Really interesting science-art collaboration story that speaks to something I think a lot of biodesigners are looking for: deeper connections with other organisms as a way to connect more deeply with other people. nautil.us/a-living-gow...

LITERALLY Really devastating cuts being proposed wwww.septa.org/wp-content/u...

Philly was recently named the “Best City for Street Art.” And if you’re interested in learning more about this dynamic world, I’d love to invite you to check out my podcast with WHYY called, Art Outside!

1/6 New sticker from local scientist and artist, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, spotted in Philly. I texted Sarah to learn more: “Shrimp and Krill are these tiny little animals that you don’t think of as being particularly powerful in the oceans, but in the huge schools they’re incredibly important.”

I wish all Americans would watch this, in particular Trump/Musk supporters who might consider this without their pre-existing biases that blind them. This is framed so well. This is how I would be convincing people that they are going to end up funding this huge scam where they are the losers.

Every new announcement about some update to an AI image generator makes me seethe. People with the audacity to say OpenAI is “making art accessible” so gravely misunderstand what art and the purpose of art is in our society. Not to mention the energy, the water, or the theft.

The state of my fridge has reached a new lowest point at the end of this grocery cycle. It’s just a jar of olives, eggs, and about 6 things of pickles/pickle juice. And some really old kimchi 😂

I usually stay around my own neighborhood, so when I venture down to south Philly I get the treat of seeing a different set of street art. This one is by Sean Lugo, whose signature is animal heads on people’s bodies. His stuff is SO good. Love this cat.

BUGS ARE SO COOL!! “The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each unknowingly leaves antibiotic microorganisms secreted from its feet” grist.org/food-and-agr...

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I love the South Street Art Mart!

I've received several inquiries as to why I don't paint many butterflies. This is why. There are massive multitudes of more interesting and ecologically vital arthropods out there who are underrepresented in our societal advocacy. I want to help remedy that through art. #bugsky 🐝🕷️🐡🦋🪲🌱

This is one of my favorite kinds of stories in that it surprised me! These activists are challenging the notion that “mine sites are considered ideal locations for prisons or a dumping ground for waste, rather than places of ecological value.” grist.org/justice/biso...

Sad news for my Philly friends. share.inquirer.com/z6Xct9

I am on the bus, minding my business when the man in front of me begins frantically using 3 phones at once. THREE! What unspeakable force drove him to such madness??? And what could he possibly need to be doing like that???

Science news, get your science news here! I know a lot is happening right now, but people are still doing excellent research in the field of #RegenerativeMedicine, work that supports people of all kinds. Some of our field’s recent highlights ⬇️ 🧠 🦴🫀 fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/the-tissue...

UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.

Really excited to share the scientific research we do in the Gullbrand Lab at #ORS2025. At a time when the scientific priorities, structure, and funding in the US are being reassessed, it’s very grounding to be surrounded by talented scientists working to solve real problems for real people.

a couple of postcards I whipped up last night using one of the books I picked up yesterday.

The Mauck Lab is well represented at #ORS2025. We work on such a wide variety of problems, that hopefully there’s a little bit of something for everyone! Presenters on Bluesky: @emsharp.bsky.social @meghankup.bsky.social

It's extremely disappointing to see BME colleagues being silent about the imminent danger that the new administration poses to the trans community. Though one can hardly be surprised when the field has been platforming those who hold explicitly transphobic views.

Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it. It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.

The Gullbrand Lab is talking science at #ORS2025 this week! Check out our presentations if you’re in Phoenix and interested in intervertebral disc degeneration, cell therapies, and more! @sgullbrand.bsky.social @emsharp.bsky.social @orssociety.bsky.social

Would you? Could you? RT for my 29th bday 🙂‍↕️🎂 nothing else is happening in this country

Inject science into your Valentines Day with LOVE BUGS! Each card has a fact about the animal AND something you can do to help the animal. They come in packs of 20 😎 Art by Michele Scott! Supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social! Get 'em here 👇 squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/love...

My love of body horror comes from the Zoobooks page where live, moving animals were gradually stripped of their flesh

To all the books I read in 2024, thanks for the great times. Would definitely recommend almost all these books, but if I could only pick three, I’d tell everyone they must read A Psalm for the Wild Built, A Certain Hunger, and Crying in H Mart.

Breathing polluted air increases the risk of osteoporosis. #Science Open Access www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Twas the night before the night before Christmas

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

I’ve loved working on this project with everyone on our incredible spine team! If you are interested in large-scale disc tissue engineering, you know what to do 👀 ⬇️

Snail mucus?? I didn’t know we were farming that

Cover for Hexagon Issue No.19 Speculative Fiction Magazine. Cover at based on L.M. Guay's short story. Thanks so very much to @hexagonmagazine J.W. Stebner for the opportunity to contribute to this wonderful magazine. Great contributors this issue, check It out here: hexagonmagazine.ca

You're telling me the next generation of medical therapies will be made INSIDE fruit flies? But how? And why? fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/fruit-flie...

Just made the forms for Skype a Scientist enrollment for 2025. Wanna get added to our scientist volunteer database? Fill out this form! forms.gle/6c8F9uVEDzvB...

‘I’m used to people thinking I’m lying’: are Scotland’s sea eagles killing hundreds of lambs?

ANNOUNCEMENT OLOGIES HAS A STARTER PACK go.bsky.app/NCwaEuf

Lovely @sequencermag.bsky.social article by @maxlevy.bsky.social I finally got around to reading! Short but wonderful read. Feels good to clean out my safari tabs today www.sequencermag.com/the-drugs-of...

Interested in #CRISPR-edited stem cells for large-scale #TissueEngineering (among other applications)?!?!? Our lab’s collaboration with @robbybowles.bsky.social is out now! You’ll have to read on to learn more ⬇️ 🧬 ✂️ 🧫 ✨ @sgullbrand.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Let's see if we can make @bsky.app the home of the spine research community go.bsky.app/DBKUvJq

Seeing lots of folks navigating over here in last few days (welcome!). Aggregating folks in the biomaterials & tissue eng. (+ adjacent) spaces that I see. Apologies if replicative. Let me know of others to add to this curated list (self-nom too!). Here's to a new community! 🧪 go.bsky.app/AeG8FWr

To everyone I just ravenously followed as I transition from the other place, I promise I’ll make a follow back worth your while. Simultaneously trying to be more serious and more silly here. Here’s me in lab and me in my homemade Halloween little brown bat suit as a first taste.

Can we #TissueEngineer the 21st century? I asked James Henstock how we might use #mechanobiology to break from the conventions of biomanufacturing. He is one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met. Check it out ⬇️ (And yes, those swirls are Piezo1 😁) fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/the-future...

Did you know 820,000 animals are used in U.S. research each year. And 128 million pigs are sacrificed as part of our food system. In my latest article, I talk to Kyra Smith and Dr. John Yuen Jr. about how they’re using bioreactors to reduce those numbers. fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/can-biorea...

“Excuse me, do you have the time?” “Let me ask my slime mold. They say it’s 7:30.” You read that right. Slime mold. Embedded into a smartwatch that can tell you the time and your heart rate—but only if you take care of it. fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/care-is-an...

I finally got my bluesky invite code! And just in time to tell all you strangers I am writing something new! If you are interested in how tissue engineering is shaping the 21st century from the mouth of a working tissue engineer, check out Fleshy Futures ⬇️ fleshyfutures.substack.com/p/reimaginin...