callista yee

I've got worms from 1977!

I have had a few people ask me who Mark is - it’s Mark Edgley! He used to be the curator of the CGC. Did you know that the CGC was at the University of Missouri before? Take a look at this Research Resources issue from the NIH in 1986. #celegans

😭😭😭😭😭 the worm community is the best. welp, holler at ya girl if you want a Riddle strain not in the CGC 🙏

In our new poll with the Boston Globe of NIH funded scientists in Mass ...
- 72% say they have delayed or cancelled projects
- 66% reduced research scope
- 56% paused experiments or students.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

A mural on a rowhome of a raccoon holding a big Philly style soft pretzel

Pretzel raccoon (by Evan Lovett) is still my favorite mural in the neighborhood.

doug portman presenting at UBC

what a treat to have @dougp.bsky.social give a talk today!

teaching is wild y'all

future new cover of gilbert’s dev. biol. book. bless

so far canvas and piazza are looking good, all signs point towards good vibes

"just one more lane on the highway bro, it'll fix it, I promise"

first day of teaching, pray for me

a signed cabinet featuring famous visitors, including prominent c. elegans scientists, sydney brenner and bob waterston

reasons to visit ubc: go to the UBC WINE LIBRARY (!!!), visited by prominent worm folk such as sydney brenner and bob waterston

beautiful 🙏 merry wormmas
to y’all

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

current biology ftw

these travel cases get more sophisticated every year, big chonker

Calling all Canadian prospective grad students! Domestic PhD & MSc application deadline = Jan 9 for EEB @ U. Toronto! Great community of researchers! Guaranteed funding >$40k/y! Join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

we’ve come a long way from 20 labs! #celegans

The thing that annoys me is how the idea of "AI competency" is either hilariously empty OR an impossible bar for most undergraduate students.

The weak version of this seems to be "showing students how to use ChatGPT and telling them that it can hallucinate." The strong version is an MA in ML.

image of a bicycle fork and wheel

yeah I ended up with a rodeo labs spork for one of my CX bikes, and of course paul klampers. no regrets

beautiful. I could never go back to cantilever brakes though 🥲

t-shirt design saying “Don’t tell me what to do, goodbye” and “No, No”

quite possibly the best tshirt I have bought this year 🙏, linking it here, you’re welcome. octopiedmind.com/en-ca/produc...

At #CellBio25? You should attend the 'LGBTQ+ Ally Session' featuring panelists from the ASCB LGBTQ+ committee. Session is TODAY, 11-11:45 in room 126A. Don't miss out and come get to know the committee! #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb #CellBio2025

are you gettin some top secret recipes 🤔?

trying the 5% DMSO freezing solution, here’s goes nothing!

This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!

First, obviously, ban all gen AI tools for the creation of academic text and images. Punish violations with immediate rejection. AI tools are neither accurate nor transparent, and science doesn’t need them. Kick them all out.

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