Now out: The new ENCODE registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements (🐭/👶) Major consortium effort, led by @moorejille.bsky.social - stay tuned for her "meme-torial" www.nature.com/articles/s41... @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov

Hivemind: has anyone had a response from #NCBI about submissions started prior to the government shutdown?

As you celebrate the holidays, here are 10 things to know about the dramatic changes to how NSF does business. This story looks at merit review. The second part will explain the significance of NSF's new structure. www.science.org/content/arti...

Not that long ago, in vivo mouse enhancer design was a dream. Today, it's a reality! Using transfer deep learning to design de novo synthetic embryonic enhancers active in the heart, limb, and CNS. Great collab with @alex-stark.bsky.social lab! @ucibiosci.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

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

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?! Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️ [Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ] (1/n)

As Editor’s Choice winner of the MBL Embryology course image competition, Arthur Boutillon’s image (‘Embryonic eye of Anole lizard’) features on this cover of Development. Learn more about Arthur and his work in the interview now available on the Node ⬇️👀 thenode.biologists.com/interview-wi...

To @dbmenke.bsky.social and other lizard colleagues, look what you have done. (Anolis pictures from PR.)

One of the reasons I love this piece is that, in clearly showing why the administration’s attacks on medical research funding are so devastating, it also makes one of the clearest cases for why that funding has always mattered. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Vaccine scientists and medical leaders have announced they are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government. scim.ag/3ES9r1Q

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: [email protected] and [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎 🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬 Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful). Sign up here: forms.gle/TTmTwAMUqzWJ...

Anole Annals is now on bluesky! Follow us (and check out our blog anoleannals.org) for all anole research, news, and more!

Has anyone had success with any of the Cas9 fusions to promote HDR efficiency?

I want to share a #datahound analysis I have been working on for some time with this newly forming community. The NIH Modular Cap: A Once-Sensible Policy Destroyed by Active Inaction 1/n

Welcome to our Bluesky account. With so many of our community members now present on Bluesky, we felt it was the right time to join. We will use this account to bring you news from the Company, our journals and our community sites.

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Here is a link to my developmental biology starter pack. Please add and follow. go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn

Hang in there! #Herpetology

Hard to beat baby knight anoles (Anolis equestris) - they'll lose these white stripes down their body as they grow into adults 🦎🦎🦎

Please share broadly! We (Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto) are looking for a new faculty member! Deadline Dec 19. Those working on model organisms and using genomics, computational and systems approaches are strongly encouraged to apply! Reach out w/ Qs! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Great list! I hope everyone on it shares with their colleagues the fact that there are THREE Asst Professor openings in Plant Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill this year, two in Plant Molecular Biology viewed broadly & one in Plant Evolution-review will begin soon www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002229/...

The ability of the animal body to self-assemble based on the information encoded in our genomes is one of the most remarkable miracles of the living world. We now take for granted the idea that shared cellular machinery mediates this and read textbooks laying things out in molecular detail. 1/n 🧪

This short graphic novel about Fish Sex Determination from Sophia Breslin, John Postlethwait, & Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social is AMAZING! blogs.uoregon.edu/fishsexdeter... 🧪🐠🧬

I’m excited for the upcoming publication of our paper summarizing the lessons learned from seven years of specimen digitization. The oVert project has produced tens of thousands of datasets and is changing the way people view and use collections.

Duke Flags Lowered: Philip Benfey, Plant Biologist Who Studied Roots as a Window to Development, Dies today.duke.edu/2023/10/duke... #PlantScience

Excited to share that I will be starting my lab as faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in July 2024! We will seek a quantitative understanding of gene expression control in development and resulting “tipping points” in disease. Please reach out if interested!

Hey folks, there is a new call for POs and SROs! Closes Sept. 27: usajobs.gov/job/747857200 Give it a shot! FWIW, I’m really happy as a SRO and I’m glad I made the switch!