Happy to announce that our latest paper on fin blood vessel development is online now: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/do… Congratulations to Elvin Leonard and Sana S. Hasan for the amazing work!

Dr. An Wu, a good friend and a brilliant neuroscientist from UCSD, is missing during the major fire in an Airbnb at Montreal after attending the CosyneMeeting. We have been desperately looking for her for >72 hours. My heart goes out to her family. CBC News Sarah Leavitt

So excited to announce the publishing of our new 13th Edition of Developmental Biology! #devbio

🔥Check out our new paper🔥 Make Science Disruptive Again! All graduate programs should teach the CREATIVE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS to help change the research system and increase the disruptiveness of science projects. Martin Lercher Nature Biotechnology nature.com/articles/s4158…

a big deal: Elon Musk, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ⁦⁦Max Tegmark⁩, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ⁦Grady Booch, ⁦Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸⁩, ⁦Tristan Harris⁩ & over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 futureoflife.org/open-letter/pa…

Dear Reviewer 2, Please read the paper. Sincerely, Me

Fascinating new preprint on bioRxiv tackles a whale of a question: Whales are huge. So why don’t they get a ton of cancers? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Macrophage deficiency in CSF1R-knockout rat embryos does not compromise placental or embryo development - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37167456/

Anonymous Question: ‘Why do we have to give up so much for an academic career? Relationships are hard. Family are far. Money is tight. Hobbies are non-existent. I barely sleep. What’s the point?’

Neeraja Gupta Argh! So sorry to hear that Neeraja. Most US-born academics have NO idea how muck extra work we immigrants have to do just to get a chance to do the work…

Excited to share our newest preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…)! We recently generated placental organoids from trophoblast stem cells, and now we are the first to use this model to investigate trophoblast interactions with immune cells: a 🧵1/

Twitter academia: 1. I am happy to announce xx (whatever trivial) 2. I am thrilled/excited that xx (papers, grants, promotion) 3. I am honored that xx ("awards" in all senses) Adding to that list now: "How I publish xx papers in x years" What next? How I become god?

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

How about David C. Baulcombe not being awarded?

Oded Rechavi Even worse, looking at recent papers from the AI/bio crowd, we are heading towards studying models instead of the real thing. Understanding how to use models to advance biology is tricky; sadly, science leadership is following trends instead of thinking.

Everyone says “Today’s PhD students are so accomplished I wouldn’t have gotten in today” as if it’s a good thing. It’s not. There are amazing young scientists out there today. But grad admissions is ignoring wide swaths of them because it’s been infected with the same

Lineage tracing studies suggest that the placenta is not a de novo source of hematopoietic stem cells ift.tt/mpT81Oi

🚨Preprint alert!🚨What happens to our blood vessels as we age? To begin answering this at the transcriptome level, we built the Human Aging Endothelial Cell Atlas (HAECA), profiling >375,000 endothelial cells from 12 tissues across adulthood. (1/9) biorxiv.org/content/10.110….