Anna Czarkwiani
@aniaczark.bsky.social
Studying regeneration - from brittle stars to axolotls!
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-3113
https://thenode.biologists.com/author/anna-czarkwiani/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-3113
https://thenode.biologists.com/author/anna-czarkwiani/
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🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true.
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
Sea cucumbers are beautiful! 🥒
This image shows the skeleton of a baby sea cucumber. Very happy that it got awarded by #NikonSmallWorld 😊
👇 Check the preprint by @PranavVyas and @prakashlab.bsky.social if you want to learn more about skeleton development in these animals:
shorturl.at/J3g1h
This image shows the skeleton of a baby sea cucumber. Very happy that it got awarded by #NikonSmallWorld 😊
👇 Check the preprint by @PranavVyas and @prakashlab.bsky.social if you want to learn more about skeleton development in these animals:
shorturl.at/J3g1h
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sea cucumbers are beautiful! 🥒
This image shows the skeleton of a baby sea cucumber. Very happy that it got awarded by #NikonSmallWorld 😊
👇 Check the preprint by @PranavVyas and @prakashlab.bsky.social if you want to learn more about skeleton development in these animals:
shorturl.at/J3g1h
This image shows the skeleton of a baby sea cucumber. Very happy that it got awarded by #NikonSmallWorld 😊
👇 Check the preprint by @PranavVyas and @prakashlab.bsky.social if you want to learn more about skeleton development in these animals:
shorturl.at/J3g1h
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Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding
During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
#ERCStG für Anna Czarkwiani: 🎉 Dr. @aniaczark.bsky.social von @crtd-tud.bsky.social wurde mit einem renommierten Starting Grant von @erc.europa.eu ausgezeichnet. Die Postdoktorandin erforscht die Biologie des Schwerkraftsinns & damit verbundene Erkrankungen.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
September 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#ERCStG für Anna Czarkwiani: 🎉 Dr. @aniaczark.bsky.social von @crtd-tud.bsky.social wurde mit einem renommierten Starting Grant von @erc.europa.eu ausgezeichnet. Die Postdoktorandin erforscht die Biologie des Schwerkraftsinns & damit verbundene Erkrankungen.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...
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Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
Granty ERC również dla Polaków w zagranicznych ośrodkach
Rozdane w czwartek granty ERC Starting trafiły także do sześciorga polskich naukowców pracujących w zagranicznych ośrodkach: w Niemczech, Austrii, Szwajcarii i Francji. Zajmą się mobilnością społeczną...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rozdane wczoraj przez @erc.europa.eu granty #ERCStG trafiły także do 6️⃣ polskich naukowców, którzy swoje badania będą prowadzić w Niemczech, Austrii, Francji i Szwajcarii. Czego dotyczą ich projekty? ⬇️
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
@aniaczark.bsky.social @magda-sznurkowska.bsky.social @olgakepinska.bsky.social
Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true.
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
🥳 Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Anna Czarkwiani @aniaczark.bsky.social, on receiving the ERC Starting Grant @erc.europa.eu!
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
With €2 million in funding, Anna will explore the biology of gravisensation and uncover insights into related disorders. 🧠
#CMCBnews @tudresden.bsky.social #ERCStG
September 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Oh man, I am so excited and happy to have been given this huge opportunity by the @erc.europa.eu It is by no exaggeration - a dream come true.
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
An insufficient thank you thread (1/4)
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔
Not cell loss, but water loss!
Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯
Check the paper!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social
Not cell loss, but water loss!
Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯
Check the paper!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social
Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death
Brain plasticity, the brain’s inherent ability to adapt its structure and function, is crucial for responding to environmental challenges but is usual…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔
Not cell loss, but water loss!
Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯
Check the paper!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social
Not cell loss, but water loss!
Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯
Check the paper!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social
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We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral fellowships (2 positions) in wound healing - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 1284...
Two Postdoc positions to identify & visualize translation dynamics & function of proteins that drive epithelial cell migration during wound healing.
www.nature.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
In the latest paper, @cagricevrim.bsky.social, @berylbiologist.bsky.social & Ko succeeded in imaging the entire course of leg regeneration and @mlrusciano.bsky.social & @almazan.bsky.social developed HCR to identify specific cell types after imaging. elifesciences.org/articles/107... 4/6
Long-term live imaging, cell identification and cell tracking in regenerating crustacean legs
Live imaging allows tracking cellular behaviours and cell fates during the entire course of leg regeneration, spanning approximately one week, in a crustacean model.
elifesciences.org
August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In the latest paper, @cagricevrim.bsky.social, @berylbiologist.bsky.social & Ko succeeded in imaging the entire course of leg regeneration and @mlrusciano.bsky.social & @almazan.bsky.social developed HCR to identify specific cell types after imaging. elifesciences.org/articles/107... 4/6
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level
CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess
It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates
rdcu.be/ezw0t
CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess
It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates
rdcu.be/ezw0t
A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration
Nature Communications - Accorsi et al. show that the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata has eyes similar to humans and can fully regenerate them. They then developed genetic tools to establish these...
