Yay! Just saw that we got the cover of the August 1 MBoC! Woot! 🎉 Please check out our paper if you are interested in it the tubulin code or early development. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

🔔 Tomorrow! ISRB Webinar | Zone 1 (Australia, East and South Asia): 🗓 August 4, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai 🎤 Sun Yi, PhD 🎤 Hyung Chul Lee, PhD More info: isrbio.org/webinars

We are really excited about this great opportunity for a Core leader in the Department of Biology at UVA. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Genomics and Multi-omics Senior Laboratory Research Specialist, Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Genomics and Multi-omics Senior Laboratory Research Specialist, Biology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virg...

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Top senators consider blocking the OMB rule. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap

It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.

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📢 New ISRB Webinar | Zone 1 (Australia, East and South Asia): 🗓 August 4, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai 🎤 Sun Yi, PhD 🎤 Hyung Chul Lee, PhD More info: isrbio.org/webinars

Flatworms have incredible regenerative capacity due to having many stem cells throughout the body. @zayaslab.bsky.social shows the role of soxB1-2, which promotes DNA unpacking, and Ephrin signalling in mechanosensory neuron differentiation. #2026SDB Papers: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... and ⤵️

SoxB1-mediated chromatin remodeling promotes sensory neuron differentiation in planarians

Abstract. Understanding how adult stem cells generate neurons is critical for advancing regenerative medicine. However, few in vivo models enable studying

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New Toettchlab paper alert! Harrison Oatman just published his beautiful work combining software design for "smart" microscopy+optogenetics and some really beautiful work understanding EGFR-driven collective cell migration. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

This is exactly how I feel and exactly what needs to be said and done about this govt BS! “The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop.” www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Popcorn chicken of the sea

Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed | New Scientist

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a form of play as well as food processing

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I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com

"Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation"

Ryan Reynolds: Huh Confused

ALT: Ryan Reynolds: Huh Confused

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Michaud, @andrewgoryachev.bsky.social, von Dassow, @xenresearchcenter.bsky.social et al. identify a versatile cortical pattern-forming circuit based on #Rho, F-#actin, Ect2, & RGA-3/4 rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In "Collective Behaviors and Self-Organization in Cells" rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

In the last 48 hours of grant prep and I can ALMOST see the light at the end of the tunnel 🥴 But having a breakthrough in your experimental design while writing is always the thing that makes it just a little less terrible 😄

Spending my last few weeks post-defense in the @awormwelcome.bsky.social lab imaging my final project as a PhD student! Looking forward to doing a #postdoc in the intersection of regeneration, neuroscience, and evodevo (lab TBD!) #microscopymonday

TGFβ signals through TGFBR2 to drive fibrogenesis. Reliable TGFBR2 antibodies are essential for studying disease mechanisms and developing new therapies. 4 of 11 commercial antibodies recognized TGFBR2 specifically. #AntibodyValidation here the report: zenodo.org/records/20077560

📣 New article by #SEBD member @marianros.bsky.social research group @csic.es and collaborators now out @currentbiology.bsky.social on the origin and evolution of dorsal determination mechanisms in vertebrate paired appendages: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

The origin and evolution of dorsal determination mechanisms in vertebrate paired appendages

Limbs have distinct sidedness, with dorsal-ventral flexure allowing diverse movements that permit nuanced articulation and function. Hawkins et al. demonstrate that the genetic foundation of this patt...

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🐙 Octopuses appear to have evolved a ribosomal innovation that increases protein translation fidelity. *suggests that evolution can tune core components of the proteostasis machinery, extending adaptation beyond gene regulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution of a core ribosomal innovation in octopus

Much of biology focuses on how genetic changes mediate new functions, but less attention is given to adaptations in other steps of the central dogma. Octopuses exhibit complex nervous systems and soph...

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All NIH grantees need to pay attention to the new rules on foreign collaborations, including those that are soley scientific without any money crossing borders. Daniel's thread is a good place to start

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

In section G of the RPPR (annual reports to NIH), on foreign involvement, PIs should report all anticipated foreign co-authors on each future paper resulting from the work. For each paper & each co-author, that includes: Name Institution & location Email Describe their contribution to the paper /t

‘Odyssey’ comes from the name Odysseus. The first known use of ‘odyssey’ as a generic term for “journey” was in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” in 1886.

Microscopy beautifully reveals the dynamic nature of biology but quantifying that motion can be tricky! In the latest paper from @aicjanelia.bsky.social, out now in @jcellsci.bsky.social, we present a tool for measuring amorphous motion: OpticalFlow3D journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... (1/7)

OpticalFlow3D – a tool for measuring amorphous motion in three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy images

Summary: Biological motion can be difficult to define and measure. Optical flow is uniquely suited to this challenge. We provide tools for 3D optical flow and illustrate its use in extracting biologic...

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We had a great time yesterday talking to 3rd-7th graders at the Kaleideum's summer STEM camp. We talked about the weird, wild, and wonderful axolotl with a guest appearance from their adopted axolotl "Pinky"

Our new paper about the role of Asperous (and how it acts via extracellular vesicles) in tissue regeneration is now available on iScience! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Asperous coordinates regeneration timing by regulating damage-induced WNT signaling

Biological sciences; Developmental genetics; Developmental biology

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✨Jeffrey Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social is a Stadtman Investigator at the NIH. He has led seminal work constructing single-cell RNAseq atlases for entire embryos using zebrafish. We are excited to host Jeffrey at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🔬

A colleague suggested today that perhaps axolotls can regenerate so well because they're good at imitating plants 😂 ....and it sounds like a perfect topic for a HSFP grant. Hit me up international plant colleagues! 🌱🦎

Josh Currie@joshcurrie.bsky.social · 3w ago

I love these funky basal epithelial cells in axolotl. Looks just like plant pavement cells

Dashboard with analysis of comments & github source link omb-financial-assistance-comments.netlify.app

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Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 3w ago

Completely losing it at this picture of Haaland arriving back in Oslo with his souvenir from Dallas

I love these funky basal epithelial cells in axolotl. Looks just like plant pavement cells

I really love being a scientist and doing benchwork. To me, it's an artisan craft - working with your hands, techniques honed with years of practice and intuition, training apprentices, creating new and interesting things. I hope that that type of science will endure

“The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign...

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.

🔔 Tomorrow! ISRB Webinar | Zone 1 (Australia, East and South Asia): 🗓 July 14, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai 🎤 Anindya Ghosh Roy 🎤 Toshinori Hayashi More info: isrbio.org/webinars