Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled. 10684008611217
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history. 533297704315
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 601545998
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaPJ 🇮🇪☘️ @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Sunset Ireland (July 6th) Cam 1 - Still Shot 9:30pm (West Field) #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography 23125298
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaIPBES @ipbes.net · 04/07/2025‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉 The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis. Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪 09058
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Last night at Moth Night, we saw a lot more than moths. The highlight was happening upon this beaver absolutely chowing down on some wood, corn on the cob style. You’re gonna want to put your sound on for this one. 1014366623
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaProf. Keiko Torii @keikoutorii.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Truly honored and humbled (and genuinely surprised) to be the 2025 IPGSA @ipgsa2025.bsky.social Silver Medalist along w/ the eminent plant biologists, John Bowman and Jenny Russinova. Thank you. Plant peptides rock!! 🥰 0784
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Our next extraordinary biologist is Christophe Leterrier, one of the founding Scientific Advisory Board members of @focalplane.bsky.social and the author of one of the most popular FocalPlane posts. #100biologists 2497
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaSociety for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/07/2025🧠⚡️Electroporated and glowing! This E17.5 mouse cortex shows GFP-labeled cells (green), EdU+ proliferating cells (red), and nuclei (DAPI, blue). Image taken by @agnihotrinitin.bsky.social 🔬 #FluorescenceFriday 0213
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025We will never be silent. The Trump administration has placed 139 EPA staffers on leave after they signed a letter of dissent opposing the agency’s current direction and policies. Silencing experts won’t silence the truth. 8866141709
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill. 25803454710836
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaThe Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Today marks a special anniversary for us. On July 1, 1858, the theory of evolution by natural selection was first presented at a Linnean Society meeting. Papers written by Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace were read, shaping a groundbreaking idea still powering science today: buff.ly/uBdX7N1 19642
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The latest @dev-journal.bsky.social poster on stem cell-based models of early human development is proving popular at #ISSCR2025. Come and get your free copy at stand 911 before they are gone. 1106
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCrystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025This was such a fun session and I’m so grateful to the folks organizing #Worm25 for inviting me! Hearing about Dr. Padilla’s journey and advocacy and then getting to talk about my own story was awesome! Be kind, communicate with people, fight misinformation, and find your community to thrive! 🧬 💪🏽 2308
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025VP Vance has cast the deciding vote in the Senate to cut Medicaid, take away food assistance, blow up the deficit, and add tax breaks for the wealthiest. This bill is unpopular because it is wrong. Congress votes this week, but it’s our voices - and our votes - that will have the final say. 26764541392
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaMaureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025EVs! The morning #worm25 cell bio session kicked off with @inikon.bsky.social talking about proximity labeling to define #cilia #extracellularvesicle subtypes followed by @ahnaskop.bsky.social speaking on the #midbody - a ginormous RNA translating EV🤯 #celegans 191
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaMonica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026! 4041350
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaStowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🌊 A lab with a view. Did you know the Institute has a year-round #research presence at the legendary @mblscience.bsky.social in #WoodsHole? 1,500 miles apart—united by a shared mission to understand how life works. 🔬 Read more: bit.ly/4nytF2obit.lyA lab with a viewThe Stowers Institute for Medical Research has a new laboratory—with an ocean view. 042
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaVicky Prince @vprincelab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025My lab standing up for science in Chicago! 0205
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaMaureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Super excited to hear @rogerslabucd.bsky.social and Pam Padilla talk in the #worm25 afternoon session!!! #axolotl joins #celegans 0154
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaKatherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Hard to remember that just 12 years ago there was no @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and almost no one in the biology community preprinted their work. What a long way we’ve come. @reinierprosee.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about how @biologists.bsky.social embraced the preprint worldjournals.biologists.comStaying ahead of the curve: a decade of preprints in biologyWhen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced the launch of bioRxiv in November 2013, only the braver or more radical amongst us would have predicted that it heralded a lasting change within the scienc... 06621
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaI-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025New NIGMS undergraduate training program is forecasted. simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...simpler.grants.govOpportunity Listing - NIGMS Institutional Biomedical Undergraduate Research Training ProgramRead detailed information about this funding opportunity. 1189
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaJEZ-B: Evo Devo @jezb1904.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Sofia Casasa is in JEZ-B’s Spotlight! Check out her inspiring path to evo-devo and her thoughts on the field: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CFRARK... 183
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaJEZ-B: Evo Devo @jezb1904.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Paper In focus: Tim Wollesen and Colleagues explore the developmental and evolutionary relationship between Mollusc shells and spicules onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YUTIXZ... 164
