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Nicole CL Noel
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Research fellow at UCL. Photoreceptor biology, ocular genetics, and retinal ageing in turquoise killifish and zebrafish. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her #firstgen #disabledinstem
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences?

When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded.

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Photo taken at the Neues Museum in Berlin (which luckily has elevators!). It shows lots of stairs both left and right and several floors with people walking up. Some windows at the top.
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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morgancarterphd.bsky.social
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.

Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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christoseland.bsky.social
Please repost - Multiple PhDs available

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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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juliasaltz.bsky.social
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Turquoise killifish naturally develop hallmarks of age-related macular degeneration with advancing age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.683644v1
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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msupri.bsky.social
PRI is continuing to build on our collaborative mission, connecting leading plant scientists to drive unique solutions to global challenges in food security and climate resilience, and we invite applications for multiple tenure-stream faculty positions: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista... #PlantSciJobs
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...
careers.msu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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natclarke.bsky.social
🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!
October 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n
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October 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy
Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city!
https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

#postdoc
October 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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swilua.bsky.social
And here’s another thread about perfection!

The world doesn’t actually WANT perfection from you

demand for perfection is a cudgel used by people in power to control you, to keep you feeling small, to keep you easy to manipulate

Remember that. As they yell at fat generals

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swilua.bsky.social 🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · Dec 20
I grew up in a highly patriarchal system that stressed perfection & was baffled when men in power (only men were in power) were angry when I met all their expectations instead of proud & how they seemed almost RELIEVED when I was finally gay so they could throw me out until I finally realized:
October 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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webvision.bsky.social
Webvision Has A New Home!

www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...
A colorful mosaic of abstract spots arranged in squares that are derived from retinal research data.
September 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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latorrelab.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!
September 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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bwjones.bsky.social
Hey, if you are actively coughing and sniffing at a conference, WEAR A DAMNED MASK.

We need to start having policies at meetings to hand out masks and enforce their wearing to limit infectious disease spread.
September 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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nixonlab.bsky.social
Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!
September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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agostolab.bsky.social
New paper! Kudos to first author Jaeeun Lee, who is a fantastic and hard working student. We showed that at photoreceptor presynapses, ELFN1 enrichment depends on postsynaptic mGluR6.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Confocal microscope images of the outer plexiform layer of WT or nob3 (mGluR6 null) mouse retina labeled with antibodies for ELFN1 (cyan) and PSD95 (magenta). In nob3 retina, ELFN1 is still localized to rod spherules, but synaptic enrichment is compromised.
September 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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agostolab.bsky.social
The mysterious non-PSD localization of PSD95 🟣 in the retina outer plexiform layer... co-stained for postsynaptic TRPM1 🟢
#FluorescenceFriday
Confocal microscope image of mouse retina section labeled with antibodies for PSD95 (magenta) and TRPM1 (green).
August 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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ucleye.bsky.social
Everyone at @ucleye.bsky.social has been deeply saddened by the passing of a highly esteemed colleague in June 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
Tribute to eye treatment pioneer Professor Pete Coffey
UCL colleagues have paid tribute to world-leading eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey, who pioneered a treatment enabling people whose vision had been destroyed by disease to see again.
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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marcsdionne.bsky.social
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
So far the most effective way I've found to get students to not use ChatGPT is to say, "you can use it if you want to; if you do, here is the list of things you should do to make sure that it doesn't embarrass you" & then have them write a reflection about their choice
A selection from my student's reflection paragraph where they say they didn't use AI at all because they were too afraid of accidentally plagiarizing even though there was plenty of guidance provided on how not to plagiarize
May 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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jgahan.bsky.social
My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
gahanlab.com
tinyurl.com/34xke35d
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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biologists.bsky.social
One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by Renata Basto and Zuzana Storchova. biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops
Workshop Decoding Whole Genome Doubling: Insights From Evolution, Development and Disease Organisers: Renata Basto and Zuzana Storchova Early-career researchers apply for funded places The Company of Biologists logo to the left 2-5 November 2025 Fanhams Hall, Hertfordshire, UK
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life...

At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff.

Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan

1/n
April 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM