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MBL education programs are in full swing! This week, students arrived for advanced research training course 'Neurobiology: Mechanisms & Advanced Approaches.' Learn more about the course here: bit.ly/3C2psks

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The iconic MBL Friday Evening Lectures kick off tomorrow night, June 13 at 8 p.m! Holden Thorp, Editor in Chief of Science, will give a talk titled "Staying True to the Indispensable Values of Science." The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Learn more: bit.ly/4l0DmEI

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Sea robins are native to the waters around the MBL. They have wing-like and leg-like fins, which separate from early in development. At the MBL, we study sea robins to learn how new forms of locomotion developed. Learn more about sea robins here: bit.ly/4mAJjK0

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Last week, the MBL Ecosystems Center celebrated 50 years of ecological research and education. “The center is about science, but it’s also about outreach, education and policy,” said Director Anne Giblin. “There is no place I’d rather be.” Read about it here: bit.ly/3Hw37hH

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Start of 2025 @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology course! This is the second year of Amy @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and I co-Directing this absolutely amazing and life-changing course: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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For today's #MicroscopyMonday, we are highlighting Scott Chimileski's (@socialmicrobes.bsky.social‬) series featuring natural chalk formations from the White Cliffs of Dover. The first image is the electron micrograph, the second is a close-up of the chalk, and the third is the cliffs.

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Check out the new exhibit: “Plankton In our Midst: The Unseen Citizens of the Sea and Our Breathing Planet" by artists Krisanne Baker and Julie Crane and conservation writer Liz Cunningham! Exhibit website: bit.ly/4jBGNjP

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MBL Senior Scientist Anne Giblin researches element cycling in the environment and how ecosystems respond to human impacts and climate change 🌳 She is also the director of the MBL Ecosystems Center! 📲 Check out our Q&A with Giblin: bit.ly/3ZQhJi7 #sciencestartshere

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This year, 24 scientists from universities and research institutes around the world were named 2025 Whitman Center Fellows! Read more about the fellows and their research projects here: bit.ly/4khswdu 📷 Elizabeth Lee

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What a fantastic essay by last year's @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology students! A perfect paean to the most wonderful science: "It's exhausting; it's exhilarating; it's Embryology." journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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The @mblscience.bsky.social #Embryology Course is back in session! Investigator Tatjana Piotrowski is once again co-chairing this esteemed program — nearly 30 years after first taking it herself. Read her full-circle story ⬇️ www.stowers.org/news/a-full-...

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The 2025 Embryology course is underway at the MBL! As the students dive in, enjoy this throwback from the 2021 course by Rebecca M. Varney. These male C. elegans spicules were imaged on a Zeiss Micro 900 with laminin proteins labeled with green fluorescent protein. #sciencestartshere

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Logan Science Journalism fellows learned about MBL Director Nipam Patel's collection of butterflies🦋 Patel's lab uses genetics and live imaging to investigate how developmental and cellular mechanisms generate nanostructures that give some butterfly species structural colors.

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Here at the MBL, we use molecular, physiological and novel imaging techniques to better understand coral bleaching and its impact on the reef structure. 🎥 Bioquest Films Learn more about the Northern star coral here: bit.ly/416Av4Q

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Please help us welcome the 2025 Grass Fellows! The Grass Fellowship program brings early-career investigators to the MBL to pursue a self-designed, independent research project in neuroscience. Learn more here: bit.ly/3H57boR 📷 Credit: Scott Bennett

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A new study from the MBL reveals that activating a group of neurons in the axolotl brain is essential for tail regeneration. The findings point to the possibility that a comparable group of neurons impacts regenerative responses in mammals. Read more: bit.ly/4kxcfRp 📷: Dee Sullivan

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Help us celebrate 50 years of the MBL Ecosystems Center, our scientists investigating ecological systems and their response to changing environmental conditions. Check out the program and register for the 50th Anniversary symposia on May 29-30: www.mbl.edu/research/res...

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Looking for some good news today? We have eight inspiring early-career scientists heading to @mblscience.bsky.social to spend the summer conducting research on topics ranging from pain sensation in sharks to ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs. grassfoundation.org/announcing-t...

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Still need a place in this year's ASICS Falmouth Road Race? Run to support the MBL! Raise funds for scientific research and education and secure your spot on the start line at the same time! Spots on Team MBL are limited, so email [email protected] to sign up!

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Here at the MBL, we study a diverse array of research organisms, including the beach hopper (Parhyale). Our researchers study the genes that control patterning from head to tail in the animals to learn more about the principles of development and evolution. 📹 BioQuest Studios

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All of the incredible research happening at the MBL needs an equally incredible manager! 🧠 MBL Director of Research Anne Sylvester oversees resident laboratories, the Whitman Center, and the Grass Laboratory. 📲 Read more about Sylvester in our Q&A: bit.ly/43Ak0QM #sciencestartshere

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It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a look into the microscope! 🔬 This image shows muscle detail in the arms of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides), color-coded for depth. It was also the winner of the 2019 MBL Photo Contest! 📷: Allan Carrillo-Baltodano

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Some Semester in Biological Discovery students opted to take elective course "Art: On images" with artist Serena Aurora Day Himmelfarb, who inspired them to create pieces that resonate with the MBL's environment of curiosity and discovery. 🎨 Learn more! bit.ly/3F9hGa4

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#DYK that the Gemma has served as the MBL's collecting vessel since 1981? 📷 2024 Semester in Environmental Science students ride the Gemma back into Eel Pond under the draw bridge. Credit: Mirta Teichberg

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Please help us welcome to campus the students in our Frontiers in Reproduction Course! For the next 6 weeks, they will learn state-of-the-art methods and current concepts in reproductive biology. Learn more here! bit.ly/43nKfK0

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For this year’s ASICS Falmouth Road Race, raise funds for research and education and secure your spot on the start line at the same time. Run for the MBL team! Email [email protected] to sign up!

