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Isabella Cisneros

@isabellaclsci.bsky.social
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duke dscb phd student in the gladfelter lab 🍄 / founder @howwetalkabtsci.bsky.social / prev. NICHD postbac / UChicago '23, she/her, views my own 🇪🇨🇺🇸

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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m excited to share that, alongside 3 other Duke DSCB Ph.D. students, we’re starting a podcast! Our show Benchside Broadcast will cover the people, history, and cutting edge research in our local community and beyond. Tune in every other Thursday at 7pm at wxdu.org (or FM 88.7 if you’re local)! 🧪
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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026
The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026
Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz
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Trump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics say
Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.
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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Quantitative mapping of heterochrony to species-specific phenotypes
The genetic program of animal development is conserved, but its rate of execution varies across species. Heterochrony, shifts in the relative timing of developmental events, generates phenotypic varia...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Our latest piece from @jessicaoros.bsky.social covers how informative archives can be and how important digitalization efforts are for increasing access to them—an effort being led by archivists like Madeline Schill at @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social. Check it out below!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵
Landing page for scienceimpacts.org
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Sarah Paramore, PhD @parahsaramore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me
Examples of the new model organism shirts for sale on the SDB merchandise website
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canaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
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Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration
Why mammals cannot regenerate limbs like amphibians do presents a long-standing puzzle in biology. To uncover the underlying differences, we compared amputation responses of embryonic mouse (Mus musculus) and Xenopus laevis tadpole limbs. Lowering ...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A trio of #Postdoc job openings in the #WeinsteinLab at NIH 🐟🔬 Epigenetics of development: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Vascular-associated tissues & organs: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Angiogenesis & Lymphangiogenesis: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... h/t @zfinmod.bsky.social 🧪
Dorsal view of a transgenic adult zebrafish. You can see the branched lymphatic system (in orange) within the brain (left) as well as scales on the body of the animal (in blue). Credit to Daniel Castranova at Weinstein Lab.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.
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Akankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us
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Opportunities — Principles of Tissue Morphogenesis (Munjal Lab)
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers
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Vicky Prince @vprincelab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congratulations to Michael Wen and Andrew Gillis on this exciting paper out today! Shared competence forms the basis of gill arch and paired fin serial homology | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Shared competence forms the basis of gill arch and paired fin serial homology | PNAS
The origin of paired fins is an unresolved controversy in vertebrate evolutionary biology. Karl Gegenbaur famously proposed that paired fins evolve...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...
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I’m an NIH whistleblower. The scientific community cannot afford to avoid politics
“Scientists are often encouraged to avoid politics. But this advice is outdated, if it was ever correct in the first place,” writes Jenna Norton, NIH whistleblower.
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Gladfelter Lab @gladfelterlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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RNA-specific local translation is patterned by condensates for multinucleate cell growth - Nature Cell Biology
Geisterfer, Jalihal et al. show spatially distinct effects of Whi3 condensates on target translation in Ashbya syncytia. In vitro, translation is enriched at condensate–solute interfaces but repressed...
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Had a great time at the Stand Up For Science event in Chapel Hill yesterday! Thanks to the organizers and speakers for putting this together — it’s so important to use our voices, especially now! @standupforscience.bsky.social
Participants gathered around a Stand Up For Science banner holding signs.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets: The administration has not yet released funding Congress allocated to multiple research agencies, so they cannot provide it to funded entities/people - including NIH and NASA. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
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Leah Greenspan @ljgreenspan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Excited to have started my new lab in Human Genetics at Pitt Public Health! We study wound healing in diabetes & aging using adult zebrafish. Check out this movie showing neutrophil dynamics after injury. Now recruiting research staff, grad students, and postdocs. DM me if interested.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
1 year ago at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally, scientists, students, advocates, & community members joined in cities nationwide. Now we're returning to the streets in nearly 30 cities & towns o demand scientific integrity, strong public health protections, & democratic accountability 1/n
Poster for Stand Up for Science RTP--UNC campus, March 7 noon
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s not often a paper makes my jaw drop, but this study from @nbellono.bsky.social‘s group absolutely blew me away! Check out our latest post on the lettuce sea slug and how it steals and houses chloroplasts from the algae it eats—come for the sea slugs, stay for the endosymbiosis! 🧪
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Rita Mateus @ritamateus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New paper alert!🤩Super proud that our story led by superstar postdocs @liujinghui.bsky.social and @nerlielisa.bsky.social is finally out! We found how electrical signals are key for promoting organ regenerative growth!!! A thread 🧵https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0687
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Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers organ growth
Organ repair and growth rely on coupling tissue-wide membrane depolarization with intracellular proliferative signaling.
