callista yee
@csybio.bsky.social
worm neurobiologist, assistant professor at UBC zoology. loves tater tots, synapses, dpy worms, and transcription factors. she/her. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
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callista yee
@csybio.bsky.social
· Jun 25
I will be opening my new lab in September at UBC! if you’re coming to #Worm25 and are looking for graduate studies or a postdoc position, let’s meet! Vancouver + worms = perfect vibes. www.zoology.ubc.ca/~yeecs/labsi... Please share! 🙌
teaching is wild y'all
January 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
teaching is wild y'all
first day of teaching, pray for me
January 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
first day of teaching, pray for me
reasons to visit ubc: go to the UBC WINE LIBRARY (!!!), visited by prominent worm folk such as sydney brenner and bob waterston
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
reasons to visit ubc: go to the UBC WINE LIBRARY (!!!), visited by prominent worm folk such as sydney brenner and bob waterston
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
current biology ftw
December 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
current biology ftw
these travel cases get more sophisticated every year, big chonker
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
these travel cases get more sophisticated every year, big chonker
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Calling all Canadian prospective grad students! Domestic PhD & MSc application deadline = Jan 9 for EEB @ U. Toronto! Great community of researchers! Guaranteed funding >$40k/y! Join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...
Admissions - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Resources For More Information Please contact: grad.eeb@utoronto.ca
eeb.utoronto.ca
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Calling all Canadian prospective grad students! Domestic PhD & MSc application deadline = Jan 9 for EEB @ U. Toronto! Great community of researchers! Guaranteed funding >$40k/y! Join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...
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The thing that annoys me is how the idea of "AI competency" is either hilariously empty OR an impossible bar for most undergraduate students.
The weak version of this seems to be "showing students how to use ChatGPT and telling them that it can hallucinate." The strong version is an MA in ML.
The weak version of this seems to be "showing students how to use ChatGPT and telling them that it can hallucinate." The strong version is an MA in ML.
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The thing that annoys me is how the idea of "AI competency" is either hilariously empty OR an impossible bar for most undergraduate students.
The weak version of this seems to be "showing students how to use ChatGPT and telling them that it can hallucinate." The strong version is an MA in ML.
The weak version of this seems to be "showing students how to use ChatGPT and telling them that it can hallucinate." The strong version is an MA in ML.
quite possibly the best tshirt I have bought this year 🙏, linking it here, you’re welcome. octopiedmind.com/en-ca/produc...
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
quite possibly the best tshirt I have bought this year 🙏, linking it here, you’re welcome. octopiedmind.com/en-ca/produc...
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At #CellBio25? You should attend the 'LGBTQ+ Ally Session' featuring panelists from the ASCB LGBTQ+ committee. Session is TODAY, 11-11:45 in room 126A. Don't miss out and come get to know the committee! #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb #CellBio2025
December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
At #CellBio25? You should attend the 'LGBTQ+ Ally Session' featuring panelists from the ASCB LGBTQ+ committee. Session is TODAY, 11-11:45 in room 126A. Don't miss out and come get to know the committee! #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb #CellBio2025
trying the 5% DMSO freezing solution, here’s goes nothing!
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
trying the 5% DMSO freezing solution, here’s goes nothing!
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This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!
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First, obviously, ban all gen AI tools for the creation of academic text and images. Punish violations with immediate rejection. AI tools are neither accurate nor transparent, and science doesn’t need them. Kick them all out.
4/6
4/6
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
First, obviously, ban all gen AI tools for the creation of academic text and images. Punish violations with immediate rejection. AI tools are neither accurate nor transparent, and science doesn’t need them. Kick them all out.
4/6
4/6
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Worm people are the best
C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS
Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental
to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...
www.pnas.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Worm people are the best
I was lucky enough to inherit a bunch of racks where a graduate student had labelled all of them with Rack jokes 😂, perfect. I am dead at Racksputin.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I was lucky enough to inherit a bunch of racks where a graduate student had labelled all of them with Rack jokes 😂, perfect. I am dead at Racksputin.
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
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Our new tool for automating the quantification of synapses (or any other fluorescent puncta) in C. elegans is published- please try it out!! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
WormSNAP: A software for fast, accurate, and unbiased detection of fluorescent puncta in C. elegans
Author summary Here we describe software designed to increase the ease, speed and reliability of analyzing images of fluorescently tagged proteins in C. elegans, a microscopic worm proven to be a powe...
journals.plos.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Our new tool for automating the quantification of synapses (or any other fluorescent puncta) in C. elegans is published- please try it out!! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
Why do we need urgent action to protect our data?
The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...
docs.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
today in i’m not crying, you’re crying, found some projection slides on unc-52 splicing, old school scicomm right here. so simple. so perfect. #celegans
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
today in i’m not crying, you’re crying, found some projection slides on unc-52 splicing, old school scicomm right here. so simple. so perfect. #celegans
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Single cell whole genome and transcriptome sequencing links somatic mutations to cell identity and ancestry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685157v1
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Single cell whole genome and transcriptome sequencing links somatic mutations to cell identity and ancestry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685157v1