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Calling all microscopists: anyone have light-blocking curtains around their scopes in an open lab space? My lab is super bright, and the room the scopes could've gone in is going to house jerboas! Working with facilities/safety of course, but would love to see photos of setups that work! #microscopy

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First lab equipment has arrived…4 (of 30) jerboa dust bath houses!!

Ceri holding up a translucent purple dust house against an empty lab background

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cute new tail just dropped!!! First vertebrate in my Halloween decoration skeleton collection.

Fake chicken skeleton for Halloween decoration, where the tail feathers have been reimagined as bones.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The hardest part of the job transition so far as been getting a couch successfully delivered to my apartment in Sacramento.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How do tails form, function, and evolve? That's the question that brought our interdisciplinary, cross-institutional team together for our first "Tails Tails Tails" retreat in Bozeman, Montana last week. Credit to Chris for designing our shirts!

Kim Cooper, Talia Moore, Ceri Weber, and Chris Organ pose in front of a dinosaur tail at the Museum of the Rockies

Kim Cooper, Ceri Weber, Chris Organ, and Talia Moore pose in front of a T.rex skeleton at the Museum of the Rockies

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

what are folks using for cloud storage these days? We have ~10TB of raw uCT files (and more to come, probably) and wondering what the best cost/secure/storage options are

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M. Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com

A confocal image of a zebrafish embryo featured on the webpage for the Hawkins Lab at UIUC

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At #2018SDB in Boston, @homeobox.bsky.social, @zhumeng123.bsky.social, and I were grad students scheduled to give talks at the same time, so we grabbed lunch instead to swap work and future plans. Eight years later, all three of us are opening labs! @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Waiting for someone to get the “pinky” mouse pun

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When my obsessions collide: mouse development nails for #2026SDB

Nail art depicting stages of mouse development from fertilization to a [pinky] mouse.

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M. Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Excited to share the final published version of our work on the evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning in fins and limbs, now up on @currentbiology.bsky.social In review we added new single LARM element deletions to assess their impact on dorsality. Take a look! 🔬🧪🐟🐁 www.cell.com/current-biol...

A scientific figure showing the phenotypic effects of removing individual enhancer elements from the LARM. On the left side of the image are schematic diagrams of the targeted deletions and on the right are fin skeletons showing altered anatomy.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Yay! I am so excited that @ceriweber.bsky.social is joining us in the APC Department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social! Welcome Ceri! The @ucdavis.bsky.social #DevBio community is so happy to have you!

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Tropical Beach Welcome

Alt: Tropical Beach Welcome

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am so excited to announce that the Weber Lab will be opening in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, & Cell Biology @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social. We will be investigating the development and evolution of vertebra size, shape, and function. And yes, the jerboas are coming with!

Ceri looking happy in her new lab space!

Lesser Egyptian jerboa from https://www.science.org/content/article/how-jerboa-got-its-enormous-feet

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I recommend doing a postdoc with someone who gets you as much as Kim gets me 🥰

Text message exchange between Ceri and Kim, where Kim send a picture of a toy machine selling Satoshi Kawasaki figurines of humans with different animal morphologies.

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Meng Zhu @zhumeng123.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Cambridge → Boston → Cambridge again: I’m thrilled to return to Cambridge(UK) to open my lab at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge!🥳 (mzhulab.com) We study how dev timing shapes and being shaped by plasticity, evolution & ageing. 🚩Hiring at all levels: pls email me if interested!📩

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Meng Zhu Lab

We study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Forget skeleton evo devo we’re an algal ecology lab now

Ceri proudly holding the lab’s slightly green Nespresso water tank like it’s her science fair project

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What a weekend!! Capel Lab trainees past and present gathered to celebrate Blanche’s incredible career. We danced, we laughed, we cried, and marveled over so many shared memories of the beach, working in the lab, and all the incredible science we accomplished with Blanche’s mentorship and guidance.

Ceri and Blanche with a little mouse gift

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 01/04/2026

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

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Rafael D. Acemel @rdacemel.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New preprint!! 🚨 Did you know that many vertebrate species determine sex based on environmental conditions rather than chromosomes? Some turtles, like Trachemys scripta, rely on temperature. We learned more about how this happen molecularly.👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I love a winter holiday project (e.g. NYT mega crossword) and this year's activity was measuring and analyzing the measurements my Dad took of my height from age 6 to 19! My max growth marked in red.

Ceri holding a tall wooding stick that has height measurements on it

Growth curve with individual measurement points showing age (years) on the x-axis and height (inches) on the y-axis. Max growth marked in red.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Look at those tail crescendos!! Another amazing example of disproportionate elongation of mid-tail vertebrae, and they note it is distal to the more functionally-constrained proximal tail.

