Hey folks: 'Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences' is dirt-cheap as an e-book right now, at least via the evil corporate bookseller: $2.99 (USA, https://amzn.to/3UlpyMP); or $3.99 (Canada, https://link.amazon/B00gBshZa). (Or, of course, buy elsewhere if you prefer!)🧪 1/2

The Programmable Genomics Lab at @umasschan.bsky.social just officially launched our site! We have a "simple" goal: to develop synthetic regulatory elements that target every cell type in every tissue, and control payload dosage/duration Check it out! programmable-genomics.github.io

Billy Joel plus this cozy corner were the keys to unlock my productivity this morning. Where’s your favorite spot to work?

This #MicroscopyMonday is a developing Apple Snail embryo. On the left is the shell, the middle the body & the foot at the bottom. On the right the head with the eye (green circle) & the tentacle bud. (@planaria1.bsky.social lab) #ResearchSky #SciSky

From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪 plos.io/4edGlY4

Big #octocoralFriday news! featuring colleagues from @floridamuseum.bsky.social @corallab.bsky.social @miselab.bsky.social www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/worl...

World’s soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve lea...

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On today’s episode of “Things I would like to put in a cryo-electron microscope”… 👀🧪🔬

ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ@nizet.bsky.social · last yr.

STORY ABOUT A BACTERIA GOING VIRAL Genome of 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 is so stripped down— just 238,000 bp—that it blurs the line between cell and virus Encodes just DNA replication, transcription, and translation—no metabolism, no cellular independence Begs the question: WhAt Is CeLLuLaR LiFe?

Many proteins “multitask”, simultaneously performing multiple functions within cells. But how exactly do they do this? In a new paper, Dr. Sumeda Nandadasa and his team peer into the secret life of TMEM67, an important protein that regulates both cilia formation and Wnt signaling. 🧪 #cilia

Lux Capital providing funding opportunities for academic biomedical research aligned with interests 👏 www.luxcapital.com/news/our-hel...

High-resolution optical imaging of the meninges within the brain of an adult zebrafish. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social & #WeinsteinLab. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

For #FluorescenceFriday, a GFP reporter shows nuclei (fire) nestled between lots of lipid droplets in this set of adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology

#CellMigration 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨! Excited to share this video on #FluorescenceFriday 🌈 Today as a GIF to circumvent video compression 😅! Migratory Nascent Myotubes on #Drosophila Testes. Marker: Lifeact-eGFP. Scope: 980 Airyscan (@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social) #cellbio #sciart #devbio #science #microscopy

You mean more than 6 times back to back in a single day because your parents weren’t home and you had nothing better to do… right?

a woman with red hair and a leopard print shirt is asking who is a rockstar .

Alt: a woman with red hair and a leopard print shirt is asking who is a rockstar .

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️@dralgaegirl.bsky.social · last yr.

Movie you've watched more than 6 times using gifs. (Hard mode- no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Just updated the #SciComm community directory on my website! www.virginiaschutte.com/scicomm-comm... I added a "meet IRL" section that includes @capscicomm.org and 5 groups for folks around England, those lucky ducks Want me to add a place you hang out? LMK who to get sharing permission from!

Where to find science communication and STEM communities | Virginia Schutte

Where you can find SciComm and identity-based STEM communities online.

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What an incredibly good idea! At UNC alone PhD students come from hundreds of hometowns across the nation. If you're a scientist help your home community see the value of your work & the importance of supporting the next generation of scientists by bring it home to them. Happy to share an example RT

Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP)@cornellasap.bsky.social · last yr.

Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public. #McClintockLetters blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

Please join us next Monday for this webinar where @ecbrooks96.bsky.social will be talking about a very cool story (with gorgeous images) about the role of cilia in craniofacial development! @isdb.bsky.social @diffjournal.bsky.social

Evan C. Brooks, Ph.D.@ecbrooks96.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to be the inaugural speaker for this new seminar series from @diffjournal.bsky.social. I’ll be presenting on work from my PhD thesis focused on the role of cilia in lower jaw development. Thanks to Loydie Jerome-Majewska, @rogerslabucd.bsky.social, and @uribelab.bsky.social for the invite!

🧪TOMORROW 15:00 BST 22/04/2025🧪: gather round for the latest in #cilia & #centrosome research including curious #kinases, co-translational assembly, cilia in #meiosis & spermatogenesis, AND complexes controlling ciliary content from the field's rising talent! Free & open to all... just register!

Mill_lab@cilialab.bsky.social · last yr.

A week until our 51st @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium: 15/04/2025 15:00-17:15 BST. Still not registered for the series- join us here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... Free and open to all! /1

Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!

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

Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...

A week until our 51st @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium: 15/04/2025 15:00-17:15 BST. Still not registered for the series- join us here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... Free and open to all! /1

BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series

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Highly recommend looking through these #HandsOff Protest photos for a shot of energy. Not just the places you'd expect, either!

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last yr.

Folks sharing photos from today's nationwide "Hands Off" protests of Trump and Musk. Boston, DC, NY, CA

Hundreds of protesters in Port Huron MI. We could see folks gathering across the river in Canada, and some even came to cheer us on from their boats! #handsoff #standupforscience

Port Huron MI showed up! #Handsoff

HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY! *Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together. 🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨 In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... #standupforscience #handsoff

These grant terminations are targeting the best & brightest and the literal future of our profession. We should all be outraged. Every grant was earned & stood up to intense review. They deserve to continue their work. They matter. Their science matters. We have to stand up against these attacks

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Rosalind Franklin (to father)

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Stop collaborate and listen! 😀Yesterday was a great day for science! Thank you @standupforscience.bsky.social !The real work begins now. People are listening! We need to challenge misunderstandings and show that investment in science is crucial for our health for our economy and for our future!

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Scientists out here with their thermo fisher box signs 😂🥰