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Hugh congrats to @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComm Intern Andrew Montequin on his selection as a @aaas.org Mass Media and Science Fellow! www.aaas.org/page/current...

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So incredibly happy that Ray Keller was elected to the AAAS! He's a pioneer of the cell biology of morphogenesis and of embryo mechanics, and a hero of mine. So grateful for his outstanding work. Even more grateful that he always took me seriously congrats Ray!!! www.amacad.org/new-members-...

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Hello fellow froggers! Just over a week until the deadline for the Nikon Small World microscopy competition. Submit your images and show off the power of Xenopus! enter.nikonsmallworld.com #science #devbio #nikon #microscopy #xenopus #frogs

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This cat in the zoom meeting i'm in is AWESOME. Totally making my day. That is all.

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About one week until this seminar - register today! If you want a sneak peek of what I'll be talking about, you can find the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Hell yes.

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This is awesome.

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Hey, look! I’m ‘writing.’

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Congrats the 2025 crop of Guggenheim Fellows! www.gf.org/stories/anno...

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Awesome.

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A new 2D gene expression map of the mouse brain during early development.

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We scorn the dilettante and dismiss the amateur, but these are their origins: dilettante from the Italian "dilettare" which means to take delight and amateur from the Latin "amator" which means lover.

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Jon Lorsch, Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has apparently been named Acting Deputy Director for Extramural Research at NIH (Mike Lauer's position). Today was his first day...

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Stoked for the new paper out from @tomorrowbot.bsky.social! A great deep dive into fine grained patterns of gene expression during neural tube closure. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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“We want to do something more interactive,” my graduate cell biology students said. “Like what?” I replied.

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So here's the thing. We are gonna need the youth to get in here. I'm actively soliciting insight from people who have insight into youth mobilization in the last five to 10 years. Hit me up.

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Scary times for science ahead. The consequences are first felt in the US, but they will ripple across the world, no doubt.

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Social Media Volunteers Needed! Developmental Biology is building a social media team (Bluesky X LinkedIn Insta )😎 If you're a passionate developmental biologist & interested in working with other social media enthusiasts for DB, apply today!😆 Deadline Apr 30 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Great opportunity to support you @socdevbio.bsky.social!

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This is the best thing I’ve ever seen on social media.

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Quick reminder that this dedicated scientist, like most, will be getting up and going to the lab - no matter what happens. Well, right after he’s called his senators. Again.

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Fantastic piece on the power and gravity of research that on it face may seem trivial. @labonnelab.bsky.social reminds us that basic research is the foundation of ALL research. www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b...

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Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters! @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

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My to do list today. Fuckin’ A.

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Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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So stoked to have a small part in this awesome paper @nature.com on human spina bifida with Jiny Ha, Sangwoo Kim, Joe Gleeson and others. Chanjae Lee did ALL the heavy lifting for the in vivo validations in my lab. this great work was ONLY possible thanks to the NIH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Another great piece of #devbiol writing here. Part Two of Three in the @nytimes.com series, The Embryo Question. Cue rage about the marketing of Preimplantation genetic testing. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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#facts

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Wow. Two days in a row of great #devbiol writing. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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So, @philipcball.bsky.social, I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that I bought a set of three juggling balls and Amazon sent me this (👇🏻). It took me a minute to figure out why…..

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And... it's live! In situ hybridization has been foundational for sea urchin developmental biology. Here we report a fully automated method to probe more than a hundred genes using a general purpose liquid handler.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644641v1

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The 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal goes to Pleasantine Mill @cilialab.bsky.social 🎉 In this interview, Pleasantine talks about why it’s important, now more than ever, for scientists to engage in community work: thenode.biologists.com/an-interview...

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But embryos also demand and warrant a meaningful conversation about everything they represent: values, knowledge, family, religion, health, life, death and more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Great bit of #devbiol writing here! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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New paper on conserved regulatory architecture in fish gills and human ears from @crumplab.bsky.social (👇) will surely evoke mentions of Haeckel. It's fun to think about early Tibetan embryologists who also wrote about a "fish" stage of human development. See 🧵 below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This insanely cool paper is making my day!!! (Cue arguments about Haeckel being right!) Congrats to Gage Crump, Andrew Gillis, @goodfrognosis.bsky.social and all the other authors. Well done! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788155/

Hugh congrats to @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComm Intern Andrew Montequin on his selection as a @aaas.org Mass Media and Science Fellow! www.aaas.org/page/current...