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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video features the eye of a longfin inshore squid (doryteuthis pealeii). It was taken by Sierra Schwabach and Vish Venkataram, students who took our Comparative Developmental Biology course in 2022 🦑

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The Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy (AQLM) course has come to a close. For two weeks, researchers examined the theory of image formation and the subtle interactions between light and a specimen. Learn more about this and other courses here! bit.ly/3GMpPSn

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📆 Join us Friday, May 16, for a special MBL Falmouth Forum with author Sebastian Junger! His talk—"In My Time of Dying"—begins at 7:30 PM in Clapp Auditorium in Lillie Laboratory. MBL lectures are free and public. Can't make it in person? We will be streaming live! mbl.edu/falmouth-forum

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Yesterday, students in the MBL's Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course built and tested microscopes from @openuc2.bsky.social 🔬 Their modular cube system—akin to LEGO bricks—allows for easy assembly and reconfiguration of optical systems. #sciencestartshere

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Scientists and staff gathered for "Research Day" to recognize new employees and showcase MBL's groundbreaking research. "What brought me to the MBL was a job, but what brought me back was the top-notch scientific and broader community," said Elizabeth Elmstrom. #sciencestartshere

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Happy Teacher Appreciation Day! Thank you to every student and researcher who has contributed to the dynamic learning environment we enjoy here at the MBL. Please help us welcome 11 new course directors who will join us this summer! Meet them here: bit.ly/43i1uMP

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It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a peek into the 🔬 This movie was taken by Shinya Inuoe, who built the polarizing microscope that allowed scientists to see mitotic spindle fibers live for the first time. Dr. Inuoe premiered his research at MBL.

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This week, faculty and study away administrators checked out our undergraduate programs: Semester in Biological Discovery and Semester in Environmental Science. Lisa Abbo, our resident veterinarian, explained how students and researchers study our model organisms.

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A new analysis from the MBL presents evidence that accelerating sea level rise may hamper salt marsh plants’ ability to use nitrogen, a nutrient crucial for their growth 🌱 Read more: bit.ly/3Gwazce 📷 Daniel Cojanu

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This fall, we are offering a Light Microscopy Bootcamp for graduate students, postdocs, and advanced researchers! 🔬 Students will learn fluorescent microscopy, transmitted light microscopy, image processing, and more using our state-of-the-art systems. Learn more at the link! bit.ly/4iGt8Yi

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The flamboyant cuttlefish undulates with a hypnotic combination of reds, yellows, and browns. The Hanlon lab studies flamboyant cuttlefish to learn more about camouflage and the sensory environment of the marine world. 📹 MBL/Bioquestproductions

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The MBL hosts the National Xenopus Resource, which serves as a national stock center for X. laevis and X. tropicalis. 🐸 Our frog ranchers raise thousands of individuals and develop new experimental tools and husbandry techniques to support the research community. 📷: @mollyherring.bsky.social

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It's #MicroscopyMonday, so let's take a peek into the 🔬 with these Octopus bimaculoides embryos imaged by MBL's Carrie Albertin. The Albertin Lab uses cephalopod models to study how novelty arises over the course of evolution and development.

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Since 1960, 319 members of the MBL community have been elected to @nasonline.org Congratulations to the 14 MBL alumni, faculty, and visiting investigators who were inducted at the 162nd Annual Meeting! Read about our inductees: www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-dir... #NAS162

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The famous Meselson-Stahl experiment, which provided strong evidence for semi-conservative DNA replication, had its roots at the MBL! 🧬 Meselson and Stahl met here in the summer of 1954. Happy #DNADay! #sciencestartshere 📷: Matthew Meselson in summer 1954

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What is it like to do a Grass Fellowship at @mblscience.bsky.social, spending a summer doing intensive research in this amazing community of scientists? For early-career researchers like Andrea Gaede, it's a boost of enthusiasm!

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Along with MBL Director Nipam Patel, one of MBL's former course directors, Flaminia Catteruccia, will be speaking at the 162nd Annual Meeting of @nasonline.org this Saturday, April 26th! 🎉 Her talk will cover the science of malaria. Watch live: bit.ly/3GjGnB0 #NAS162

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MBL Director Nipam Patel is speaking at the 162nd Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences this Saturday! 🎉 🦋 His talk, entitled "The Physics and Development of Beauty," will cover the cell science and geometry of butterfly coloration. Watch live: bit.ly/3GjGnB0 #NAS162 📷 Dee Sullivan

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Undergrads in the MBL's Semester in Biological Discovery hopped aboard the MBL's collecting vessel, R/V Gemma, to gather sea urchins on Tuesday! 🛥️ 📲 Read more about their adventure: bit.ly/42umWOy 📷: @mollyherring.bsky.social

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Like its mythical counterpart, the real-life Hydra possesses remarkable regenerative abilities... but scientists also study this tiny animal's nervous system, even though it doesn't have a brain! 🧠 Researchers have studied Hydra at the MBL for over 100 years! #sciencestartshere

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Happy #EarthDay 🌎 This Earth Day is a special one for us—2025 is the 50th anniversary of the MBL Ecosystems Center! Mark your 📅 for our anniversary symposium May 29-31, which will feature public talks on ecosystems science. 📲 More on the center: bit.ly/4idVcCM

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Ever seen an anemone hunt for lunch? 👀 The starlet sea anemone has specialized ‘stinging cells’ that hurl toxins into prey! 🦐 MBL Associate Scientist @karenecheverri.bsky.social uses the starlet sea anemone to study the evolution of regenerative ability. 📲 More: bit.ly/3XIwYse

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