Jeremy Reiter

And if my sci-fi recs were too mainstream, I can heartily recommend a somewhat overlooked fantasy series: Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist series.

If you like the Bobiverse, you’ll probably like the Murderbot series, Children of Time series, Old Man’s War series…

Today is the #BBSGlobalDay — an opportunity to raise awareness of this rare condition and offer support to everyone living with BBS and their loved ones 🌍 🌎 🌏
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Karl’s putting on a good performance this morning.

I’m excited to read this!

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement!

(This is _actually_ on the "journal" website)

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists.

Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

Yifan Cheng to Receive 2026 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award buff.ly/ooI1UDy

I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪

🎉 Congratulations to Needhi Bhalla, UC Santa Cruz (www.bhallalab.com
), named a 2025 #ASCB Fellow! This honor celebrates her outstanding contributions to cell biology, leadership, & service. Fellows will be recognized at #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia this December. #CellBiology

Apply by Oct 15 - please spread the word!

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm

In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia Neuronal cilia have emerged as crucial signaling hubs, yet their molecular composition and integration with synaptic communication remain poorly understood. Using a newly developed Arl13b-TurboID mous...

Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures.
@nachury.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to Lucy Shapiro, a pioneering microbiologist, for winning the 2025 Lasker-Koshland Award. So deserving!

laskerfoundation.org/winners/pion...

Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars - Nature A geological, petrographic and geochemical survey of distinctive mudstone and conglomerate outcrops of the Bright Angel formation on Mars reveals textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and or...

Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars: "...conclude that the Bright Angel formation contains textures, chemical and mineral characteristics, and organic signatures that warrant consideration as ‘potential biosignatures’."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

IMBD rating versus shark heads graph

Some of us will be disquieted until the 4-headed data are acquired. From Popovchu:

David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87

Co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase at 32, Nobel Prize at 37, played a key role at the 1975 Asilomar comference.

Congratulations to Thi Nguyen for an excellent, insightful, rollicking defense!

Ahh! The classic Bay Area fall triad: fog, soccer and geese coexisting.

I'm loving the @idlesband.bsky.social-fueled soundtrack for Caught Stealing. The album cover is a chest X-ray most notable for the six foreign objects in the lung fields. Also notable is the right-sided cardiac apex. Does this individual also have heterotaxia?

NIPBL dosage shapes genome folding by tuning the rate of cohesin loop extrusion Cohesin loop extrusion is a major driver of chromosome folding, but how its dynamics are controlled to shape the genome remains elusive. Here we disentangle the contributions of the cohesin cofactors ...

New preprint with @gfudenberg.bsky.social

We find the rate of cohesin loop extrusion in cells is set by NIPBL dosage and tunes many aspects of chromosome folding.

This provides a molecular basis for NIPBL haploinsufficiency in humans. 🧵👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I know there is A LOT going on but just a heads up: TOMORROW, 9/3, is the last day to apply for a talk (or early poster) at #CellBio2025 in December!

There will be a #Meiosis4Eva: The Cell Biology of Reproduction
minisymposium on 12/7 at 10am. Please apply if you are interested in giving a talk! 🧪

Gordon Ramsay reveals skin cancer diagnosis: 'Please don’t forget your sunscreen this weekend' The British celebrity restaurateur said he got the skin cancer removed, sharing a picture showing a line of stitches from his earlobe to his neck.

Gordon Ramsay had a basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Protect yourself and your loved ones from too much sun, and avoid misactivating ciliary Hedgehog signal transduction! www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Fat microscopy: Imaging lipids in cells Dresden research team develops novel imaging approach to visualize individual lipids in cells and uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell.

Research team @nadlerlab.bsky.social, A. Honigmann @biotec-tud.bsky.social, B.Drobot @hzdr.bsky.social, M. Hof @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social develops approach to visualize lipids in cells & uncovers the main transport mechanism for lipids within the cell. @nature.com www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

⏳ Last days to apply to the International Course in Developmental Biology "From #stemcells to #morphogenesis" organized by Institut Curie and @sorbonne-universite.fr
📅 Application deadline: September 5
🔗 Program & registration: training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...
#devbio

From the Strahov monastery library in Prague, Galileo looking cheery. I guess he didn’t know what was coming…

Paul Kulesa in a white shirt and burgundy tie, looking into a microscope with a faint smile on his face.

Remebering Paul Kulesa (1962–2025)
We honor Dr. Paul Kulesa, whose pioneering work on neural crest cell development has profoundly impacted neuroscience and pediatric cancer research. His loss has deeply impacted the Developmental Biology community and everyone he graced with his presence in life.

I do like a verb in a title.

Have you saved the date for #Cilia2027?
It is going to be in March 2027 at this lake near #Milan. 👇