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Shit’s too expensive, and workers are stressing over every bill and paycheck. Working people built this country, and we deserve more than just scraping by. Let’s elect candidates who will fight to make this economy work for us, not billionaires.

Really excited to see these papers from @trayon.bsky.social and @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social in @cp-devcell.bsky.social! Check them out, along with my Research Highlight for @natcellbio.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.cell.com/developmenta... www.cell.com/developmenta...

Part 1 of my postdoc work is officially published! 🥳 Hofstenia miamia has emerged as a new model system because of its ability to accomplish whole-body regeneration - but that also means that animals must be able to heal any type of wound. How do they do this? 🧵 1/13 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a great read that captures a lot of my resistance to LLMs. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... It takes years to shape a mind into something strong and nimble. I plan for my kids to have such minds.

@springernature.com sold @sciam.bsky.social to LabX Media after the staff voted to form a union with the goal of improving and preserving the publication. We call on LabX to recognize our union. Sign the letter in solidarity! wgaea.st/sciam-letter

It's really frustrating to have to take time away from reading exciting science to comment on the proposed OMB regulations, but here we are. I strongly recommend anyone who cares about the future of science in the US to do the same. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

I had the chance to highlight some amazing #DevBio from @gcharras.bsky.social and @herveturlier.bsky.social for @natcellbio.nature.com this month! Check out my Research Highlight www.nature.com/articles/s41... and the original article in @cp-devcell.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

Enroute to #EESMechanobiology! proud to represent both @natcellbio.nature.com as senior editor and npj Biological Physics & Mechanics as advisory editor. Let's discuss your interesting work, science publishing, & more! Find me around &at the #MeetTheEditor lunch On Wed. Note, I'm only here Tues+Wed

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3

Headed to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 this week? Our #DevBio and #regeneration editors @ebardot.bsky.social and @keatonschuster.bsky.social will be there! Find them to learn more about publishing with Nature Communications.

Excited to be able to go to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 meeting this week! I attended this meeting during my PhD and loved the community. DM me if you want to discuss a potential submission or just say hi. I’ll make time Wednesday for 1:1s. Looking forward to seeing what’s new in heart development🫀

Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪

The SciAm Union is disappointed that @springernature.com dragged our colleagues into a last minute meeting this morning with the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson (the same one Starbucks and Amazon hire 👀)

Congratulations to Nick Newkirk, an amazing graduate student from the lab, on the latest story that supports a model in which helicase-domain methylation and Dicer phosphorylation act together to regulate Dicer conformation and effector recruitment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

My quote of the day We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Ambrose Bierce

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Shameless plug, but I’m excited to see work in model organisms submitted to @natcomms.nature.com. Model organisms, non-model organisms, stem cell models. There’s room for all of it.

Thank you for submitting your Joke "Asphalt-guided Directional Locomotion of Gallus gallus" for consideration in Advances in Jokes. We have now received comments from three reviewers with appropriate senses of humor. Considering their advice I regret to inform you that we cannot publish your Joke.

I have a conference joke - actually it’s really more of a comment?

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses. But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n Disclaimer: all views are my own.

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

Headed to @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Stem Cell Models in Embryology tomorrow! Looking forward to hearing what’s new at the interface of #stemcells and #DevBio and finding promising stories for @natcomms.nature.com. Want to chat? DM me or find me there!

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

My quote of the day Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

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