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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had a really fun time taping this episode live at the Symposium! I can’t wait to hear how it turned out! Huge thanks to @stemcellpodcast.com for having us on! 🤩

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great to see it! Congrats to the authors! 🤩

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Developmental biology and genetics in action! Many of the congenital disorders that occur in humans also occur in other animals.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ugh. The clouds weren’t as cooperative.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you! It was very cool to be that close. I took pics from a flight last week too but there was no snow, the clouds wasn’t as cooperative, and they are much uglier pics. 😂

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Movie version of Mt. Ranier from my flight yesterday. So pretty! 😍

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had some pretty amazing views of Mt. Ranier from my flight home yesterday! Just wow! 🤩

Mt. Ranier from a Seattle to Sacramento flight

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It has been an amazing @hypothesisfund.bsky.social retreat ending at a dinner at Tonnemaker Farm. I shared the findings from work we have been doing over the past year and heard so many other phenomenal awardees speak. Huge thanks to everyone involved and to my scout, @drkhaynes.bsky.social! 🤩

Three women smiling at the hypothesis fund retreat dinner at Tonnemake farm.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the first time I’ve seen one of these beauties on the UC Davis campus away from the arboretum. So pretty! I hope it’s a good omen for the day. I’m not sure what type of bird it is but it was about 3 feet tall!

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kudos to the @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social organizers of the Early Career Symposium at the @alleninstitute.org. Just an amazing group of folks doing the coolest of science. This has been a fantastic meeting where I saw the future of #DevBio, #CellBio and #StemCellBio!

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We did meet!! Thank you for letting me know. We had a great conversation about neural tube patterning after the podcast taping. I’m hoping to get another chance to speak to her today.😃

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m so excited to be at the @alleninstitute.org Early Career Symposium-Stem Cell and Developmental Biology. While I’m not technically “early career” - I am just as excited about science as I was when I started! I truly appreciate the invite and am enjoying the amazing presentations!

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to @ucdavis.bsky.social on this awesome achievement! Proud to be a part of it all! ❤️

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am “I threw my neck/back out while I was sleeping” years old.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It has begun… the fall quarter rush to crush. You know, crush my free time, back, eyes, mental health, and so on and so forth. 🫩🫠 See you in December when I can breathe again!

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Guerra War

Alt: Arnold Schwarzenegger painting war paint

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Friday from Roxie the Bulldog! Wishing you a restful weekend. Turn the sound on for the good stuff.

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

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The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Someone stole my 12-year old son’s bike. And then the school called another mom of a kid with the same name who said he should walk home. So now my kid is distraught thinking I abandoned him to walk home alone with his bike tire after his bike was stolen. That’s how my Thursday is going.

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Inside Out Anger Character Screaming

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Awesome!! Congratulations! I can’t wait to read it!

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I grew up in a paycheck-to-paycheck household that fell short of needed funds every month. My mom would look at her bank account and know that the $$ that was there would not cover our needs. This is exactly how it feels right now to look at our lab’s remaining funds. Pure dread.

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Banana Crisis: Stuffed Animal's Existential Woes

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dear “all of my students,” you know I’m basically a boomer so please just send me the Word doc to edit instead of a link to a Google doc. You know I’m going to download it and send you back the track-changed doc… 😂

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Billys O Gates Deletes 'My Computer' Icon

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So to be clear, both the Idiocracy and Terminator movies were predictive documentaries then? Because we see absolutely in this and none of it is good.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I also had a lot of recent conversations that sound just like this… 😢

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s my 7 year anniversary @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and I have been a professor for 10.5 years total! It has been an amazing journey so far and I’m lucky to have such a wonderful team to work with. I started my @ucdavis.bsky.social journey on 9/1/2019 and here we are today!

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oooh! Check this out @socdevbio.bsky.social and @ascbiology.bsky.social folks! A job at an amazing university (UCSD) in one of the prettiest cities in California with fantastic colleagues! #DevBio

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much @diorkelley.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the GDCB departmental seminar. I had a fantastic visit to Iowa State! Everyone was so nice and the science conversations were 🔥! So many cool ideas and hopeful future collaborations. 💫

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m super excited to be giving a seminar at Iowa State today! I get to speak with several microtubule, cell cycle, and dev/cell bio folks and can’t wait for input and great conversations. I was not prepared for the humidity and heat here though. 😂

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Kid in Toy Car: Let's Go Bullish!

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Gorgeous sunset and a bat-tastic evening! It was legitimately magical. The Yolo Basin Foundation gives talks and you get to see live bats up close and then you head out to the causeway to watch the bats fly out. 10/10 5 ⭐️. 2/

The sunset in Davis from the yolo causeway

Bats flying out in the evening at the yolo causeway

Gorgeous clouds and if you zoom in- bats!

An adorable Mexican free-tailed bat- native to California and Oregon

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We have lived in Davis for 7 years and last night was the first time I have ever gone to watch the bats come out. We were gifted with an amazing sunset too! It was amazing! Huge props to Yolo Basin Foundation for a fantastic tour and event. 🦇 🌅 1/

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Roxie the Bulldog was just showing out today. She’s so pretty! 😍 🤩 🥹

A bulldog with her bottom teeth everywhere and ears perked up

A bulldog smiling with her tongue out and ears perked up

A brown bulldog lounging in front of a purple and orange striped pillow

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salamandermeeting2026.bsky.social @salamander2026.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're on Bluesky! The Salamander Meeting 2026 — Regeneration & Development in Axolotls: From Xochimilco to the Lab — comes to Mexico City, Oct 6–8, hosted by UNAM. Follow along for speakers, science, and a bit of axolotl culture. Info: salamander2026.iibiomedicas.unam.mx #SalamanderMeeting2026

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Salamander meeting October 6-8, 2026 Mexico City, Mexico / Unidad de Seminarios “Dr. Ignacio Chávez” Cerro Zacatepetl S/N, C.U., Coyoacán, 04370 Ciudad de México, CDMX An international conference de...

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Andy Baxevanis @baxevanislab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📢 Applications are now open for the NIH Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Program! We're recruiting early-career scientists across all areas of biomedical research for tenure-track faculty positions in the NIH Intramural Research Program. Deadline: Sept 30, 2026. 🔗 tinyurl.com/stadtman26

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Such a lovely gift from one of our graduating seniors… I can’t wait to hang it! 🥹❤️

Brad art that says “Rogers Lab ‘26” and has an axolotl.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is such fantastic news!! Congratulations! 🎉

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today was an amazing day filled with science! I went to the @ucdavis.bsky.social UC LEADS poster session where one of our students presented his summer work, then a packed lab meeting followed by our Rogers Lab Summer Student Research Symposium! My heart is full of pride and brain full of science!

Top left: Keith Benedict from SFSU presents his summer research in the Rogers Lab, top right: Rogers Lab lab meeting, middle: all of the summer and ongoing students in the Rogers lab, bottom left: lunch and science, bottom right: Dr. Rogers in her “because science” t shirt.

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