Keri Martinowich

This is figure 2, which shows global diversification dynamics of six diverse butterfly families.

Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era. go.nature.com/4r0kbgS 🌍 🧪

Has anyone heard what happens with chartered members whose terms aren’t finished yet? Have they been notified?

They are going from 10 to 15 study sections (surprising) - public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...

NAL is dead

NMB is dead

ARM is dead

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

Family friend who runs this - South Point Oyster Farm, which is located at the intersection of the Sinepuxent and Newport sections of Chincoteague Bay!

Meet the neuroscientist running for Congress Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been interested in “fixing bugs in democracy” for decades.

Neuroscientist @samwang.bsky.social, whose research implicated the cerebellum in autism, now hopes to “fix bugs in democracy”—by running for Congress.

By Lauren Schenkman

#neuroskyence

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Central Maryland native plant people: the big Howard County plant share will be on May 30 at Howard County Conservancy from 11-1. 🌱🌿

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Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology

Join our community & shape the future of research

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ICYMI - part of special issue of @phimisci.bsky.social on Representations in the Neurosciences and AI
cc @tjryan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social

🧪Frances Arnold was a single mom of 3.

That didn’t stop her from doing pioneering work that would eventually change biotechnology.

Her method of directed evolution created enzymes that
had broad implications in industry.

She was the first American woman to win the Nobel in Chemistry in 2018.

Opened oyster cage pulled from water onto a boat surface

Oystering 🦪🦪🦪

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds.

New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October.

(h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
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A classroom/lab full of scopes. There's a projector with some info about the zebrafish course we're teaching

Back at it again #zebrafish 🐟🧪

Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

The deal between the Pentagon and Anthropic fractured in part over the proposed use of autonomous weapons. @rossandersen.bsky.social on the question OpenAI staff should now be asking Sam Altman about his company’s new deal with the Pentagon:

This is why it's not enough for Congress to just appropriate funds to scientific agencies. How the funds are or are not spent and when they are spent needs to be enforced.

The administration is playing games with our taxpayer dollars, when they should be going towards scientific innovation.

First time too - it was amazing! Views in this area were beautiful, learning about the whole process and of course, eating the oysters shucked seconds after they were pulled out of the water :)

Multiple Maryland counties have seed banks. Search your county and "seed bank" or check in with your local master gardeners to find the closest one.

🌱 #nativeplants

the sun rising through a leafless forest

here comes the sun

Oysters on caging

Opened oyster

Opened oyster cage pulled from water onto a boat surface

Oystering 🦪🦪🦪

Did you know: if you look at the quote posts of the entries in this thread, you can see status updates on the plants in my garden at various times throughout the year.

🌱 #nativeplants
🌎 #ecoregion65

Brown and white wild pony grazing on Assateague Island

Wild pony :)

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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Almost missed #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬

We’re having fun imaging wholemount embryonic mouse ovaries and these beautiful germ cells.

I found this immune cell (🔴) prying open the junction between the ectoderm cells from underneath. You can see its protrusions probing (yellow arrow) and threading through between the other cells before the whole cell body is squeezed through in 1 sweeping motion. So cool! #FluorescenceFriday

Two-photon calcium imaging at 24,000 lines/s, with the resonant axis spanning 4x what other systems can do. Inertia-free. Diffraction-limited. No tradeoffs. Che-Hang Yu developed a 4x angle multiplier for laser scanning. His paper is out today: opg.optica.org/optica/fullt... 1/n #fluorescenceFriday