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. Swallalukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Here is a nice mushroom 1348928
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Just fucking wild. HUD press conference right now officially confirming this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct... 1155
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaJohn Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Fu**ing corruption. 031
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. Swalla@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Super exciting and beautiful new work from the talented @mathithiru.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comRepurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer-ear evolution - NatureA study on the evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear finds that it shares genetic programs with the gills of fishes and amphibians, indicating that elements of an ancestral gill have been reu... 04213
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCrystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This paper is now published at @diffjournal.bsky.social! Congratulations to all the hardworking students who made it happen! Shout out to authors 1 & 2! MJ is our “axolotl whisperer” and Raneesh is our computational wizard- both DVM/PhD students @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social! 💫 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...sciencedirect.comNSAID-mediated cyclooxygenase inhibition disrupts ectodermal derivative formation in axolotl embryosEmbryonic exposures to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been linked to preterm birth, neural tube closure defects, abnormal enteric… 2318
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaPablo Strobl-Mazzulla @pstrobl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Very nice to see all the Bronner lab members at the GRC! 1122
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaGirish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025#shapinglife3 was a great @sfbd.bsky.social meeting! Here's my short post on @the-node.bsky.social about it :) 074
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaGirish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Our recent preprint on how elevated temperatures affect early embryo development. We are using fly embryos to address this fundamental question, and seeing mitotic defects, which can be rescued to improve embryo survival. doi.org/10.1101/2023...doi.orgElevated temperature fatally disrupts nuclear divisions in the early Drosophila embryoTemperature variations can challenge animal survival, with different life cycle stages presenting distinct vulnerabilities to elevated temperature. Here, embryonic development is known to be especiall... 1215
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaSICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 23/06/2025IOB's latest Energetics and Oxidative Status: Seasonal Variation in Blood #Oxidative Stress Metrics in Four #Species of Small #Birds from a Cold Winter #Climate A G Jiménez , C J Marolf , O R Gulseth , S K Anandan , D L Swanson (www.usdbiology.com/swanson/) doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #Science 011
Dr. Billie J. Swalla @evodevodiva.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Congratulations!! Very well deserved award!! 120
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCeri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025I'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!! 0124
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I went with @ceriweber.bsky.social to the Puerto Rico Museum of Art and it is pretty neat 0152
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaEvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Great 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... 043
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaChristian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Coming soon to a webinar format in your vicinity....more tk! #zebrafish #devbio #ShareYourTools 🐽 0253
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaStefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Great 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! 1124
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCeri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Celebrating Blanche Capel with fellow Capel Lab alum Lindsey Barske at #2025ICDB #2025SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social 0111
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCeri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Congratulations 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. 0172
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCrystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Love my #DevBio community! Congratulations on an amazing meeting! #2025ICDB @socdevbio.bsky.social @uribelab.bsky.social @mikepiacentino.bsky.social @ceriweber.bsky.social 0203
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaCeri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Haven’t posted on here in awhile, so sharing my new preprint is a great way to get back into the bluesky science community! 0144
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Students at #Evol2025 @evolmtg.bsky.social can stop by the University of Chicago press/American naturalist booth in the poster area to sign up for a one year free membership to the American Society of naturalists with the many benefits that entails 02925
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. Swallalastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025And I will fight to the death to retain this right 626329
Dr. Billie J. Swalla @evodevodiva.bsky.social · 23/06/2025It was wonderful to see you and safe travels home! Wonderful meetings!! 020
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaJo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Here's the paper referenced, led by @jimmybernot.bsky.social. (Even the thumbnail shows bugs is shrimps) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...academic.oup.comMajor Revisions in Pancrustacean Phylogeny and Evidence of Sensitivity to Taxon SamplingAbstract. The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species 2185
Reposted by Dr. Billie J. SwallaJo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 23/06/2025It is #InsectWeek! Which, as many of my papers show, and @restingdinoface.bsky.social has summarized, means we are in fact celebrating crustaceans. BUGS. IS. SHRIMPS. 🧪🦋🐝🪲🐞🦗🪳🪰🦐🦐🦐🦐smithsonianmag.comYou Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the LandA recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans on the tree of life 418064