Stacey Ogden 🦔
@labogden.bsky.social
Cell and Developmental Biologist @ St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - 🦔 signaling in 🧠🫀&🫁 - science 🧪, academia, DevBio research, mentoring, scicomm, 🔬, birds 🪶, hikes - fueled by ☕ & 🧘🏼♀️ - Y’all means all - Views my own and not SJCRH's
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Stacey Ogden 🦔
@labogden.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n
SHH exosomes surfing along the OUTSIDE of mesenchymal cell cytonemes - check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Exosome secretion is required for sonic hedgehog dispersal and signal gradient formation in the embryonic limb mesenchyme
Carrier-assisted diffusion and cytoneme transport have been postulated to disperse Hedgehog across diverse embryonic tissues, yet their relative contributions to patterning mesenchymal tissues remains...
www.biorxiv.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
SHH exosomes surfing along the OUTSIDE of mesenchymal cell cytonemes - check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It's Season's Greetings #FluorescenceFriday! Please enjoy these primary cilia colored to look like holiday lights! I hope you enjoy the season and get to spend some time with friends and family! 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Sam Hack 🧪 👩🔬
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's Season's Greetings #FluorescenceFriday! Please enjoy these primary cilia colored to look like holiday lights! I hope you enjoy the season and get to spend some time with friends and family! 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Sam Hack 🧪 👩🔬
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
We’ve highlighted some wonderful images and researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series in 2025. To celebrate, we’re inviting you to vote for your favourite in our image competition!
#FluorescenceFriday
Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
#FluorescenceFriday
Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
Vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 - FocalPlane
Vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 - News
focalplane.biologists.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We’ve highlighted some wonderful images and researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series in 2025. To celebrate, we’re inviting you to vote for your favourite in our image competition!
#FluorescenceFriday
Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
#FluorescenceFriday
Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
The Christmas Hedgehog! Happy Holidays!
It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Christmas Hedgehog! Happy Holidays!
This one never gets old! My favorite Far Side 🤓
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This one never gets old! My favorite Far Side 🤓
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a 3D render of a confocal image of an NIH3T3 cell expressing a membrane marker 🟢 showing long filopodia called cytonemes. Cytonemes reach toward neighboring cells to exchange information. Actin is ⚪ and nuclei are 🟠. 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social.
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a 3D render of a confocal image of an NIH3T3 cell expressing a membrane marker 🟢 showing long filopodia called cytonemes. Cytonemes reach toward neighboring cells to exchange information. Actin is ⚪ and nuclei are 🟠. 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social.
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
NC friends: I just called NC Senators Tillis and Budd--you should too
Not enough people are talking about this:
Today, the Senate has one last chance to extend the ACA tax credits before they expire.
I’ll be voting to prevent health insurance premiums from more than doubling for millions of Americans. Every Republican senator should do the same.
Today, the Senate has one last chance to extend the ACA tax credits before they expire.
I’ll be voting to prevent health insurance premiums from more than doubling for millions of Americans. Every Republican senator should do the same.
December 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
NC friends: I just called NC Senators Tillis and Budd--you should too
Shout out to Ogden lab members grad student Christina Wang and lab manager Miriam Dillard Stroud as they run the @stjuderesearch.bsky.social half marathon today! Both have reached Hero status for their fundraising for the kids of St. Jude! 💪🏼🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️
December 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Shout out to Ogden lab members grad student Christina Wang and lab manager Miriam Dillard Stroud as they run the @stjuderesearch.bsky.social half marathon today! Both have reached Hero status for their fundraising for the kids of St. Jude! 💪🏼🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Development's Pathway to Independence Programme
Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...
www.biologists.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building
Spread the word...
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
This is the kind of news reporting I want to see right now 😆
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is the kind of news reporting I want to see right now 😆
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
You dont have to be in the profession of science to contribute to science. You can do publishable research as a hobbyist too.
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You dont have to be in the profession of science to contribute to science. You can do publishable research as a hobbyist too.
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
Exploring the living world, with whatever means you have, without any sifting for grander purpose or ulterior motives, is such a unique high. There is so much beauty and so many stories to tell around the proverbial campfire, and so many people are missing out.
Gotta fix this.
Gotta fix this.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Exploring the living world, with whatever means you have, without any sifting for grander purpose or ulterior motives, is such a unique high. There is so much beauty and so many stories to tell around the proverbial campfire, and so many people are missing out.
Gotta fix this.
Gotta fix this.
