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Bonnie Kircher

@holyanole.bsky.social
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Excited that our study on oogenesis and germinal bed morphology in the brown anole is published! Find it here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @mdandersn.bsk.social @oxfordwomenshealth.bsky.social @cambiochem.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @cam.ac.uk
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Oogenesis and germinal bed morphology of the brown anole (A. sagrei)
Background The brown anole is a model species of the genus Anolis, a squamate (encompassing lizards and snakes) group widely studied in evolutionary, behavioral, and developmental biology. Full geno...
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
@a-weberling.bsky.social & I characterize oogenesis from initiation in the germinal bed to ovulatory follicles for the first time in the brown anole, a powerful reptile model for evo-devo & functional genetics! Full preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Aaron Griffing @aaronhgriffing.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Sphaerodactylus geckos loom large in my mind (but sit small on my hand)
an adult miniaturized gecko, Sphaerodactylus macrolepis, sitting on top of my thumb
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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
i was told a US donor site to support FlyBase will be live shortly, which we should all broadcast to everyone we can. however, there is a delay (red tape) to be able to provide invoices to bill grants, but its in process. 🪰
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
@a-weberling.bsky.social , @shylonatasha.bsky.social et al. continue to provided stunning images and insight into early reptilian development with this new paper on chameleon embryogenesis 🦎🥚. Check it out!
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Very cool work on embryo-yolk signaling in zebrafish!!
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Yet another heartbreaking and short sighted decision. The folks at NSF are so supportive of the scientific community. Their funding is what has allowed my lab to grow and succeed. These cuts are so destructive.
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Constantin Pape @cppape.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Improvements in LM (top) and EM (bottom) of our micro-sam model (finetuned) compared to the default SAM model.
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Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is a fantastic program! You can apply as a mentor to work with a student who will travel to your lab, or you can apply as a mentor to work with one of your current students. I highly recommend it! I have done both and it’s been so rewarding. ❤️
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Eric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
NSF froze payments to researchers. State AGs said it was unconstitutional for exec branch to pause congressionally mandated funds. Judge issued restraining order. Payments resumed. But some inconsistencies in what the NSF has said (thread): www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...
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National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist
The NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries.
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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hi, I'm Earyn, and I'm a lizard scientist! I created a game to teach people about lizards and increase the representation of Black women as herpetologists. #findthatlizard is a Where's Waldo-esque game where there is a lizard camouflaged in its environment. Your challenge is to find it. Will you? 🦎
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The dismantling of American Science continues. The Organismal Response to Climate Change grant call has been cancelled. The NSF Director is a disgrace
Email text:
[EXT] Grants.gov
Opportunities Update
External Email
The following grant opportunities were created, updated, or deleted on Grants.gov:
NSF
National Science Foundation
25-504 - Organismal Response to
Climate Change
Deletion Comments: Opportunity deleted
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Still frozen out. We’re getting word that people getting Universities to reach out to NSF over this & broader freeze may put pressure on them & help resolve this. If folks could start contacting their uni admin with complaints to forward to NSF (hopefully you know who to contact) it’d help a lot
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.
Scientific research is a driving force behind human progress. It fuels medical breakthroughs, spurs technological innovations and drives economic growth. Federal funding of research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is absolutely critical for ensuring that the U.S. maintains its global leadership in science and technology.
The unprecedented freeze on the review and issuance of federal research grants is already negatively impacting research and could have significant ripple effects. Ongoing studies may lose momentum if grant renewals or supplement requests are delayed, slowing scientific progress on research the NIH has already invested in. Researchers affiliated with the Society for Developmental Biology carry out critical research on birth defects, which kill twice as many children as cancer does. Slowed progress will delay the development of new therapies and diagnostics, and thus have real public health implications. In 2019, the total estimated cost of birth defect–associated hospitalizations was $22.2 billion.
Scientific research is also critical to the U.S. economy more broadly. In 2023 alone NIH funded research not only directly supported 412 thousand jobs, but its overall economic impact rippled out to all sectors of the economy driving more than $92.89 billion in economic activity across all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. It is estimated that every dollar of NIH funding generates $2.46 dollars of economic activity.
Finally, federal research funding not only drives impactful research discoveries but also supports the training of the scientists, engineers, and innovators of the future. University laboratories, funded by federal grants, serve as essential training grounds for the next generation of researchers even as they push the boundaries of knowledge. This training prepares young scientists for leadership roles in both academia and industry, helping to ensure that the scientific workforce r…
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Bethany Williams @blw9786.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As a NSF PRFB postdoc it would be nice to know if I can pay rent next month (crazy, right). In the meantime, for no reason whatsoever, here are a few ‘wasteful’ things I’ve done as a postdoc: been a science pen pal, helped run a booth at a science center, mentored a high school lab intern.
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Stephanie Pangas, PhD @spangas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
…the sentence at the end, “to the extent permissible by law, cancel awards already awarded that are in conflict with Administration priorities”.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography #DevBiol #SciHist
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Natasha Shylo @shylonatasha.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Amazing talk by @zgrif26.bsky.social about orange pigmentation and ovaries and what connects them. #SICB2025
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Maggie Hantak @maggiehantak.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student for the fall of 2025 to work on phenotypic variation in amphibians! More info here: maggiehantak.weebly.com
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost
A photo of Kory Evans, winner of the 2025 Carl Gans Award
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Antonia Weberling @a-weberling.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Very happy that our study on early anole lizard embryogenesis is featured in the December #preprint list of @the-node.bsky.social want to know more? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @shylonatasha.bsky.social @thomsanger.bsky.social @holyanole.bsky.social @aussiebiologist.bsky.social
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Pre-oviposition development of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei)
The brown anole, Anolis sagrei , has emerged as a representative squamate species during the past several decades. Novel functional tools have been established to manipulate embryogenesis through geno...
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hyoids in action!
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Checkout this awesome preprint from @a-weberling.bsky.social et al. with the first description of early embryogenesis in the brown anole! This dataset was no small feat to collect as much of early development takes place before the egg is laid!! Thrilled to have been a part of this project! 🦎
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Bonnie Kircher @holyanole.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Getting some love from the microscope today! Testing TO-PRO-3, a far red-fluorescent nuclear counterstain.
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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Welcome Lizard Doctor: @holyanole.bsky.social
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