads, for not having nearly enough of these amazing animals on our covers. We will do better.

pretty new to teaching but students love these scratch cards for doing worksheets in class! 10/10 highly recommend!

"[...] we’re worried about what it means for universities and, especially, our early-career colleagues." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In class today, we reread this nice article about scientific community doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... We talked about the ways in which the #C.elegans community helps research move forward and reach other scientists.

I have had a few people ask me who Mark is - it’s Mark Edgley! He used to be the curator of the CGC. Did you know that the CGC was at the University of Missouri before? Take a look at this Research Resources issue from the NIH in 1986. #celegans

😭😭😭😭😭 the worm community is the best. welp, holler at ya girl if you want a Riddle strain not in the CGC 🙏

In our new poll with the Boston Globe of NIH funded scientists in Mass ... - 72% say they have delayed or cancelled projects - 66% reduced research scope - 56% paused experiments or students. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Pretzel raccoon (by Evan Lovett) is still my favorite mural in the neighborhood.

what a treat to have @dougp.bsky.social give a talk today!

teaching is wild y'all