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do you think one needs to add many “innovation” uses in their CFI proposal? asking for a friend

I am really enjoying the no context “NO” on top of this one. December 1973 Nematologica. #celegans

A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

WormSNAP: A software for fast, accurate, and unbiased detection of fluorescent puncta in C. elegans Author summary Here we describe software designed to increase the ease, speed and reliability of analyzing images of fluorescently tagged proteins in C. elegans, a microscopic worm proven to be a powe...

Our new tool for automating the quantification of synapses (or any other fluorescent puncta) in C. elegans is published- please try it out!! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

TDP-43 loss brings RNA to a twist ending - Nature Neuroscience In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), nuclear depletion and cytoplasmic aggregation of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 cause widespread dysregulation of mRNA splicing. Two recent studies have now rev...

And, check out this News & Views on both pieces

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...

Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

was it remote controlled slide advance?

unc-52 splice junctions on an old projector slide

today in i’m not crying, you’re crying, found some projection slides on unc-52 splicing, old school scicomm right here. so simple. so perfect. #celegans

Single cell whole genome and transcriptome sequencing links somatic mutations to cell identity and ancestry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685157v1

The male genitalia of an 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 mosquito

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?

Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

a pumpkin with a kumon logo carved into it

legit obsessed with this kumon pumpkin outside the LSC right now

Rewarding touch limits lifespan through neural to intestinal signaling | PNAS In multicellular organisms, sensory perception affects many aspects of behavior and physiology. Perception of environmental stressors like food sca...

'Here we find that the sense of touch interacts with nutritional state to modulate lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Worms subjected to dietary restriction are shorter-lived when they perceive tactile stimuli that mimic bacterial food and/or protective soil.'
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

this rules, awesome work by your team 🙏

had such a lovely day today at SFU. thank you so much @estherverheyen.bsky.social and @lisaj456.bsky.social for hosting me 💫, SFU rules. excellent science, bright trainees, and good vibes.

The Cummings Lab is hiring a postdoc to work in the areas of reward and addiction! Please see the ad below:

amazing pitching!!!! slid into the bar right after lab, chef’s kiss

I love it. I will need to make a graphical abstract referencing House of Pain - Jump Around

dang that rules

I think he would love to hear from you - shoot him an email at lastname @ zoology dot ubc dot ca 🥰

copy of Genetics, Volume 77 number 1

Brenner’s The Generics of Caenorhabditis elegans in print format

got to hangout with don today and look what he gifted us…an original print of genetics that had The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans by Brenner 😭 #celegans 🧪

Working with C. elegans This channel provides clear demonstrations of core C. elegans lab skills, including: recognizing life stages and common phenotypes, picking and manipulating worms, and maintaining healthy cultures. De...

Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :)
www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...

🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com!

Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/

this will not help my push to declutter the DECADES of random tchotchkes and trinkets that were left behind 🥲

1993 gilson pipettes!!! 😭😭😭😭

2015 was golden

done, I will set aside one for you 🥰

I was pretty sure I never used this one then I looked it up and it was
unc-122p::gfp and now I feel dumb

also got a billion of cryo boxes but I haven’t figured out the best course yet with them… but they’re definitely $$$$$