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Sue @music5150.bsky.social · 4d

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · 10d

This is fucking nuts

@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 10d

Just a Sunday afternoon in the most touristy part of Chicago...😡

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 12d

“Pesto” and “pestle” share a linguistic ancestor: “pinsere,” which is Latin for “to crush.” This is a great time to harvest all your basil and think about your enemies.

a pic of my gorgeous pesto in my mortar, with the pestle laying next to it.

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations to the winners of our image competition with the @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course. The winner of the Editor’s choice is an image of a anole lizard eye, acquired by Arthur Boutillon @campaslab.bsky.social.
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
#devbio 🔬🎉

Development cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei (DAPI, blue) and F-actin (Phalloidin, orange), imaged by spinning disc confocal microscopy and processed using ImageJ. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

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Fantauzzo Lab @fantauzzolab.bsky.social · 20d

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 21d

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🧪

DB Special Issue highlights new insights into receptor tyrosine kinase signaling during development, with a focus on cell-cell interactions & signal transduction in the regulation of cell growth and division, differentiation & morphogenesis.

Submit here: tinyurl.com/RTKDevBio

Image showing a CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of Developmental Biology on "Receptor Tyrosine Kinase signaling in Development".

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Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social · 20d

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social
More info below ⬇️

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells

Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya

📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...

#DevBio

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21d

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23d

Free speech censorship
Political hit lists
Detentions w/o due process
Internment camps
Military in our streets
Corrupted law enforcement
Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions
MSM amplifying state propaganda

We are not barreling towards fascism.

We are in it.

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · 22d

And we’ve made it to the next level

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 22d

Lest you think the beginning of the ideological purge is bad, wait until they start checking political donation histories and only allow decent employment to those who give to The Party.

We used to run the country this way back in the 1800s, and it's more common than not in autocracies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Nancy Mace: "We're not dealing with sane people. They need to be dealt with boldly, strongly. I support everything Trump is saying and wanting to do ... that's why I'm working to root out the teachers and healthcare workers in South Carolina who celebrate murder. I don't want them around our kids."

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 24d

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism.
The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White
America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The
Department of Homeland Security boasted of
"the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced.
Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 24d

This is a good article (gift link) that effectively shows what's at stake and how the administration went about attacking NIH. I do have a quibble though... (1/7)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

www.nytimes.com

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · 26d

Wow. Is this real?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26d

Fox News' solution
for the homeless...

"Just kill them."

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 28d

How does the #cochlea achieve its spiral shape? @prakash-patterns.bsky.social @earlab.bsky.social &co show that the expression of adhesion & polarity proteins pattern the #OrganOfCorti and drive the compartment-specific organisation to achieve the cochlea spiral @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nmD8IW

Organ of Corti from a neonatal mouse stained for F-actin (green), a marker for HC, Myosin 7a (blue) and a marker for cilia, Arl13b (Magenta), combined with a schematic representing gradient-driven compartmentalisation of epithelia and interactions between the compartments (coupling) as the underlying mechanism of this organisation of OC.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 8

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 8

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

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Hans Clevers @hansclevers.bsky.social · Sep 6

1/11 In @science.org: A new perspective on how our intestines renew. Cells are not “pushed out” by crowding or die from apoptosis. Instead, cells play a mechanical tug-of-war, where weaker cells extrude, reframing gut renewal as force-regulated. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Epithelial tension controls intestinal cell extrusion

Cell extrusion is essential for homeostatic self-renewal of the intestinal epithelium. Extrusion is thought to be triggered by crowding-induced compression of cells at the intestinal villus tip. In th...

www.science.org

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Please be aware!

I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s been anything with any sort of foreign involvement, usually if question 6(?) on form is clicked yes. I’ve had a several K99/R00 apps pulled last 2 rounds because they have a Foreign collab offer to help with data analysis or even just “mentoring” but they didn’t include the justification doc

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Aaron Griffing @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social · Sep 5

New preprint from some of my postdoc work on lungs! Co-led with Kaleb Hill, we studied smooth muscle and epithelial development in lizard lungs. Stay tuned for more!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

brightfield images of three lizard embryos of approximately the same developmental stage. Below each embryo image is an immunofluorescence image labeling E-cadherin (green) and alpha-smooth muscle actin (magenta) of their developing lungs

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · Sep 5

RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.

"I can already see children getting healthier," he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. "The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking."

His left ear drops off.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · Sep 5

You can now sign up for the lottery to speak at the next mtg of RFK's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice 9/18-9/19. Especially since they removed med orgs as liaisons, this is the only way they will receive critical feedback.

www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...

ACIP Meeting Public Comment | Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | CDCMinushome

ACIP Meetings: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

www2.cdc.gov

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh ffs

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 3

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs — and their owners — becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · Sep 3

In the judgement

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Linda Barlow @bizzarlow.bsky.social · Aug 27

What a time to be alive, honestly

J @soylentc0la.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 25

WARNING WARNING WARNING

#ResearchAdmini

I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.

a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it

ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it

media.tenor.com

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