Annie Meyer

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-...

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.

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The Extinction of Truth Or, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit

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

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Absolutely disgusted…

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...

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
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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! 🐠🧬
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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.

Pittsburgh stands up for science!

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

This course is incredible! I can’t recommend it enough! 🧬

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...

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!