Time for an Evening Update! We're just over 80% done the map. Help us bring these states home! givebutter.com/USS2026 West: CA 30 WA 12 NEast: NY 83 NJ 48 CT 18 Midwest to TX: TX 63 IL 38 MI 25 IN 15 OK 11 South: FL 99 GA 43 VA 33 SC 3

United States of Science 2026

By Skype a Scientist

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last mo.

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

United States of Science 2026

By Skype a Scientist

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Congratulations Camila! So proud of you for completing your qualifying exam and passing to candidacy! You did it! 🤩

The Cigliola Lab @vanderbilt.edu (www.cigliola-lab.com) is recruiting a #Postdoc interested in spinal cord regeneration & neural repair. If you are a motivated individual who wants to develop independent research directions in a collaborative & supportive environment, please consider applying! 🧵⬇️

Don’t Use A.I. to Do This www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o... Love this take by one of my favorite writers. 🤣

Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

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Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me

New @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grants: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education. Up to $500,000 for orgs focused on helping remove obstacles for undergraduates who want to pursue advanced STEM degrees. Deadline is June 1. Please share & apply if this is you! sloan.org/programs/hig...

Call for Letters of Inquiry: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Dev Bio Science Communication opportunity! The John Doctor Prize is open for 2026 (Deadline June 1). More info here below - Please share and encourage folks to submit videos! www.sdbonline.org/john_doctor_...

Congratulations, @taylormlanier.bsky.social! So proud of you! grad.uga.edu/a-students-d...

A Student's Discovery and Commitment to Advancing Human Health - UGA Graduate School

In labs filled with microscopes and in classrooms filled with curiosity, Dr. Taylor Medlock-Lanier has built a graduate career defined by discovery and perseverance. A doctoral graduate of the cellula...

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the culmination of one year of collaborative work on a #SciArt zine discussing gynecological issues, finally in print form! from a lovely team from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with special thanks to Dr @talkswithdrsesay.bsky.social and Dr Gioia Canciani for reviewing the contents! 🥼🩸

Five(+) women authors by whom I’ve read (and loved) at least five books: Margaret Atwood Octavia Butler NK Jemisin Barbara Kingsolver Nnedi Okorafor Martha Wells Zadie Smith (That was fun to look up and illustrates my reading preferences pretty well!)

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Five women authors by whom I've read at least five books: - Toni Morrison - Audre Lorde - Patricia Smith - Lucille Clifton - Louise Glück

cognitive reframing ahead of quals: ❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me ✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌

“Because it’s always been done that way” should never stand in the way of imagining and building a new system that aligns better with our core values. Sometimes the hard and even the nearly impossible possible is worth it to create the future we envision.

We wrote this piece as a call to action before what has been happening in MN. The myth of neutrality is a luxury scientists can no longer afford— we all have a role to play. Please repost w/ links to local orgs to help connect scientists to existing collectives they can join. rdcu.be/e1Tvv

Political action is now crucial for US scientists

Nature Human Behaviour - Political action is now crucial for US scientists

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A few other highlights: We were joined by three awesome undergrads this semester - Kathleen, Zoe, and Ella. They have contributed to the lab intellectually, scientifically, and socially - such a great team. Here they are at their end-of-term presentations. 1/4

I got behind in posting updates this fall, but want to make sure I highlight some of the fun and amazing things that we (mostly my trainees) have been doing this fall and winter! Let's start off with our semester's high point - @taylormlanier.bsky.social's defense and graduation! 1/5

ASCB President Mary Munson awards Francis Collins the ASCB Public Service award, noting this is the first time it’s been awarded for defense of science #cellbio2025

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

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

Careers | Arcadia Science

Evolve with Arcadia.

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Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot A Perspective by @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social, @kaliceaphd.bsky.social, Jamy Peng, @spiraldoc.bsky.social & @rogerslabucd.bsky.social on how to combat scientific misinformation journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In our newest paper, we show that expression of a familial natural short sleep mutation in flies extends lifespan through enhanced mitochondrial physiology. First first-author paper for former graduate student Pritika Pandey! @pritika26.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social

A familial natural short sleep mutation in dec2 extends healthspan and lifespan in Drosophila

Biological sciences; Genetics; Neuroscience

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So jealous that I'm not at #PRC10 (because I haven't yet figured out how to clone myself and be in two places at once) but the programme looks so brilliant. I really hope there's some discussion about how framing peer review as pedagogy may be a useful way forward too wonkhe.com/blogs/peer-r...

Peer review is broken, and pedagogical research has a fix

The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not The lessons of decades of research into asses...

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Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Good morning from Chicago, where we are getting ready for Day 2 of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. peerreviewcongress.org @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

🧪🪰We are hiring, please help us get the word out! The official ads will be up very soon & I'll link to them later. My lab is looking to recruit/hire at all levels: 1. A technician/post-bacc researcher to start ~fall 2026 2. A postdoc to start sometime in 2026 3. At least one graduate student (RA)

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex... #DevBio

Happy to highlight our recent preprint by the amazing Skylar Settles, with her undergrad student, Kathleen. Skylar started with the goal of carefully (& tediously) describing the in vivo cellular environment of planarian stem cells, unusual for their adult pluripotency. 1/6 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A parenchymal niche regulates pluripotent stem cell function in planarians

Harnessing the extraordinary potential of stem cells requires exquisite control in vitro , in vivo , and in the context of potential therapies. Adult stem cells are commonly housed within a microenvir...

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Last CBIO retreat and departmental presentation (until defense) for Taylor! Bittersweet! @taylormlanier.bsky.social

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Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · 12mo ago

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Spicebush swallowtail for our 3rd challenging swallowtail ID of the week!

Up at the parents’ farm for Poppy/Deedee camp (M) and a pre-semester meditative/writing trip (me). Today I spent a while making sure I can tell apart pipevine swallowtails and dark female eastern tiger swallowtails.

Cluster hire in ecosystem ecology at UGA! Come join us! 🌎🌱

John Wares@johnwares.bsky.social · last yr.

FOUR TT positions in ecosystem ecology at Odum School of Ecology, 2 aquatic 2 terrestrial, over next 2 years! visit www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/439... for more info.