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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · 19d

hit me up if you ever needed a floppy-to-USBA reader! (my dad was aghast when they took floppy drives out of laptops, so ensured that I would never be stuck unable to access the files I created ca 1997.)

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 25d

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪

This was Week 34:
- UC Berkeley feeds the administration a list of targets
- Dept of Ed rescinds $350M from minority serving institutions
- faculty firings at Texas A&M

& so (SO) much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Week 34

Sept 6-12, 2025 - the purpose of a parachute

buttondown.com

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today was the Lee lab's (only slightly late) end-of-summer & also start-of-semester lab celebration! We celebrated everyone's hard work with sunshine, turtles, goats, and of course, ice cream at Great Brook Farm State Park. Here's to another great year with @kcs-umasslowell.bsky.social!
🤓🌞🐢🐐🍨🧬

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Sep 4

🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥

🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥

Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
#ImpeachTheQuack
@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fly labs — Now is the time to show some solidarity and chip in support for this vital resource!

clip art of Drosophila flies at different life stages

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Aug 14

I love this idea for helping trainees learn how to become project closers & get their data all wrapped up and ready to publish 🎁 - can't wait to implement this ice-cream challenge for our next hot science summer!

Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am proud of my #NewPI activity this summer so I want to #humblebrag about a little.

Many of my students had results, but weren't making graphs and writing like they needed to 📊.

So, at the beginning of the summer, I issued a Publishable Pieces challenge: 10 PPs for lab 🍨 outing.

They did it!

A bar graph showing different people on the x axis with colored bars above them. The numbers add up to 10 across the bars

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Reskeeting with Alt Text so everyone can read this quote from Tressie McMillan Cottom in the NY Times

Tressie McMillan Cottom quote in the (presumably) NY Times: "Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn't that it's going to make educators useless, but that it is going to make educators much more necessary than we are willing to invest in.

"A.I. actually makes it more important that we have everything from librarians to counselors to teachers to professors to researchers who can put this rapidly changing information environment into context and can develop the capacity in students to make sense of things."

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Ethan (Chee Kiang) Ewe @ethanewe.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 26

Time for the 3rd annual summer Mondoux-Lee-Vieux mind-meld! (just more proof that worm-friends are the best friends🪱🤗)
New PI Karl-Frederic Vieux hosted Michelle Mondoux & the Lee lab at WPI for a day full of fun, facility tours, burgers, and SO many talks about gametogenesis - thank you Vieux lab!

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 26

I loved having this convo with @genetics-gsa.bsky.social's Early Career Leadership program! 🤓🪱🧬These trainees had *such* insightful questions about leading a team & navigating a research career 🙌

Dr. Jessica Vélez 🍄 🇵🇷 @microbiojess.bsky.social · Jul 23

Check out my incredible colleague @snickclunk.bsky.social's new @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Leadership Dialogue interview on her journey across diverse academic environments! You are such an inspiration and represent #worm25 so well! youtu.be/_4rQZ-ho2GM?...

Leadership Dialogue Series: Teresa Lee

YouTube video by Genetics Society of America

youtu.be

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 15

After #worm25 comes a @katzlab.bsky.social & friends reunion in Napa Valley, enjoying the great weather & wine & company! 🪱🍷 Featuring new PIs Brandon Carpenter & Jadiel Wasson who enjoy never giving their former PI a break from the shenanigans when he takes a lil wine nap in the shade.

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 8

you might find this spreadsheet of postdoc funding opportunities helpful (they keep it updated too): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities | VPR at JHU

research.jhu.edu

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Lee lab's back from #worm25 with new friends, new tips, and new ideas... another epic meeting in the books!
Thanks to those who came by to hear about our latest work (as shown below, Tahreem & Marybeth were both kept busy at their posters!).
Can't wait to catch up with everyone at #worm27!!!

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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.
🪱🍻
(including @gotworms.bsky.social, @jschisa.bsky.social, & @katzlab.bsky.social!)

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 2

A wormy tradition is the trading of meeting badges at the last night party 🪱🎉
I know I've made it as a PI bc #worm25 is the first time a trainee specifically asked for mine!
Meet @ahnaskop.bsky.social (aka Kareem in @drohsopretty.bsky.social lab) & @rnareylab.bsky.social (aka @giosg.bsky.social)

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 2

Worm folks are the best folks!! And the proof lies in the twenty year tradition of WORM SHOW on the last night (all thanks to the heroic efforts of Morris Maduro & Curtis Loer)
🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 1

#worm25 is greatly missing the enthusiasm of @ethanewe.bsky.social at this meeting! He gave a great virtual talk this morning, featuring a hot-off-the-presses story from his postdoc in the Rechavi lab. 🤩
He's also applying for faculty jobs this cycle, so keep an eye out for his application! 🙌

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hitched a ride to the #worm25 poster session last night with Villenueve lab folks & Villenueve lab F2 @cahooncori.bsky.social, and lookit what we found in the parking lot! 🪱🪱🪱

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 1

Audience participation! What a genius idea!!

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Meiosis is mysterious and dangerous." 🧬🪱

#worm25 gets to celebrate our keynote speaker Anne Villenueve, introduced by JoAnne Engebrecht for her creativity, clarity, & compassion, along with the many contributions her lab has made to chromosome biology. 🙌

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Carlos Giovanni Silva-García @giosg.bsky.social · Jun 30

It was such an amazing workshop!! An enjoyable experience organizing this!! Thank you very much to all wonderful speakers and to you, Teresa @snickclunk.bsky.social for joining this!! Let’s make more!! 🪱🔬🧬

Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jun 29

Great catching up with everyone at #worm25!

If you're planning tomorrow's schedule, consider our workshop: @giosg.bsky.social & I have invited 5 folks who think differently about health and aging (incl ‪@rnareylab.bsky.social‬ & @scharflab.bsky.social). We promise you'll leave with new ideas! 🪱

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Liz Ronan, PhD @elizabithian.bsky.social · Jun 30

“Do you have any advice for aspiring young scientists?”

“Do genetics.” *mic drop*

#worm25

Baris Tursun @baristursun.bsky.social · Jun 30

Fantastic Nobel Moment at #worm25 with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.

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Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · Jun 30

What a treat! #worm25 gets to hear the latest Nobel laureates, Victor Ambrose & Gary Ruvkin, reflect on their discovery of microRNAs, our supportive worm community, and the impact of curiosity-driven science. 🪱🎉
@lcochella.bsky.social is moderating, but once they get going, they're on a roll!

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Buck Samuel 🪱🦠🧬🔬 @microbeminded.bsky.social · Jun 29

For #worm25, here are updated lists of 200+ researchers for the #Celegans community to easily follow:

C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (50+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG

==> Reply to this if you'd like to be added!

cc: @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

#CeleganSky 🪱 🧪 1/n

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wormatlas.bsky.social @wormatlas.bsky.social · Jun 28

WormAtlas will have a booth at the Worm Meeting during the poster sessions. Please stop by to see what is new and to enter our t-shirt giveaway. We have some free pens as well! #worm25

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