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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fusion of E14 chicken parabronchi! Green staining with DSHB 7D6 for L-CAM/E-cadherin stains the lung epithelium. Magenta stains for smooth muscle actin that constricts the developing parabronchi. This was imaged on a confocal microscope and is an MIP. #ShowYourWork #SeenWithDSHB #Figure1

An image of the chicken parabronchi highlighting the interplay between smooth muscle and the epithelium during embryonic lung development. The muscle constricts the epithelium, causing it to outpocket. These outpockets will form the future gas exchange regions in the adult chicken. Green stains for DSHB 7D6 for L-CAM/E-cadherin to stain the lung epithelium. Magenta stains for smooth muscle actin that constricts the developing parabronchi.

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That the Oxford comma is essential, and I will add it to all your manuscripts.

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i really do appreciate it when people try to keep things weird. life is so much better that way. 🪰 @flybase.bsky.social

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thank you Crystal for the kind words. 🥹 If you are studying metabolism, consider submitting to this @diffjournal.bsky.social special edition!

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Joao Pereira @jdpereira.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

But Joao, aren’t you afraid of being scooped? No. It’s an ultra-rare childhood epilepsy. If you scoop me and the kids get help from it, I will help you scoop me and then move on.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Thiamine (vitamin B1) is essential to metabolism & deficiencies produce a condition called beriberi. I want to tell the story of why the Japanese Army suffered from it until 1926, while the Japanese Navy did NOT after 1884. A cautionary tale about science denialism & the resulting policy choices.

"Japanese curry, Officer's mess, Battleship Mikasa, c. 1906. | Old Tokyo"

A group of men in white uniforms of Japanese traditional design sit on the floor around a tablecloth spread with rice dishes and curries.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Frog eye, frog eye. Can I have a confocal microscope to play on for 12 hrs a day again please? 👉👈🥺 🐸

An image of a whole frog eye that has been labelled with a photoreceptor marker (cyan) and a nuclear marker (orange). The retinal is the striped tissue and the lens is the large round tissue with the orange interior. You can also see the optic nerve at the top middle of the picture (12:00).

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

As basic science advances I’d argue that model organisms (and new model species) will become even MORE important - my lab works on free-living marine nematodes, but we’re increasingly trawling the C.elegans literature to make sense of our unexpected bacterial microbiome results!

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent. I love kids but I can barely afford my pets. Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Bird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬

A microscope image showing a developing eye in a quail embryo. Actin is labelled in orange and nuclei are in cyan.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The amount of bots in this place is out of control. "Postdoc" in bio. That's a fake job.

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Does anyone know of a beta-gal/lacZ antibody that works for IF in mouse tissues? The one we previously used that worked beautifully is discontinued 😩🧪

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

i AM an artist and my studio is R STUDIO

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is another gorgeous lung image from a Shh lineage tracing survey by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with magenta showing non Shh-expressing cell types and membrane GFP marking Shh-expressing cells. 🤩 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬

A confocal image of an E18.5 mouse lung showing Shh-expressing cells in green and non-expressing cells in magenta. Image was acquired on a Nikon A1R.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research. 1/n

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a woman says please help me understand on a netflix advertisement

ALT: a woman says please help me understand on a netflix advertisement

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Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Whole-gut spatial genomic analysis reveals molecular regionalization of the differentiating zebrafish enteric nervous system

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is the intrinsic nervous system of the gut and controls essential functions, such as gut motility, intestinal barrier function, and water balance. The ENS displays a c...

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Disappointing to see a dear colleague’s grant terminated because of anti-DEI ideology. @lisyvila.bsky.social has spearheaded understanding lung endothelial cell heterogeneity, discovering a novel lung endothelial cell, and has groundbreaking unpublished work directly impacted by this decision.

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I had the privilege to attend my PhD graduation this week. It took a village to get here, but I made it . #firstgen

A picture of myself (left) and my postdoc mentor (right) in PhD regalia.

A gif of my postdoc mentor and I hugging after I was hooded for my PhD on the graduation stage.

A picture of my sister (left), myself in PhD regalia and diploma (middle), and my brother in law (right).

A picture of me in PhD regalia with my diploma (left) with my fiancé (right).

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🧬 #FluorescenceFriday Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells. #Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Losses like these are, for an old man like me, the most devastating of all losses. Programs like these started my career in 1980 and to deny entry portals to the future scientists of America is to deny our future as a nation 🧪

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹 But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾

End of Keynote speech where Dr. Joshua Hall received a gift

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Rosa Uribe, PhD @uribelab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

@riceuniversity.bsky.social we started a #DevBio SuperGroup Colloquia where trainees formally presented their work all last academic year. It was a resounding success! Check out some of the cool science happening at Rice in developmental biology. Special thank you to Lucia Rivas!

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So excited my PhD work is finally online! Please take a look at our exploration of the chicken lung 🐓🥚🫁

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Matt vs. the relentlessness of entropy @mcs-phd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This trend is so great. I hope every research institution does it.

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I submitted my first nih grant!! I have had impeccable timing, from starting my PhD in 2020 to submitting my first nih grant in 2025. 🧪

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Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

In case the link disappears…

List of eligibility criteria for NIH diversity supplements and related F, K and other awards

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Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The “who” is impacted by cancellation of NIH “diversity” awards is much broader than “not white.” Eligibility criteria included individuals who are disabled, economically disadvantaged, grew up in rural communities, first generation college students, homeless… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Expired PA-20-222: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-20-22...

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Pay attention #devbiol! The firing of the NICHD director directly impacts our work. NIAID and others are known political hot topics, so changes at NICHD are getting far less attention. Make sure people know what the NICHD is and why it matters! @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

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Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Many brilliant scientists are now being punished by having our funding terminated because we are from underrepresented groups. We did everything right and we EARNED these awards. Remember us when you’re making decisions on whether DEI should be sacrificed to “protect” research funding. #InMyFeelings

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Kamryn Gerner-Mauro, PhD @kamryngerner.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Learning to live image mouse embryo slices so we can track neural crest cell migration. Crossing fingers and toes it works so we can eventually do this on my mutants!

The screen of the confocal showing a single z-plane of an embryonic mouse neural tube. Neural crest cells are labeled in green and surrounding tissue is labeled in red.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025

The people who would be most harmed by the closures of financially precarious colleges and universities are poor people, first generation students, people of color, and students with caretaking responsibilities That is who your small/no endowment schools disproportionately serve

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

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See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World

Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world

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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Wow, Texas gets a lot of NIH funding. $200,000,000+ in 2024 across 36 institutions. NIH has a big impact on the local economy in Texas.

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Nidhi Subbaraman @nidhisubs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Another lawsuit challenging NIH cuts of indirect costs, this time from AAMC and groups representing medical centers, hospitals, public health schools

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here’s the web archive’s most recent snapshot (1/24/2025) of this page: web.archive.org/web/20250124... Notice how WIDE RANGING and contextual this notice is: it includes socio-economic diversity as well as racial and gender diversity. This administration’s actions are blatant overreaching

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NOT-OD-20-031: Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity NOT-OD-20-031. NIH

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/01/2025

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

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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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