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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 18/09/2026

Rhomboid protease Rhbdl2 influences #macrophage recruitment and wound repair in #zebrafish. New study from Saroj Gourkanti, Sonya E. Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Migration #motility #Immunology

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tell your students you're trying to raise a Seymour army to feed the unworthy.

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Seth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My home department (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) is searching for an assistant professor in ecology—please distribute widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 11/09/2026

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And you may think this is obvious, but have you asked your trainees how they're generating plots?

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you perform a function in Excel or R to make a graph, you are converting numerical data to graphical data. If you ask an AI chat to make a graph, you are getting it to draw a picture of your data. The evidence? "Sometimes it moves the data points around a little." This is NOT ok.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just spent four hours with two PhD students polishing the final draft of a manuscript, an hour carefully considering the meaning and intent of each sentence of the abstract alone, and I will quit science before I use AI for writing.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As an editor, I recently rejected a paper after revision because the requested illustrative figure was scientifically inaccurate AI garbage, and then the authors responded in 2 days with 7 alternatives that were each worse.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come be my colleague, too! It's a great place with fantastic people...and more than that one building 😊

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honestly shocked any editor can get more than two people to agree to review these days.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was hoping that you were the editor and the authors never saw this crap. A responsible editor should send that back to the reviewer with a stern note.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is reinforcing my 'no more than 36 hours in Vegas' rule

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I mean, really, *most* of the time when compared with most of the rest of the country...

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Ceri Weber @ceriweber.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I am so excited to announce that the Weber Lab will be opening in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, & Cell Biology @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social. We will be investigating the development and evolution of vertebra size, shape, and function. And yes, the jerboas are coming with!

Ceri looking happy in her new lab space!

Lesser Egyptian jerboa from https://www.science.org/content/article/how-jerboa-got-its-enormous-feet

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You aren't going to do what my husband once did a make tandoori chicken in the kitchen oven on the hottest day of the year? :)

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is how I learned to not sit in a lab chair (with wheels) when you cut the end of your finger off and feel kind of dizzy...

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Did you know the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting has an entire session just for NEW PI Talks? And a New PI Keynote Talk? It does! These will be chosen from the abstracts. New PIs, sign up! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A reviewer of my evolutionary genetic complexity paper asked me to cite Donovan as evidence of the real harm of simplification, and I'm so grateful. This is a hard read.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

nature.com

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness

Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

How many of us who remember watching the Challenger launch in your elementary classroom still get highly emotional when a personed mission launches?

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Cooper lab is hiring a postdoc with a strong background in mouse genetics and molecular biology to advance.our gene drive work. Must be extremely organized, engineering-minded, and outcomes-oriented. Spread the word and have interested candidates email me directly.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

At what point will AI kill wonder because we will all naturally become cynical...

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Programs across the country have cut cohort sizes ~30% and anticipate higher yields on offers bc of the spillover. So yes, fewer offers are going out, wait lists are being used, and the system may jam up until candidates accept their best offer in hand on April 15th.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Novelty is often an illusion of incomplete data.

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There's a 50% probability of randomly getting this correct and yet it seems the equivalent of trying to insert a USB-A...

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/03/2026

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

First year and incoming PhD students are impacted the most bc few faculty can be comfortable with a ~5 year financial responsibility.

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Possibly once councils meet that some of these (especially the single digit) will turn into NOAs eventually. Its not possible to plan anything on 'eventually' - projects/labs just stagnate because you don't want to hire, put out resources only to find out the grant won't be funded.

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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/03/2026

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

One of my PhD students today was telling me about how her grandmother remembers getting the internet...

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Kim Cooper @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I did in - in 2005 when Endnote kept crashing Word once the document got too long, even with citations unformatted. It was miserable, and I've been using Zotero since not long after.

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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells. A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I had an email exchange with a guy yesterday who insisted I was making a mistake not outsourcing my writing to an LLM. He said, "It knows more than you do." He couldn't understand that this was impossible because the work of writing is figuring out what "I" think.

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