"That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later, and I gave it to her, but it was too late."
What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I desperately need a satirical Muppet Alex Jones
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
One thing I really enjoy about being in a broad biology dept. is that "indoor cats" like me get to hang out with "outdoor cat" ecology colleagues. Really fun student and faculty trip out to Joyce Kilmer with herp, birding, and botany excursions!
Now in press @pnas.org! Thread below with some of this story's highlights and contributions. Excited to dig into all the cool questions this project generated about how the wound epidermis works during limb regeneration.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Now in press @pnas.org! Thread below with some of this story's highlights and contributions. Excited to dig into all the cool questions this project generated about how the wound epidermis works during limb regeneration.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Say waaat! Radiofrequency gene control - now a reality. Get your tinfoil hats ready.
A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.
And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).
Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
Four images, three of fabric pages with different abstract designs and one image of a fabric book with the title on the white front cover in red font
In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting), a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart
I suppose it's better late than never to mention that this September I started an Assistant Professor position at Rowan University @rowancsm.bsky.social. We will be doing cool work with chameleons 🦎 to understand early development, especially left-right patterning view.rowan.edu/the-human-pu...
Literally the only thing that I'm looking forward to at 50 is having shingles vaccination covered by insurance.
Join us April 17th for a Zone 3 (Americas) webinar focused on Hydroid regeneration!! Featuring Christine Schnitzler University of Florida and Alexander Stockinger UC Davis. More information and zoom links can be found at: isrbio.org/webinars
Amazing photography by my co-mentor Dr. Emily Kane, a professor at University of Louisiana Lafayette.✨Reach out to her if you’re interested in getting professional photos of your model organisms for publications or just for fun.
-Just Add Water photography
justaddwater.picfair.com
Hi!
I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section.
(Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!)
badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com
Lecture slide titled "Meet Gilgamesh and Enheduanna." There are two photos of axolotls, a grey one (Gil) pictured side-on and a pink one (Hedy) taken from over top. Dorsal-ventral and anterior-posterior positions are labeled.
I'm *obviously* not going to teach about morphogen gradients and patterning without talking about axolotl limb regeneration. Which means I am required to show pictures of my axolotls (all limbs intact) as part of the lecture.
Wow 🤩
Congrats, Can!
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
With the scientific input and experimental brilliance of the @franzelab.bsky.social this work was made possible. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats, Mekayla and team!
My children, your inheritance is a Nature Communications paper in its 3rd round of revisions. Sorry about those APC fees you'll be saddled with 😅
submit....👨🧔♂️👨🦳👴💀...publish
Was literally just looking at camping info for a USFS-maintained campsite in Nantahala 😡
This may be lost in the noise--this is as impactful or more than the cuts to NIH and NSF 🧪
Had a fun visit to Duke yesterday for the Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Colloquium. Thanks to @isabellaclsci.bsky.social and other students for being excellent hosts and providing a ton of great questions before, during, and after the talk!
If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT
I can't source this photo, but it shows a normal mountain ridge with tiny people in the foreground and blue sky with puffy clouds in the background. There are paint-bright colors in horizontal bands across the ridge: reds, yellows, whites, and even some blue hints mixed in.
VERY high in the Andes of Cusco, Peru is the 'Montaña de Siete Colores' ("Mountain of Seven Colors") also called Vinicunca or Rainbow Mountain.
It captures in stone a collision between the Nazca & South American plates that formed the Andes, with stratified layers squished sideways.
New tool from the lab...check out Novabrowse: An interactive and customizable tool for interpreting BLAST results in genomic context!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Does your favorite gene seems to be missing from your species of interest?
Are you sure?
🧵👇 1/n