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August 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Evolution’s eye game is wild, but mollusks take it to another level
CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess
It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates
rdcu.be/ezw0t
CRISPR in apple snails gives us a new model to dissect how nature rebuilds complex organs like the camera-type eyes we humans possess
It turns out Evolution doesn’t just innovate, it rewinds, remixes, & regenerates
rdcu.be/ezw0t
A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Thick skin doesn't mean no heart. Great article ❤️
Thick skin doesn't mean no heart. Great article ❤️
A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
www.embopress.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Thick skin doesn't mean no heart. Great article ❤️
Thick skin doesn't mean no heart. Great article ❤️
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
NOA day!! 🎉
Excited to continue this project to advance tools for studying limb regeneration.
We have openings for a Research Tech as part of this funding, so please send great applicants our way! 🧪
Excited to continue this project to advance tools for studying limb regeneration.
We have openings for a Research Tech as part of this funding, so please send great applicants our way! 🧪
July 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NOA day!! 🎉
Excited to continue this project to advance tools for studying limb regeneration.
We have openings for a Research Tech as part of this funding, so please send great applicants our way! 🧪
Excited to continue this project to advance tools for studying limb regeneration.
We have openings for a Research Tech as part of this funding, so please send great applicants our way! 🧪
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility!
🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11
More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8
@tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11
More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8
@tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
July 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨 #JobAlert. please share: The DRESDEN-concept Genome Center (DcGC) 🧬 @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social is looking for the new Head of Facility!
🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11
More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8
@tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 11
More information here ➡️ tud.link/fz5hr8
@tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
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“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The forgotten half of scientific thinking | PNAS
The forgotten half of scientific thinking
www.pnas.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.”
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Visitors to the axolotl exhibit, Long Night of Science #LNoS are the BEST!!! @crtd-tud.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Visitors to the axolotl exhibit, Long Night of Science #LNoS are the BEST!!! @crtd-tud.bsky.social
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The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.
The call opens on 1st June.
More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
The call opens on 1st June.
More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
May 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The new Vienna BioCenter Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (VIP³) is here! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc.
The call opens on 1st June.
More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
The call opens on 1st June.
More information: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!
Looking so much forward to this meeting! This meeting promises to be to the field of biomedicine what Evo Devo was to developmental biology.
Learn about how unconventional models help to push #biomedicine at EMBO Workshop "Beyond the standard: Unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine" in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 9–13 June 2025
Registration deadline: 8 May
meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...
#EMBOvertrebateModels #EMBOevents 🧪
Registration deadline: 8 May
meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...
#EMBOvertrebateModels #EMBOevents 🧪
Beyond the standard: Unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine
The use of a handful of model organisms has proven essential for scientific discovery and to unlock new therapeutics to combat human disease. As society looks to the future, the gateway to new scient…
meetings.embo.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Looking so much forward to this meeting! This meeting promises to be to the field of biomedicine what Evo Devo was to developmental biology.
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Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
📢 Deadline for submitting articles to #LifelongDevSI is 30 May 2025
Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues.
Guest Editors: Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...
Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues.
Guest Editors: Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...
May 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📢 Deadline for submitting articles to #LifelongDevSI is 30 May 2025
Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues.
Guest Editors: Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...
Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues.
Guest Editors: Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...
Reposted by Anna Czarkwiani
#zebrafishrocks #zebrafishjobs #Regeneration 🧪
Have a look at our job ad, tell your friends
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
Have a look at our job ad, tell your friends
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
Vacancy ID 12080
www.verw.tu-dresden.de
April 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#zebrafishrocks #zebrafishjobs #Regeneration 🧪
Have a look at our job ad, tell your friends
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
Have a look at our job ad, tell your friends
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...
Power abuse in academia is being talked about more and more openly highlighting what a pervasive and important problem it is. youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Power abuse in academia is being talked about more and more openly highlighting what a pervasive and important problem it is. youtu.be/n5nEd600iM0?...
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📢 We are hiring! 📢
We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.
More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef
Get in touch if interested!
We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.
More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef
Get in touch if interested!
Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our group at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR), The University of Edinburgh.
tinyurl.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
📢 We are hiring! 📢
We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.
More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef
Get in touch if interested!
We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.
More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef
Get in touch if interested!
I loved this post from @davislab.bsky.social . Wonderfully real and with a positive tone which is rarely voiced in conversations around motherhood and academia.
"How being a scientist helped me to be a good mother"
In this new "Honest conversations" blog post, Felicity Davis @davislab.bsky.social discusses gender inequalities in academia and shares her experience of becoming a mother-scientist:
thenode.biologists.com/how-being-a-...
In this new "Honest conversations" blog post, Felicity Davis @davislab.bsky.social discusses gender inequalities in academia and shares her experience of becoming a mother-scientist:
thenode.biologists.com/how-being-a-...
January 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I loved this post from @davislab.bsky.social . Wonderfully real and with a positive tone which is rarely voiced in conversations around motherhood and academia.