This paper was written by my WormAtlas colleagues, Dave and Nate, in addition to 5 Nobel Prize winners. Hopefully more attention and funding will find its way to the invaluable C. elegans resources described in the paper.
Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.
It doesn’t get any more classic than this #worm25
WormAtlas has had a great time meeting so many new people and visiting with old friends. If you haven’t already, please come by and say hello on Tuesday afternoon. #worm25
Very grateful to get to have such a helpful and informative in-person meeting of the WormAtlas Board this morning to discuss the current content and future direction of WormAtlas. #Worm25
Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie: “I strongly believe in DEI!”
Demonstrators gather in NYC and across the nation in the name of science.
March 7, 2025
#standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social
In case anyone had any doubt as to Trump’s agenda…
Scene from Rutgers "Hands Off Our Research" Protest. Professor Monica Driscoll - National Academy of Sciences member - rallies our undergrads, grad students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and community. The resistance is growing!!! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social #celegans
What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Impossible to overstate the devastating impact this could have on NYC.
Puts food assistance, child care, affordable housing, special ed, infrastructure projects etc at risk.
The cruelty and chaos is the point.
We need to fight this blatantly illegal action with everything we’ve got.
This is so important for understanding why research in model organisms is so powerful.
Trained bioscientists find it easy to believe that many results relevant to cancer were discovered in yeast.
By laypeople, particularly if they are skeptical for other reasons, think we are stupid or nuts.
/fin
Amazing how these people are suddenly experts in everything.
Anyone who knows anything about the biology of aging realizes that doubling human lifespan is not going to be a matter of a few miracle drugs. This is complete and utter snake oil, and they sound increasingly desperate by the day.
Menopause affects or will affect 50% of us. There is a dearth of research-based information. Here's some 🧪 #womeninSTEM
