Annie Meyer
@echinodermannie.bsky.social
Unraveling how evolution reshapes gene regulatory networks to create new cell types. Postdoc, Hinman Lab
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On the importance of marine labs:
"Marine laboratories encourage exploratory and creative thinking... Against the current backdrop of anxiety about the future of science, the scientific community and public need these places now more than ever."
Could not agree more... 🌊 🧪🥼🧫
"Marine laboratories encourage exploratory and creative thinking... Against the current backdrop of anxiety about the future of science, the scientific community and public need these places now more than ever."
Could not agree more... 🌊 🧪🥼🧫
"Saving Science by the Sea" – a piece on the importance of marine laboratories in advancing biomedical science, including the beginning of the Meselson-Stahl collaboration that ultimately elucidated the process of DNA replication:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
On the importance of marine labs:
"Marine laboratories encourage exploratory and creative thinking... Against the current backdrop of anxiety about the future of science, the scientific community and public need these places now more than ever."
Could not agree more... 🌊 🧪🥼🧫
"Marine laboratories encourage exploratory and creative thinking... Against the current backdrop of anxiety about the future of science, the scientific community and public need these places now more than ever."
Could not agree more... 🌊 🧪🥼🧫
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There's a word for learning from evolution's inventions: bioinspiration. Here's my interactive story on the way animals and plants fuel technological creativity. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution (Gift Article)
Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
There's a word for learning from evolution's inventions: bioinspiration. Here's my interactive story on the way animals and plants fuel technological creativity. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make” (running around at 2am) 🦇🧛🏻🩸
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make” (running around at 2am) 🦇🧛🏻🩸
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This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly
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Honestly, a really good article.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
www.thenation.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Honestly, a really good article.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
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Those outside of CMU may not get the reaction to this, but The Fence is sacred ground for free expression on campus, with traditions, norms, & rules going back a century.
The administration broke those today for the optics.
triblive.com/local/fence-...
The administration broke those today for the optics.
triblive.com/local/fence-...
Fence fight: CMU orders students' anti-Trump message painted over ahead of president's visit
Hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to arrive at Carnegie Mellon University for an energy summit, the school administration early Tuesday ordered the painting over of a provocative anti-...
triblive.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Those outside of CMU may not get the reaction to this, but The Fence is sacred ground for free expression on campus, with traditions, norms, & rules going back a century.
The administration broke those today for the optics.
triblive.com/local/fence-...
The administration broke those today for the optics.
triblive.com/local/fence-...
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Re-upping given the moa deëxtinction nonsense from #ColossalBio and it’s cofounder Ben Lamm, it’s nominally about dire wolf “deëxtinction” but applies just as well to moas
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Extinction of Truth
Or, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit
substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Re-upping given the moa deëxtinction nonsense from #ColossalBio and it’s cofounder Ben Lamm, it’s nominally about dire wolf “deëxtinction” but applies just as well to moas
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Absolutely disgusted…
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
Penn to ban trans athletes, ending Thomas case
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
spr.ly
July 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Absolutely disgusted…
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Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
A new Cambrian stem-group echinoderm reveals the evolution of the anteroposterior axis
Woodgate et al. describe a new bilaterally symmetrical echinoderm, Atlascystis acantha,
from the Cambrian of Morocco. Comparisons of plate growth with other echinoderms reveal
that Atlascystis possess...
www.cell.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Delighted to share our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social iology.bsky.social with a palaeo-evo-devo perspective on the evolution of symmetry in echinoderms. Led by Steffi Woodgate with Frankie Dunn, @echinerd.bsky.social, @laurentformery.bsky.social & Sam Zamora
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
www.cell.com/current-biol...-5
Super excited to share a paper from my some of my undergrad research on the OB color pattern and sex chromosome evolution in Lake Malawi cichlids! 🐠🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Super excited to share a paper from my some of my undergrad research on the OB color pattern and sex chromosome evolution in Lake Malawi cichlids! 🐠🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Colossal Bioscience is a dark look at the future of science in the US as federal funding declines and dependence on philanthropy increases. Incentives to impress the investors of a $10 billion private valuation drive the need for flashy press over quality science.
June 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Colossal Bioscience is a dark look at the future of science in the US as federal funding declines and dependence on philanthropy increases. Incentives to impress the investors of a $10 billion private valuation drive the need for flashy press over quality science.
Pittsburgh stands up for science!
March 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Pittsburgh stands up for science!
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
This course is incredible! I can’t recommend it enough! 🧬
Deadline extension alert! 📣
Applications for the MBL's 2025 Gene Regulatory Networks for Development course are now being accepted until January 27.
Read more: bit.ly/3Wi6LQE
#ScienceStartsHere
Applications for the MBL's 2025 Gene Regulatory Networks for Development course are now being accepted until January 27.
Read more: bit.ly/3Wi6LQE
#ScienceStartsHere
January 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This course is incredible! I can’t recommend it enough! 🧬
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Hello everyone, the MBL Gene Regulatory Networks for Development course still has openings for its 2025 offering, Apr 6-18. We’d love to receive some more applications! The deadline is Jan 3, but if you start the application by then and get us the letters later, we will be happy to consider you!
Gene Regulatory Networks for Development | Marine Biological Laboratory
This course introduces the concepts of Gene regulatory networks (GRNs), and teaches experimental and computational methods used to study them, through highly interactive lectures, discussions, group p...
www.mbl.edu
December 30, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Hello everyone, the MBL Gene Regulatory Networks for Development course still has openings for its 2025 offering, Apr 6-18. We’d love to receive some more applications! The deadline is Jan 3, but if you start the application by then and get us the letters later, we will be happy to consider you!