I was on H-1B after my J-1. This new fee is terrible. Forget going home for a family emergency. Forget fieldwork. Forget conferences. Living abroad on a job-tied visa is stressful enough already. I hardly recognize the country that was my home for 9 years.

So excited!!!

Hearing rumor of a 2/3rds reduction in admissions to a graduate program. “The rest are made up by direct admits.” This is an inevitable response to financial pressures caused by unionized salary gains, NIH chaos and overall funding uncertainty.

I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Look I don't know much about the world of undercover informants, but it seems like one requirement would be the ability to shut the fuck up, right? Does our boy Donnie check that box?

I miss the old brand #CDC

This paper is a 'must read' it's a beautifully comprehensive analysis of the human pelvic growth plate, ossification, and musculature. An incredible example of making the most of precious samples.

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey, my fellow biosci PhD program directors... How're we doing out there?

And at the same time, four species of albatross are projected to become extinct in NZ within 5 years because of invasive mammals.

These are some of the quotes from the media surrounding Colossal’s recent moa de-extinction announcement. New Zealand conservationists would rather save existing species from extinction than bring back those that are now gone 1/3.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Yes, so much. This is at the core of my concerns about Colossal.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

We have one of these on deck now, and I'm actually excited to publish it.

The models can develop all they want to but *they can’t go out into the world and collect new information*.

I don't know if you need to hear this, but let me remind you that you can grab a mug and in a few minutes, make a teensy cake, just for yourself. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24103...

I think we have a new celebratory lab prosecco @ceriweber.bsky.social

On behalf of the University of California faculty, and UCSD in particular, thank you for your service friend. But you know you and I will both be back :)

“It comes back to the whole Make America Great thing again. How did we make America great? It was through science.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

An excellent explanation of why Colossal is not only disingenuous but also dangerous.

Reposting every time I see a science news headline about the genetics of macroevolution that makes my eye twitch. Looking at you @nytimes.com

This. And after watching the GOP roll over this week, I no longer have faith in "but they increased funding for science the last time he tried to make cuts."

It must require a nuclear reactor to build up the energy required for female journalists to prepare to simply exist in these spaces.

This is insane and so wrong. This cohort of 2020 postdocs, who are now largely also job search ready in this market(?), keep getting screwed.

Omg this is amazing and giving me so much needed joy right now.

There's nothing quite like the white hot rage of a woman being interrupted and having her expertise dismissed and talked over by men. A thousand suns, maybe.

Won't someone think of the children! @ColossalBio dire bullshit continues.

Yes, so much. This is why I write 'perspectives' rather than reviews.

Just heard from a colleague that the termination of their NIH diversity supplement was buried on page 5 of the non-competing NOA that looks otherwise like a normal NOA. How effed is that...

I once taught a color vision impaired student who was answering questions wrong on assignments, because his roommates were trying to to explain to him what he couldn't see, but they weren't bio majors and so didn't understand what they were looking at. We can do better.

PSA: around 5-8% of the population has a color vision impairment for red/green. Many talks at #2025ICDB still use red-green LUTs on slides that are not accessible to everyone. Changing to more accessible colors is doable and easy. We can do better. #devbio #ICDB2025 #WeTheColorBlind

I'll be presenting my jerboa and mouse tail research at #ICDB2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social this week during the 'Role of Scaling in Development and Evolution' session on Friday. Hope to see you there!!

I’ll believe it when I see ONE grant get restored. Until then, maybe we should all just keep fighting, because this administration does not listen to judicial rulings.

LFGSD

Randomly got drawn into singing Kokomo with 'some old guy' as the train pulled into Santa Barbara, and he said "Thats me! I'm a Beach Boy". I laughed, got of the train, and googled who are the Beach Boys. It was Bruce Johnston.

Colossal Bioscience is a dark look at the future of science in the US as federal funding declines and dependence on philanthropy increases. Incentives to impress the investors of a $10 billion private valuation drive the need for flashy press over quality science.

How weak and afraid must one be to launch such a ridiculous and obvious smear campaign?

Oh hell no. If you're going for Vinny, there are a whole bunch of us you'll have to go through first.

The senators at this appropriations hearing across the board are destroying the proposed NIH budget. The only person who doesn’t seem to be fighting for the future of the NIH..is its own director 😑

🔈 Honored to welcome Mansi Srivastava as an invited speaker at #ICDB2025! Mansi investigates regeneration and stem cell evolution in acoels, tracing the origins of whole-body regeneration across the animal kingdom. 🧫🌍🔁🧪

Jessica Whited @jesslamae.bsky.social will talk a-lotl about axolotl at #ICDB2025. Jessica's group is using salamanders to understand regeneration of missing limbs and how the process works at the molecular level 🦎🧪

Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and Trump didn't call in the National Guard.

Happening today at noon!

you’re laughing? the leopards have resorted to cannibalism and you’re LAUGHING?

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

And yet he's materially no worse off for it.

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away