callista yee
@csybio.bsky.social
worm neurobiologist, assistant professor at UBC zoology. loves tater tots, synapses, dpy worms, and transcription factors. she/her. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
We need your help spreading the word about the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Please talk about the program in your next lab meeting and share this slide with your lab: docs.google.com/presentation...
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Mentoring and peer-mentoring can help you: - Plan your next career steps - Connect with people that navigated similar challenges - Gain perspectives beyond your lab or institution - Exchange experiences and practical support - Build lasting connections 2/n
Mentee sign-ups are open for the 2026-2027 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Choose: - One-to-one mentoring with an experienced mentor - A peer-mentoring group with people at your career stage Or sign up for both, it takes just 2-5 minutes. And please spread the word! 🧵
Mentee sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. ⏱️ This form takes only 2–5 minutes to complete depending on your choic...
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As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
cleaning stuff out of don’s house - look at this banger of a syllabus
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
ooof, the funnel I need is in fume hood jail 😢. friday funday
increased vulval muscle activity is good, but too much activity is bad, reducing mating efficiency. cool stuff by @kevinemco.bsky.social #ceneuro26
Do you want to support the next generation of C. elegans researchers? We are looking for mentors with C. elegans experience, including postdocs, faculty, and scientists outside academia, to share their knowledge and career advice with early career researchers. Sign up to become a mentor!
Mentor sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program - 2026
Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs and faculty at any career stage. This survey collects information...
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These stunning single-celled organisms can shape-shift & regenerate. Their trumpet-like shape inspired their name: stentor, after the herald in Greek mythology known for his booming voice. 📸: Confocal microscopy by Igor Siwanowicz, HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
new demo equipment has arrived! CSR biotech super-resolution spinning disk!
Christ on a cracker (the last supper, oil on saltine)
Postdoctoral position available, focused on Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood! Join the awesome Brown Univ. neuroscience community. Background in genetics (like C. elegans) and/or neuroscience is welcome, but not required. Contact Anne Hart for details and apply via apply.interfolio.com/188268
apply to be a postdoc in kenji's lab! he's got great neighbours (me and kota mizumoto)!
jobRxiv@jobrxiv.org · 2mo agoLove live imaging? Join us to study cell division, cytoskeletal dynamics, and morphogenesis in C. elegans embryos. Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cell Biology, Sugioka lab UBC University of British Columbia See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-b
Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees. One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help. Please record a short video, and share!
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 2mo ago33,210 Canadians have voted. 🏆 The Cheezies have won. Take the census at census.todmaffin.com Clearly Nanaimo Bars should have won and what we witnessed during this census was nothing short of a STOLEN ELECTION. The deep state does not want you eating Nanaimo Bars, sheeple! DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!!!
These dazzling neurons belong to a fruit fly. Confocal microscopy images of them were taken & combined by researchers at our Janelia Research Campus like pieces of a puzzle to build a rough map of the ventral nerve cord, which coordinates walking, flying, & reflex.
this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts
The May issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/... On the cover, Zhang et al. describe an antibody-based therapy against drug-resistant S. aureus. The antibody conjugate selectively binds to the wall teichoic acid of the bacteria and enriches calcium on the cell envelope go.nature.com/3UaGItg
ayyy new pape from my superworm homie @celjauebel.bsky.social
bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 3mo agoDisordered protein COSA-2 maintains crossover-specific repair compartments to ensure meiotic crossover maturation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.13.725012v1
A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.
A repressive regulatory cascade shapes temporal patterning of activity-regulated gene expression in a defined sensory neuron type https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.725236v1
The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
