Rachel Roberts-Galbraith
@awormwelcome.bsky.social
Planarians in the Peach State. UGA. Biologist, public servant, & mom. Interests: regeneration, development, neurobio, books, printmaking, spiders, & chocolate. Opinions my own. (She/Her)
Lab website: robertsgalbraithlab.org
Lab website: robertsgalbraithlab.org
Last CBIO retreat and departmental presentation (until defense) for Taylor! Bittersweet! @taylormlanier.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Last CBIO retreat and departmental presentation (until defense) for Taylor! Bittersweet! @taylormlanier.bsky.social
Plus a very fast zebra swallowtail, variegated fritillary with a photobombing clearwing moth, and purple passionflower (one of my favorites). We also had a double rainbow yesterday evening!
July 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Plus a very fast zebra swallowtail, variegated fritillary with a photobombing clearwing moth, and purple passionflower (one of my favorites). We also had a double rainbow yesterday evening!
Spicebush swallowtail for our 3rd challenging swallowtail ID of the week!
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Spicebush swallowtail for our 3rd challenging swallowtail ID of the week!
Easier to ID the lighter eastern tiger swallowtail (male I think?) as well as a Monarch and Great Spangled Fritillary!
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Easier to ID the lighter eastern tiger swallowtail (male I think?) as well as a Monarch and Great Spangled Fritillary!
Up at the parents’ farm for Poppy/Deedee camp (M) and a pre-semester meditative/writing trip (me). Today I spent a while making sure I can tell apart pipevine swallowtails and dark female eastern tiger swallowtails.
July 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Up at the parents’ farm for Poppy/Deedee camp (M) and a pre-semester meditative/writing trip (me). Today I spent a while making sure I can tell apart pipevine swallowtails and dark female eastern tiger swallowtails.
I couldn’t even fit all of my lizard pictures in one post. The last one is of a whiptail lizard I think Ameiva. Anyway, this is only a sampling of my camera roll!!! 🦎
June 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I couldn’t even fit all of my lizard pictures in one post. The last one is of a whiptail lizard I think Ameiva. Anyway, this is only a sampling of my camera roll!!! 🦎
To @dbmenke.bsky.social and other lizard colleagues, look what you have done. (Anolis pictures from PR.)
June 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
To @dbmenke.bsky.social and other lizard colleagues, look what you have done. (Anolis pictures from PR.)
The highlight of my @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting was attending with post-bacc student Saraí Rivera, who is a brilliant researcher with unlimited potential. Our post-bacc program was lost to NIH cuts and it has been heartbreaking, since our outcomes and participants have been so very extraordinary.
June 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The highlight of my @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting was attending with post-bacc student Saraí Rivera, who is a brilliant researcher with unlimited potential. Our post-bacc program was lost to NIH cuts and it has been heartbreaking, since our outcomes and participants have been so very extraordinary.
Had a great trip to Puerto Rico with my family before the SDB meeting last week! PR was beautiful and it was so special to explore it with my favorite people!!
June 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Had a great trip to Puerto Rico with my family before the SDB meeting last week! PR was beautiful and it was so special to explore it with my favorite people!!
If you see this post a flower. 🌵
I rescued a piece of this Eastern Pineland Prickly Pear (Georgia’s only native cactus) a few years ago and this year she had dozens of blooms! 🥰
I rescued a piece of this Eastern Pineland Prickly Pear (Georgia’s only native cactus) a few years ago and this year she had dozens of blooms! 🥰
June 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you see this post a flower. 🌵
I rescued a piece of this Eastern Pineland Prickly Pear (Georgia’s only native cactus) a few years ago and this year she had dozens of blooms! 🥰
I rescued a piece of this Eastern Pineland Prickly Pear (Georgia’s only native cactus) a few years ago and this year she had dozens of blooms! 🥰
So much more fun and exciting to see Match Day when you have lab alums matching and learning about the next chapter in their journeys!! Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr. Oke on your match to Orlando Health Orthopedic Surgery!
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
So much more fun and exciting to see Match Day when you have lab alums matching and learning about the next chapter in their journeys!! Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr. Oke on your match to Orlando Health Orthopedic Surgery!
March 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Today’s the day, Georgia!
March 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today’s the day, Georgia!
Science Olympiads are a hoot if you have never been to one! I’m spending the day with a bunch of middle schoolers who are interested in science (judging for physiology event). It is helping my heart to see these kids’ excitement and interest. ❤️🧬
March 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Science Olympiads are a hoot if you have never been to one! I’m spending the day with a bunch of middle schoolers who are interested in science (judging for physiology event). It is helping my heart to see these kids’ excitement and interest. ❤️🧬
So very, incredibly proud to have been a McKnight Scholar and so grateful to be connected to a Foundation that values inclusion of people who are so precious to me. (This email made me cry.)
February 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So very, incredibly proud to have been a McKnight Scholar and so grateful to be connected to a Foundation that values inclusion of people who are so precious to me. (This email made me cry.)
Spent time in community with friends who understand this weekend. Recharged and ready to go.
February 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Spent time in community with friends who understand this weekend. Recharged and ready to go.
M is having a Black History Month theme week at school and today she dressed as Dr. Jane Hinton, one of the first Black women who earned a DVM. Dr. Hinton practiced as a veterinarian and also invented Mueller-Hinton agar used in antibiotic resistance testing. ❤️
February 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
M is having a Black History Month theme week at school and today she dressed as Dr. Jane Hinton, one of the first Black women who earned a DVM. Dr. Hinton practiced as a veterinarian and also invented Mueller-Hinton agar used in antibiotic resistance testing. ❤️
I plan to start using this word in writing feedback immediately.
January 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I plan to start using this word in writing feedback immediately.
Word of the day yesterday was weltschmerz, etymology is from German words for “world” and “pain.”
January 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Word of the day yesterday was weltschmerz, etymology is from German words for “world” and “pain.”
I got a “surprise delivery” from my sweetie.. new art for my office!
January 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I got a “surprise delivery” from my sweetie.. new art for my office!
Snow day in Athens. ❄️
January 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Snow day in Athens. ❄️
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I love IDP meetings - the conversations are some of the hardest and best mentoring conversations of the year. We always complete IDPs in January and it has come to be one of my favorite parts of ringing in a new year. ❤️ #PlanningMeetings #IndividualDevPlans
January 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I love IDP meetings - the conversations are some of the hardest and best mentoring conversations of the year. We always complete IDPs in January and it has come to be one of my favorite parts of ringing in a new year. ❤️ #PlanningMeetings #IndividualDevPlans
New semester and new class. So excited for a small-class format and a focus on stem cell biology. Not syllabustering (thank you #CTL_UGA!)… we were learning and discussing out of the gate. Great first day!
January 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New semester and new class. So excited for a small-class format and a focus on stem cell biology. Not syllabustering (thank you #CTL_UGA!)… we were learning and discussing out of the gate. Great first day!
It’s holiday cactus blooming time around here! 🤩
December 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM
It’s holiday cactus blooming time around here! 🤩