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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12d

Neuroblastoma-associated ALK variants have distinct cellular and biochemical activities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.677354v1

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Embryology! Neural crest! Looking for a postdoc? Job closes 25 Aug. Informal enquiries welcome, and anyone hanging out at the Xenopus meeting come say hi. #mouse #human #development #neuralcrest #chromatin
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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

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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...

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Wow, International Xenopus Meeting (IXC25) -- Matt Guille and EXRC opens the meeting with old friends new science @xenbase.bsky.social xenopusresource.org/20th-interna...
#science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

The amazing Matt Guille opens the meeting

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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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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Jul 15

a pac man game with ghosts and a heart

ALT: a pac man game with ghosts and a heart

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Mar 30

Nice stripe action! 🦓

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 21

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum

With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Mar 25

Congrats to our very own Pleasantine Mill! Well deserved. 🐭 @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social go NMGN Congenital Anomalies Cluster

British Society for Developmental Biology @bsdb.bsky.social · Mar 6

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill!
bsdb.org/2025/03/05/2...

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British Society for Developmental Biology @bsdb.bsky.social · Mar 6

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill!
bsdb.org/2025/03/05/2...

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · Mar 21

We are looking forward to meeting everyone in Liverpool next week for our special 100-year anniversary conference. We have a busy, fun-filled programme. You can follow all the action from Biologists @ 100 at #biologists100. 100yearsconference.biologists.com

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Mar 21

Very excited to be working with @marcotrizzino.bsky.social on unravelling CHD3 function in craniofacial neural crest! Parallel human and mouse experiments & disease modelling 🐭🔬 with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social

Marco Trizzino @marcotrizzino.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thank you to @ukri.org MRC for awarding our grant on the role of CHD3 in neural crest/craniofacial development (and associated syndromes), together with the brilliant @karenjliu.bsky.social! And in collaboration with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Exciting times!

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Marco Trizzino @marcotrizzino.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thank you to @ukri.org MRC for awarding our grant on the role of CHD3 in neural crest/craniofacial development (and associated syndromes), together with the brilliant @karenjliu.bsky.social! And in collaboration with @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Exciting times!

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Mar 15

'NIH suggests that indirect and direct costs are substitutes when in reality they are complements: (...) If NIH puts more money into direct project funding, that funding generates additional indirect costs for more labs, more safety & compliance officers, and more buildings & their utility costs.'

Is flat 15% fair?

An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging

www.science.org

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Mar 13

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

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ccrb27.bsky.social @ccrb27.bsky.social · Mar 12

To celebrate International Women's Day we recorded a special podcast series, interviewing 6 different women with different roles in our department. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7GoTzSh...

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Anestis Tsakiridis @tsakiridis.bsky.social · Mar 6

I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

Understanding the genetic roots of aggressive childhood cancer: Research aims to improve Neuroblastoma treatment

Scientists have secured £1.5 million from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) to investigate the genetic secrets behind neuroblastoma - aiming to improve treatments for this aggressive childhood cancer.

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · Mar 4

GIVE THEM TRUNKS YOU COWARDS

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants

www.theguardian.com

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Rare Disease and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Lab @rdndlab.bsky.social · Feb 28

It's #RareDiseaseDay! Rare diseases are individually rare but collectively common, affecting 3.5 million people in the UK. Bring out your stripey socks to raise awareness #RareDisease #ShowYourStripes @medicsforrare.bsky.social
Find out more about RareDisease at www.m4rd.org www.rarediseaseday.org

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Feb 27

We have an opening for a Reviews Editor on Development. If you love developmental biology and its academic community, and have an interest in publishing and science communication, this could be the role for you. Full details here: www.biologists.com/wp-content/u...

www.biologists.com

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Karen J Liu @karenjliu.bsky.social · Feb 20

Yes, took me years to figure out that the appropriate response seems to be "'lright?" or some kind of "aye/you?" sound.

Although as a New Yorker, my instant response is "you lookin at me?!" followed immediately by "shit, they can see I'm a mess!"

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Marco Trizzino @marcotrizzino.bsky.social · Feb 15

New paper from our lab is out! We investigated the function of the NuRD subunit CHD3 in cranial neural crest specification. CHD3 variants are the cause of Snijder-Block-Campeau Syndrome, which manifests with craniofacial anomalies and intellectual disability 1/n

bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · Feb 15

CHD3 regulates BMP signalling response during cranial neural crest cell specification https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638260v1

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · Feb 4

Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5

wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · Feb 4

This, from @dereklowe.bsky.social, is a must-read overview of the state of play in US funding agencies www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org

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