Beth P
@pickettphd.bsky.social
Geek by nature, nerd by profession, rabid reader by choice. Will dance if there's a beat. Will sing along if I know the words. Periodic crocheter. She/her/hers.
This, the preceding posts, and the replies have brought me joy tonight.
Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2d agoFae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
Just finished watching Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025 film) and really liked it. I never saw the stage version, so if you have seen both please let me know how they compare.
Wanna learn something wild about avocados?
Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
BIOL2281 - Intro Bio Lab experiment this week is enzyme kinetics so that means it’s time for the famous “stampase” demo during the lecture.
Wonderful #2026SDB meeting! Why did past me book an 8am flight home?
Fantastic morning talks in miRNA regulation of animal development, post2b limitation of planarian body size, and segmental identity of frontonasal cranial neural crest cells. #2026SDB
So many great talks and posters today at #2026SDB! I’m nearly saturated with science but there’s room for a little more. Bring on Plenary Session III: Regeneration.
Enjoyed the morning session, managed to successfully snag a chocolate chip scone from among the raisins during break, and now I am ready for these talks! #2026SDB
Crystal Rogers, PhD@rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease join us on Saturday at #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social for the Special Interest Symposium, “Understanding the Spectrum of exposure impacts on development.” We will be joined by Drs. Ben Lovely, Krist Antunes Fernandes @kristantunes.bsky.social, and Clement Chow @clementychow.bsky.social. 🤩
Let’s hear about some Gene Regulatory Networks. First talk is Veronica Hinman to tell us about Integration of wound signaling into a gene regulatory network driving neural regeneration in a sea star. #2026SDB
I’ve been relaying some of the jokes and funny slides from the talks to DH. He was surprised (and happy) that many of us developmental biologists don’t take ourselves too seriously. Allow me to introduce the current president of SDB, Dr. Richard Behringer:
Time for Plenary Session I: New Genetic Models. First talk is Amro Hamdum from Scripps presenting “Building a better sea urchin.” #2026SDB
Whoever did the catering order for morning coffee break understands what the people want: full on cupcakes, not muffins. Lots of the developmental biologists are now riding sugar highs into the second session. #2026SDB
Starting the morning at the Evolution and Comparative Biology talks. Bat aging, cavefish gastrointestinal evolution, plant armature, Fox1 transcription factors in chordates, and the 1st androgen receptor ko reptile. #2026SDB
Having breakfast in the Hollywood Cafe at Planet Hollywood and the music is delightfully jumping around. Ed Sheeran’s Shivers was just followed by NC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This.
Enjoyed reading this discussion while having breakfast. This type of conversation is why I love it here.
Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · 2w agoI feel like I spent all of grad school discussing scenes in Molière plays that have a "témoin caché" (hidden witness)—like, someone is hiding under a table on stage, and the audience knows—and now I am not sure if we say this in English? who here knows about English-language theatre
Time for some synthetic biology from “Genetic Gymnast” (per Richard Behringer) Nicholas Desnoyer of The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK, presenting “Flower fertilization and design.”
Getting ready for shark week with Gareth Fraser from University of Florida presenting “Lessons from the embryological past: Endless possibilities in (nearly) half a billion years of cranial diversity.” #2026SDB
First talk is “To sting or not to sting: Investigating the origin and diversification of cnidocytes”, Leslie Babonis, Cornell University #2026SDB
There is someone at the opening #2026SDB talks (the Presidential Symposium) wearing an axolotl onesie. 😍
Heading to the airport to get to #2026SDB in Las Vegas! My posts are about to get extra science-ey.
Bill Nye's Enthusiastic Science Exclamation
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🎵 One more dawn One more day One day more!🎵
Society for Developmental Biology@socdevbio.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨 1 DAY until #2026SDB! 🪰 That’s about how long it takes a Drosophila embryo to develop and hatch into a larva. A lot can happen in 24 hours, and tomorrow, the developmental biology community comes together in Las Vegas! 🧬🎰
Not quite a ferret heist, but I'll take it! youtu.be/Mi_fYfpycT0?...
We can't invent a robot better than these ferrets
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