Denise Walker

Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution Understanding the evolution of the bilaterian brain requires a detailed exploration of the precise nature of cellular and subcellular differences between related species. We undertook an electron micr...

Happy to share our publication - Comparative connectomics of two distantly related nematode species reveals patterns of nervous system evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Are you a PI in a biology field looking for students to join your lab as a PhD student? I made a Starter Pack to help PIs and potential PhD students connect! If you would like to be added to this pack, please let me know! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through di...

"To retreat from [diversity, equity and inclusion] is to close the door to possibilities for better science and a better future. This is not the time to step back. It’s unquestionably the time to step forward." @anthrofuentes.bsky.social

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Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

Cryo-EM structure of human telomerase dimer reveals H/ACA RNP-mediated dimerization Telomerase ribonucleoprotein (RNP) synthesizes telomeric repeats at chromosome ends using a telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and a telomerase RNA (hTR in humans). Previous structural work showe...

Proud to share our work where we resolved a longstanding question regarding the existence of a human telomerase dimer and provided insights into its function. Led by 3 amazing lab members in collaboration with @yiliangding.bsky.social and @rdaslab.bsky.social.
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C. elegans, ba ba ba. #Worm25

YouTube video by Kimberly K "Use More OP50" (2025)

Wanted to post a video we accidentally forgot to show at the Worm art show #worm25 from the Van Buskirk lab @cswormlab.bsky.social @baristursun.bsky.social

Hope you all enjoy!
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My friend @aniekj.bsky.social is not going to like this 😅
(Unless fly people have something similar with worms?)
#worm25

For #worm25, here are updated lists of 200+ researchers for the #Celegans community to easily follow:

C. elegans #1 (150 full) - go.bsky.app/HP1h3nW
C. elegans #2 (50+) - go.bsky.app/J7soTHG

==> Reply to this if you'd like to be added!

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#CeleganSky 🪱 🧪 1/n

I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱

Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."

Oxford do pretty well most years, to be fair

Some great choices (excited to see Mo Farah and Clive Myrie, especially) *BUT* seriously??
The perils of a democratic process, I guess? But a manel in 2025 is not a great look

Andy Fire Stanford University Cellular response to genetic change Monday 30th June at 11am (BST)

Join us next week for an #LMBSeminar from Andy Fire, all about the cellular response to genetic change.
Starting at 11am on Monday 30th June.
See our website for more details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

When non-scientists visit the lab and we show them nematodes on the dissecting scope

Truly honoured to be awarded a Lister Prize this year. I am grateful for all the lab members and collaborators for their amazing work in the last nearly 6 years. More exciting science to come with this support.

Their smartwatches thought they’d been in a collision 😂

Pseudoreplication: makes differences between groups appear more significant than they actually are

I am recruiting a postgraduate research assistant to work in the Cambridge Memory Lab, administering cognitive tasks and helping with lab administration. Would suit someone who's just finished their degree and wants to gain research experience before further study. Please apply!

This #CarersWeek, the theme “Caring About Equality” highlights the barriers carers face in education and careers. We are resharing our Parent Carer Scientist series, which profiles researchers balancing scientific careers with caring responsibilities. #AndAScientist
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Climate Anxiety to Action - Film screenings, expert talks and local advice Climate Anxiety’ & ‘Bats, Bottles & Butterflies’ two short films. plus expert speakers and local advice explore climate anxiety and action.

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Huge if true

Down to my last few post-it notes, that my group members made for me in 2014, after I got tenure at MIT. Each post-it note contains something that I said often enough, that my group members thought it would save me time, to simply hand out a post-it note, whenever the wisdom was needed :)

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Have you ever seen a worm tower?

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms.

Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱

Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Andy Fire Stanford University Cellular response to genetic change Monday 30th June at 11am (BST)

Interested in how cells respond to genetic change?
Don’t miss this #LMBSeminar from Andy Fire of Stanford University!
Visit our website for more info on how to join: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
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Cryo-EM structure of the vault from human brain reveals symmetry mismatch at its caps The vault protein is expressed in most eukaryotic cells, where it is assembled on polyribosomes into large hollow barrel-shaped complexes. Despite its widespread and abundant presence in cells, the bi...

The amazing Sofia Lövestam initiated the below project, when she became interested in the vault particles that we sometimes observe in #cryoEM images of brain-derived #amyloid filaments.
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Feel like you’re stuck in an endless postdoc? I can relate! I bet you do not beat my record… even then I did manage to find my dream PI position. Thanks to @the-node.bsky.social for the interview on my unusual career path.