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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks for the pics!! This is great.

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Postdoc or early career faculty? Applications for our '28 #FreemanHrabowski Scholars & #HannaGray Fellows Programs open 11/3! Prep by joining us 10/22 @ 2pm ET for a live informational webinar w/the HHMI Science Programs team — comp details, how-tos, & a Q&A session. Register at bit.ly/3VHe2fq

Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Kamena Kostova, wearing a white lab coat and blue nitrile gloves, examines a shelf of stacked aquatic animal housing tanks in a research facility. The tanks are connected by blue tubing and fitted with yellow labels. She smiles and looks upward toward the upper shelves while handling one of the tank lids.

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I'm actually surprised I didn't think to text him about this already. Sorry Brent!!!

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this is for a fluorescence stereomicroscope and an upright widefield epifluorescence microscope. Hoping for something that cuts enough ambient light for imaging but still allows easy access to the scopes, and a lot of what we do is BF anyway. Any setups or materials you've liked?

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

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

Sign 👏🏻 me 👏🏻 up 👏🏻

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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

YESSSS! Can I come visit and take your class 🥹

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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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Sure am! Will I see you there?

Waiting for someone to get the “pinky” mouse pun

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I am particularly proud of my artwork on these nails! All freehand!

Nail art depicting mouse development, from blastocyst to pinky mouse.

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

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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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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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thank you Stefano!! That was such a fun weekend, and I’m so happy I got to celebrate with my Duke community.

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

I'm not sure if we ever met, but I'm excited to connect - I was an undergrad researcher in Billie's lab at UW @evodevodiva.bsky.social!!

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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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And very importantly: I get to be colleagues with @rogerslabucd.bsky.social !!!!

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Come find me @socdevbio.bsky.social annual meeting in Las Vegas in a few weeks and let's chat.

Are you interested in evo devo? Bone and cartilage biology? Animal and human health research? Emerging model systems? Tails?? Recruiting at all levels!

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

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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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 · 14/11/2025

hint: wild-type specimens from the same species at the same age.

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

Of course now I wonder *how* mid-tail vertebral growth is amplified in A. auratus...