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SDB will be hosting its Inaugural Art Show at the 20th International Congress of Developmental Biology in Puerto Rico June 18-22. Both 2D and 3D art submissions related to developmental biology are welcome. Learn more: sdbonline.org/2025icdb_art_s… #2025SDB #2025ICDB

In a recent study, researchers explored the biomechanics of different animal tails and considered how a better tail could help build a better robot. Dr. Talia Moore and Dr. Ceri Weber join us to discuss the science of tails. buff.ly/41BxBqh

Lawyers for the government argued yesterday that the cap on NIH indirect costs would not cause “irreparable harm,”- Tell that to the grad students who would have been admitted at these places and the labs they would have joined! H/T Kyle Cheney docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Postdoctoral scholar Ceri Weber of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology joins Science Friday, which is heard nationally on hundreds of stations, to discuss the evolution and development of tails.

Yesterday I spoke with sales reps whose jobs are on the line with current NIH cuts. Today, I talked to venture capitalist in biotech. That entire industry runs on workers trained in NIH-funded labs. But the "money people" don't know much about how NIH works. Educate them!

Listen to Society for Developmental Biology President Carole LaBonne's @LaBonneLaB extremely clear explanation about NIH funding and biomedical research at Bloomberg podcast: overcast.fm/+AA5AWObyBF8. You can avoid the commercial breaks if you have a subscription to Bloomberg

guess we’re the only ones doing free baggage now

A tiny French village became an ALS hot spot. Neurologists found that the patients consistently ate three foods: game, dandelion greens, and, notably, wild mushrooms. Shayla Love traveled there to investigate: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. Here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer but there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. nature.com/articles/d4158…

The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. hrvd.me/ResearchFundin…

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

there's a whole cohort of us who started our postdocs with covid and are ending it with hiring freezes and canceled grants. we are not okay.

Defended in March 2020, postdoc started in July 2020, K99 covid extensions ended in 2023, and here we are now in 2025.

Society for Developmental Biology students/postdocs-I know you are feeling all the feels about the assault on science and what it means for your careers. I am planning a few "Resistance and Resilience" zoom meetups as a forum for support and conversation-DM contact info if interested in participating

My partner Serena’s mom is dying from ALS. The NIH grant supporting the scientists in my lab working hard on a cure was just terminated. No words

Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t

Check out SDB President Carole LaBonne's op-ed published in the Washington Post today. From public health to high-tech innovation, universities are the workhorses of national progress. wapo.st/3ZGoHpS

If you have not signed please do. If you have signed try to get several others to sign TONIGHT - NIH Director testifies before senate appropriations at 10am ET - lets make sure they know how many people are angry about what has been done to NIH

Can’t wait to see everyone at SDB this week! Excited to give a talk in Thursday morning’s Cell Polarity session 🐟

Looking forward to #2025SDB #2025ICDB this week! I'll be presenting on my mammal tail research during the 'Role of Scaling in Development and Evolution' session on Friday @ 9:40AM!