Crystal Rogers, PhD
@rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @diffjournal.bsky.social. Posts are my own. https://www.crystalrogersphd.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
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Who am I if I’m not a #DevelopmentalBiologist? A (long) thread. Today on my re-introduction to BlueSky, I would like to tell you how I got here. I am a #FirstGen college attendee and graduate. I was raised in a single-parent household. We struggled financially when I was growing up. 1/
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I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast!
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Excellent Super Bowl half time performance! 🤩😍
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February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Excellent Super Bowl half time performance! 🤩😍
These Super Bowl ads have me alternating between crying, laughing out loud, and shouting, “I want to see that!!”
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February 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
These Super Bowl ads have me alternating between crying, laughing out loud, and shouting, “I want to see that!!”
I’m normally a 49ers fan, but today? GO SEAHAWKS! I hope they win! 🤞🏽
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February 8, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I’m normally a 49ers fan, but today? GO SEAHAWKS! I hope they win! 🤞🏽
Sometimes I think students assume I’m always at my desk waiting for them to send me documents to edit or to request letters of rec that are due in a day. I don’t know if they realize I’m a human that has a life and doesn’t really like to drop everything I’m doing to do these things last minute.
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February 8, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Sometimes I think students assume I’m always at my desk waiting for them to send me documents to edit or to request letters of rec that are due in a day. I don’t know if they realize I’m a human that has a life and doesn’t really like to drop everything I’m doing to do these things last minute.
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I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
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I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
February 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Representation Matters, ESPECIALLY now. Huge shoutouts to Gelila Petros & Alex Washington (UNC PREP alumni), @drstarbird.bsky.social, Wiley, Hutch, and the entire committee! We did it!
(Yes, there’s actually a couple more Atlas projects in progress 🤪🤭🤫)
(Yes, there’s actually a couple more Atlas projects in progress 🤪🤭🤫)
I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
February 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
Index of Inspiring Black Scientists | Wiley
The Inspiring Black Scientists Index is a curated database celebrating diverse contributions to science. Join us in promoting education and collaboration.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
Last weekend, the Bronner Lab alumni, current mentees, and friends/collaborators got together at #BronnerFest2026 to celebrate science and a storied and inspirational 30 years @caltech.edu for Dr. Marianne Bronner. It was amazing and the community that she has built is 🔥! Hope to see you all soon!
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Last weekend, the Bronner Lab alumni, current mentees, and friends/collaborators got together at #BronnerFest2026 to celebrate science and a storied and inspirational 30 years @caltech.edu for Dr. Marianne Bronner. It was amazing and the community that she has built is 🔥! Hope to see you all soon!
Huge thanks to Dr. AJ Hinton, the Microscopy Society of America, and Early Career Committee for the invitation to speak in this series! My talk will kick the series off on Monday at 10:30 PT/1:30 ET with several talks over the rest of the month (first two weeks featured here)! 🔬🧬
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Huge thanks to Dr. AJ Hinton, the Microscopy Society of America, and Early Career Committee for the invitation to speak in this series! My talk will kick the series off on Monday at 10:30 PT/1:30 ET with several talks over the rest of the month (first two weeks featured here)! 🔬🧬
Please check this out! It is an awesome course that was created to help postdoctoral fellows prepare their job materials and interview skills! Lots of excellent information and guidance. The job market is hyper competitive right now so every leg up helps! 👀
#Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Please check this out! It is an awesome course that was created to help postdoctoral fellows prepare their job materials and interview skills! Lots of excellent information and guidance. The job market is hyper competitive right now so every leg up helps! 👀
This is phenomenal news and I am excited to be a faculty member in the newly renamed, UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine! 🎉 @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
UC Davis has received a $120M gift—the largest ever made to veterinary medicine—from Joan and Sanford I. Weill. Our school is now the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine, launching a bold new era with truly limitless impact for animal and human health. www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
UC Davis Receives $120M Gift, Largest Ever to Veterinary Medicine
UC Davis Receives $120M Gift, Largest Ever to Veterinary Medicine from philanthropists Joan and Sanford I. Weill.
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January 28, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This is phenomenal news and I am excited to be a faculty member in the newly renamed, UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine! 🎉 @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
Please check out these amazing women! They are fantastic scientists, committed mentors, supportive friends and honestly super stars! 🤩@bradylabs.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social
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2 First-Gen Scientists on Curiosity, Community and Discovery
Megan Dennis, associate professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, and Siobhan Brady, professor in the Department of Plant Biology and the Genome Center, are more than an just office neighbors ...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Please check out these amazing women! They are fantastic scientists, committed mentors, supportive friends and honestly super stars! 🤩@bradylabs.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social
www.ucdavis.edu/news/podcast...
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Friends, we are past the point of, “it’s too hard for me to watch, it’s too much for my mental health.” Please watch the videos. They are scary and devastating but you need to prepare yourselves because this violence won’t stay in Minnesota. My heart breaks for those who have been harmed and killed.
January 24, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Friends, we are past the point of, “it’s too hard for me to watch, it’s too much for my mental health.” Please watch the videos. They are scary and devastating but you need to prepare yourselves because this violence won’t stay in Minnesota. My heart breaks for those who have been harmed and killed.
Is anyone else having incredible angst about whether or not their labs will continue to be able to do science? I submit-revise-resubmit grants and hope upon hope something with get funded so I can continue to have a lab, but I get waves of panic and sadness over the current state of things. 😢🧬🔬
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January 22, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Is anyone else having incredible angst about whether or not their labs will continue to be able to do science? I submit-revise-resubmit grants and hope upon hope something with get funded so I can continue to have a lab, but I get waves of panic and sadness over the current state of things. 😢🧬🔬
Friends… today I drank enough caffeine to pull an all nighter in Vegas and drank almost zero water… ouch. 😖 0/10. Do not recommend.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Friends… today I drank enough caffeine to pull an all nighter in Vegas and drank almost zero water… ouch. 😖 0/10. Do not recommend.
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
January 21, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Thank you to @labonnelab.bsky.social for sharing this and fighting for science! The way things are going- I have no idea if I will ever get scientifically funding again. I will keep trying but if I’m not politically favored- is it futile? 💔
I explained the dangers of the recent politicization of grant reviews at NIH for The Hill, and also that while diversity otherwise remains a bad word, geographic diversity is somehow laudable.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Thank you to @labonnelab.bsky.social for sharing this and fighting for science! The way things are going- I have no idea if I will ever get scientifically funding again. I will keep trying but if I’m not politically favored- is it futile? 💔
Yes please for my shoulders and hips… 😩
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Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis
A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Yes please for my shoulders and hips… 😩
Anyway, none of my clothes fit so I assume someone came in over the break while I was wearing sweatpants everyday and shrunk all my jeans and dress pants. No idea how to catch the person that did this to me. 😂😭😬
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January 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Anyway, none of my clothes fit so I assume someone came in over the break while I was wearing sweatpants everyday and shrunk all my jeans and dress pants. No idea how to catch the person that did this to me. 😂😭😬
Any of my neurodevelopmental connections looking for an opportunity? The @ucdavis.bsky.social MIND Institute is hiring “Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research,” where translational is defined broadly! Please check it out! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07378
Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research, MIND Institute
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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January 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Any of my neurodevelopmental connections looking for an opportunity? The @ucdavis.bsky.social MIND Institute is hiring “Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research,” where translational is defined broadly! Please check it out! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07378