Stacey Ogden 🦔

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

Working on a 🧪 Teams doc and the software seems annoyed with me continuing to hit ctrl+S. It started adding pizazz to the autosave notifications to grab my attention. The latest: "You're good to go. The document is autosaving ✌️!" I'm wondering if the next emoji will use a different finger 😅

Congrats to @dalimartinez.bsky.social who won the Joseph S. Pagano Award for her paper describing new roles of a regulator of development co-opted in cancer. The award honors UNC Lineberger Cancer Center's founding director. Thanks @unclineberger.bsky.social for making this possible! rdcu.be/ewwsZ

The aptly named Dazzling Glasswing

This is the most productive Saturday I've had in years. ✅Coffee ☕ ✅Got vaccinated💉 ✅Voted 🇺🇸 ✅Coffee ☕ ✅Went to a local art show and bought cute stuff for a Halloween tablescape 🎃 ✅Coffee ☕ ✅Now at work editing a manuscript (which is currently 2.5X the word limit 😶) ⌨️ ✅Probably more coffee later ☕

Not sure what is going on with the algorithm over on LinkedIn, but Paul Stanley from Kiss just showed up on my feed talking about "luxury" audio 👨‍🎤 This might be a sign that it's time to wrap up for the day 😆

30,000 years ago, a wolf tentatively approaches a fire…

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 66. Pollen ‘safe sites’ exist on bee bodies which bees can’t reach when grooming (waist and dorsal area of thorax/abdomen). The anthers/stigmas of #flowers regularly come into contact with these parts ensuring #pollination. #bees #bumblebees #nature

Happy October 🎃 #FluorescenceFriday! This is a montage of a cell with a creepy face in the nucleus 👹 The #SciArt image was generated from a confocal micrograph of an NIH3T3 cell that was pseudocolored and arranged Warhol style 🎨 🔬 From grad student Christina Wang 🧪

Reposting because this artistic summary is 🤌 🤓 🧪

Lab celebration Escape Room for @christinaadaly.bsky.social ‘s paper being accepted and SJ grad student Ryan Mesler completing his first lab rotation! I’m happy to report that we escaped with time to spare! 🕵🏼 🧪

Here’s my submission for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #Reflection - American avocet in Memphis, TN 🪶

I need a better answer when asked by other birders: "What is your favorite bird?" Honest answer, sorry to say, is the mourning dove. This response always receives a perplexed look. So,my new birder-specific answer will be: Indigo bunting, green heron, or wood stork 🪶 Pics taken by me in Memphis.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! To continue with the October theme, please enjoy this microscopic "pumpkin". This is the nucleus of an NIH3T3 cell shown in 🟠 and the primary cilium in 🟢 - 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Christina Wang 🎃 🧪

Shout out to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Ryan Mesler for a great rotation talk! 🧪

@labogden.bsky.social identified arachidonic acid as a regulator of Smoothened signaling. Blocking the interaction disrupted heart and lung development while leaving nervous system development unaffected. bit.ly/4xqCSOv

Check out how @stjuderesearch.bsky.social scientists study #DevBio to better understand how corruption of developmental signals can lead to disease 🧪 👩‍🔬

Today is the last day--comment NOW!

The cytoneme crew at the Nanotubular Symposium at University of Houston - With Sougata Roy and the father of the cytoneme field, Tom Kornberg 🧪

New lab mascot - the Hedgehog banknote! 🦔 🧪 😉 Perhaps it will bring us funding 🤓

My lab started a monthly Vintage Journal Club where we read and discuss seminal papers in the field that are related to ongoing projects. It's turning out to be really fun to discuss "vintage" work in the context of what we know today. The lab seems to enjoy it too. 🧪 🤓

I am I-need-a-new-pair-of-readers-every-few-months years old👵

Earlier this year the scientific community successfully fought back on dramatic changes in Federal funding proposed by the Trump Administration.Now another RFI is proposing substantial changes that would damage peer review. This letter from SDB President Helen McNeill lays out the issue clearly 1/n

Is this the new motto for the WNT meeting? 🧪

Congratulations to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social for formal acceptance of her paper! Stay tuned - more details to come soon! 🎉 🥳 🧪

Seen posted around campus 👻 🤣

Happy Birthday to our amazing lab manager Miriam @miriamdillard.bsky.social! We’d be lost without her! Have a great day! 🧪

Happy first #FluorescenceFriday of October! I'm going with Halloween inspired images this month, so am recycling this Slimer cell from last year. Microscopy by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social graduate student Christina Wang! 🧪 🔬 👩‍🔬

I am supposed to be writing so, of course, I am procrastinating. I asked ChatGPT about doves and it told me that mourning doves are nice to watch because: "They look like birds that have somewhere quiet to be, and they're never in much of a hurry to get there." 😄 🪶

I’ve reached the age where I’m jealous of young people’s good knees 👵🏼

I used to live near a business that put a new inspirational quote on their outdoor sign every Monday. Years later, the one I remember is: "Nap when you can" 😉

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

Georgios Skiniotis and I are announce a unique St. Jude faculty search: a joint effort between the CoE for Structural Cell Biology an intellectual community advancing structural imaging & the Division of Neuronal Cell Biology. CryoET/vEM + neuron cell biology = 🚀 talent.stjude.org/careers/JobD...

Please consider planting some native plants in your yard to help the pollinators 🫶 No yard? A few clover plants in a window box can make a big difference for pollinators in the city 💙🐝🦋💚

I’m delighted to share that my book has won the @britishecologicalsociety.org Book of the Year Award! 🪱📚🎉

This 🧵 about a flight diverted to Iceland is so choice 🤌 Well told @sarahjeong.bsky.social - sorry for your travel troubles, but thanks for the masterclass in travel live posting 😁

We're in a pickle... help us rate these Goose pics on scale of "Awww!" to "Mayor of Squee City!!!" p.s. If you have cute aggression brought on by manul bleps, fair warning.

Goose 😍

Now a Goose fan account 😍

Imagine my excitement upon learning that Starbucks offers a “Hedgehog pop” 🤗 🦔

“Vought told Congress during a hearing in June that “when we find [a grant] that’s problematic that our policy officials would not have caught, we need to be able to turn it off,” he said.”’ That is as plain a statement of the unitary executive approach to running science agencies as I can imagine

Happy birthday to postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social ! Here’s to a year of great data 👩🏻‍🔬 🤓! 🥳

Fire is invented.

TGI #FluorescenceFriday! This is a section from a P3 🐭🫁 expressing the confetti lineage tracer. The original image was converted to #SciArt using the emboss filter in PS. 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio 👩‍🔬

When the Pope wants in on the #FluorescenceFriday fun 🤓