
Desmond Ramirez
@desmondramirez1
Postdoc at Katz lab, UMass Amherst studying sea slug brains, neuro evo devo. Tweets are my own! he/they
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It's my birthday! And this morning before I head to the lab, I've spent a lot of time working with my colleagues on our brand new MUSE Mentorship website, which we hope to publish next month! If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation to MUSE, visit donorbox.org/donate-to-muse…!







Thank you to @deleoDM Heather Bracken-Grissom and Molecular Ecology for highlighting the work of Niko Hensley, PhD et al -- where we start to get at the molecular evolution of signal diversification in sea fireflies. Truly amazing photo by Kyle McBurnie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…



Congratulations Natasha Picciani, PhD !! In print today: A wide diversity of cnidarians use light to modulate cnidocyte firing. This function may be ancestral in cnidarians and may have facilitated their many separate eye origins onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

I can’t with this, any of this. No medical basis, just plain bigotry. Hands off my guns but I’ll decide what happens to your body (AR and AL) and who gets to vote (GA— if you’re Black or brown, it’s not you). The things we are willing to make our kids live through. I just can’t.




PLEASE sign this petition, spearheaded by an undergraduate student who does more than their fair share for racial justice at UMass! Our police department budget is 6 million annually. We want to reallocate funds from UMPD - Sign the Petition! chng.it/vXqNRDck via Change.org


Out today! First in a series of papers from our lab using the the nudibranch Berghia stephanieae as a research model, postdoc Dr. Jessica Goodheart describes when nematocyst sequestration begins during development. w/Vanessa Barone frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
