Excited that our study on oogenesis and germinal bed morphology in the brown anole is published! Find it here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @mdandersn.bsk.social @oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @cam.ac.uk

Oogenesis and germinal bed morphology of the brown anole (A. sagrei)

Background The brown anole is a model species of the genus Anolis, a squamate (encompassing lizards and snakes) group widely studied in evolutionary, behavioral, and developmental biology. Full geno...

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@a-weberling.bsky.social & I characterize oogenesis from initiation in the germinal bed to ovulatory follicles for the first time in the brown anole, a powerful reptile model for evo-devo & functional genetics! Full preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sphaerodactylus geckos loom large in my mind (but sit small on my hand)

i was told a US donor site to support FlyBase will be live shortly, which we should all broadcast to everyone we can. however, there is a delay (red tape) to be able to provide invoices to bill grants, but its in process. 🪰

@a-weberling.bsky.social , @shylonatasha.bsky.social et al. continue to provided stunning images and insight into early reptilian development with this new paper on chameleon embryogenesis 🦎🥚. Check it out!

Antonia Weberling@a-weberling.bsky.social · 12mo ago

1/6 Preprint Alert Ever thought that humans & chameleons look alike? We follow chameleon development from fertilisation to oviposition & uncover the process through which they form an epiblast lumen that exhibits striking similarity to human embryos #devbio #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very cool work on embryo-yolk signaling in zebrafish!!

Antonia Weberling@a-weberling.bsky.social · last yr.

The preprint of my dear friend Svetlana Jovanic showing that "cell behaviour during gastrulation is robust to the deficiency of yolk topology & signalling originating from the yolk syncytial layer." is now online! Super interesting read! #zebrafish #embroids #DevBio www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yet another heartbreaking and short sighted decision. The folks at NSF are so supportive of the scientific community. Their funding is what has allowed my lab to grow and succeed. These cuts are so destructive.

Jonathan Lambert@jonlambert.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social

This is a fantastic program! You can apply as a mentor to work with a student who will travel to your lab, or you can apply as a mentor to work with one of your current students. I highly recommend it! I have done both and it’s been so rewarding. ❤️

Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are extending the #ChooseDevelopment application deadline to Wednesday, February 5, 11:59 PM ET. Undergrads from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, first-generation college students, veterans & students with a disability are eligible. bit.ly/3FwHqYp #devbio

NSF froze payments to researchers. State AGs said it was unconstitutional for exec branch to pause congressionally mandated funds. Judge issued restraining order. Payments resumed. But some inconsistencies in what the NSF has said (thread): www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...

National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist

The NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries.

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Hi, I'm Earyn, and I'm a lizard scientist! I created a game to teach people about lizards and increase the representation of Black women as herpetologists. #findthatlizard is a Where's Waldo-esque game where there is a lizard camouflaged in its environment. Your challenge is to find it. Will you? 🦎

The dismantling of American Science continues. The Organismal Response to Climate Change grant call has been cancelled. The NSF Director is a disgrace

Still frozen out. We’re getting word that people getting Universities to reach out to NSF over this & broader freeze may put pressure on them & help resolve this. If folks could start contacting their uni admin with complaints to forward to NSF (hopefully you know who to contact) it’d help a lot

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.

As a NSF PRFB postdoc it would be nice to know if I can pay rent next month (crazy, right). In the meantime, for no reason whatsoever, here are a few ‘wasteful’ things I’ve done as a postdoc: been a science pen pal, helped run a booth at a science center, mentored a high school lab intern.

…the sentence at the end, “to the extent permissible by law, cancel awards already awarded that are in conflict with Administration priorities”.

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday President Trump announced a pause on all federal grant disbursals. While it is a bit vague on details, it appears to include research grants. This would be devastating to American science. If you have not had a chance, call your Senators & Reps 🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography #DevBiol #SciHist

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Amazing talk by @zgrif26.bsky.social about orange pigmentation and ovaries and what connects them. #SICB2025

I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student for the fall of 2025 to work on phenotypic variation in amphibians! More info here: maggiehantak.weebly.com

Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost

Very happy that our study on early anole lizard embryogenesis is featured in the December #preprint list of @the-node.bsky.social want to know more? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @shylonatasha.bsky.social @thomsanger.bsky.social @holyanole.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social

Pre-oviposition development of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei)

The brown anole, Anolis sagrei , has emerged as a representative squamate species during the past several decades. Novel functional tools have been established to manipulate embryogenesis through geno...

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the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy new year! December may be behind us, but if you want to know what #DevBio and #StemCell biology #preprints came out last month, check out our latest preprints list ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/december-in-...

Hyoids in action!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2y ago

Woodpeckers are amazing creatures, with tongues up to a third of their body length, wrapped around their skulls in a way that looks... *anatomically wrong* But I want to highlight some recent findings on how they avoid concussions. (📷: Getty Images)

Checkout this awesome preprint from @a-weberling.bsky.social et al. with the first description of early embryogenesis in the brown anole! This dataset was no small feat to collect as much of early development takes place before the egg is laid!! Thrilled to have been a part of this project! 🦎

Antonia Weberling@a-weberling.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/6 New Preprint Reptiles comprise ~23,000 species with an incredible range of diversity. The basis is laid during embryogenesis but is severely understudied. We study the brown anole, a model for evolutional studies & describe its early embryogenesis for the first time: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Getting some love from the microscope today! Testing TO-PRO-3, a far red-fluorescent nuclear counterstain.

Welcome Lizard Doctor: @holyanole.bsky.social