HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

Holy jeez…. Starting this week with 6AM Monday rescheduled study section due to a 40+ day govt shutdown, middling with new NIH common forms that are buggy, and ending the week with “SURPRISE” Friday jury duty text/email from a summons I never received is peak 2025. Like… 2025 is 2025ing to the end.

Grateful for the @diffjournal.bsky.social community in 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted, reviewed, edited, and attended our @intlsocdiff.bsky.social Differentiation Across Scales Virtual Seminars. We welcome new submissions, support no-cost pub options, and encourage preprints. On to 2026!

Congratulations to Raneesh on a successful poster presentation and for representing @sarathomasy.bsky.social’s group and my group so well! We are very proud!

No academic quarter has ever quartered as hard as this quarter has quartered and I have never been more over a quarter than I am today. 🫠 I can’t wait to turn in grades.

Applications for Life Science Editors Foundation JEDI awards are open! Do you have a paper for grant you are working on that could use a little editing help or guidance? Please apply! lifescienceeditors.org/apply/

Win your local ugly Christmas sweater contest (like we did) with a festive #zebrafish jumper! Available in mama and baby, too. Designed by fellow shoal member, Priyanka Oberoi. Full selection here: www.redbubble.com/people/priya... Find more cool gift ideas with the hashtag ➡️ #ZebrafishGear 🧪

Always Lampoon’s Vacation…. Original, euro, and Christmas.

My dog also perches like a cat on the top of couch pillows… ears everywhere, feet fat, just doing it up.

You know what? Looking into this face can lighten any mood. She’s fully ridiculous and adorable. Very interested in food items. 💯

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I’m sad to miss #CellBio2025 this year, but a student I co-mentor with @sarathomasy.bsky.social (Raneesh Ramarapu) will be presenting a paper poster and a digital poster about single-cell developmental trajectories and microtubules in corneal formation! Please check it out! @ascbiology.bsky.social

Just practicing… “No.” “Sorry, no I can’t.” “I have too many obligations at the moment and I can’t participate.” “No, but thank you for considering me.”

Me right now… mad at past me for triple booking my December.

RIP sleep… My schedule and stress for this time of year:

We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩

Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

Holy jeez… I have several students in my class that are so sick they are bedridden right now… please take care and take precautions this holiday season everyone. 😷🦠

This hits really close to home! I am all about being silly and bringing my two sides (serious scientist and ridiculous person) to work. Life is too short and too hard to save the fun for later. ❤️

It’s a great story! Check it out!

Are you a postdoc or assistant professor on the job market? Reminder that our department is hiring! We are a scientifically diverse department looking for a colleague that is excited about science, teaching, and potential collaborations! Please apply by 12/5/25!

Wow! This is so cool! 🤩

Happening at 10AM PT/1PM ET! Hope to see you there!

🚨 Calling all postdocs 🚨 We are soliciting applications to our 8th cohort of Fred Hutch Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholars! Awardees will be invited to present at a symposium celebrating their achievements 🧵 Apply here 👇 👇 👇 apply.interfolio.com/176955 📆 Applications due 2/1/2026

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

Please join us on Friday November 14th for: Differentiation Across Scales, "Enteric neural crest development in Astyanax mexicanus surface fish and cavefish.” Our presenter will be Pavani Ponnimbaduge Perera from Misty Riddle’s lab. It’s free to register! my.isdifferentiation.org/ISD/Events/E...

Ok everyone- this is not a drill…. It’s been a rough day so far but I want you to know that I accidentally dropped my iPhone 16 Pro that was in a basic Otterbox case out of a 10-story window to a roof below- and not only did the security people find it but the phone survived WITHOUT A SCRATCH ON IT.

Good luck to all of the folks submitting NSF GRFP applications today! If you have been able to keep up with their constant changes and get all of your letters submitted, documents written, formatted, and uploaded on time you have already accomplished so much! Good luck to all.

Interested in development? Cave fish? Enteric nervous system? Pretty pictures? Please join us next Friday! We are looking forward to the talk! 🤩

I mean… I just… 🥹❤️😂

I have been blown away by the level of support (both practical and emotional support!) from the #LeadingEdge community. I feel so grateful to be a part of this group. Consider applying!! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

Did I already mention that in addition to being in a highly collaborative and collegial institution- working at @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social has perks like: being a 30 min drive to Napa Valley, 15 mins to Sacramento, 45 mins to Berkeley, 1 hour to SF, & 2-2.5 hours to Lake Tahoe?

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

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Yay! Thanks to all @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social who voted for my pumpkin for “Most Creative.” 🎉🎃

Paid summer research opportunity for undergraduates at MIT. Applicants must be undergraduates at a USA institution. Deadline: Jan 20. Info sessions: 11/6 and 12/10 - mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi... **Please Share**

Had a great time handing out candy but my costume freaked out most of the kids… 😂🎃

Whoever did this last night all over west Davis, I salute you! This is boss level Halloweening. 🫡

Also- I stayed up until midnight (way past my elderly bedtime) to finish this guy and have to share him. Happy Halloween! 🎃

Happy Halloween Bluesky! I have never felt more like the Mad Hatter than I have in 2025… perfect timing for the perfect costume. 🎃

Working @ucdavis.bsky.social means that I routinely meet or speak with people who are doing such groundbreaking research that it blows my mind- and the people are usually so humble and kind. Please check out some of these discoveries! research.ucdavis.edu/uc-davis-sci...

One of the coolest things about being faculty @ucdavis.bsky.social is the graduate group concept! Students apply to be in grad groups that are of interest and faculty can hold membership in several groups to recruit and mentor students with diverse interests! grad.ucdavis.edu/graduate-gro...

I seemed to have injured myself while sleeping and now I’m hobbling around in pain. 😩 #Over40

One of the reasons I love working @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social? The Howl-o-ween Dogstume Contest! I have been honored to both judge this contest and attend. It’s a social and fundraising event supported by the Dean and run by the Canine Medicine Club every Halloween! So awesome!

Day 2 of posting things I love about working @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social and living in Davis. We have so many cool animals around here! Between the wildlife, the campus-owned animals, farm animals, and adorable vet student dogs, walking around on campus is always a treat! 🤩

All of these!

Reposting with something I love about working @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social each day. There is so much cross-university collaboration and such collegial colleagues! Between the med school, the vet school, and college of biological sciences, I work with some amazing people! 🤩

NEW: The Editors-in-Chief of Differentiation, @rogerslabucd.bsky.social, @uribelab.bsky.social, and Loydie Jerome-Majewska, have curated a special collection of papers, “Osteo biology: from differentiation to regeneration.” Explore the collection: https://bit.ly/3JlXEey

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Still loving my hummingbird feeder… it brings a smile to my face every time I see these little amazing creatures.