She’ll be so missed

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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INFOWARS @infowars Lies! Lies! Lies! The Epic Lies And False Reality That The Onion Lives In!

"The Onion lives in a false reality"

A smidge of good news

Wtaf

Mapping nerves in a whole embryos.

We find that across species and development stages, embryonic nerves display (beautiful) fractal geometry.

More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oooh. I’m not crying…

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Just a rumor but… I have a program officer colleague who describes every day at work as a game of Jenga. At some point the entire structure collapses.

Mosaic gastruloids reveal a temporal restriction for developmental cell competition - Nature Cell Biology Frenster et al. utilize mosaic mouse gastruloids as a model of cell fitness and competition, identifying a temporal window between primed pluripotency and early gastrulation during which cell competit...

🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm so pleased to see this work on neural crest development out in Nature today! This was a truly fantastic collaboration with @gleesonlab.bsky.social, Keng loi (Harry) Vong and @xiaoxuyang.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone involved 👏 🧪🐣 #devbio

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

Flyer showing full details for the 2026 Mouse Development, Stem Cells & Cancer course hosted at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The top picture shows the Cold Spring Harbor in New York. The course will be held from June 1 to June 21. Instructors for the course will be Danelle Davenport from Princeton University and Loydie Jerome-Majewska from McGill University in Canada. The co-instructors for the course will be Matthew Anderson from NCI-Frederick and Katherine Fantauzzo from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Experimental techniques to be taught during the course include CRISPR/Cas9 editing and allele design, zygote micro injection and embryo transfer, isolation culture and manipulation of pre and post-implantation embryos, zygote and embryo electroporation, in vivo electroporation for somatic cancer modeling, embryo roller bottle culture, in vitro fertilization, fluorescent RNA in situ hybridization, immunofluorescence, skeletal preparation, and live imaging and confocal microscopy. Speakers for the course include Ripla Arora from Michigan State, Richard Behringer from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jeff Bush and Diana Laird from UC San Francisco, Katie Cockburn and Yojiro Yamanaka from McGill University, Anna-Katerina Hadjatonakis from the Sloan Kettering Institute, Ai Ing Lim and Eszter Posfai from Princeton, Francesca Mariani from the University of Southern California, Kate McDole from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Steve Murray from Jackson Laboratory, Virginia Papaioannou from Columbia University, Pedro Rocha and Shyam Sharan from the NIH, Berna Sozen and Kaelyn Sumigray from Yale, Shankar Srinivas from the University of Oxford, Rolf Stottmann from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Xin Sun from UC San Diego, Paul Trainor from the Stowers Institute, and Steve Vokes from the University of Texas at Austin. Pictures on the left show fluorescence images of a mouse embryo, a mouse brain slice, and mouse embryonic fibroblasts.

The deadline for the 2026 Mouse Course @cshlcourses.bsky.social has been EXTENDED until Mar 30!

When asked what they liked most about the course, one participant said the course felt “all-inclusive” with “no expectation of previous knowledge.“ We welcome all experience levels!

Apply today!

Excited to share our work on the structure and function of cytoplasmic lattices within mouse embryos. A collaborative effort with @niakanlab.bsky.social and work led by @kashishsingh.bsky.social and @inaharasimov.bsky.social . It is now out on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

On NOFOs and funding. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

Well done. Every news outlet should run a piece like this.

By my age, you will have lost someone to cancer. Or cardiovascular disease. Or another disease NIH funding combats. You will wish you had more time with them. That’s what NIH funding does. Buys us time with the people we love.

#FundNIH.

CU Boulder proposes plan to run NCAR if federal breakup proceeds n a letter to the National Science Foundation, CU outlined a university-led consortium that could take over the lab if restructuring moves forward.

CU Boulder, along with Wyoming and Oklahoma, submitted a joint proposal to NSF to essentially keep NCAR intact and replace UCAR, Brooke Stephenson at the Boulder Reporting Lab reports.

meet hemicentetes semispinosus, the lowland streaked tenrec. it's native to madagascar, looks like a hedgehog dressed as a shrew disguised as a dandelion, but is related to none of those things

Submit to our Developmental Biology Special Issue - Receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development!😎

Guest editors
Katherine Fantauzzo @fantauzzolab.bsky.social
Jennifer Fish

Deadline April 30th, 2026

@socdevbio.bsky.social

Linked here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Heh heh heh

IL-17RA signaling promotes the dedifferentiation of Paneth progenitors through ADAM17 to regenerate gut epithelium post-irradiation @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Is this a rhetorical question?

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I guess we’ve always known these slime balls and warned each other. I really had no idea they were all members in an f’ing club

I’ll leave this here since apparently we seem to have a problem with finding evidence.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Grateful for the Glendale Cherry Creek’s thoughtful writeup of Next’s street safety coverage. But for the sake of accuracy, our viewers are Godless mercenary hordes, not “hords,” whatever that means.