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Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’m recruiting new members to the Farrell Lab this summer. We will have space for 1 postdoc (since Abhinav is leaving to start his own lab at U Arizona!!) and 2 postbacs, since my current two will leave for PhD programs at the end of the summer. More details in thread:
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Applications are now open for the #ChooseDevelopment! Summer Undergraduate Research Program. U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled full-time as undergrads at a college or university in the U.S. are eligible. bit.ly/3FwHqYp Deadline: February 1, 2026 #devbio
Society for Developmental Biology Logo - Choose Development
Paid Summer Undergraduate Research Training
Mission
To broaden the scientific workforce by preparing undergraduate students to enter doctoral programs in developmental biology with enriched mentored research experiences for two summers.
Overview
Two 10-week summer research internships in the lab of an SDB member
Receive $5500 stipend each summer
Receive guidance and support from a team of mentors
Network with the developmental biology community
Present summer research at the next SDB annual meeting
Eligibility
Undergraduate student enrolled full-time at a college or university in the United States
U.S. citizen or permanent resident
Interest to pursue a doctoral degree
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QR Code to Choose Development website
Application Deadline: February 1, 2026
www.sdbonline.org/choose_development
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
So stoked to cover this work led by @cagricevrim.bsky.social from @karalmckinley.bsky.social ‘s group! It’s always such a thrill to see how researchers continue to push the boundaries of their field and develop new tools. Read about it below! 🧪
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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
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Post Doctoral Associate - Biology
Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...
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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🚨 Preprint Friday! 🚨 Thrilled to highlight this collab with David Brown at Duke @cutitoutdave.bsky.social and Ken Poss at UW Madison/Morgridge @kenposs.bsky.social. By comparing 3(!!) regenerating models we identify a conserved role for Sp-family TFs in appendage regeneration (and more).....🧵
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Enhancer-directed gene delivery for digit regeneration based on conserved epidermal factors
Limb loss remains a significant clinical challenge, but regenerative medicine approaches such as gene therapy offer a promising strategy to trigger endogenous regeneration programs. Optimal vector con...
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out our latest from @jessicaoros.bsky.social on recent work from @benwolfe.bsky.social ‘s group on fungal evolution in cheese-filled caves! 🧪
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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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Dan Starr @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
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Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot A Perspective by @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social, @kaliceaphd.bsky.social, Jamy Peng, @spiraldoc.bsky.social & @rogerslabucd.bsky.social on how to combat scientific misinformation journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
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DR℮W 🪿🏳️‍⚧️ @giantmolecular.cloud · 26/09/2025
It seems the GRFP solicitation is FINALLY released (like 5 minutes ago)! Due dates have also been pushed back, thankfully! 🧪 🔭 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Akankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Our latest preprint! Into morphogenesis, Yap, ECM, signaling, vertex models, feedbacks/robustness? There is something here for everyone. We discovered a positive feedback loop that extends inner ear canals, and a built-in mechanism that shuts it down when morphogenesis is done. tinyurl.com/464wsjhd
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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert
One of your future coworkers in the Currie Lab, an adorable axolotl.
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Aurelie Hintermann @aurhin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪 A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today! #InHoxWeTrust
hoxd13a reporter in a zebrafish larva
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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 09/09/2025
Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
Flyer How to apply to the NSF-GRFP (in 7 weeks!). Check out our comprehensive guide and timeline for applying to the  NSF-GRFP (or any fellowship!) on a deadline. 
Give it a shot — it’s not too late! Resource by Olivia Goldman, PhD and John Lê. Photos of authors. Cientifico Latino, Inc. logo. Link: cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We’re back! Read our latest on how the recently discovered archaea Sukunaarchaeum mirible is making us question just what exactly it means to be alive. 🧪
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Leah Greenspan @ljgreenspan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Over a decade in the making but excited to have helped bring this paper over the finish line. We generated an endothelial ribotag transgenic line and profiled endothelial cells in larvae and adult organs of zebrafish #zebrafish #DevBio 🧪 Check out our publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"
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A. Sánchez Alvarado @planaria1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates rdcu.be/ezw0t
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A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration
Nature Communications - Accorsi et al. show that the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata has eyes similar to humans and can fully regenerate them. They then developed genetic tools to establish these...
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Cherish Ardinger, PhD @cherishardinger.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Public comments have been opened back up! Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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Isabella Cisneros @isabellaclsci.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I was so psyched to cover (read: obsess over) this recent paper from @neilshubin.bsky.social and @invertebratepal.bsky.social’s labs! It’s always a treat to talk about evolution, but even more so when it’s this cool. Check out our latest toothy deep dive for Substack using the link below. 🧪
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