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Fantauzzo Lab @fantauzzolab.bsky.social · 7d

Half of the lab attended #SCGDB2025 and had a great time! @ecbrooks96.bsky.social

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15d

A recent report from Louisiana shows us what we already know: noncitizens voting is not a problem. Election safeguards work.

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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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 3

Breaking News: In a win for Harvard University, a judge said that the government broke the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds.

Judge Issues Ruling Helpful to Harvard in Case Against Trump

Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.

nyti.ms

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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · Sep 1

A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.31.673339v1

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Evan C. Brooks, Ph.D. @ecbrooks96.bsky.social · Aug 31

Me, currently writing a paper on a topic that I’m still learning about while on a healthier diet plan (aka less amounts of my usual cheat snacks that helped me write my dissertation)

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 27

🎉 The Midwest SDB Regional Meeting is happening soon! Join at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for exciting developmental biology from across the Midwest. 🧬 Registration deadline: September 2nd ✨. More information here: www.midwestsdbincincy.org #MIDWESTSDB25

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · Aug 18

For my next story with @thexylom.com, I'm looking to interview researchers and science professionals who have left the U.S. for Asia due to Trump. They can be Asian nationals who returned to their home countries, or Americans who are seeking greener pastures overseas.

Please email or DM me!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Aug 12

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Aug 11

🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · Aug 7

ChatGPT is not a PhD-level expert because it coughs up fake citations and frequently doesn’t know what the hell it’s talking about to the extent that I’d expect a PhD-level expert to.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7

OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’

OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.

nbcnews.to

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Andrea Constant @andreaconstant.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’m excited to share our new article in AJPH exploring how perceived authenticity is a protective mechanism against the negative impacts of racial discrimination, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation, among young Black men.

Access the article here: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 🙂

Authenticity, Racial Discrimination, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation Among Young Black Men, United States, 2024 | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 9

Objectives. To examine how perceived authenticity may buffer the impact of racial discrimination on depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among young Black/African American men. Methods. In 2024, ...

ajph.aphapublications.org

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social

thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node

The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...

thenode.biologists.com

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Brugmann Lab @brugmannlab.bsky.social · Aug 4

Join us for the Midwest SDB Meeting in Cincinnati.
Abstract submission deadlines:
For talk consideration: 8/7/25
For poster: 8/22/25
Registration deadline: 9/2/25

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CU Craniofacial Bio @cu-cfb.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are currently seeking to hire a new faculty member at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor to join our collegial, research-intensive Department. Job posting: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Open Rank- Associate Professor, Professor

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

cu.taleo.net

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Evan C. Brooks, Ph.D. @ecbrooks96.bsky.social · Jul 30

Real adulthood is asking for money for a new tooth (aka dental implant) for my birthday and Christmas this year lmao

18 year old me would’ve never thought that I’d be asking for that at 28 lol

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SCGDB @scgdb.bsky.social · Jul 21

Registration and abstract submission are open for the SCGDB annual meeting in Minneapolis! Deadlines: 8/25 abstract for short talk, 9/7 abstract for poster, 9/7 registration. More information at scgdb.org.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Science is a process, not an output" would look mighty fine crocheted

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jul 21

Science isn’t the output. Science is the method that is formalized as the output. But ya know.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 21

people need to take more responsibility for “we literally made it illegal for teenagers to hang out outside of the house or school”

jb @fairytaleteacup.bsky.social · Jul 21

Imagine bemoaning lower teen drinking? And not discussing the fact we have no third spaces, accepted teen hangout locations or a busted economy? Must be the cats man

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 21

“The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species.”

The pet lives in her house, DEREK.

Do you think that female pet owner has to text her cat, who is in her house, 15 times to make plans, DEREK

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · Jul 8

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · Jun 17

I am so grateful to @hypothesisfund.bsky.social for this honor. I am excited about the work we will be doing to decode the decisions that cells make:
Should they stay or should they go? Phenomenal to be chosen alongside @drstarbird.bsky.social! 🤩 #DevBio #CellBio #NeuralCrest

A cross section through a developing chicken embryo brain with neural crest cells in green and the cell skeleton in pink and blue

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · Jun 12

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · May 29

Not that it matters, but my MOSAIC was scored a 14. Reviewed in study section w non-MOSAIC K99s. I'm to write another grant that may not be funded, that doesn't provide transition to faculty funds, instead of doing the work that was reviewed so highly?

That's the best use of time & tax payer money?

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 29

Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here...

Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?

Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · May 28

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge.

"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · May 29

the modern information environment

Google search "do apples contain lycopene?" The AI overview says "No, apples do not contain lycopene" whereas the highlighted search result begins "Apples contain lycopene"

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · May 28

I no longer have the right to free speech and I have to show my papers to heavily armed ICE officers every time I cross the street. But I can still own an AR-15 and that is what freedom really means.

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