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Ann C. Morris
@anncmorris.bsky.social
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Biologist studying retinal development and regeneration at the University of Kentucky. Books, baking, birds, bourbon.
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hannahlong.bsky.social
📣 Paper alert!

I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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heartywhite.bsky.social
If you're in the Lexington, KY, area at precisely the right time, please consider wandering in!
Close up picture of strikingly handsome 60 something man with white beard and round glasses. The picture was shot with a broken 90s video camera so has a weird green quality. The text reads Hearty White's The Map November 21st 8pm institute 193, 215 North Limestone
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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lecagle.bsky.social
Yesterday we hosted Vincent Stanley, the chief storyteller and executive leader at Patagonia for the last 50 years, at UKY.

It was a major collab among a bunch of folks, particularly the Office of Sustainability and my unit, the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment.
Photo of a white woman in a floral dress at a podium in front of a large projection of her headshot and surrounded by lush green foliage.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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mito-oncogene.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask?

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Functionally dominant hotspot mutations of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes in cancer
Nature Genetics - Analysis of 14,106 tumor genomes highlights recurrent mutations in mitochondrial ribosomal RNA encoded within the mitochondrial genome. Mutations occur at hotspot positions and...
rdcu.be
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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pracheeac.bsky.social
We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!

www.arcadiascience.com/careers
Careers | Arcadia Science
Evolve with Arcadia.
www.arcadiascience.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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heartywhite.bsky.social
My show reached its WFMU hellraiser goal! Thank you all so much. Let's keep the light burning!
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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lacefieldlab.bsky.social
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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michelcayouette.bsky.social
Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Retinal glia regulate development of the circadian photoentrainment circuit
Circadian photoentrainment depends on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which convey environmental light information to th…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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daumlab.bsky.social
We are looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to investigate cellular dormancy and ribosome hibernation across plants, fungi, and mammals using #cryoET. If you are interested, apply here: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/66....
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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johriparul.bsky.social
The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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jbm0.bsky.social
The 11 Oct 2025 evening performance/showing of The Map by @heartywhite.bsky.social and friends, presented at @wfmu.bsky.social 's venue, Monty Hall.

Full set of photos at Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/...

#HeartyWhite #MontyHall #WFMU #multimedia #monologist #TheMap
A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks with his hands raised and eyes closed while a colorful projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks while a colorful projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks while a colorful projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). A bearded man with eyeglasses wearing a lounge suit stands and speaks while a projection plays to his right (the viewer's left). The projected image reads: Starring Dorothy K. Berryman Brittany Peel Harrison Rebekah Reynolds Chris Reynolds
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
'The device helped 81 per cent of trial participants suffering from advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to achieve clinically meaningful improvements in their vision, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday.'
www.ft.com/content/c2e8...
Scientists invent eye implant that helps blind patients see again
Device helps restore vision to people suffering from advanced macular degeneration
www.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Today for #FluorescenceFriday I’m sharing a 👻Halloween-themed🎃 neural crest explant “web of cells” from Julia Godinez, a 4th year @ucdavis.bsky.social graduate student in the lab. She is studying mechanisms driving conserved and divergent cranial neural crest migration and differentiation. #DevBio
A chicken neural crest explant with neural crest marker sox9 in green, e-cadherin in orange, filamentous actin in magenta, and nuclei in gray.
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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heartywhite.bsky.social
For almost 14 years Ive been doing a show described as southern inspirational dada. And it's on again tonight. Fightin the good fight for years. Join me now wont you?
October 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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siegenthalerlab.bsky.social
👇 Article w/ my PhD student Danae Mitchell @danaenm.bsky.social on 🤩 work in @nature.com by @arimolofskylab.bsky.social & Tom Arnold led by Nathan Ewing-Crystal @nathanec.bsky.social on the complex response of 🧠 fibroblasts to injury.

🧠 fibroblasts form scars but are not 'scary'...they help out! 👻
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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shumpeim.bsky.social
We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Read on below!

1/12 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
anncmorris.bsky.social
Come be our colleague -- review of applications starts tomorrow!
October 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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kaimurk.bsky.social
This #microscopymonday is a cleaning day. Watch how a #microglia cell mops up and phagozytoses debris and junk in a very messy neuronal co-culture. BTW, it was a proper cleaning job → the neurons made it and formed nice networks
Phase contrast imaging started at DIV1. One frame per 20 min.
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
anncmorris.bsky.social
We're hiring! Please repost -- application review starts 10/13.
October 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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heartywhite.bsky.social
If you like art and all and shows, I hear this is going to be good. Two shows, 3pm and 8pm.This is a link to the 3pm show. I worked on it with other artists and it's also an improvised experiement.
Hearty White Performs : The Map
Join WFMU for an afternoon with inspirational dadaist, Hearty White, live show at Monty Hall.
www.eventbrite.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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wfmu.bsky.social
WFMU's Hellraiser Fundraiser starts today, and runs through October! There will be many DJ specials, new swag, and events throughout the month celebrating WFMU. If you can, help us out with a donation and grab one of two new Hellraiser T-shirts. Pledge here: pledge.wfmu.org
October 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
anncmorris.bsky.social
Assistant or Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Kentucky: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/601...
#academic jobs #edusky
Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology
The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...
ukjobs.uky.edu
September 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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lazaroillustration.bsky.social
"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish
Illustration of a fishman creature with human limbs and fish head and tail, interacting with a DNA string
September 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM