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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3h

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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 2d

Lacefield Lab grad student @pallavisgadgil.bsky.social gave an excellent talk at Geisel’s Biomedical Research Day! Congratulations Pallavi! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

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Pallavi Gadgil @pallavisgadgil.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you, Soni!

It was a different yet fun experience 😊

Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 2d

Lacefield Lab grad student @pallavisgadgil.bsky.social gave an excellent talk at Geisel’s Biomedical Research Day! Congratulations Pallavi! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 2d

The Lacefield Lab won second place in the great pumpkin derby! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18h

My quote of the day

Nancy Hopkins et al., A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT (1999)

They found that discrimination consists of a pattern of powerful but unrecognized assumptions and attitudes that work systematically against women faculty even in the light of obvious good will. Like many discoveries, at first it is startling and unexpected. Once you "get it", it seems almost obvious.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 13h

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18h

My quote of the day

Nancy Hopkins et al., A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT (1999)

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Neha 💗💗
Now n rounds of editing begin where n--->♾️

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing work - and this will open so many doors for women health care. It's insane how little we know about female physiology. Congratulations @cagricevrim.bsky.social and the team on this incredible endeavor! 👏🏽🎉
#womenhealth 💪🏽

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Neha Ghosh @nehaghosh.bsky.social · 1d

Menstruation- a natural regenerative process in women, yet understudied and under discussed. But, this phenomenal work is a start for making all the difference 🎉

Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧵

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding

During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2d

This book has never been more timely. Thanks to @sonali-m-19.bsky.social for writing it and for sending me a copy.

Photo of book “Thriving as an International Scientist” written by Sonali Majumdar

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaaa yup we tried 😅

Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 2d

Reached this stage ✅
#milestone #phdlife

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 3d

nice hack i've done twice this year...drop by CSHL for a day (Neurofly), listen bunch of talks and chat up posters, see ~20 people (inc 2 collaborators IRL for 1st time, and our former star grad student Piero Sanfilippo), share updates on #FlyBase with community and urge donations, and back home! 🪰

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d

Because it's not a working day tomorrow !
#Fallbreak

a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is dancing in a hallway .

ALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is dancing in a hallway .

media.tenor.com

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 3d

It's officially wear jacket in the morning and carry it in the afternoon season!
#midwest

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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 3d

Searches and tools are currently down for FlyBase.org. Our developers are working on getting us back up.

FlyBase Homepage

FlyBase: a database for drosophila genetics and molecular biology

FlyBase.org

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone go out and look at the moon 🌝
It is beautiful 😍
#moon #night

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 4d

Waking up to #fall weather 🍁🍂

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 4d

Marine iguanas have lower metabolic rates during El Niño

This article, by Shahar Dubiner and colleagues, is Journal of Experimental Biology's Editor's choice for the month.

Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

#MarineIguana #Iguana #MarineLife #Research #Animals #SeaLife

A marine iguana on a rock, in front of blue and white waves.

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fly paper broadcast @fly-broadcast.bsky.social · 5d

A short photoperiod alters brain metabolism and cold resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila

A short photoperiod alters brain metabolism and cold resistance in Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila

PubMed link

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 5d

Feel so validated !
☕☺️ ✅
#phdlife #coffee #community

Science Magazine @science.org · 11d

Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕

"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb

People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 5d

When prism decides to update itself in the middle of my analysis 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🙄
#phdlife

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 5d

In a surprising turn of events, I now have a graduate student 🤗

I want to do this right. So I’m soliciting advice from the wise & experienced 😅 - what are your best tips for being a good advisor/PI/graduate student mentor? ✨

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing paper on how metabolites act as signaling factors which impact growth and development by ways which are not limited to merely changes in flux, energy production and biogenesis.
#Drosophila #metabolism #ecdysone #Ampk #interorgancommunication

Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 8d

💫NEW: @telemanlab.bsky.social & co demonstrate that #AMPK can be activated by signaling metabolite, #adenosine, under non-stress conditions during #Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.
bit.ly/4gX6njF

Remote control of AMPK via extracellular adenosine controls tissue growth - Nature Cell Biology

Zhang et al. demonstrate that AMPK can be activated by signalling metabolite, adenosine, under non-stress conditions during Drosophila development. The intestine regulates adenosine levels, thus, remotely controlling wing disc AMPK activation and growth.

bit.ly

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