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HittingerLab @hittingerlab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As part of my new chair and centre @uofguelph.bsky.social , we are recruiting a new Assistant Professor through the Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders program: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

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Assistant Professor (Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader)

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great news for C. elegans research in NC! Congrats Sarah and colleagues!

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can't wait to learn these snail facts! I recommend that bigger families get the snail facts and prior editions so everyone has their own to scratch. Crab facts especially are not to be missed!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Mentee sign-ups are open for the 2026-2027 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Choose: - One-to-one mentoring with an experienced mentor - A peer-mentoring group with people at your career stage Or sign up for both, it takes just 2-5 minutes. And please spread the word! 🧵

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Mentee sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program

The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. ⏱️ This form takes only 2–5 minutes to complete depending on your choic...

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mike and I recommend having a check-in with your Match and recording a testimonial together!

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We had a great experience, from initial review to final proofing. And this is delightful! forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

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Landscape - The Forest of Biologists

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Postdoc search update! I am continuing to solicit applications for a postdoc opening in the lab, and probably around the beginning of July I will start selecting applicants to interview. See evoldir ad here: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... Please RT or whatever!

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Parul Johri @johriparul.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We are actively searching for a postdoc to join the lab! Details provided here - johrilab.org/join Please share. I will be at PEQG and will be happy to chat if you're interested!

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Jordan Ward @gotworms.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Excited to see this out in the world. The CGC is launching a curated strains collection, the first being protein degradation systems and this is a pilot primer to pair with it authored by myself, Dave Reiner, Ann Rougvie, and Aric Daul. We review the state of the field and provide use guidance (1)

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Chapel Hill is a great place to do biology and a great place to live. Start early in 2026 to maximize overlap with three senior grad students who are getting ready to move on to their own postdocs. Please share widely!

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I am hiring a postdoc (or two!) to work on C. elegans reproductive system development. Our MIRA funds work on cell size, migration, and niche signaling. Our CAREER funds work on regulation of gonad growth, degrowth, and regeneration during and after starvation unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/310...

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Valerie Tornini @valetornini.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

What cell states are possible when they are missing key factors - Nanog, Pou5f3 (Oct4), & Sox19b (Sox2) - that are required for the first embryonic reprogramming steps? Follow along with our latest publication, finally out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #devbio #reprogramming #zebrafish #embryo (1/6)

Graphical abstract describing the main findings. Top, Nanog, Pou5f3, and Sox19b (NPS) work together for cellular reprogramming following fertilization of the egg and sperm in the embryo's maternal-to-zygotic transition. Clearance of the maternal program, plus activation of the zygotic and late zygotic genes expression programs later in development, together will enable gene expression programs towards cellular differentiation.
In maternal-zygotic NPS (mzNPS) mutant embryos, there is a failure of reprogramming and subsequently no gastrulation. However, when mzNPS embryonic cells are transplanted into wild type embryos, some cells survive and form mixed cell states, likely due to failed nuclear and cytoplasmic reprogramming. We find that some gene expression states, including primordial germ cell-like and motoneuron-like cell states, are able to develop in vivo, bypassing the loss of NPS-mediated embryonic reprogramming.

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Parul Johri @johriparul.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Thanks Mark and Maureen! It was really fun to pull everything together.

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Greg Copenhaver @copenhaverlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Thanks Mark, Eric and Rob set the bar high! I'm excited to get to tell everyone what we've been up to.

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Christian Braendle @braendle.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: christian.braendle@univ-cotedazur.fr

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Last year we sold 5x more advent calendars than we have this August. Advent calendars are the biggest thing that keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist so this makes me a bit nervous! These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels! Get one here: EelFacts.net

Sarah holds up a brightly colored eel calendar with a moray, ribbon eel, splendid garden eels, and American and European eels, in front of some plants on the sidewalk

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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

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Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Whew, ok, with a few hours to spare, the 2025 classroom map is ready! The 7th annual United States of Science competition starts tomorrow. If you wanna get your region off to a head start, just between us night owls, here's that link 😘 givebutter.com/USS2025

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We worked our way down from this organismal fitness phenotype to rapid, environmentally responsive signaling protein dynamics in the stem cell niche. I'm so proud of Fred, and Camille Miller, and excited about the new line of research that this project opened up for us!

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It all started as a rotation project that identified that early dauers (the first to form under conditions of starvation and crowding) had large gonads with lots of germ cells, while "late dauers" from old, long-starved plates had small gonads with few germ cells, and had fewer offspring post-dauer.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This project took a few twists and turns, until a careful and clever experiment of Fred's blew it wide open (see Figure 2). It was kind of a dream experience, to have a student present elegant and irrefutable evidence that changed the whole direction of the study.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm happy to share this preprint by first author Fred Koitz, a Genetics and Molecular Biology grad student in my lab! Fred came into the lab with an interest in dauer, and I am interested in gonad development, so we thought we'd start studying dauer gonad development.

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Engineering the C. elegans genome with a nested, self-excising selection cassette www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy

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Tyler Kent @tylervkent.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

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Demographic history, genetic load, and the efficacy of selection in the globally invasive mosquito Aedes aegypti

Abstract. Aedes aegypti is the main vector species of yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The species is originally from Africa but has experienced

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

In addition to revealing an important player in niche migration, our paper also demonstrates the utility of published single-cell datasets for hypothesis generation. Thanks to Eyleen O'Rourke and Abbas Ghaddar for their really useful study and app! wormseq.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

MIG-21 is known to regulate the polarity of cell migration in response to a Wnt gradient and in a network with Netrin receptors in Q neuroblasts, but its function in the germline niche was masked by redundancy in functional screens for niche migration defects.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New preprint! First author Xin Li (QBio UNC) used a scRNA-seq study to find that mig-21 is highly and specifically expressed in the C. elegans germline stem cell niche, but it had no known function there. We found that it integrates Wnt and Netrin signaling to regulate A/P and D/V cell migration.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Oooh where did you get the plastic objective covers?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Every one of these cards has a fact about the animal on the front, *and* an action people can take to protect that animal. We’re looking at cute art. We’re learning about cool bugs. We’re caring for our wildlife. What are you waiting for?? Get this year’s valentines here squidfacts.net

4 cards opened to reveal the facts inside with full-color illustrations within. Each has two blocks of text, one with a fact and one with an action item. I can’t currently read them at this resolution. The insect of the card is also in there hanging out near the to: and from: space.z there’s also a space for notes

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Any idea why this policy is for author accepted and not final proofed versions to go to pubmed? I've been neglecting re-proofing an article for pubmed as it's just such a waste of time.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Former postdoc Dr. Kayt Scott was interested in vesicle trafficking in the gonad and screened Rab GTPases; co-first author GMB grad student @noorsingh_ finished the RNAi screen of the whole Rab family. We are excited to share the results!

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Exciting preprint led by GMB student Noor Singh t.co/WuKEWhksQI who found Rac1 mutants have gonad defects due to leader cell breaking apart during migration. Twist: the fragment without a nucleus can still lead outgrowth of a gonad branch! Please share and help me connect with ppl over here? Thx!

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Getting there in one piece: The Rac pathway prevents cell fragmentation in a nonprotrusively migrati...

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