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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Postdoc @ Emory Univ. The Deans lab is recruiting postdocs to work on inner ear development, hair cells and innervation. We use mouse genetics, imaging, and dev bio to understand how the machinery for hearing + balance is built. Email a CV and brief statement of interests. 🔁 Boosts appreciated

Fluorescent image of a mouse organ of Corti. Teal and pink labeling shows N-cadherin and E-cadherin in the inner and outer compartments respectively. Yellow labels the hair cells and their stereociliary bundles.

Contact me about postdoc opportunities related to this work!

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Let me introduce you to Dr. Jennie Nelson who just defended her PhD in the UofUtah Neuroscience program.

Dr Jennie Nelson PhD posing with her advisor Michael Deans

A pair of images showing Jennie during her defense seminar and an immunofluorescent image of the cochlear nucleus projected onto the seminar room screen

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

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Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society @gt-neuro.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

“Strengthened by the launch of the Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Ph.D. program, Georgia Tech takes another big step forward as a top-tier destination for neuroscience,” says Tim Cope. Meet the inaugural cohort: neuro.gatech.edu/georgia-tech...

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Georgia Tech’s First Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Ph.D. Cohort Arrives on Campus | Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

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Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Our lab is looking to recruit a new postdoc to join our team. You can visit us at leritlab.org to learn more and submit applications here: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/149999/... (or scan the QR in the ad below!) Review will commence in early August.

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Another congratulations to Shubham Kale whose paper about cochlear development and innervation just came out in Developmental Biology. See the details in person here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Graphical abstract for our paper in Developmental Biology describing the normal (left side) and Prox1 mutant (right side) innervation of the mouse organ of Corti. Findings are also summarized in the Haiku format.

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It wasn’t for Crystal Palace but I still saw Wilfried Zaha score at the Benz

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

BWJoneslab Moving To The University of Pittsburgh I can now officially reveal that we are moving the BWJoneslab from the University of Utah, Moran Eye Center to the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, effective August 1st, 2025. bryanwjones.com/2025/06/bwjo...

An abstract, colorful and pretty image of spatial metabolomic retinal ganglion cells imaged for amino acid metabolism, arranged in 8 blocks of values.

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Big congratulations to new Dr Shubham Kale PhD who successfully defends his dissertation on Friday. See is efforts here: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

A collection of images showing Dr Kale during his research presentation, a key data slide and my photo op with him after the defense

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I really hate it when a vendor or sales rep asks to know my budget before giving us a quote. My budget is as low as possible - haven’t you read anything about the NIH lately?

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Now that my lab has moved to Emory I want you to join us in Atlanta. We have an NIH-funded postdoc position available to study Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) signaling using vestibular hair cells of the mouse as a model. Please repost and/or DM for details

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Who needs moss on a tree when the south side of your snowman always melts first

A snowman wearing a black cap is melting asymmetrically with greater loss on its south facing side

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We have to do a better job writing the Project Narrative and Project Summary sections of our grants. Now more than ever these need to be clear and compelling - and written for the general public. I’m afraid these are the only sections RFK jr and friends might read when judging your worth. 😐

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This might reveal a problem of mine - but doesn’t it look like he is wearing his semi-circular canals on the outside?

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Our contribution to #FluorescenceFriday is a progress report. The scope made it to Emory and was reassembled with only one minor catastrophe. We’re calling it a win.

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Frivolous sort-of-science question: What do you call male and female mice? Bucks and Does? Sires and Dams? Johns and Janes?

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Happy #FluorescenceFriday It's like a cochlear sunset photo credit Satish Ghimire

Low magnification fluorescent image of spiral ganglion neurons innervating a quarter turn of the mouse cochlea. Visible are the peripheral axons projecting away from the spiral ganglia as radial fibers. Also visible at the edge are the type II spiral ganglion neurons making their distinctive turn towards the cochlear base

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I don’t know who did this first but my mother-in-law just sent it to me

A roadside sign that reads “I before E except after C disproved by science”

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I spoke to our moving company about packing the lab and their recommendation was bubble wrap. Lots of bubble wrap.

