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Heidi Hehnly-Chang
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Mom, Scientist, Equestrian and Artist.
www.hehnlylab.com
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oliverio.bsky.social
Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!!

Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
hbrappap.bsky.social H. B. Beryl Rappaport @hbrappap.bsky.social · 13d
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Research assistant post, for those interested!
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Contains new works from @ditalialab.bsky.social, @sthyme.bsky.social, @lovelessradio.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, Hammerschmidt Lab, Ron Kwon Lab, Martik Lab, @tillymommersteeg.bsky.social, Lecaudey Lab, @timesaunders.bsky.social, @dangrimes.bsky.social, @akankshi.bsky.social among others!
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
lovelessradio.bsky.social
We’re hiring! 🧬 Join the Hehnly Lab @syracuseu.bsky.social to study how cells build tissues — focusing on centrosomes, cytoskeleton & trafficking. Postdoc position open: www.sujobopps.com/postings/111...
Postdoctoral Researcher – Cell and Developmental Biology
The Hehnly Lab seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join a dynamic group investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing centrosome function, cytoskeletal organization, an...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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kevinmawright.bsky.social
Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers

Biology is amazing.
October 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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bpodaily.bsky.social
Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins

📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al @lovelessradio.bsky.social lab
@syracuseu.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with Lux Fatimathas
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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lablerit.bsky.social
We are hiring! We are currently interviewing for an entry level staff position in the lab, but it is not too late to submit a postdoc application! Send a note of interest to me and apply here: bit.ly/3VmmM7m
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jcellsci.bsky.social
Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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lablerit.bsky.social
@ascbiology.bsky.social Abstract submissions are open! Submit an abstract to the ‘Emerging concepts in centriole and centrosome assembly and function’ minisym. PRIZES for trainee talks & posters plus a mixer thanks to generous sponsors @jcellsci.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social & Nikon
August 19, 2025 at 5:51 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
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August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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senguptalab.bsky.social
A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
September 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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dev-journal.bsky.social
In honour of Postdoc Appreciation Week, here are three ways we support postdocs:
1. Since 2023, we’ve supported 24 postdocs as they transition to becoming a group leader through our Pathway to Independence programme. Meet our latest fellows: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... #NPAW2025
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September 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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lottepedersen.bsky.social
KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia
Rezi et al. show that kinesin-3 KIF13B regulates ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and small extracellular vesicle (EV) release of ciliary proteins while suppressing their relea...
www.cell.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
lovelessradio.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
#Zebrafish LRO #cilia are structurally diverse & essential for LRO morphogenesis. #Optogenetics + #vEM reveal new roles for cilia in organ architecture.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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merz.bsky.social
National Institute of General Medical Sciences R35 MIRA awards issued within the last 14 days. I am still waiting to see if mine is funded. Regardless of my outcome, I am in awe of the dedicated program and awards management staff who are so clearly doing their damndest to fund strong science.
🧬🔬🧪🥼🇺🇸
August 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
lovelessradio.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Favour Ononiwu on a successful PhD defense! 🎓✨

👏 Wishing her all the best as she takes the next steps in her career #ZebrafishResearch
August 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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newyorker.com
Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the ’80s and ’90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
lovelessradio.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
www.science.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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manningresearch.bsky.social
Yay! New paper out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... . How do dynamical forces generated by tissue movement affect organ morphology changes during embryonic development?
Using Kupffer’s vesicle in zebrafish embryo we showed that dynamical forces produce shape changes in a developing organ.
July 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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senguptalab.bsky.social
Want to publish a NIH-funded paper in Nature? Well - unless your institution has an agreement with Springer, you'll have to be mega-rich to be compliant with NIH's new no-embargo policy. Springer is insisting on gold OA - that's $12,690 and that's extortion.
katherine-brown.bsky.social Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · Jul 29
This is a useful summary of how some major publishers are responding to the new NIH policy. We've just updated our policies at @biologists.bsky.social: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social and @jexpbiol.bsky.social will allow authors to deposit the accepted version with zero embargo.
July 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.
needhibhalla.bsky.social Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Jul 10
🧪 After the workshop on 7/7, the FDA and NIH are asking for public comments on implementing novel methodologies and other strategies to reduce the use of animal testing by 7/14:

www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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boehninglab.com
This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
🧪🌎
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Looking for fluorescent reporters for your favorite tissue/organ? Check out the zTrap Gene Trap & Enhancer Database (ztrap.nig.ac.jp/ztrap/) from the Kawakami Lab at NIG! Travel grants are available for shelf-screen (Email Sensei Koichi for more info) 😎

Contact details: ztrap.nig.ac.jp/members.html
On zTrap website, you will be able to search lines by anatomy such as the swim bladder (for example). One line that looks promising is gSA2AzGFF328A (below)that has an insertion in the gene axla4a.
June 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM