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Justine Pinskey, PhD
@justinepinskey.bsky.social
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Scientist, communicator, & scholar | Sr. Scientific Writer - Office of Health Equity @UmassChan | #firstgen | #scicomm | #sciart | Meat_Fight | #momademia | Views=own | she/her.
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justinepinskey.bsky.social
Billy Joel plus this cozy corner were the keys to unlock my productivity this morning. Where’s your favorite spot to work?
A table and four chairs nestled in a sunny cafe corner
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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stowersinstitute.bsky.social
This #MicroscopyMonday is a developing Apple Snail embryo. On the left is the shell, the middle the body & the foot at the bottom. On the right the head with the eye (green circle) & the tentacle bud. (@planaria1.bsky.social lab) #ResearchSky #SciSky
July 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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plosbiology.org
From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪
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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
plos.io
June 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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echinoblog.bsky.social
Big #octocoralFriday news! featuring colleagues from @floridamuseum.bsky.social @corallab.bsky.social @miselab.bsky.social www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/worl...
World’s soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea
It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they’ve been studied, you’d think we’ve lea...
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu
June 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
justinepinskey.bsky.social
On today’s episode of “Things I would like to put in a cryo-electron microscope”… 👀🧪🔬
nizet.bsky.social ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Jun 17
STORY ABOUT A BACTERIA GOING VIRAL

Genome of 𝘚𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 is so stripped down— just 238,000 bp—that it blurs the line between cell and virus

Encodes just DNA replication, transcription, and translation—no metabolism, no cellular independence

Begs the question: WhAt Is CeLLuLaR LiFe?
Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus
With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses
www.science.org
June 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
justinepinskey.bsky.social
Many proteins “multitask”, simultaneously performing multiple functions within cells. But how exactly do they do this? In a new paper, Dr. Sumeda Nandadasa and his team peer into the secret life of TMEM67, an important protein that regulates both cilia formation and Wnt signaling. 🧪 #cilia
June 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
Lux Capital providing funding opportunities for academic biomedical research aligned with interests 👏

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Our Helpline for American Scientists
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May 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
High-resolution optical imaging of the meninges within the brain of an adult zebrafish. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social & #WeinsteinLab. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Dorsal view of adult zebrafish showing the lymphatic system in the brain and scales. Appearing in three different color combinations.
May 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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rachaelott.bsky.social
For #FluorescenceFriday, a GFP reporter shows nuclei (fire) nestled between lots of lipid droplets in this set of adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology
Nuclei (fire) and lipid droplets (black; seen by negative staining) are shown in adipocytes.
April 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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maikbischoff.bsky.social
#CellMigration 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨!
Excited to share this video on #FluorescenceFriday 🌈
Today as a GIF to circumvent video compression 😅!

Migratory Nascent Myotubes on #Drosophila Testes. Marker: Lifeact-eGFP. Scope: 980 Airyscan (@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social)

#cellbio #sciart #devbio #science #microscopy
April 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
justinepinskey.bsky.social
You mean more than 6 times back to back in a single day because your parents weren’t home and you had nothing better to do… right?
April 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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vgwschutte.bsky.social
Just updated the #SciComm community directory on my website! www.virginiaschutte.com/scicomm-comm...

I added a "meet IRL" section that includes @capscicomm.org and 5 groups for folks around England, those lucky ducks

Want me to add a place you hang out? LMK who to get sharing permission from!
Where to find science communication and STEM communities | Virginia Schutte
Where you can find SciComm and identity-based STEM communities online.
www.virginiaschutte.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
What an incredibly good idea! At UNC alone PhD students come from hundreds of hometowns across the nation. If you're a scientist help your home community see the value of your work & the importance of supporting the next generation of scientists by bring it home to them. Happy to share an example RT
cornellasap.bsky.social Cornell Advancing Science and Policy Club (ASAP) @cornellasap.bsky.social · Apr 21
Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.

Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public.

#McClintockLetters

blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
April 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Please join us next Monday for this webinar where @ecbrooks96.bsky.social will be talking about a very cool story (with gorgeous images) about the role of cilia in craniofacial development! @isdb.bsky.social @diffjournal.bsky.social
ecbrooks96.bsky.social Evan C. Brooks, Ph.D. @ecbrooks96.bsky.social · Mar 17
Excited to be the inaugural speaker for this new seminar series from @diffjournal.bsky.social. I’ll be presenting on work from my PhD thesis focused on the role of cilia in lower jaw development.

Thanks to Loydie Jerome-Majewska, @rogerslabucd.bsky.social, and @uribelab.bsky.social for the invite!
diffjournal.bsky.social Differentiation Journal @diffjournal.bsky.social · Mar 17
Join us for Biological Differentiation Across the Scales, a free virtual seminar series from Differentiation. Hear from authors and the editors-in-chief as they discuss key research. Stay at the forefront of biological differentiation—register now: www.isdifferentiation.org/Events/Semin... #devbio
April 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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cilialab.bsky.social
🧪TOMORROW 15:00 BST 22/04/2025🧪: gather round for the latest in #cilia & #centrosome research including curious #kinases, co-translational assembly, cilia in #meiosis & spermatogenesis, AND complexes controlling ciliary content from the field's rising talent! Free & open to all... just register!
April 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Only 29 slots left out of 200--register now!
peiferlabunc.bsky.social Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Dec 18
Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost
www.grc.org/cell-contact...
Poster for the meeting including speaker list and location
April 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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cilialab.bsky.social
A week until our 51st @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium: 15/04/2025 15:00-17:15 BST. Still not registered for the series- join us here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... Free and open to all! /1
BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
BSCB GenSoc UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-Symposia Series
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Highly recommend looking through these #HandsOff Protest photos for a shot of energy. Not just the places you'd expect, either!
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Apr 5
Folks sharing photos from today's nationwide "Hands Off" protests of Trump and Musk.

Boston, DC, NY, CA
April 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
justinepinskey.bsky.social
Hundreds of protesters in Port Huron MI. We could see folks gathering across the river in Canada, and some even came to cheer us on from their boats! #handsoff #standupforscience
April 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
justinepinskey.bsky.social
Port Huron MI showed up! #Handsoff
Hundreds of protesters in Port Huron Michigan, with the blue water bridge in the background protesters in Port Huron Michigan, with the blue water bridge in the background protesters in Port Huron Michigan, with the blue water bridge in the background protesters in Port Huron Michigan, with signs reading “safe healthy kids+ healthy kids = fair future” and “stop the raids, stop the hate”
April 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY!

*Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together.

🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨
In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE

Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...

#standupforscience
#handsoff
Hands off! Our science. In partnership with indivisible. National day of action 4/5/25
April 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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kalinskilab.bsky.social
These grant terminations are targeting the best & brightest and the literal future of our profession. We should all be outraged. Every grant was earned & stood up to intense review. They deserve to continue their work. They matter. Their science matters. We have to stand up against these attacks
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 2
Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Rosalind Franklin (to father)
April 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
justinepinskey.bsky.social
Bombastic side eye, brought to you by St. Patty’s Day.
A sassy looking dog wearing a green plaid bow tie and a green hat with a gold clover on it
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM