
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…





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…