Just in time for Thanksgiving 😂
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Just in time for Thanksgiving 😂
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
In a short time, we’ll have fake AI scientists fabricating fake AI results reviewed by fake AI reviewers. This data will then be text-mined by AI and ultimately delivered to mindless AI consumers.
Finally the scary example. The image of a western blot with a time course experiment, staining a protein of interest, showing the increase of protein over time and a second staining with a control antibody that does not change over time
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In a short time, we’ll have fake AI scientists fabricating fake AI results reviewed by fake AI reviewers. This data will then be text-mined by AI and ultimately delivered to mindless AI consumers.
Horrifying.
I really hope there is some sort of information embedded in these AI generated "data" image files that journals will be able to use to identify this type of fabrication. 🧪
I suspect zero chance a reviewer would identify this as being fake.
I really hope there is some sort of information embedded in these AI generated "data" image files that journals will be able to use to identify this type of fabrication. 🧪
I suspect zero chance a reviewer would identify this as being fake.
Finally the scary example. The image of a western blot with a time course experiment, staining a protein of interest, showing the increase of protein over time and a second staining with a control antibody that does not change over time
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Horrifying.
I really hope there is some sort of information embedded in these AI generated "data" image files that journals will be able to use to identify this type of fabrication. 🧪
I suspect zero chance a reviewer would identify this as being fake.
I really hope there is some sort of information embedded in these AI generated "data" image files that journals will be able to use to identify this type of fabrication. 🧪
I suspect zero chance a reviewer would identify this as being fake.
Most boring real life adult thing one must occasionally do...
Look for the "best deal" on tires.
So lame.
🥱
Look for the "best deal" on tires.
So lame.
🥱
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Most boring real life adult thing one must occasionally do...
Look for the "best deal" on tires.
So lame.
🥱
Look for the "best deal" on tires.
So lame.
🥱
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526
HMS - Postdoctoral Fellow in BCMP, Brown Lab
We invite applicants for a postdoctoral fellow position in the Brown lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The Brown lab uses structural, biophysical, and biochemical approaches to d...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
🧵
I was browsing through NASA’s Photojournal archive when I found this historic image of Saturn, taken by Voyager 2 on Aug. 11, 1981.
The spacecraft was about 14.7 million kilometres away when the picture was captured.
Image credit: NASA/JPL
➡️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
🔭 🧪 #histsci
1/5
I was browsing through NASA’s Photojournal archive when I found this historic image of Saturn, taken by Voyager 2 on Aug. 11, 1981.
The spacecraft was about 14.7 million kilometres away when the picture was captured.
Image credit: NASA/JPL
➡️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
🔭 🧪 #histsci
1/5
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🧵
I was browsing through NASA’s Photojournal archive when I found this historic image of Saturn, taken by Voyager 2 on Aug. 11, 1981.
The spacecraft was about 14.7 million kilometres away when the picture was captured.
Image credit: NASA/JPL
➡️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
🔭 🧪 #histsci
1/5
I was browsing through NASA’s Photojournal archive when I found this historic image of Saturn, taken by Voyager 2 on Aug. 11, 1981.
The spacecraft was about 14.7 million kilometres away when the picture was captured.
Image credit: NASA/JPL
➡️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
🔭 🧪 #histsci
1/5
Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔
Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Closing date 27th November
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Lots of folks dislike how early it gets dark during this time of year.
Hot take: I love it because my office has a west facing window and golden hour looks gorgeous from my desk 🤩
It's just what I need to recharge for the last couple/few hours of the day 🌇
Hot take: I love it because my office has a west facing window and golden hour looks gorgeous from my desk 🤩
It's just what I need to recharge for the last couple/few hours of the day 🌇
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Lots of folks dislike how early it gets dark during this time of year.
Hot take: I love it because my office has a west facing window and golden hour looks gorgeous from my desk 🤩
It's just what I need to recharge for the last couple/few hours of the day 🌇
Hot take: I love it because my office has a west facing window and golden hour looks gorgeous from my desk 🤩
It's just what I need to recharge for the last couple/few hours of the day 🌇
HUGE congratulations to Miriam Dillard-Stroud for being recognized as a @stjuderesearch.bsky.social Living Our Values Ambassador! Miriam is a GREAT collaborator to everyone in the St. Jude community! This is a very well-deserved honor! 🥳🤩🙌
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
HUGE congratulations to Miriam Dillard-Stroud for being recognized as a @stjuderesearch.bsky.social Living Our Values Ambassador! Miriam is a GREAT collaborator to everyone in the St. Jude community! This is a very well-deserved honor! 🥳🤩🙌