Christelle Sabatier

Single-cell atlases give us marker genes. Where are they expressed in the embryo? 🐟🧬🔬 gene2fish shows 53,595 in situ images of 8,263 zebrafish genes in one gene × stage grid. Led by @verajanssen.bsky.social at @biohub.org 🧵 📄 doi.org/10.64898/20... 🔗 zebrahub.sf.czbiohub.org/gene2fish

Useful paper for ochemists considering teaching Blind/Visually impaired students: pubs.acs.org/jceda8/artic...

Amazing and important work!

Time for that flu shot

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

🩸🩸🩸TODAY WE SHARE TWO MAJOR DISCOVERIES🩸🩸🩸 1. We peered into genomes and brains of the rare mosquitoes that QUIT feeding on blood and found what biting is built from 2. Humans got rid of isoleucine in their blood, malaria suffers from it, and mosquito proteomes budget for it THREADS>

1. Convergent evolutionary loss of chemosensory and blood-feeding pathways in non-blood-feeding mosquitoes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

This is fucking exhausting.

A heartbreaking must read! In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

Can’t wait!!!

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As folks gear up for the new semester, a reminder if anyone needs it, my Ai statement is available for people to make use of in their own materials. It’s downloadable and printable from my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

I'd support making all grades pass/fail. Not just for mental health reasons. But because allocating opportunities based on grades incentivizes students to try to game the system, either by begging professors for extra credit or by using tools like AI to cheat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

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MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience

Are you interested in top-notch science writing? Order this new book from @theopennotebook.bsky.social! Edited by @siricarpenter.bsky.social, it includes many of your favorite writers talking about their craft. Order from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social link with code UCPNEW for 30% off!

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

We just sued the Trump administration seeking records on a decision that would revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect whales, including critically #endangered North Atlantic right #whales, from deadly ship strikes. Only around 380 right whales remain.

Women’s World Cup is about 11 months away. FYI.

The Merlin Bird ID app will soon allow users to contribute data to monitor bird populations and aid conservation efforts. The project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app was funded by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which was gutted by the Trump regime. 🪶

Research Technician in C. elegans Molecular Biology and Genetics @Reinke_Science University of Toronto See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-research-technician-in-c-elegans-molecular-biology-and-genetics/ #ScienceJobs

I barely survived that game 🥵. Allez les bleus!! Grateful everyone is still in one piece.

Bend it like Lopes Cabral!

What a game!! 🤯

Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #PlantScience #PlantBiotech 🧪

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

I think we just passed oops.

There's a record-breaking, dangerous heat wave hitting Europe. Lots of news outlets are covering it. But alongside reporting about heat records, warnings, and even deaths, there are, sometimes, photos of crowded beaches or people lounging in parks www.fastcompany.com/91563140/sto...

“Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless…No one can say if they will succeed. But a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss.”

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

With all due respect to my Spanish ancestors, go Cabo Verde!

The warm weather in Northern California is speeding up these monarch caterpillars’ growth. Here’s hoping this small milkweed plant is sufficient to satisfy their appetites.

New newsletter, where as best I can I try to tell you why I think science teaching is important and why I wish our world could love science teachers as much as it loves them in movies www.fightforthehuman.com/on-science-t...

Apropos of nothing, if you think grades should reflect actual student learning rather than arbitrary institutional policies, I'd like to invite you to join us at the Grading Conference June 16--18

It was such an honor to be interviewed by Sasha Lilley for the legendary show on KPFA Radio in the Bay Area, @radioagainst.bsky.social ! I used to listen to this station and show when I lived in Berkeley! Now I'm the one on the show—so cool when that happens. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

What a great article!

Best shot ever of mobila rays? INSANE FOOTAGE (Aidan Bedford) Annual migration in the sea of Cortez WOW Why do we destroy our oceans and nature everywhere? #WarOnNature #Metacrisis

Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This viral video clip captured by Dean Boshoff of a desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) highlights one aspect of their behavior: Their terrifying WAR CRY or alarm cry. (sound on) Let's learn a bit more about this African frog that lives along the sandy desert coast along Namibia & South Africa.

An individual's growth mindset, on its own, may only predict so much. I'm more interested in "seed & soil" approaches to mindsets, and peers certainly make up part of the "soil." Large, international sample suggests individual and peers' mindset, and their interaction, predict academic resilience.

NEW on the podcast: REI workers are calling for a national consumer boycott of the popular outdoor sports co-op during it’s annual anniversary sale from May 15-25. I sat down with Ashley, a worker in Greensboro, NC to talk about what’s been happening at the table, boycotts as a tactic, and more.

Science is a story – join the communities that tell it. Every experiment has a backstory. Every figure, failure and breakthrough is shaped by people, choices and chance. If narratology is about how stories are told and why they matter, then science is rich with narratives waiting to be uncovered.

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.