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Daily log no. 850 - Distant Worlds Final Fantasy

Daily log no. 951 - taking a nap for the first time in 3 years.

Daily log no. 37024 - poems are being rejected but my head is up. I really enjoy the lab I joined.

Join us for the Midwest SDB Meeting in Cincinnati.
Abstract submission deadlines:
For talk consideration: 8/7/25
For poster: 8/22/25
Registration deadline: 9/2/25

Daily log no. 951 - postdoc officially starts Monday

Daily log no. 4917 - slowly and surely getting the new place settled in

Daily log no. 38294 - ONE FINAL PUSH FOR A PAPER

Daily log no. 6291 - graduation.

Delighted to have a poem of mine be featured here with so many talented voices. Please enjoy ❤️‍🔥🥂

Our Spring issue, 54.2, is live! Please give it a read; we're really proud of this one. All of our contributors did an amazing job. The link to check it out is in our bio!!!

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2026 River Styx Contest — River Styx Magazine The 2026 River Styx Contest in fiction and poetry is judged by Lisa Olstein and Bennett Sims. Enter today and win $1000 plus publication online and in print.

Our contest in fiction and poetry is open until August 1.

www.riverstyx.org/the-river-st...

The ciliary protein C2cd3 is required for mandibular musculoskeletal tissue patterning. Evan C. Brooks, Ph.D. Graduate Student Alumnis, Brugmann Lab, Cinicinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine. "Biological Differentiation Across the Scales" Seminar, April 28, 2025.

The "Biological Differentiation Across the Scales" virtual seminar series kicked off on April 28 with an insightful, engaging talk by @ecbrooks96.bsky.social. Missed it live? Watch the recording: www.isdifferentiation.org/Journal/Page... @rogerslabucd.bsky.social @uribelab.bsky.social #devbio

Daily log no. 95710 - probably had one of the most refreshing talks over beers in a long time.

King's College scientists' lab-grown human teeth breakthrough Scientists from King's College London manage to grow a human tooth under laboratory conditions.

Stuff of nightmares 🦷👀

Lab-grown human teeth to 'fill in the gaps' in regenerative dentistry 🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Daily log no. 3728 - saw a gentleman in a coffee shop construct a portable second monitor for his laptop. I have not been using my free will effectively

Daily log no. 94 - poem accepted and a finalist for a contest!

Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

“.. A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in [R&D] accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II.

“.. ‘Sometimes you don’t realize the value of something until it’s gone.’”

@bencasselman.bsky.social

Congress recently passed FY25 funding at mostly flat levels for science, with language preventing capped indirect costs at NIH. Advocacy played a role. The coming months are critical to ensure funds are fully spent as attention turns to FY26. AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh on the President's Budget Request ⤵️

Daily log no. 392 - somewhere between "I'm excited for the future" and "I'm frightened"

Antagonistic roles for MITF and TFE3 in melanoma plasticity Melanoma cells can switch from a melanocytic and proliferative state to a mesenchymal and invasive state and back again. This plasticity drives intrat…

New
New publication alert from the Kenny Lab on melanoma phenotype switching!!! CUT&RUN! PDX models! Biochemistry!

Antagonistic roles for MITF and TFE3 in melanoma plasticity: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Headshots of Richard Behringer and Carole LaBonne

SDB President-elect Richard Behringer and SDB President Carole LaBonne published an opinion piece in The Hill on how President Trump's executive order entitled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" ignores science. bit.ly/41OM694

If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

Daily no. 3719 - rain.

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Daily log no. 4839 - poetry chapbook submitted.

Musk as Hitler and Trump as his puppet

Banksy for the win

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

On 7 March ‘Stand Up for Science’ rallies slated to take place in 32 cities around the country. The main event, in Washington DC, is spearheaded by a group of five researchers, most of them graduate students.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He usually tries to at least open with broad vague lines that are “hard” to not clap for. He’s not even trying this time around.

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...

A good summary of how DOGErs at HHS are using bureaucratic tricks to do end-runs around court orders to unfreeze spending. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...