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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · 7d

Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!

Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 7d

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · Jul 30

For the life of me, I cannot fathom the rationale for any of this. Utter wanton destruction of one of the best research ecosystems in the world.

Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · Jul 29

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

www.wsj.com

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · Jul 28

Cool! I hope it goes well! I had a good experience with our recent submission

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Meera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · Jul 17

There is so much cool #aECM work going on but most of the researchers don’t know or talk to each other; this is an attempt to change that! Link below

Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · Jul 16

... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · Jul 16

Am so excited about this series. The virtual worm skin workshop was one of the best meetings for my lab and getting more model systems will be🔥

Pujol lab @pujol-lab.bsky.social · Jul 16

... a new virtual seminar series on apical extracellular matrix #aECM on different #organisms 🪱🪰🐁🌱🦠will start in Fall 2025, with short talks and discussions
If you are interested
👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97
@meera-sundaram.bsky.social @gotworms.bsky.social @heiman.bsky.social

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 6

Catching up with documenting #worm25! Here, the worm public eagerly awaits the Worm Show with beverages courtesy of genetics-friend S. cerevisiae.
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(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Meera Sundaram @meera-sundaram.bsky.social · Jul 8

Catching up on more #aECM at #worm25 by watching the online videos: Physiology1 Talk23 from Jonathan Hodgkin provided evidence that, via social interactions, worms can transfer surface glycans (« BIM ») between each other to affect pathogen sensitivity. So cool!

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · Jul 1

Better late than never, made it to #Worm25 late last night. Such a great morning catching up with old friends and seeing some great science!

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · May 18

So happy to hear this! I’ve supposedly got an R35 selected for funding but the NOA is taking forever. Moving forward and hoping for the best

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