When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Our new tool for automating the quantification of synapses (or any other fluorescent puncta) in C. elegans is published- please try it out!! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

And, check out this News & Views on both pieces www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

today in i’m not crying, you’re crying, found some projection slides on unc-52 splicing, old school scicomm right here. so simple. so perfect. #celegans

Single cell whole genome and transcriptome sequencing links somatic mutations to cell identity and ancestry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685157v1

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right? Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

legit obsessed with this kumon pumpkin outside the LSC right now

'Here we find that the sense of touch interacts with nutritional state to modulate lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Worms subjected to dietary restriction are shorter-lived when they perceive tactile stimuli that mimic bacterial food and/or protective soil.' www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

had such a lovely day today at SFU. thank you so much @estherverheyen.bsky.social and @lisaj456.bsky.social for hosting me 💫, SFU rules. excellent science, bright trainees, and good vibes.

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

got to hangout with don today and look what he gifted us…an original print of genetics that had The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans by Brenner 😭 #celegans 🧪

Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :) www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

1993 gilson pipettes!!! 😭😭😭😭

I am ready for the apocalypse, got my sequence of pPD95.75 and others right here #celegans

if anyone wants a billion cardboard freezer boxes, hmu.

today in I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying, original reprints from the CGC (1976, 1977) #celegans

got the keys to my office today - I’m not crying you’re crying

The chromatin remodeller CHD4 controls both nucleosome integrity and transcription factor binding to promote activity of active regulatory elements and to prevent activation of silent enhancers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.672645v1

our department @zoology.ubc.ca has a tenure-track faculty position opening at the level of Assistant Professor of Teaching in the educational stream with a focus on Neuroscience! please share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30389

New paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

heck yeah ethan!

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

thank you so much @celjauebel.bsky.social for the warm send off poster, been a pleasure to organize the Stanford Superworm seminar series. also #celegans has 300 neurons, don’t fight me

Important new piece by Indigenous scholars—including ecologists @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social and @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social (who is here at #ESA2025 this week)—who set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

nice new pape out on autism-associated genes and experience-dependent neuron remodeling! congrats @michaelphart1.bsky.social and lab squad! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40795403/

found my old FACS gating notes 😭; worm flow back in 2016 was so hard (still is hard)

Studying subjects that motivate you to develop as a person is going to make you much more generally competent, self-efficacious, and ultimately employable than any checklist of learning outcomes or button-pushing skills from undergrad syllabi. And happier. And better at life.

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

a new lab photo, finally. last lab meeting ever for me in the shen lab!

A longtime colleague and friend is shutting down her research program; there is no hope. I’m crushed on her behalf, just no words to do this justice. She started a gofundme to finish the last study so their findings can be published - please consider donating gofund.me/8bf0f53f

So let me get this straight. In the last *week* a praying mantis jumped on me, a possum made a house out of my trash can, and I encountered a mouse eating an ice cream cone. I feel like the Disney Princess of Philly Trash Girls 🥹

Well, none of us may ever get funded again but in the meantime, here's some new science! Led by recent PhD Anjali Pandey w/ex-UG Maya Katz. Here we identify an asymmetric molecular mechanism that underlies symmetric context-dependent sensory plasticity in the AWC olfactory neuron pair in C. elegans

my baymate xing gave me the wildest worm farewell gift, made in biorender and printed on a bag

My fabulous colleague (and ex-postdoc) @inechipurenko.bsky.social and I (mostly Inna!) wrote a review extolling the many virtues of C. elegans for the study of cilia biology. A really interactive and collaborative community of people working in this field too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

cellular jazz hands

In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.

A beautifully written piece on a terrible time www.science.org/content/arti...

How do chromatin remodelers use #IDRs to find TF binding partners? In our new Molecular Cell paper, we show that β-catenin is an adaptor that links SWI/SNF (cBAF) subunit ARID1A with binding partners via IDR-domain interactions. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

A study in Scientific Reports suggests that the way dogs engage with TV may depend on their personalities. Excitable dogs were more likely to follow on-screen objects while fearful or anxious dogs were more likely to respond to stimuli such as cars or a doorbell. go.nature.com/4eQKDVy 🧪

This thread is incredible.

As requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or related fields) who are recruiting PHD STUDENTS! If you would like to be added, feel free to ask! go.bsky.app/Bf4DRFm

submitted my NSERC NOI! with all the genetic screens I am proposing...I can't wait to isolate my first lfg alleles 🤣

Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.

new preep by the templeman lab at uvic!

Come join us in Vancouver! Exciting opportunity for a more senior investigator researching new regenerative medicine approaches for Type 1 diabetes. $8M in funding for successful candidate research.ubc.ca/media/file/j...

portland rules