@lydiagrmai.bsky.social
biologist by day • asst professor @ yalemed drosophilist: repro, stress, inter-organ signaling maker of music • isaiah 43:2 • she/her
“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.”
MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling
Next installment of American Science, Shattered:
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
Reminder to please reach out if you are interested!
17.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0i audibly gasped. as it turns out they can actually just call it a cake!!! please don’t disrespect tiramisu in this way nyt
16.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0today!!
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Save the date: our faculty job market series continues this Wed, Nov12 at 3pm ET / 12p PT!
Topic: on-site interviews + seminars
Come hear our junior faculty share our thoughts/advice! There will also be time for Q&A.
Registration link in flyer - see you soon!
Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
We built a targeted protein degradation–based system to mimic reproductive age-related aneuploidy in young eggs - revealing how chromosome errors associated with female infertility arise with age. 🧬✨
With @jiyeonleem.bsky.social and our team at Yale MCDB.
Read: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
I can’t add much to all the beautiful reflections I’ve read about @weinberz.witchlab.org . But one of her many impacts is that she modeled how fierce advocacy and research excellence can exist in one person, neither at the others expense. I hope we can carry her legacy forward on both counts 🤍
01.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
greetings friends!
crowd-sourcing for a group discussion…to my fellow academics, can you reply/DM with answers to the following (either/both)?
- how is genAI (GPT, claude) helping your research/other aspects of your work?
- how are you seeing genAI misused in research/work?
please share/repost!
is this sitting on nyt arts section? recommend reading the article about the new play “spunk”, it’s amazing!
20.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0greetings friends!
crowd-sourcing for a group discussion…to my fellow academics, can you reply/DM with answers to the following (either/both)?
- how is genAI (GPT, claude) helping your research/other aspects of your work?
- how are you seeing genAI misused in research/work?
please share/repost!
Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL
The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
15.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 37 🔁 41 💬 3 📌 2
Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of zoom interviews! Come hear Tyler, Heather, and Duc share their thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A.
Registration link in flyer - hope to see you there!
I’m excited to share our new preprint! We built a single-nucleus multiomic (snRNA-seq+snATAC-seq) atlas of leptin receptor-expressing hypothalamic neurons (LepRᴴʸᵖᵒ) and identified conserved cis-regulatory elements overlapping human obesity-linked variants and eQTLs🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
amazing!!!!! congrats to you Ish!!!
09.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, September 12, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Sarah Colijn (Washington University in St. Louis) Novel roles for centriolar protein WDR90 in endothelial cells and cardiac tissue Shyama Nandakumar (University of Pittsburgh) Ring canals in the larval adipose of Drosophila buffer stress response
The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar
03.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 8 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Our faculty job market series continues today on the topic of CVs, cover letters, and LORs. Come hear myself, @brisapalikuqilab.bsky.social & @jayeperview.bsky.social share our thoughts/advice today at 3pm ET / 12p PT. There will also be time for Q&A.
Registration link in flyer - see you soon!
i miss the chemistry from “still processing” 😭 but i am liking cannonball!
13.08.2025 00:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0new review alert❗️
thought your neighborhood stress response pathway (ISR) only dealt in stress adaptation? well, maybe so. but many cells are apparently quite “stressed out” - even healthy ones.
see quoted thread by my phenom co-author @shyama13.bsky.social for a summary! ⬇️
we are so glad to hear it! thank you for sharing 🫶🏾
24.06.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Calling all future faculty! Great news: we are bringing back our EquiSciTrack series with a fantastic lineup of generous new PIs. As before, we’ll be discussing all the major points of the application process.
See flyer below for registration link/QR. We hope to see you there!
⚖️🍿 Alright, let’s do it.
Live-tweeting oral arguments on a motion for preliminary injunction in APHA v NIH.
Hearing starts at 11a EDT today
This is scheduled to be an argument about whether the Court should reinstate terminated NIH grants on topics like DEI, trans health, HIV prevention. But...
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09.04.2025 12:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They are resegregating academic science
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Screenshot of part of a notice of award for an NSF CAREER grant: Regulation of Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis by ovarian and adipose tissue amino acid sensing signaling pathways
Beyond thrilled - I’ve been awarded an NSF CAREER grant! I get to continue making scientific discoveries, training the next generation of researchers, & sharing knowledge about the scientific enterprise with the general public. This support is much needed, personally & professionally…let’s GOOO!!!
24.02.2025 23:26 — 👍 578 🔁 34 💬 49 📌 6¡felicidades! happy birthday!!
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The Zwick lab has landed in the Regenerative Medicine Institute @NYU! I’m incredibly excited to build a team to study how epithelial organs are patterned and remodeled throughout life, with a major focus on the remarkable changes that occur in the maternal body during pregnancy..1/5
06.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 124 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 2never seen a more beautiful sight 🥲
16.01.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0two more days to submit for consideration in this workshop! looking forward to hearing about all your amazing science :)
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