Crystal D. Rogers

Who am I if I’m not a #DevelopmentalBiologist? A (long) thread. Today on my re-introduction to BlueSky, I would like to tell you how I got here. I am a #FirstGen college attendee and graduate. I was raised in a single-parent household. We struggled financially when I was growing up. 1/

Gorgeous sunrise this morning @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

My sweet pup Roxie is such a good sport for letting me put her in all of these PetSmart Halloween outfits… The prices were awesome so I couldn’t just pick one! 😂😍

Do you ever have those days that just start out like a warning to go back to bed? 🫠

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Job! 🤩👀👇🏽

Ok @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social students- I hope to see similar leveks of effort at the Halloween Dogstume contest next week! 🐶🎃😍

Happening in 10 minutes!

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It was a pleasure chatting with @stemcellpodcast.com and @waisman-ar.bsky.social! Thank you for inviting me to be a part of this episode!

I had a really fun time taping this episode live at the Symposium! I can’t wait to hear how it turned out! Huge thanks to @stemcellpodcast.com for having us on! 🤩

Developmental biology and genetics in action! Many of the congenital disorders that occur in humans also occur in other animals.

It has been an amazing @hypothesisfund.bsky.social retreat ending at a dinner at Tonnemaker Farm. I shared the findings from work we have been doing over the past year and heard so many other phenomenal awardees speak. Huge thanks to everyone involved and to my scout, @drkhaynes.bsky.social! 🤩

This is the first time I’ve seen one of these beauties on the UC Davis campus away from the arboretum. So pretty! I hope it’s a good omen for the day. I’m not sure what type of bird it is but it was about 3 feet tall!

Kudos to the @isscr.org and @socdevbio.bsky.social organizers of the Early Career Symposium at the @alleninstitute.org. Just an amazing group of folks doing the coolest of science. This has been a fantastic meeting where I saw the future of #DevBio, #CellBio and #StemCellBio!

I’m so excited to be at the @alleninstitute.org Early Career Symposium-Stem Cell and Developmental Biology. While I’m not technically “early career” - I am just as excited about science as I was when I started! I truly appreciate the invite and am enjoying the amazing presentations!

Congratulations to @ucdavis.bsky.social on this awesome achievement! Proud to be a part of it all! ❤️

Congratulations to Camilo Echeverria on this prestigious award! It has been amazing mentoring Camilo. He is one of our senior graduate students (PhD Candidates) at @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and is doing amazing work! biology.ucdavis.edu/news/cbs-gra...

I am “I threw my neck/back out while I was sleeping” years old.

It has begun… the fall quarter rush to crush. You know, crush my free time, back, eyes, mental health, and so on and so forth. 🫩🫠 See you in December when I can breathe again!

Happy Friday from Roxie the Bulldog! Wishing you a restful weekend. Turn the sound on for the good stuff.

Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

Someone stole my 12-year old son’s bike. And then the school called another mom of a kid with the same name who said he should walk home. So now my kid is distraught thinking I abandoned him to walk home alone with his bike tire after his bike was stolen. That’s how my Thursday is going.

This is so informative!

I grew up in a paycheck-to-paycheck household that fell short of needed funds every month. My mom would look at her bank account and know that the $$ that was there would not cover our needs. This is exactly how it feels right now to look at our lab’s remaining funds. Pure dread.

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Dear “all of my students,” you know I’m basically a boomer so please just send me the Word doc to edit instead of a link to a Google doc. You know I’m going to download it and send you back the track-changed doc… 😂

So to be clear, both the Idiocracy and Terminator movies were predictive documentaries then? Because we see absolutely in this and none of it is good.

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It’s my 7 year anniversary @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and I have been a professor for 10.5 years total! It has been an amazing journey so far and I’m lucky to have such a wonderful team to work with. I started my @ucdavis.bsky.social journey on 9/1/2019 and here we are today!

Oooh! Check this out @socdevbio.bsky.social and @ascbiology.bsky.social folks! A job at an amazing university (UCSD) in one of the prettiest cities in California with fantastic colleagues! #DevBio

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much @diorkelley.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the GDCB departmental seminar. I had a fantastic visit to Iowa State! Everyone was so nice and the science conversations were 🔥! So many cool ideas and hopeful future collaborations. 💫

I’m super excited to be giving a seminar at Iowa State today! I get to speak with several microtubule, cell cycle, and dev/cell bio folks and can’t wait for input and great conversations. I was not prepared for the humidity and heat here though. 😂

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Share this opportunity with your eligible undergrads! The @promegacorporation.bsky.social has a program called DOORS that offers mentorship and $$! www.promega.com/global/doors...

Roxie the Bulldog was just showing out today. She’s so pretty! 😍 🤩 🥹

Where did the summer go? 😩😢

We're on Bluesky! The Salamander Meeting 2026 — Regeneration & Development in Axolotls: From Xochimilco to the Lab — comes to Mexico City, Oct 6–8, hosted by UNAM. Follow along for speakers, science, and a bit of axolotl culture. Info: salamander2026.iibiomedicas.unam.mx #SalamanderMeeting2026

📢 Applications are now open for the NIH Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator Program! We're recruiting early-career scientists across all areas of biomedical research for tenure-track faculty positions in the NIH Intramural Research Program. Deadline: Sept 30, 2026. 🔗 tinyurl.com/stadtman26

Such a lovely gift from one of our graduating seniors… I can’t wait to hang it! 🥹❤️

Today was an amazing day filled with science! I went to the @ucdavis.bsky.social UC LEADS poster session where one of our students presented his summer work, then a packed lab meeting followed by our Rogers Lab Summer Student Research Symposium! My heart is full of pride and brain full of science!

Thank you Crystal for the kind words. 🥹 If you are studying metabolism, consider submitting to this @diffjournal.bsky.social special edition!

I just had a root canal and the dentist asked me, “how were you living like this?” Well doc, I’ve been gas lighting myself about this tooth and the ache in it for 12 years! ☹️ I grew up without dental insurance and the amount of time, money, and pain I have spent on my teeth as an adult is crazy.

This feels very accurate and absolutely reflects my personal experience with NIH grant submissions over the last 2 years.

Millennial Parenting™️ >>>>>>>>>