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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 24d

Couldn't be more excited to work with editor Elizabeth Mitchell @harperonebooks.bsky.social on this dream project. And thanks to my agent, William Callahan at Inkwell Publishing for getting this going! 2/2

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 24d

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Sep 4

Somehow, i missed this paper during the pandemic, but... Wow. You know you've done something cool when the title of the paper has no verbs, no adjectives, no adverbs. Only nouns. Four of them.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Snake Venom Gland Organoids

Wnt dependency and Lgr5 expression define multiple mammalian epithelial stem cell types. Under defined growth factor conditions, such adult stem cells…

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 28

You made your choice, buddy. 🐟 You live with it.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 14

And Garland Allen's 1975 paper about the introduction of Drosophila into biology is essential reading. (If you get a paywall message, go to jstor, and the paper is freely available.) 3/3

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The Introduction of Drosophila into the Study of Heredity and Evolution: 1900-1910 | Isis: Vol 66, No 3

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 14

Woodworth's 1889 paper is a fun read. You can get it for free here: 2/3

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Studies on the Embryological Development of Euvanessa Antiopa

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 14

Everyone knows I suffer from Drosophila envy. I blame C.W. Woodworth. He studied the fly's embryos in W.E. Castle's lab; Castle would be the first to use them for genetics. The rest is history. Woodworth's gorgeous 1889 pictures of butterfly embryos are below. Enjoy! 1/3
@socdevbio.bsky.social

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 13

#genius

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 13

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 13

Interested in Science Communication? Love #devbiol? Apply for the @socdevbio.bsky.social SciComms Interns Program!

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Society for Developmental Biology | SDB Science Communication Internship

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is totally, totally awesome! Thanks to Mark Terasaki for this astounding gift to the education mission of @mblscience.bsky.social.

www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...

MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory

Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis [email protected]; 973.800.4119

www.mbl.edu

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 3

Lol. Saw that first without glasses on, thought it was a umap, got mad, put on glasses, and now i think maybe you've won this little competition!

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Aug 3

R.I.P Flaco Jimenez. 😥🪗

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

Flaco Jiménez, 86, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ok nerds, let's have fun. Thought experiment: NASA asks @socdevbio.bsky.social to provide a single image to be shot into space to tell the universe about #devbiol. Just one image. What is it? Waddington's landscape? Antennapedia? Spemann/Mangold's two-headed tadpole? What? Respond and RT, pls.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 29

Interested in science administration? Want to meet and work with senior members of the SDB? Want to help chart the future of the SDB? Then apply for the Strategic Planning Internship!
@socdevbio.bsky.social

www.sdbonline.org/strategic_pl...

Society for Developmental Biology | Strategic Planning Internship

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great opportunity here to build your skills and your professional network! Apply for the SciComm Interns program!
#devbiolwriteclub
@socdevbio.bsky.social

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: www.sdbonline.org/science_comm...

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 23

My university does this! They have pop-up writing sessions with dedicated rooms and coffee and snacks. Anyone who wants to can drop in and write with other people who are writing.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 23

Never! I do, however, write in one coffee shop until i need a break and then go to another coffee shop....where i start writing again. The details don't matter, what matters is that your find a way to get the writing in, day in, day out.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 20

wingful

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 19

Well done! And i'll totally buy you that drink! I don't get to Heidelberg often, but maybe we can at the @socdevbio.bsky.social next summer in Las Vegas?
anyway, I owe you!

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 19

One the best things about a life in science is that your heroes often become your friends. My entire career stems from two papers by Ray Keller and I'm just thrilled to have a new piece out with Rob Huebner highlighting those classic papers.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quantifying convergent extension: Shih and Keller's quintessential work in developmental cell biology

Few biological fields have become more intertwined in recent years than cell and developmental biology, a fact made clear by the departments of cell a…

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 17

Close! But this one's a bit later.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 17

And i'll buy a drink for the first trainee to correctly identify the source of this bitchin' schematic of how stem cells work.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 17

Don't know about y'all, but i am not scared of AI taking over the world. At least not today.

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Jul 15

Truth: I am writing the renewal for an NIH grant and i am totally, totally jazzed. Stoked to be doing science today. That is all.

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