Op-Ed from Dana Carroll and my father Jerry Kaplan highlighting some amazing history of publicly funded science at the U. of Utah and how this is in grave jeopardy. First NIH grant ever was to U of U!

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · last yr.

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

Does everyone know there is a comment period re: changes in animal research at NIH? I didn't. Closes July 14. The scientific community need to respond en masse. I asked university leadership to distribute to reach our colleagues not on social media, you can too go.pardot.com/e/858023/duc...

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

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We're looking for a postdoc to join our team to work on ion channel and GPCR dopamine receptors in our favourite model organism. Check out the advert here and please do get in touch if you're interested and share widely. 🧠🪱https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51874/

Congrats to the winners of the #Worm25 poster competition! Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research! Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!) Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!

Okay #Worm25, after gathering some feedback and sharing some prototypes it seems like we need some more worm-themed swag at the next meeting. What stages/designs/species would you like to see?? 🪱🧬

The number of C. elegans neurons must always be contested, unknowable, liminal in order to maintain humility in our efforts to list, label, and categorize nature, which is indifferent to our schemas.

John Murray@jisaacmurray.bsky.social · last yr.

Worm25 has been absolutely fantastic so far-congrats to everyone for your amazing work! One striking change in the talks this year is it seems like the consensus number of neurons in the adult hermaphrodite has returned to 302 after a few years at 300. Is CAN back?

My favorite part about #Worm25 (aside from all the great science) is getting to meet so many clients for the first time IRL and not in a Zoom window! Thanks @drgtwu.bsky.social for visiting and sending some new folks our way at InVivo Biosystems! 🪱🧬