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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

That's right, folk! THREE TENURE TRACK JOBS IN BIOLOGY AT UMASS BOSTON! You might even be a good fit for more than one! Check 'em out! We'd love to have you!

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

www.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 2d

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

Ink paintings of mitosis in drosophila embryos were a little too niche for the art festival crowd, but I know my Blooskies will love them #sciart 🧪🪰 www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 20d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday morning, waiting for kid's soccer game, is a great time to indulge in the lowest form of humor:

LAB HAIKU!

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Does anyone know
whose PCR is in there?
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 8d

Identification of optimal fluorophores for use in the Drosophila embryo by Timothy E Saunders and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Figure 1: Fluorophore intensity in the Drosophila blastoderm (n.c. 14). Comparison of (A) green and (B) red fluorescence intensity using the same intensity scaling in n.c. 14. The fluorescence signal did
not saturate. Shown are single imaging planes. Normalised histograms of fluorescence intensity for green (C) and red (D) fluorophores averaged across at least n=3 embryos per line. Scale bars = 20 μm

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 8d

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

Graph showing total R35+R01 awards issued by NIGMS from 2020 to 2025. R01 in black showing a steep decline. R35 showing an increase. Total awards in 2025 slightly up from 2024 but these years are lower than 2020-2023

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Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · 9d

That thought crossed my mind as well!

Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible sunset in Boston today

A view of colorful sunset in Boston, from a highway

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · 13d

📢 We are hiring! Assistant Professor in Genetics position is open at @umassboston.bsky.social, to begin September 1, 2026. Apply and join our vibrant Biology department research program!
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/en-us/job/52...

Page Up - UMass Boston

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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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Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · 18d

We determined the crystal structure of the DNA binding domain of the transcriptional repressor Capicua (CIC) in complex with its binding site. We explore how cancer-relevant mutations affect the binding, and how the binding specificity of the HMG box is aided by the C1 domain.

Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · 18d

I am excited to share that our collaborative project with the Daniel Dowling lab @umassboston.bsky.social and Gerardo Jimenez @ibmb-csic.bsky.social has been published!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnpp3SNvc... (gift link active for 50 days)

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Yogesh Goyal @goyallab.bsky.social · 20d

**POSTDOC POSITION** My lab (www.goyallab.org) at Northwestern and CZ Biohub Chicago looking for a postdoctoc in quantitative biology. We work on a range of topics, including single-cell cancer plasticity, modeling single-cell perturbations, theory, and stem-embryo models. contact via email. Pls RT

Goyal Lab

www.goyallab.org

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Shashank Shekhar lab @sshekhr.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.

RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected].

More info: www.shekharlab.org

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dear GenZ members of the #Drosophila community! You are needed to make cool fly research viral in your social media world! As a boomer I do not understand that sphere, but I can consult and contribute our enormous fund of outreach resources: droso4public.wordpress.com. Please, get in contact!

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droso4public is a central resource store supporting science communication and advocacy for Drosophila

droso4public.wordpress.com

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Aug 19

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025 drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/n...

NIH progress on new R01s in FY 2025

I know Doctor Editor Director Professor Berg has more sophisticated analyses going but this simple data set made sense to me once I realized how few new R01 NIAAA has issued so far (5). Since we ar…

drugmonkey.wordpress.com

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · Aug 18

Lovely memory of Benny Shilo by Stas Shvartsman

www.cell.com/developmenta...

Ben-Zion Shilo (1951–2025)

Ben-Zion Shilo, a distinguished Israeli geneticist (Figure 1), passed away this April at the age of 73 at his home in Rehovot. Benny, as he was known to his friends and colleagues around the world, ma...

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Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · Aug 15

We are hiring a lab technician! Join our group studying signaling networks in #Drosophila, with a possibility to carry out a research project. Please RT.
Job posting: employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
Veraksa lab website:
www.faculty.umb.edu/alexey_verak...

Page Up - UMass Boston

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · Aug 15

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Aug 15

"why [would] anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist choose to be one [given] the unfavorable risk-to-reward ratio "?

One of the most intelligent people you could meet offers some answers: having ideas, watching them develop, and sharing them journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

journals.biologists.com

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Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social · Mar 26

12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!

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Alexey Veraksa @veraksa.bsky.social · Aug 12

So sorry to hear this! 🪰

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