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M. Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The regulation and evolution of proportion is a classic challenge in biology. This is exciting work into the genetic and developmental basis of proportionality using a very cool model. Congrats Ceri! 👏🧪🧬🐭

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Vertebral skeletal diversity in mammals is remarkable. How do the differences between vertebral size and shape develop and evolve? See how we tackled this question in our paper published in @natcomms.nature.com today!

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Bsky brainstorm! I'm looking for a short(er)-tailed rodent amenable to embryological research (timed pregnancies, decent litter size, easy to get/breed enough to sacrifice dams, etc).

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Out today. 🙏 again to everyone for this wonderful piece of work, in particular to Aurelie @aurhin.bsky.social Chase @chasebolt.bsky.social and Brent @homeobox.bsky.social. 🙏 also to the Harris lab @fish4walking.bsky.social and @neilshubin.bsky.social @biology-unige.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is SO cool and was such a fun read this morning. Congrats to the whole team!!!

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's chilling to hear my Dad's voice in Eric Dane's, knowing that ALS has reached his respiratory muscles and how heartbreaking it must be for his loved ones to watch the disease progress. I admire how @iamals.bsky.social approaches ALS research, treatment access, and outreach, so please amplify:

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I think we have a new celebratory lab prosecco @ceriweber.bsky.social

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M. Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Schematics depicting the dorsal and ventral sides of fins and limbs

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is insane and so wrong. This cohort of 2020 postdocs, who are now largely also job search ready in this market(?), keep getting screwed.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

NIAMS just announced K99/R00 extensions, which is fantastic for trainees impacted right now, BUT I’d like to point out that the *only* postdocs who did not benefit from COVID extensions and are ineligible for the new extensions are those who started in 2020 lockdowns.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Extremely honored to receive this prize from @socdevbio.bsky.social, which recognizes not only my love for developmental biology, but the extremely online I am 🧪 (protect science, protect people, viva la dev bio!)

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Congratulations to @evodevodiva.bsky.social on her lifetime achievement award! Undergrad research in the Swalla lab helped make me into the evodevo scientist I am today.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Celebrating Blanche Capel with fellow Capel Lab alum Lindsey Barske at #2025ICDB #2025SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social

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Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Great dinner with current and former members of the lab, as well as current and former Duke members and friends of the lab. Great to catch up with @ceriweber.bsky.social ,Ben, @woonyunghur.bsky.social and share stories. Great @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting!

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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Coming soon to a webinar format in your vicinity....more tk! #zebrafish #devbio #ShareYourTools 🐽

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Great news!!! 🤩🙌 We are excited to announce the availability of travel funds to trainees that present at our #PASEDB25 meeting This funding was made possible by a new NSF grant to #PASEDB ✨ Apply for travel assistance here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I went with @ceriweber.bsky.social to the Puerto Rico Museum of Art and it is pretty neat

A room full of knickknacks. The room is a sort of barbershop with three red chairs, mirrors, pictures, a pool table, and tvs. A homage to Puerto Rico but also a critique to the machismo culture within the male grooming culture.

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I'll be presenting my jerboa and mouse tail research at #ICDB2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social this week during the 'Role of Scaling in Development and Evolution' session on Friday. Hope to see you there!!

20th International Congress of Developmental Biology. Friday June 20, 2025 / 9:40-9:55 AM. "Ceri Weber - Tell-tail signs: Mechanisms driving vertebral elongation and the evolution of axial proportion"

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I'll be presenting my jerboa and mouse tail research at #ICDB2025 @socdevbio.bsky.social this week during the 'Role of Scaling in Development and Evolution' session on Friday. Hope to see you there!!

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Can’t wait for #ICDB2025 next week! I’m arriving a day early to explore San Juan a bit - anyone else getting in early and want to join? I’m looking into food tours…

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Blanche Capel receives the SDB Edwin G. Conklin Medal Award for her crucial work on Sex Determination, Testis and Ovary Development, and Germ Cell Biology #ICDB2025 🧪🧬

An announcement slide in white and blue colors, with Blanche's name, the SDB ISDB and LASDB logos and text that says Award Lectures I: SDB Edwin G Conklin Medal. Sunday, June 22nd, 2-3:50pm.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🚨 NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya is testifying before the US Senate Appropriations Committee today. The hearing is bound to be spicy, after more than 300 agency staff wrote him a letter decrying his leadership and actions as director. 🔥 I'll be live-posting the hearing, so follow along here.

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