So incredibly happy that Ray Keller was elected to the AAAS! He's a pioneer of the cell biology of morphogenesis and of embryo mechanics, and a hero of mine. So grateful for his outstanding work. Even more grateful that he always took me seriously congrats Ray!!! www.amacad.org/new-members-...

Hello fellow froggers! Just over a week until the deadline for the Nikon Small World microscopy competition. Submit your images and show off the power of Xenopus! enter.nikonsmallworld.com #science #devbio #nikon #microscopy #xenopus #frogs

This cat in the zoom meeting i'm in is AWESOME. Totally making my day. That is all.

About one week until this seminar - register today! If you want a sneak peek of what I'll be talking about, you can find the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hell yes.

This is awesome.

Hey, look! I’m ‘writing.’

Congrats the 2025 crop of Guggenheim Fellows! www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Awesome.

A new 2D gene expression map of the mouse brain during early development.

We scorn the dilettante and dismiss the amateur, but these are their origins: dilettante from the Italian "dilettare" which means to take delight and amateur from the Latin "amator" which means lover.

Jon Lorsch, Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has apparently been named Acting Deputy Director for Extramural Research at NIH (Mike Lauer's position). Today was his first day...

Stoked for the new paper out from @tomorrowbot.bsky.social! A great deep dive into fine grained patterns of gene expression during neural tube closure. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

“We want to do something more interactive,” my graduate cell biology students said. “Like what?” I replied.

So here's the thing. We are gonna need the youth to get in here. I'm actively soliciting insight from people who have insight into youth mobilization in the last five to 10 years. Hit me up.

Scary times for science ahead. The consequences are first felt in the US, but they will ripple across the world, no doubt.

Social Media Volunteers Needed! Developmental Biology is building a social media team (Bluesky X LinkedIn Insta )😎 If you're a passionate developmental biologist & interested in working with other social media enthusiasts for DB, apply today!😆 Deadline Apr 30 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Great opportunity to support you @socdevbio.bsky.social!

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen on social media.

Quick reminder that this dedicated scientist, like most, will be getting up and going to the lab - no matter what happens. Well, right after he’s called his senators. Again.

Fantastic piece on the power and gravity of research that on it face may seem trivial. @labonnelab.bsky.social reminds us that basic research is the foundation of ALL research. www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b...

Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters! @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

My to do list today. Fuckin’ A.

Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So stoked to have a small part in this awesome paper @nature.com on human spina bifida with Jiny Ha, Sangwoo Kim, Joe Gleeson and others. Chanjae Lee did ALL the heavy lifting for the in vivo validations in my lab. this great work was ONLY possible thanks to the NIH! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another great piece of #devbiol writing here. Part Two of Three in the @nytimes.com series, The Embryo Question. Cue rage about the marketing of Preimplantation genetic testing. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#facts

Wow. Two days in a row of great #devbiol writing. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

So, @philipcball.bsky.social, I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that I bought a set of three juggling balls and Amazon sent me this (👇🏻). It took me a minute to figure out why…..

And... it's live! In situ hybridization has been foundational for sea urchin developmental biology. Here we report a fully automated method to probe more than a hundred genes using a general purpose liquid handler.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.23.644641v1

The 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal goes to Pleasantine Mill @cilialab.bsky.social 🎉 In this interview, Pleasantine talks about why it’s important, now more than ever, for scientists to engage in community work: thenode.biologists.com/an-interview...

But embryos also demand and warrant a meaningful conversation about everything they represent: values, knowledge, family, religion, health, life, death and more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great bit of #devbiol writing here! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This insanely cool paper is making my day!!! (Cue arguments about Haeckel being right!) Congrats to Gage Crump, Andrew Gillis, @goodfrognosis.bsky.social and all the other authors. Well done! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788155/

C’mon guys. Ya gotta at least try.

Struggle well, friends.

I’ll be there!

Why is academia the best job ever? Spring break. Every single year since 1976.

Cool.