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Ginger Hunter
@flysci.bsky.social
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Asst Prof of Biology at Howard University, fly pusher, runner, and lapsed musician. 🇰🇷🇺🇲🪰 she/her https://sites.google.com/view/hunterlabhu/
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
🧪🪰We are hiring, please help us get the word out! The official ads will be up very soon & I'll link to them later.
My lab is looking to recruit/hire at all levels:
1. A technician/post-bacc researcher to start ~fall 2026
2. A postdoc to start sometime in 2026
3. At least one graduate student (RA)
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · 8d
Interesting
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Biomedical Research Environment & Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) Program | National Institute of General Medical Sciences
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16d
Humans: Ah, the human brain, a masterpiece of evolution, truly we are so creative and problemsolving and artistic and smart we are the BEST.

Also humans: NOW, how do I make sure I literally never, ever have to think.
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Tiffany Zarrella @tiffzarrella.bsky.social · 17d
DMV-area microbiologists! The ASM DC Branch/CAFPA Fall meeting is Fri Oct 17th at Howard U ft. keynote speaker Dr. Ed Dudley from Penn State. Abstracts for short and lightning talks from trainees is encouraged! Due by Sept 26 - for more info and to sign-up: www.washingtondcasm.org/2025-fall-me...
2025 Fall Meeting for the ASM Washington, D.C. Branch
Information on the Fall Meeting for ASM Washington, D.C. Branch. The meeting will be October 17, 2025 at Howard University.
www.washingtondcasm.org
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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 22d
Open science is more than just datasets. It's also opening access to scientific facilities and pipelines.

OpenScope allows researchers from around the world to pitch experiments to be run – at not cost to them – in the Allen Brain Observatory.

#OpenScienceWeek

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The World's Observatory of the Mind | OpenScope
YouTube video by Allen Institute
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CNN @cnn.com · 27d
Multiple Historically Black Universities and Colleges in the South were on lockdown or have cancelled classes on Thursday over a potential threat.
Potential threats trigger lockdowns at several HBCUs across the South | CNN
Multiple historically Black colleges and universities in the South were on lockdown or cancelled classes on Thursday over potential threats.
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Omar Quintero-Carmona, PhD @omqu.bsky.social · 29d
The @alleninstitute.org is organizing an "Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education" workshop on the Friday before the Cellbio25 meeting in Philadelphia. Check out this link for more information and to apply.

alleninstitute.org/events/open-...
Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education
Join the Open Science & Authentic Research in Undergraduate Education Workshop in Philadelphia, PA on December 5, 2025.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 8
1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision.

It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all.

Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?
House HHS Appropriations Bill Would Devastate Trans Adult Healthcare Nationwide
The bill would bar federal funding for any "social, psychological, behavioral, or medical intervention" to treat gender dysphoria.
www.erininthemorning.com
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 8
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DC Student Walk Out — Free DC
DC college students demand an end to Trump's occupation of DC that is putting us, our peers and our neighbors at risk. Campus administrations must refuse to comply with Trump. Congress must refuse to ...
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
I took my kid to the National Aquarium this weekend and discovered my new favorite animal, the Cowfish. OMG THE PATTERNS! those perfect little hexagons! gorgeous fishy friend
a picture of a Cowfish, whose body is covered in multiple different patterns of pigment.
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
well, now I feel old! I hope you enjoy your year - sounds like a wonderful plan.
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
I’ll (hopefully) be at CellBio2025 & ABRCMS recruiting this fall if anyone wants to chat in person.
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
Potential grad students: we have funds for RAs (you would not necessarily need to TA unless that helps you with your career goals). All grad applicants would need to apply through the Graduate School at Howard University. Please get in touch with me before you send in your application!
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
We are a developmental and cell biology lab at Howard University in Washington DC that studies biological pattern formation, cell-cell communication, and cell morphogenesis using the fruit fly as a model system.

Please have folks get in touch me (DM or see our lab website in my profile).
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Sep 2
🧪🪰We are hiring, please help us get the word out! The official ads will be up very soon & I'll link to them later.
My lab is looking to recruit/hire at all levels:
1. A technician/post-bacc researcher to start ~fall 2026
2. A postdoc to start sometime in 2026
3. At least one graduate student (RA)
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · Aug 21
Calling all @apsphysiology.bsky.social members: let’s help raise some money to support ABRCMS student presentation awards! Goal is $1200/discipline to support 12 awards by Sept 30th! 🧪 abrcms.org/donate/stude...
ABRCMS Fundraising - Student Presentation Awards - ABRCMS
Judges – Help Us Raise Funds for Student Presentation Awards Thank you for your service as a judge at ABRCMS. Your dedication has helped shape the future of countless student scientists, and we’re dee...
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Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center @bdsc.bsky.social · Aug 15
FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · Aug 4
World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Jul 31
IMPORTANTLY: This research would not be possible without federal funds. Our collab started when we volunteered to co-mentor undergrads in a Math-Biology REU (NSF). Dr Asante-Asamani and I both are PIs on NIH awards. Federal support of fundamental STEM research is critical!
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Jul 31
This is has been a fun collaboration including the times when we were doing a lot of hard work and deep thinking to explore new avenues that turned out just to be a fancy and complicated way of measuring density :)
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Jul 31
We teamed up with Dr Asante-Asamani's group in Math to tackle this issue and try to develop ways to analyze and classify wild type and disrupted patterns using machine learning. We identified 4 clustering features that were useful in classifying patterns from wild type and RNAi-expressing tissues.
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Jul 31
It’s not so bad to describe when there are no bristles at all, or if there are too many bristles. But is that it? Besides even a ‘wild type pattern’ is a range of different organizations, not a fixed target.
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Jul 31
My group studies the sensory bristle array on the thorax of the fly and one challenge of our work is quantifying the pattern. Lots of mutations affect the pattern. But how exactly do they affect it?
close up image of the dorsal thorax of a fruit fly, covered in sensory bristles
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Ginger Hunter @flysci.bsky.social · Jul 31
New pre-print!

I’m so excited to share the first work from a great collaboration with Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani's group (Mathematics, Clarkson University).
Quantifying bristle cell organization in Drosophila melanogaster
Developing tissues reproduce nearly identical patterns from animal to animal, despite the process being stochastic at the cell level. A major challenge for researchers is the ability to quantify and c...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jul 30
Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!!

Message from ACLU team below:

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