Come listen to my talk about how enhancers evolve and how promoters emerge from randomly synthesized DNA sequences!

Thank you for being one of those few people for me (and for many others) 🥹

"Look for the helpers"
—Mister Rogers

Focus on the good, compassionate people acting during crises rather than fearing the disaster itself to reduce anxiety, inspire hope, and highlight humanity's inherent goodness (even it’s very hard to believe in this).

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I feel this so much 👇🏽

Catch up on Development presents… webinar on neural development - the Node Our February webinar featured three early-career researchers studying neural development. Here, we share the talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo (University of Basel) and Carlo Donato Caiaffa (Universida...

Catch up on Development presents… webinar on neural development

Our February webinar featured early-career researchers studying neural development. Here, we share the talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social & Carlo Donato Caiaffa. #DevPres

thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.

Abstract submission is now open until 9 June for the ASCB | EMBO #CellBio2026 meeting in #SanDiego #California, United States, 12–15 December 2026! 🧪

More info here:
https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/

Beautiful #microscopy 😍
#celegans

🚨Next DevBioConnect on the way

Developmental Biology Author webinar featuring
Dr. Janelle M. Welton
Dr. Katherine A. Maniates

🗓️Apr. 14th, 2026
⏰11 am–12 pm CST
@socdevbio.bsky.social

Register here👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

www.sdbonline.org/meeting?Reso...

If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT

Another #cilia kinesin motor: kinesin-8 KIF19A localizes to ciliary tips of Drosophila mechanosensory neurons

In 2012, Hirokawa lab showed KIF19A regulated ciliary length & localized to ciliary tips in mice; knockouts had hydrocephalus and female infertility phenotypes (PMID 23168168). #ciliopathy

Happy #gradstudent appreciation week y'all !!
Thank you @alizeemalnoe.bsky.social for this wonderful message - it literally made my day. We are very grateful to have you in our gcdb community, you are amazing ❤️🥹

Thank you @iubiology.bsky.social for organizing this, we felt appreciated 🎉🥳

#phdlife

When you sit for writing and instead spend the entire hour doing online window-shopping 🤷🏽‍♀️🫣

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Beautiful #rainbow this evening 😍
#Bloomington

Omggg congratulations 👏🏽🎉🥳🥂

I am INCREDIBLY proud to share our lab’s first preprint, after 22 months of work!

A result of Dr. Anna Schreiber @annaschreiber.bsky.social and Dr. Anamika Gupta’s fantastic work, we focus on an ultra rare developmental disease, YWHAG syndrome.

(1/?)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cool insights using iPSC-derived neurons to define how mutations in the signaling regulator 14-3-3γ alter cytoskeletal function and calcium homeostasis in a rare childhood epilepsy associated with neurodevelopmental delays 🧪

Learn about advances and techniques in #neuroscience #research using invertebrate model systems at the EMBO Practical Course "Small Brains, Big Ideas" in Las Cruces, #Chile, 16–26 October 2026.

Deadline: 15 July

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-smallbrains
#EMBOSmallBrainsBigIdeas #EMBOevents 🧪

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I might need to bring in Janet energy 😔

The unsung heroes of #Drosophila research! Thank you @bdsc.bsky.social!

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

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"Happiness" by Jane Kenyon

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#NationalPoetryMonth

"...you weep night and day
to know that you were not abandoned,
that happiness saved its most extreme form
for you alone"

@bdsc.bsky.social celebrating its 40th anniversary this year ! 🎉🥳

@iubiology.bsky.social

#drosophila #science #resources #academia
#Bloomington

I feel this so much 🥺

And my biggest fear is - What if I have used up all my joy 😳

This is a poem by Mary Oliver entitle "Don't Hesitate" in which she cautions people against resisting joy for fear of its loss, or for fear that something terrible is happening or is about to happen. If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

I confess that, at times, I resist joy for fear of its loss, or because something bad is happening or is about to happen. "Don't be afraid of its plenty" calls me in the opposite direction. I'm grateful.
#NationalPoetryMonth

A new issue of CSH Protocols is out! @cshlpress.bsky.social

The cover image highlights the work by Sabin, @dbmenke.bsky.social, et al. who describe a surgical approach for oocyte injection and CRISPR–Cas9 mutagenesis in Anolis Lizards.

⬇️Links below

The two papers: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

and

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

‘Treasure trove’ of antiviral proteins could inspire powerful molecular tools Two research teams mined genomic data from bacteria to create databases containing thousands of antiviral defence proteins that could inspire powerful biotechnologies.

Bacteria have been fighting off viruses using a huge arsenal of molecular weaponry that scientists did not know about — until now. Researchers have identified proteins that could lead to virus-fighting drugs and technologies.

go.nature.com/4dqQnXI

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#hannahmontana #youngeryou 🥹🎶