#Behindthepaper stories: @accorsi-alice.bsky.social & @planaria1.bsky.social share how curiosity & passion driven research revealed that apple snails can regenerate full camera type eyes. @the-node.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @stowersinstitute.bsky.social #regeneration #applesnails #devbio

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Phenomenal talk this morning 🤯🔥 #Nightscience

I loved this! Read it if you have time. Read it even if you don’t….

Geneticist Mary-Claire King has had a remarkable career. She changed how we understand hereditary cancer, helped reunite families after Argentina’s dictatorship, and upended conventional wisdom about our evolutionary origins. buff.ly/nwsUeYu

Hey just finished “Automatic Noodle” book by @annaleen.bsky.social and it’s delightful. I feel it’s part of a new sci-fi genre that focus on place and cozy belonging like the books by Becky Chambers. Different, wholesome. Fun read. I can recommend.

a Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) showing off its perfect #WebbedFeet for @alan678.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #Oregon #PNW #Birds #Gulls #Photography

A break from the scary human world was taken and visits to the aquatic life were made for reinforcements ! #Shedd #aquarium #chicago

Morning. Fieldfare and Redwing, Tunnicliffe, 1947.

I have gotten a bit behind at sharing the lab’s latest work - this paper is now published - check it out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... Long story short: insulin is the major determinant of female fat storage, with a relatively minor effect on males.

Recording for Dr. Benjamin White (NIMH) is now available. Recordings featuring previous speakers are also available. The Lucy Cherbas Seminar Series highlight new tools, reagents, and methods supporting research using Drosophila melanogaster. Link here: dgrc.bio.indiana.edu/Videos

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com ), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

Happy to share these gorgeous images of a chicken neural tube with fiery green, orange, and blue microtubules and explanted #NeuralCrest cells with green actin and pink microtubules taken by Camilo Echeverria on this #FluorescenceFriday. #DevBio @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social

This preprint title for the win! "The First of Us: Ophiocordyceps use a novel scramblase-binding peptide to manipulate zombie ants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Science is cool too! Authors use #celegans to identify the targets... #cilia and scramblases

#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025 Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract. #genetics #devbio @flybase.bsky.social

My brain thinking about the new experiment I am trying out next week !

Paper push this #Fall going hard. Congrats to my former postdoc Dr. Gaby on having another 1st author paper accepted this year. Excited for the foundation we are building to understand how the immune system contributes to #PCOS

People doing all the crazy things, meanwhile me feeling like a potato all the time !

One had some time, and the time was well spent at the record store! And #Elvis waved. And waved again for the cameras. And again, and again. #lasttraintomemphis

Best type of Saturday mornings 😍 #griffy #hiking #unwinding

New #miRNA paper from Lai lab!! 🧬🔥 some think this field, despite recent Nobel to Ambros and Ruvkun, doesn't have much surprises left. but, do we EVEN KNOW WHAT a miRNA precursor LOOKS LIKE? we found some conserved miRNA hairpins up to 10x longer than suspected. this is mir-12, just bonkers! 1/n

"Honey, what did Bastian @frommlab.bsky.social and Eric do to the miRNAs?!?" +special shout-out @katsutomookamura.bsky.social for initiating this work in 2011. as always, everything Katsutomo did was way ahead of its time. read about giant miRNA hairpin precursors here! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

CSHL Meetings & Courses mourns the passing of Nobel Laureate and esteemed longtime friend, Dr. David Baltimore. Dr. Baltimore’s extraordinary contributions to science and to our community leave an enduring legacy. He will be deeply missed.

I'm thrilled to share that I have been awarded an NIH/NEI K99 Pathway to Independence Award. I'm deeply grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way, especially my mentor Jessica Treisman for her invaluable mentorship.

Putting on the yellow song on Spotify while setting up crosses to get rid of yellow background for line building 😅

New publication from our lab: Sexually dimorphic and clock gene-specific effects of artificial light at night on Drosophila behavioral rhythms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New publication from our lab, in Science Advances: Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When you wake up to 10 degree celsius and you don't want to turn the heat on

New preprint! How are developmental cycles coordinated across cell types? It turns out that, like Geppetto's cuckoo clocks in the GIF below, individual cell types are each performing their own little crazy routine, but all in sync with each other.

I will be giving a talk in a month in Paris at the 'Gastrulation Reloaded meeting'. About neurons. Mwahahahah 🧪 #DevBio

Just 6 days left to register for the InSDB-ISD 2025 meeting! We’ve got some exciting news to help even more students and postdocs join us: We’re extending full reimbursement of the registration fee to the next 25 student/postdoc members of InSDB! insdb.in/insdb-isd-re...

September's Gulmohar is here! Tune in on Sept 9 to listen to @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social from EMBL Barcelona and Mona Hosny from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social ! 🗓️September 9, Tuesday ⏰12 PM IST Sign up to participate using this link: forms.gle/pFzL8fjVt7jX...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

I can't say enough about how amazing the #peerreview program truly is. If you're an #earlycareer researcher - this is an incredible opportunity. #genetics

Check out the new work from the Calvi lab ! #Drosophila #cellbio #polyploidy @iubiology.bsky.social @briancalvi.bsky.social

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet. Please share #ScienceSavedMe

📅Are you a passionate science communicator with research experience in #devbio or #stemcell biology? Only a couple more days to apply for the Community Manager position at the Node. Deadline: 05 September bit.ly/4m7Fn28

Ahhh! Why do deadlines always come out of nowhere? Sept 10 is around the corner. Dont miss submissions for short oral talks or scholarships @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #Immunometabolism Hope to see you January in Vancouver! keysym.us/KSImmunometab26 #KSImmunometab26 pic.twitter.com/qHIgzJRKz0

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👀Interview with @bsdb.bsky.social Beddington medal winner @rorymaizels.bsky.social We caught up with Rory to discuss his career path, his PhD with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and what he is excited about in #devbio. thenode.biologists.com/an-interview...

Now published: doi.org/10.1002/cne.... Our fan letter to Ward et al., J. Comp. Neuro. 1975 -- the first EM reconstruction of the C. elegans nervous system -- is now out in the same journal 50 years later.

#TwoForTuesday #Anti-Stress #Cuteness for you! Mother Bear protecting her young cub 🐻 #TwosDay #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Bears #BearLove #NatureMoments #Motherhood

Fly friends--join us at #Dros26

prague book tower. yes its a bit of tourist gimmick, but go first thing in morning when line isn't as long. importantly, don't leave immediately after your photo op, have a look around the library, there are some nice design details, esp the staircase winding around the little elevator.

The best thing about having a Monday off is that I get to bug my parents with totally random stuff on their Monday morning (India time) while they are getting ready for work 😂

Just declined to participate in the “biotech, pharma, & curiosity-driven labs” panel at @ascbiology.bsky.social this year because I am not sure I’ll attend (the 1st ASCB meeting I’ll have skipped in 15 years). That said, we’re actively recruiting @arcadiascience.com from this community/skillset…

4th time at the yearly 4th Street festival of arts and crafts ☺️ #bloomingtonartfestival

Check out our new manuscript on biorxiv on the role of MOS in mammalian oocyte meiosis: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... With @schindlerlab.bsky.social @giselacairobaza.bsky.social @muhammad-haseeb.bsky.social

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!