Great times @ #IZFC2025 catching up with former undergraduate researcher extraordinaire @cameronbennett.bsky.social. Great to hear all about your exciting PhD research at @cudevbio.bsky.social!

To infishity and beyond!

My abstract for #IZFC2025 got accepted! I can’t wait to share what I’ve been working on in Madison 🐟🧠🧬

Currently locked out of my apartment building due to a power outage. -1 point for key fob entrances.

TODAY! @standupforscience.bsky.social is taking place in DC & across the U.S. to help protect the American scientific enterprise & defend science as a public good that drives social, political, & economic progress. Find your local site: buff.ly/3EWhSZM

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Cuts to federal biomedical research funding is a threat to American innovation. Stand with me to support robust NIH funding. #StandUpForScience2025 🧪

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5

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I’m so excited to join the @genetics-gsa.bsky.social Early Career Leadership Program as the co-chair of the Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee! Looking forward to the opportunity to grow as a scientist and a leader! 🧪

2024 was a brutal year for my family. Here are some thoughts as we get ready for 2025.
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There’s no better science communication practice than explaining your glowing fish brains at a family gathering to both your 90 year old grandmother and your 10 year old cousins #devbio 🧪

Question for my fellow fountain pen people: how often do you change ink colors? I have a few beautiful inks but I kind of hate the idea of my journal entries changing colors.
#fountainpens #fountainpenink

Ok it’s been fun but we gotta stop with the “A Noun Of Noun And Noun” book titles.
Let’s go back to “The Nounverber’s Daughter” if that’s what it takes.
I’ll even take “Adjective Girls” at this point

God bless Dunkin; they really are the foundation of America. I just got a 16oz iced coffee for under $3.

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or watch it, we are going back to whence we came.”
- John F. Kennedy

Not to be dramatic but being on the cape has me in my yearning era

Bookshops are missing a trick not moonlighting as matchmaking services. I would 100% go on a first date with someone who had the same favourite book as me. ‘You also read nothing but medieval history? You should date Stefan!’ 😂

End of a fantastic day exploring the communities of Martha’s Vineyard. For me, no trip is complete without visiting a bookstore, and today I managed to visit two: Edgartown Books in Edgartown and Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven. 💙📚

Not to be like everyone else in the northern hemisphere, but I think I took an awesome picture of the northern lights this week! As seen over the eel pond in Woods Hole, MA.