Crystal Rogers, PhD
@rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @diffjournal.bsky.social. Posts are my own. https://www.crystalrogersphd.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
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Who am I if I’m not a #DevelopmentalBiologist? A (long) thread. Today on my re-introduction to BlueSky, I would like to tell you how I got here. I am a #FirstGen college attendee and graduate. I was raised in a single-parent household. We struggled financially when I was growing up. 1/
Huge thanks to Dr. AJ Hinton, the Microscopy Society of America, and Early Career Committee for the invitation to speak in this series! My talk will kick the series off on Monday at 10:30 PT/1:30 ET with several talks over the rest of the month (first two weeks featured here)! 🔬🧬
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Huge thanks to Dr. AJ Hinton, the Microscopy Society of America, and Early Career Committee for the invitation to speak in this series! My talk will kick the series off on Monday at 10:30 PT/1:30 ET with several talks over the rest of the month (first two weeks featured here)! 🔬🧬
Please check this out! It is an awesome course that was created to help postdoctoral fellows prepare their job materials and interview skills! Lots of excellent information and guidance. The job market is hyper competitive right now so every leg up helps! 👀
#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Please check this out! It is an awesome course that was created to help postdoctoral fellows prepare their job materials and interview skills! Lots of excellent information and guidance. The job market is hyper competitive right now so every leg up helps! 👀
This is phenomenal news and I am excited to be a faculty member in the newly renamed, UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine! 🎉 @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
UC Davis has received a $120M gift—the largest ever made to veterinary medicine—from Joan and Sanford I. Weill. Our school is now the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine, launching a bold new era with truly limitless impact for animal and human health. www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
UC Davis Receives $120M Gift, Largest Ever to Veterinary Medicine
UC Davis Receives $120M Gift, Largest Ever to Veterinary Medicine from philanthropists Joan and Sanford I. Weill.
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January 28, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This is phenomenal news and I am excited to be a faculty member in the newly renamed, UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine! 🎉 @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
Please check out these amazing women! They are fantastic scientists, committed mentors, supportive friends and honestly super stars! 🤩@bradylabs.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social
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2 First-Gen Scientists on Curiosity, Community and Discovery
Megan Dennis, associate professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, and Siobhan Brady, professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Genome Center, are more than an just office neighbors ...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Please check out these amazing women! They are fantastic scientists, committed mentors, supportive friends and honestly super stars! 🤩@bradylabs.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social
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Friends, we are past the point of, “it’s too hard for me to watch, it’s too much for my mental health.” Please watch the videos. They are scary and devastating but you need to prepare yourselves because this violence won’t stay in Minnesota. My heart breaks for those who have been harmed and killed.
January 24, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Friends, we are past the point of, “it’s too hard for me to watch, it’s too much for my mental health.” Please watch the videos. They are scary and devastating but you need to prepare yourselves because this violence won’t stay in Minnesota. My heart breaks for those who have been harmed and killed.
Is anyone else having incredible angst about whether or not their labs will continue to be able to do science? I submit-revise-resubmit grants and hope upon hope something with get funded so I can continue to have a lab, but I get waves of panic and sadness over the current state of things. 😢🧬🔬
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January 22, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Is anyone else having incredible angst about whether or not their labs will continue to be able to do science? I submit-revise-resubmit grants and hope upon hope something with get funded so I can continue to have a lab, but I get waves of panic and sadness over the current state of things. 😢🧬🔬
Friends… today I drank enough caffeine to pull an all nighter in Vegas and drank almost zero water… ouch. 😖 0/10. Do not recommend.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Friends… today I drank enough caffeine to pull an all nighter in Vegas and drank almost zero water… ouch. 😖 0/10. Do not recommend.
