MDI Bio Lab is seeking a Senior Faculty member! Lead innovative research, mentor scientists, and help advance discoveries in aging and regeneration. Our collaborative environment creates opportunities for discovery and impact: https://ow.ly/qrOf50Zl6U5 #sciencejobs #STEMjobs #researchjobs

ReBilD was such an amazing experience! Thank you @mdibl.org for making it happen. This course is great for anyone interested in learning more about regeneration or exploring new model systems. If anyone has questions about my experience in the course, comment or DM me.

MDI Biological Laboratory@mdibl.org · 2mo ago

What makes a great regenerative biology training program? According to Assistant Professor Prayag Murawala (Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab), it's the chance to learn directly from the researchers advancing the field—and to connect with peers from around the world.

And an axolotl boop because why not

Owning a lot of books is great. Packing and moving with a lot of books is not great.

AND getting to visit Xochimilco, the axolotl’s native habitat?! Sign me up😍

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Salamander Meeting Mexico 2026 In this post on the Node, the organising committee of the Salamander Meeting 2026 invites you to participate. The meeting will be held at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.

This was an amazing opportunity to meet such an influential scientist in my life. Dr. Shubin’s mastery of storytelling has inspired me to utilize my creativity to expand sci comm to all audiences and to commit to outreach in my PhD. Thank you! @ischneider.bsky.social @lsulagniappe.bsky.social

LAGNiAppE@lsulagniappe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨ Network in Action ✨ @madison-adams.bsky.social had an exciting chance to introduce herself to Neil Shubin, whose research on the evolution of fish to tetrapods has helped reshape our understanding of evolution. 👏🦴🔬 #RaMP #Postbacc #Evolution2026 #STEMSuccess

First paper from our program is out 🎉 Our pub in BSSB shares outcomes from our postbaccalaureate training model, demonstrating how research & mentorship can build confidence & career readiness in STEM. Huge thanks to our SREC partners for making this work possible. 🔗 ssbbulletin.org/article/id/6...

One of my fellow LAGNiAppE cohort members, Emma Powers, painted me this AMAZING lungfish art. I’m gonna put it right next to my other lungfish friend that my co-mentor photographed for me 🥰

I created these custom outreach stickers based on the regeneration powerhouses in the Schneider lab at LSU: bichir (left), lungfish (right). Read about our research program here: faculty.lsu.edu/igorschneide.... Follow my page to be notified of future creative science outreach projects. #scicomm

Tripod fish live at depths of up to 6000 m below the surface. They are practically eyeless because of its super-dark habitat but their long fins can feel the vibrations made by approaching prey on the seafloor [📹 Schmidt Ocean] Original post

When scientists work with artists, everyone benefits. Through an artist-in-residence program at UPenn, reseachers improved their communication skills and confidence by working with an artist to paint their own scientific clay “crests” 🛡️! Learn more: www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab... #sciart

Please take 2 minutes! Sign the petition to help stop 130 acre data center across the street from the Forsyth county town hall and 20 minutes from the apartment I will live in while attending grad school at Wake Forest. Read the opinions of the current community members. www.ruralhallinfo.com

I spy @joshcurrie.bsky.social profiled by Wake Forest for cool new work on limb regeneration 🧪 news.wfu.edu/2026/04/16/f...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

The MDI Biological Laboratory is hiring a Junior Faculty member! A great opportunity to launch your independent research program in a collaborative, mission-driven environment. Learn more at the link below. 🧪 #sciencejobs #academicjobs #hiring #recruiting

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me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever

Who doesn’t love an #axolotl?! 🧬 But this funny salamander has competition in the regeneration game… youtube.com/shorts/DfeTg...

Meet the Fish That Could Regrow Fins A Million Years Before The Axolotl Got Here

YouTube video by LSU

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Here’s me giving a talk at the @lsuresearch.bsky.social Biograds conference despite being only a post-bacc! I’m learning to just volunteer for as much sci comm as possible and if they actually let me do it, I’m better for it. More info about the conference: biograds.wixsite.com/biograds

What a difference a year makes! I’ve grown so much thanks to my post-bacc opportunity and I can’t wait to see what’s to come in my graduate studies.

@lsuresearch.bsky.social Discover Day 2026: Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my research with the community!

Now in press @pnas.org! Thread below with some of this story's highlights and contributions. Excited to dig into all the cool questions this project generated about how the wound epidermis works during limb regeneration. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Enhancer-directed gene delivery for digit regeneration based on conserved epidermal factors | PNAS

Limb loss remains a significant clinical challenge, but regenerative medicine approaches such as gene therapy offer a promising strategy to trigger...

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Josh Currie@joshcurrie.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨 Thrilled to highlight this collab with David Brown at Duke @cutitoutdave.bsky.social and Ken Poss at UW Madison/Morgridge @kenposs.bsky.social. By comparing 3(!!) regenerating models we identify a conserved role for Sp-family TFs in appendage regeneration (and more).....🧵

Amazing photography by my co-mentor Dr. Emily Kane, a professor at University of Louisiana Lafayette.✨Reach out to her if you’re interested in getting professional photos of your model organisms for publications or just for fun. -Just Add Water photography justaddwater.picfair.com

Last week I had the opportunity to visit the Louisiana Sea Grant Oyster Research Lab in Grande Isle, LA with my LAGNiAppE cohort. Hanging out on the beach was a nice touch. www.laseagrant.org/outreach/aqu...

Preprint out! Salamanders harbor a hypersensitive mTOR, thought to enable their remarkable limb regeneration. But do you need a special mTOR to regrow appendages? In Polypterus, we find that a canonical mTOR pathway supports full appendage regeneration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is Methuselah, an Australian lungfish whom I first met at the Steinhart Aquarium in 1976. She is probably in her 90s, and has been at the Steinhart since 1938. I love her. 🐟👵

🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨 Thrilled to highlight this collab with David Brown at Duke @cutitoutdave.bsky.social and Ken Poss at UW Madison/Morgridge @kenposs.bsky.social. By comparing 3(!!) regenerating models we identify a conserved role for Sp-family TFs in appendage regeneration (and more).....🧵

Enhancer-directed gene delivery for digit regeneration based on conserved epidermal factors

Limb loss remains a significant clinical challenge, but regenerative medicine approaches such as gene therapy offer a promising strategy to trigger endogenous regeneration programs. Optimal vector con...

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DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply to Zebrafish Development and Genetics by March 2. This two-week course is designed advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent investigators. Financial aid is available. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/zebrafish

Breaking: Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook! Covered in @sciencenews.bsky.social by the amazing Elizabeth Pennisi Fav quote: "The red blood cell thing blew my mind." @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @ischneider.bsky.social

www.sciencenews.org/article/rege... @josanesousa.bsky.social @gabrielalima19.bsky.social @perezlouise.bsky.social @patyschneider22.bsky.social

Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook

The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.

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