Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Worm friends, we need your help! For the next C. elegans Mentor Match cycle, we’re gathering testimonials from past mentors and mentees. One of our biggest challenges is recruiting new mentees, and hearing directly from past participants could really help. Please record a short video, and share!padlet.comC. elegans Mentor Match TestimonialsMade with Padlet 01518
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ 011855
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 21/01/2026#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired 01618
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌 1239
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.wormatlas.bsky.social @wormatlas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025A new paper, co-authored by WormAtlas directors Dave Hall and Nate Schroeder, describes how C. elegans community research resources, including WormAtlas, provide the infrastructure that supports nematode research around the world. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 0106
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Association for Women in Science @awisnational.bsky.social · 05/11/2025To help support early career scientists and their research, AWIS is offering microgrants (up to $5,000) to researchers who have lost federal funding. Applications are due by December 15. Learn more. awis.org/awis-bridge-grant-program #WomenInSTEM 022
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/ 214985
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG 076
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 25/08/2025🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday 0287
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS 194
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe. In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 02313
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 17/08/2025🎓 Planning to apply to STEM graduate programs? Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET. Gain key insights on: ✅ Grad school application timeline ✅ How to choose the right program 🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-... 076
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)! 0365
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Ethan (Chee Kiang) Ewe @ethanewe.bsky.social · 11/08/2025🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥 we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1 85827
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!media.tenor.coma man in a suit has a name tag on his jacket that says dennisAlt: a man in a suit has a name tag on his jacket that says dennis 44020
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 13/08/2025✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty 01412
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling. 414223
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism. 04631
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Go worms! #worm25 08521
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Teresa Lee @snickclunk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱 Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)." 04413
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌 35326
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.José Vargas-Muñiz @mycorican.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Want to support us? Tell the NIH to (at least) reinstate ESI status to new PIs whose grants were withdrawn. Let your representative know that meritious research that would move us forward is being defunded. Tell your peers about this! Raise awareness. Please help us! 12/12 0119
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Check out SDB President Carole LaBonne's op-ed on how basic science is the engine that drives transformative discoveries. 'Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research' bit.ly/4lhm2Mvbit.lyWhy we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research“If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes Carole LaBonne of Northwestern. 0108
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I am excited to share that the project that taught me how to do science is now published at Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org. 2122
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 05/03/2025Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social, Taylor Medwig-Kinney @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social, & colleagues from the Goldstein lab found that a population of Arp2/3 recruited to where cells touch each other makes an unexpected contribution to apical constriction rupress.org/jcb/article/... 0135
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team. First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759 12113
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Look up the impact of NIH funding in your state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...unitedformedicalresearch.orgNIH In Your State - United For Medical ResearchSelect a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America. 611887
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 04/02/2025A depressing question with a lot of great answers. We need #devbio to understand birth defects, cancer, stem cell biology (and the resultant therapeutics) and so much more. And, frankly, because it's just amazing how a single cell can make a complex organism. 1144
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025please join us and be a mentor for one of the greatest model organism communities! sign up now and maybe you can meet your mentee at #Worm25 🥰 053
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We are extending the #ChooseDevelopment application deadline to Wednesday, February 5, 11:59 PM ET. Undergrads from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, first-generation college students, veterans & students with a disability are eligible. bit.ly/3FwHqYp #devbio 0913
Reposted by Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social · 31/01/2025We've been working on new initiatives at the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program. We are about to start experimenting with matching grad students with a post-doc mentor. If you are a postdoc and are interested, please sign up as a mentor: tinyurl.com/37msvdm7 And please spread the word!tinyurl.comMentor sign-up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match programSign up is close for now, but please add your name here for the next matching cycle. Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to postdocs and faculty... 01315