@LaBonneLaB
@labonnelab.bsky.social
#DevBio Lab at NorthwesternU Studying Pluripotency, Neural Crest Stem Cells and the Evolution of Vertebrates. Recovering Former Dept. Chair, Diversity Advocate. Past President Society for Developmental Biology.
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This isn’t rocket science. America needs an opposition party willing to be an opposition party.
We do not currently have one.
We do not currently have one.
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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This is my city. I want you all to imagine it was your city because soon it might be. This is insane and terrifying.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is my city. I want you all to imagine it was your city because soon it might be. This is insane and terrifying.
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I think what is most flabbergasting about all of this is voters just overwhelming gave the Democratic Party a perfectly clear signal that they will be heavily rewarded for fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Schreiber said it would require years, and billions of dollars in additional funding, before the team would learn whether its model led to the production of any worthy drugs" oops the vanity project folded well before that and likely more to follow before long... www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/b...
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Schreiber said it would require years, and billions of dollars in additional funding, before the team would learn whether its model led to the production of any worthy drugs" oops the vanity project folded well before that and likely more to follow before long... www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/b...
Maybe because if the billionaires and venture capitalists who fund these vanity projects paid their fair share in taxes we could have the robustly funded public research enterprise the country needs?
We’ve been heads down @ArcadiaScience for a bit but the @arenabioworks news this week caused me to dump thoughts. hard things are hard; don’t be such a fucking hater. Reflections on parallels w our own institutional experiment here seemay.substack.com/p/big-experi...
Big experiments are only big if they can fail
Some reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist
seemay.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Maybe because if the billionaires and venture capitalists who fund these vanity projects paid their fair share in taxes we could have the robustly funded public research enterprise the country needs?
Not a bad place to work on a paper #libraries
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Not a bad place to work on a paper #libraries
#xenopus 🐸❤️
🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#xenopus 🐸❤️
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Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation.
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation.
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.”
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Loving my community right now
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Loving my community right now
He is an amazing scientist. But I cannot understand why he and others of his prominence are not speaking forcefully against the destruction of the is scientific research enterprise
Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research.
www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r...
(Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)
www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r...
(Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)
Brandeis University honors Fred Hutch molecular biologist
Dr. Steven Henikoff, a molecular biologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, has won the prestigious Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research from Brandeis University recognizing h...
www.fredhutch.org
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
He is an amazing scientist. But I cannot understand why he and others of his prominence are not speaking forcefully against the destruction of the is scientific research enterprise
On Halloween.
border patrol agents in four suvs spotted in the aldi/petsmart parking lot on oakton in evanston. greg bovino was reportedly there.
telemundo reporter jorge desantiago reports bovino + crew rolled up on a landscaping crew on a random evanston street (second photo). www.instagram.com/reel/DQeywgf...
telemundo reporter jorge desantiago reports bovino + crew rolled up on a landscaping crew on a random evanston street (second photo). www.instagram.com/reel/DQeywgf...
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
On Halloween.
To have a voice yet be silent about the destruction of the US scientific research enterprise by Trump and RFKjr is to be complicit. Funding some science on the side does not absolve that.
Priscilla Chan reveals the piece of health advice she ignores.
In the full interview, Chan discusses how she plans to cure all diseases by the end of the century, how she’s always been a nerd and why she almost transferred out of Harvard. 🎥 on.wsj.com/43o4O8S
In the full interview, Chan discusses how she plans to cure all diseases by the end of the century, how she’s always been a nerd and why she almost transferred out of Harvard. 🎥 on.wsj.com/43o4O8S
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
To have a voice yet be silent about the destruction of the US scientific research enterprise by Trump and RFKjr is to be complicit. Funding some science on the side does not absolve that.
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@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
"So here we are, with higher ed drifting toward insolvency, its leaders stuck in a corporate mindset that can’t pivot back to the actual mission: teaching, research, and public good." Yup
I don’t think most people (including academics) realize just how screwed American universities are right now. Yes, the Trump attacks hurt. But the deeper crisis comes from the slow rot of a corporate mindset in university leadership that traded mission for growth. Let’s talk about that.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"So here we are, with higher ed drifting toward insolvency, its leaders stuck in a corporate mindset that can’t pivot back to the actual mission: teaching, research, and public good." Yup
Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11
Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.
secure.actblue.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...
Um... Isn't your entire attack on universities premised (falsely) on "a bunch of kids" doing things you call antisemetic??!!🙄
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
October 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Um... Isn't your entire attack on universities premised (falsely) on "a bunch of kids" doing things you call antisemetic??!!🙄
This was fun! I enjoyed talking with you!!
📢 Our newest episode is out!
Daylon and Arun chat with Dr. Carole LaBonne from Northwestern University about her work understanding the genesis of #NeuralCrest stem cells at the level of signaling pathways and transcription factors.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
Daylon and Arun chat with Dr. Carole LaBonne from Northwestern University about her work understanding the genesis of #NeuralCrest stem cells at the level of signaling pathways and transcription factors.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qfiME4
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This was fun! I enjoyed talking with you!!
And that immigrants make us stronger
A timely reminder that investment in R&D fuels economic growth.
Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on technology-driven growth
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
And that immigrants make us stronger
The Naked Truth about Portlands "War Zone"
Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Naked Truth about Portlands "War Zone"
So nice (and rare) to see very prominant people pushing back
An excellent piece by Joachim Frank, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, about how we must resist the Trump Administration's crackdown on universities.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
So nice (and rare) to see very prominant people pushing back
Let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Let slip the frogs of war
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lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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We like our city Neat - NO ICE
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
We like our city Neat - NO ICE