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
January 21, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Thank you to @labonnelab.bsky.social for sharing this and fighting for science! The way things are going- I have no idea if I will ever get scientifically funding again. I will keep trying but if I’m not politically favored- is it futile? 💔
I explained the dangers of the recent politicization of grant reviews at NIH for The Hill, and also that while diversity otherwise remains a bad word, geographic diversity is somehow laudable.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Thank you to @labonnelab.bsky.social for sharing this and fighting for science! The way things are going- I have no idea if I will ever get scientifically funding again. I will keep trying but if I’m not politically favored- is it futile? 💔
Yes please for my shoulders and hips… 😩
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Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis
A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Yes please for my shoulders and hips… 😩
Anyway, none of my clothes fit so I assume someone came in over the break while I was wearing sweatpants everyday and shrunk all my jeans and dress pants. No idea how to catch the person that did this to me. 😂😭😬
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January 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Anyway, none of my clothes fit so I assume someone came in over the break while I was wearing sweatpants everyday and shrunk all my jeans and dress pants. No idea how to catch the person that did this to me. 😂😭😬
Any of my neurodevelopmental connections looking for an opportunity? The @ucdavis.bsky.social MIND Institute is hiring “Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research,” where translational is defined broadly! Please check it out! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07378
Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research, MIND Institute
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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January 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Any of my neurodevelopmental connections looking for an opportunity? The @ucdavis.bsky.social MIND Institute is hiring “Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research,” where translational is defined broadly! Please check it out! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07378
Really bad day for the eduroam WiFi to go out on campus… 🫠
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January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Really bad day for the eduroam WiFi to go out on campus… 🫠
Here we go again! Have a wonderful first week back to academia everyone!
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January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Here we go again! Have a wonderful first week back to academia everyone!
So many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them.
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
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January 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
So many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them.
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
Happy new year everyone! I don’t know about everyone else but 2025 was rough for me. I hope that 2026 is a better year. Looking forward to starting out the new year with positivity and renewed purpose.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Happy new year everyone! I don’t know about everyone else but 2025 was rough for me. I hope that 2026 is a better year. Looking forward to starting out the new year with positivity and renewed purpose.
In case anyone needs a smile… I dressed up sweet Roxie the Bulldog in several outfits over the Christmas holiday and she patiently wore them without protest- even the Santa hat!
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In case anyone needs a smile… I dressed up sweet Roxie the Bulldog in several outfits over the Christmas holiday and she patiently wore them without protest- even the Santa hat!
Happy holidays from Chonk, Princess Bubblegum, and the rest of the axolotls! Does anyone study axolotl vision? They always move to the front of the tank to see me when I wear red or have red nails. 😍
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy holidays from Chonk, Princess Bubblegum, and the rest of the axolotls! Does anyone study axolotl vision? They always move to the front of the tank to see me when I wear red or have red nails. 😍
Happy holidays from our lab to yours! Wishing you a peaceful and/or productive holiday season. Whichever one you need the most! 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy holidays from our lab to yours! Wishing you a peaceful and/or productive holiday season. Whichever one you need the most! 🎄
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
Holy jeez…. Starting this week with 6AM Monday rescheduled study section due to a 40+ day govt shutdown, middling with new NIH common forms that are buggy, and ending the week with “SURPRISE” Friday jury duty text/email from a summons I never received is peak 2025. Like… 2025 is 2025ing to the end.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Holy jeez…. Starting this week with 6AM Monday rescheduled study section due to a 40+ day govt shutdown, middling with new NIH common forms that are buggy, and ending the week with “SURPRISE” Friday jury duty text/email from a summons I never received is peak 2025. Like… 2025 is 2025ing to the end.
Grateful for the @diffjournal.bsky.social community in 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted, reviewed, edited, and attended our @intlsocdiff.bsky.social Differentiation Across Scales Virtual Seminars. We welcome new submissions, support no-cost pub options, and encourage preprints. On to 2026!
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Grateful for the @diffjournal.bsky.social community in 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted, reviewed, edited, and attended our @intlsocdiff.bsky.social Differentiation Across Scales Virtual Seminars. We welcome new submissions, support no-cost pub options, and encourage preprints. On to 2026!
Congratulations to Raneesh on a successful poster presentation and for representing @sarathomasy.bsky.social’s group and my group so well! We are very proud!
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Congratulations to Raneesh on a successful poster presentation and for representing @sarathomasy.bsky.social’s group and my group so well! We are very proud!