A large pink roll of industrial bubble wrap

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For our first #FluorescenceFriday post I’m sharing a lab favorite. Photo credit to Ellie Goodrich.

An isolated mouse saccule showing vestibular hair cells immunolabeled for Spectrin (green) and the Cre-labeled lineage of cells expressing the transcription factor Emx2 (magenta).

These hair cells are divided between two groups with opposite planar polarities that is determined by their Emx2 lineage. Also labeled but rarely discussed are the Emx2-expressing epithelial cells of the saccule roof (partially resected to show the hair cells beneath).

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

@genegirl007.bsky.social is already asking if Crystal Palace has been relegated yet

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.

Word Crunching

I
wrote
a poem
on a page
but then each line grew
to the word sum of the previous two
until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency
because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency

Brian Bilston

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Peter Fabian @fabianlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Check out how #neuralcrest cells 🔬 migrate (animal= #zebrafish, white cells=sox10+, start=10 somites stage, anterior=top)

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/10/2024

please do not teach the goats italian

hand proffering something to a goat with a red line through it

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Tara Deans @genegirl007.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you are early in your #synbio career, consider applying for this award! If you know of an awesome #synbio person early in their career (there are many!), please consider nominating them! Applications/nominations are due Dec 1! americanchemical.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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2025 ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award

Make a nomination for the 2025 ACS Synthetic Biology Young Innovator Award!

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Two weeks without looking/listening to any news, so much this

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Julian A Nowogrodzki @plantnerd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

For a story: I'm looking to talk to current or recent PhD students who had at least one child during their PhD. Bonus points if you had one kid during your PhD and one later (eg during a postdoc) but not required. DMs open! Thanks, please RT!

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s hard to concentrate when our new neighbor keeps peeping through the window

A black and white cow hiding behind bushes and trees and stalking yours truly

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Re-posting for #MicroscopyMonday 👇 We've been sifting through our archive of 1960s histology sections. Here, the organ of Corti (auditory sensory epithelium of the cochlea) is viewed using Mallory's trichrome stain. The outer hair cells (centre right) are stained orange. 🔬🧪👂 #neuroskyence

A light microscopy view of the organ of Corti. Various specialised epithelial cells (coloured pale brown) surround 3 tubular hair cells (orange). The hair cells are underneath a structure called the tectorial membrane (blue).

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Rejji Kuruvilla @rkuruvi1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

For many junior faculty who’ve received the advice to submit a modular R01 (I did, when I was starting my lab), do NOT heed this advice. I ran my lab on $180k per yr for 5 yrs, since of course the institute cuts the budget down further, and it was painful.

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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

E10.5 mouse spinal cord (neural tube), labeled with Sox2 (red, neural progenitors), nestin (green, radial fibers) and neurofilament (blue, axons). The ventral motor columns are the most developed structure at this early time point.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/11/2024

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

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Lavinia Sheets @olybinewski.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Going to #AROMWM ? Looking for a postdoc position? Love auditory neuroscience and regeneration? Fully funded position in my research group - would love to tell you more about it at #ARO2024 👂🐟🔬

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sensory Neuroscience/ Zebrafish

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

A belated ‘happy holidays’ from the Deans lab

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

It always amazes that my dogs can hear me tie my shoes from across the house and know we are going for a walk

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

It’s 35 degrees here and we’re grilling steaks

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Guy just looked at my poster and told me ‘Good luck with the rest of your dissertation!’ My wife (the level headed one) suggested it was like getting carded at the grocery store - And that I should be happy.

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

ShiHai Jia is one of the best postdocs ever

Hardworking scientist leering at the photographer interrupting his studies

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Mike Deans @deandeans.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Auditory science friends: Is there an alternative to the Etymotic Research ER-10B+ microphone for recording DPOAEs?? If not .. does anyone know where I could find an ER-10B+ used? Willing to barter 😁

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