Taylor Medwig-Kinney, Ph.D.
@tmedwigkinney.bsky.social
Postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill • American Cancer Society, L’Oréal FWIS, & Leading Edge Fellow • Stony Brook University alum • Passionate about cell & developmental biology, C. elegans, science communication, & outreach • tmedwigkinney.com
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To help support early career scientists and their research, AWIS is offering microgrants (up to $5,000) to researchers who have lost federal funding. Applications are due by December 15. Learn more. https://awis.org/awis-bridge-grant-program/
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
To help support early career scientists and their research, AWIS is offering microgrants (up to $5,000) to researchers who have lost federal funding. Applications are due by December 15. Learn more. https://awis.org/awis-bridge-grant-program/
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
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The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
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Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
#Undergraduates #Postbacs @socdevbio.bsky.social is hosting a webinar Get Into Grad School September 21 at 3pm ET. Learn about doctoral programs, the key elements of a compelling grad school application, and the interview process. Register: bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG
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🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday
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Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS
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Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe.
In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
August 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe.
In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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🎓 Planning to apply to STEM graduate programs?
Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET.
Gain key insights on:
✅ Grad school application timeline
✅ How to choose the right program
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-...
Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET.
Gain key insights on:
✅ Grad school application timeline
✅ How to choose the right program
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-...
August 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🎓 Planning to apply to STEM graduate programs?
Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET.
Gain key insights on:
✅ Grad school application timeline
✅ How to choose the right program
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-...
Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET.
Gain key insights on:
✅ Grad school application timeline
✅ How to choose the right program
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-...
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Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)!
August 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Congratulations to the @socdevbio.bsky.social 2025 West Coast Regional Meeting postdoc poster winners (left to right): 1st place- Celja Uebel (Villeneuve lab), 2nd place- Kira Heikes (Munjal lab), honorable mention- Hailey Edward's (Yelon lab)!
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🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
August 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🔥my latest paper from @odedrechavi.bsky.social lab🔥
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
we found small RNAs act across tissues to regulate fertlity in C. elegans 🪱. Surprisingly, we also found that O2-sensing neurons inhibit germline maintenance. Follow along our journey👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669182v1
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The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans.
Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
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August 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The funds are approved! We're hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans.
Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!
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✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty
August 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty
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Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.
Really just had something like this feeling this afternoon. It’s the high that keeps you coming back for more
August 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Microscopy most especially. To be the first human to ever lay eyes on something. What a feeling.
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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.
🧪 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/...
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
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.
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I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱
Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."
Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."
June 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I always love #worm25 CGC updates! But spread this impt reminder (*especially* in this funding climate): CREDIT THE CGC on papers!🪱
Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."
Include this to keep the CGC around forever: "Some strains were provided by the CGC, which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (P40 OD010440)."
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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! 🙌
June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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! 🙌
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Want to support us? Tell the NIH to (at least) reinstate ESI status to new PIs whose grants were withdrawn. Let your representative know that meritious research that would move us forward is being defunded. Tell your peers about this! Raise awareness. Please help us! 12/12
May 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Want to support us? Tell the NIH to (at least) reinstate ESI status to new PIs whose grants were withdrawn. Let your representative know that meritious research that would move us forward is being defunded. Tell your peers about this! Raise awareness. Please help us! 12/12
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Check out SDB President Carole LaBonne's op-ed on how basic science is the engine that drives transformative discoveries. 'Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research' bit.ly/4lhm2Mv
Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research
“If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes Carole LaBonne of Northwestern.
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April 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Check out SDB President Carole LaBonne's op-ed on how basic science is the engine that drives transformative discoveries. 'Why we study shrimp on treadmills: The case for curiosity-driven research' bit.ly/4lhm2Mv
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I am excited to share that the project that taught me how to do science is now published at Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org.
Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social, Taylor Medwig-Kinney @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social, & colleagues from the Goldstein lab found that a population of Arp2/3 recruited to where cells touch each other makes an unexpected contribution to apical constriction rupress.org/jcb/article/...
March 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I am excited to share that the project that taught me how to do science is now published at Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org.
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Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social, Taylor Medwig-Kinney @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social, & colleagues from the Goldstein lab found that a population of Arp2/3 recruited to where cells touch each other makes an unexpected contribution to apical constriction rupress.org/jcb/article/...
March 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Pu Zhang @puzhang.bsky.social, Taylor Medwig-Kinney @tmedwigkinney.bsky.social, & colleagues from the Goldstein lab found that a population of Arp2/3 recruited to where cells touch each other makes an unexpected contribution to apical constriction rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team.
First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759
First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759
February 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team.
First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759
First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759
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Women make up only 35% of STEM graduates worldwide.
UNESCO encourages more women and girls to get involved in science education.
On #WomenInScience Day, let's amplify their voices!
www.unesco.org/en/days/wome...
UNESCO encourages more women and girls to get involved in science education.
On #WomenInScience Day, let's amplify their voices!
www.unesco.org/en/days/wome...
February 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Women make up only 35% of STEM graduates worldwide.
UNESCO encourages more women and girls to get involved in science education.
On #WomenInScience Day, let's amplify their voices!
www.unesco.org/en/days/wome...
UNESCO encourages more women and girls to get involved in science education.
On #WomenInScience Day, let's amplify their voices!
www.unesco.org/en/days/wome...
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Look up the impact of NIH funding in your state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Look up the impact of NIH funding in your state: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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A depressing question with a lot of great answers. We need #devbio to understand birth defects, cancer, stem cell biology (and the resultant therapeutics) and so much more. And, frankly, because it's just amazing how a single cell can make a complex organism.
#devbio what arguments do you use when your colleagues suggest devbio isn't useful anymore and shouldn't be required in coursework?
February 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A depressing question with a lot of great answers. We need #devbio to understand birth defects, cancer, stem cell biology (and the resultant therapeutics) and so much more. And, frankly, because it's just amazing how a single cell can make a complex organism.
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please join us and be a mentor for one of the greatest model organism communities! sign up now and maybe you can meet your mentee at #Worm25 🥰
One of the great things about working in worms is that we have a caring community.
But community doesn't just happen, we make it.
At the C. elegans Mentor Match program, we are helping build mentorship relationships across and within career stages.
Please sign up to be a mentor!
But community doesn't just happen, we make it.
At the C. elegans Mentor Match program, we are helping build mentorship relationships across and within career stages.
Please sign up to be a mentor!
Mentor sign-up for the 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match program
Thanks for volunteering to be a Mentor! The 2025 C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to postdocs and faculty at any career stage. This survey collects information to help the committee identify...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
please join us and be a mentor for one of the greatest model organism communities! sign up now and maybe you can meet your mentee at #Worm25 🥰