Kara Cerveny

Looking forward to an addition to our Small World Calendars :)

Thinking about open data, managing data so it can be easily shared? This tool (bff.allencell.org) from the Allen Institute is helping me teach my students about all the aspects of image data and access their open source data for teaching and research!

Come be my colleague! We are hiring for two tenure-track positions. www.reed.edu/dean_of_facu...

Thank you for starting and keeping this community resource going for so many years!!!

And note scientists may go YEARS using jargon words that they didn’t realize were jargon (I learned this the hard way when my #SciComm grad student class last spring asked me what “benthic” means - now I always use “seafloor” instead!)

United States of Science 2025 By Skype a Scientist

Remember to spread the science! givebutter.com/USS2025

Want to make sure kids today have a better grasp of science than the generation currently running our country? (Yes. You do. You've heard RFK, Jr. talk, right?!)

A donation to Skype a Scientist will help! Look at all these bubbles! Won't it be satisfying to see them all filled?

Great work by @nicoleedwds.bsky.social and colleagues!

Fund astronomy, not genocide. You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...

SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science.

h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.

#ZebrafishCareers 🇺🇸 (Lab Specialist)

Four Things to Know About the House Budget Plan From levying new taxes on colleges to changing who is eligible for Pell Grants, experts say the mammoth legislation could reshape higher education. It’s now in the hands of the Senate.

A good synopsis of the effects of the reconciliation bill on higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Most of us in higher ed in the US are going to lose something over the next four years (opportunities, or funding, or time). But if we believe universities exist, in part, to preserve historical memory and create a space for dissent, our primary job right now is to fight and take the hit.

We've extended the deadline to May 21st - you now have 1 WEEK LEFT to come hang out with us in Boston and learn to think like bioimage analysts. We'll have a lot of fun!

The "One Big Bullshit Bill" Act This bill will... Cut Medicaid by $625 billion Cut SNAP by $300 billion Cut student aid by $351 billion Triple the budget for ICE Greenlight the sale of public lands Ban state-level AI regulation for 10 yrs Repeal clean energy programs Divert funding from public schools Increase overall federal deregulation Give Trump power to censor nonprofits Block access to Planned Parenthood Take $50 billion from federal workers Defund the CFPB Remove taxes on gun silencers and more...

A list of "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act calls on 5 Calls

🚨🚨 House Republicans are pushing for a vote **THIS WEEK** on their "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (Yes, that is officially what they're calling it. Sycophant much?)

It's hard to sum up all of the destructive bullshit they crammed into this bill, but we tried...

🔥📞🔥 Call your Rep NOW --> 5calls.org

“Cutting basic science doesn’t save money.”

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

Studying organisms in addition to their cells/organs/organoids is (still) essential for new discoveries that impact human health. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #zebrafish
www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...

YES

I just learned about this - make science the central theme in your local papers. #McClintockLetters

Want to make a real impact with your science—right in your own community?

Join the McClintock Letters initiative to sharpen your science communication skills, connect with fellow scientists, and craft a powerful op-ed that advocates for science where it matters most: locally.

#McClintockLetters

We are excited to announce our next issue of #NewsSplash has been published! To keep up with all the latest #zebrafish news, be sure to check it out here: www.izfs.org/newssplash/n...

Setting the record straight. Biological truth is far from simple and binary. thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Trump’s NIH Cuts Send Shockwaves Through the Science World — Odd Lots

@labonnelab.bsky.social leader gave an awesome podcast interview about the importance of government funding for NIH. Another way to Stand Up For Science! overcast.fm/+AA5AWObyBF8

Wondering if you think this would work on larval zebrafish - either episcopic white light illumination or multi-color fluorescent images of larval zebrafish?

Remembering Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology J. Marion Sims is remembered as the father of modern gynecology. Forgotten are the mothers—the enslaved women whose bodies were sacrificed for the advancement of his research.

This is a must-listen/read. We must never forget the racism and misogyny that undergirds modern medicine. And we should celebrate the strength of women, especially the black women. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Professorship in genetics and molecular cell biology (W3) (f/m/d) - Academic Positions The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its i...

*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany

It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

If you have 20 minutes to spare and want to get up to speed, watch this video. Very helpful to understand how rigorous and fair the indirect cost process actually is.

www.aau.edu/key-issues/i...

Adding zebrafish to your cadre of organisms? New to the zebrafish field? Checkout this amazing course. It's launched many careers (including mine).

This article is forming the basis of my lecture-lab Dev Bio class...thank you amazing authors and illustrators

BBSRC fellowships are now open! If anyone is interested in applying to join my team and working on Wnt signalling, growth factor transport mechanisms, cytonemes and zebrafish @lsiexeter.bsky.social then send me a PM! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...