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Nicole Webster

@nicolewebster.bsky.social
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Gastropod EvoDevo at the University of Saskatchewan

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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Those seem perfect!
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
What is this called and where do I buy more? I tried finger bowl, specimen bowl...
Empty glass bowl for holding specimens
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Johnny Davila-Sandoval @johnnyds.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Check our latest pre-print where I’m a second author. We gathered evidence on the brain and nerve cord being specified autonomously by isolating blastomeres in two different annelid species. Great collaboration with @nicolewebster.bsky.social, @allancarbal.bsky.social and @biyolokum.bsky.social.
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#PhD #evodevo #mollusca #gradschool
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Come join me in Canada 🍁! I'm recruiting a funded PhD student for fall 2026. My lab answers questions about how snails actually grow their shell using evo-devo techniques. More info: artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/NWeb...
Crepudia atrasolea early organogenesis showing the shell field (yellow). scale bar 20 um
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Do better @oxfordinstruments.bsky.social I was looking for a nice diagram of the most used model organisms and came across this phylogenetic horror. No yeast and bacteria are not invertebrate animals... 🤦‍♀️ andor.oxinst.com/learning/vie...
A phylogeny suggesting that yeast and bacteria and invertebrate animals
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nothing like deep homology anus news to brighten your morning! #evodevo
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I'd love to hear some thoughts about this! My phylogenetics theory is a little rusty! Non-monophyly of Deuterostomia?
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Andrzej Kaim @andrzejkaim.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Applications for Unitas Malacologica Travel Grants to attend the World Congress of Malacology in São Paulo, Brazil from 4th-8th August 2025, are now open! www.unitasmalacologica.org/projects.html wcm2025.com.br
unitasmalacologica.org
UM - Research
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
xkcd.com/3010/
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Geometriphylogenetics
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
I'm looking to ship some RNA. While trying to find the right shipping code, I come across: HTS Code: 2934.99.90 "Nucleic Acids And There Salts, Wheter Or Not Chemically Defi" am I supposed to trust this?! There? Wheter?
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
See-Star: a versatile hydrogel-based protocol for clearing large, opaque and calcified marine invertebrates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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See-Star: a versatile hydrogel-based protocol for clearing large, opaque and calcified marine invertebrates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.16.585344v1
Studies of morphology and developmental patterning in adult stages of many invertebrates are hindere
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Finally submitted my abstract for #CSZ! You have a few hours left. #moncton
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
#addOcean please
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Its time for mollusc of the year! Vote for your favorite to get its genome sequenced! 🦑🐙🐌💪https://moty2024.senckenberg.science/en/
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
I have unkind thoughts about the term Systems Biology. Not the concept, just the term.
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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
It took me 15 seconds to send an email through this tool! Canadian science can't wait any longer.
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Come join my lab! #evodevo #gradschool #inverts #molluscmonday
My lab group is interested in understanding the genetic and developmental mechanisms behind the evolution of  novel phenotypes (evo-devo). I am seeking a curious and motivated student interested in biomineralization and/or molluscs to join my team.  The aim of my research is to understand how the shell of molluscs has evolved into so many different forms by understanding the developmental mechanisms regulating biomineralization via the mantle. 

We are a new lab helping to develop a slipper snail (Crepidula atrasolea) to test fundamental evolution and development questions. As a member of our lab, you will have the freedom to tailor your project to your interests, ideally relating to the genetics, development, and role of the nervous system in shell formation in gastropods. Depending on your project and research goals, you will have the opportunity to learn microinjection, CRISPR, hybridization chain reaction in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, animal husb
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Is academia-induced ADHD a thing? I feel like my head fell off chasing too many priorities. #academia
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
This National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women I remember the women shot for being engineering students at l’École Polytechnique. 🧑‍🔬🧪
Memorial stone labelled “In memorial Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Anne St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte
6 Décembre 1989
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Today's the deadline to submit an abstract for #PanAmEvoDevo in Chile. I wish I could go, but it doesn't match a semester break in Canada. #evodevo meetings.embo.org/event/24-dev...
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Nicole Webster @nicolewebster.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
York University (Canada) Is hiring an Indigenous professor of biology: www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult... #tenure-track #Canada #indigenous
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