there's the woolly mice but also the assertion that going from woolly mice to genetically edited large mammals with one of the longest gestation times on earth will take like a year 😭

NAS Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Scicomm are open now! Any work published in 2024 is eligible:
www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel...
The application's straightforward and can be done in a day (ask me how I know 🫠...but actually feel free to ask me about applying!) 1/2

she's got to learn that cardboard is a cycle 😌 the cardboard arriveth and the cardboard goeth away (or they start demanding permanent box installations...)

Cat woke up in the middle of an interview but stayed surprisingly quiet...only to start agitating for a treat the MOMENT it was over...I'm being cat racketeered

New ✨open to work✨ intro post! I always get stuck on resumes/cover letters so I'm letting my lungfishsona do it instead. I'm mostly freelancing now, but I'm on the lookout for contract/part-time work, or the right full-time remote role! P.S. Help me feed my cat, she gets hangry

The intro of my Ph.D. thesis about regeneration in the animal kingdom (and my accompanying hand-drawn figures lol) got published in Developmental Biology!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Acquired a Surprise Cat, her name is Rya! She's taken over my whole life and is the reason I've spent the past 2 weeks hyperfixating on 1) tapeworms and 2) the creep of wellness/diet culture into pet food

Threw myself in an all-consuming endeavor for the last couple of weeks (Unexpected Cat)