If you swung by our Molecular Biosciences trivia booth, hope you enjoyed the trivia and the stickers are now proudly displayed — happy Rutgers Day! @sayoni.bsky.social

Make bold predictions and then test them. This is the true legacy of Karl Popper, who argued that the strength of an idea lies in its ability to make surprising predictions; ones that, if shown to be wrong, would falsify it.

A fish specialist position in Nakamura lab is still open. Great opportunity to learn fish husbandry, genetics, and evodevo with zebrafish, skates, and some other unique fish. Thanks RT!!

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

As Elaina is successfully moving to a master school of E&E this spring, we are looking for a fish specialist/lab tech. If you are interested in this position, contact me. Thank you for spreading the word!! nakamuralab.com @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social
#Teamfish #evodevo

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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"This is a moment to unite."

Hi folks, I'm excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. 🧪 #MEvoSky

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The only acceptable moon lore 🥺 P.S. this is my most treasured ghibli movie

Power Plants of a Parrotfish! The jaw muscles and pectoral muscles in parrotfishes are deep red, rich with myoglobin, compared to white body muscle above the eye and pelvic fin. Thinking about this for a fun paper. 🐟🦑🌎🧪#Biomechanics #Feeding #Locomotion

"Despite the frequently made assumption that causation flows only upward from the micro- to the macrolevel, many complex systems exhibit bidirectional cross-scale causation or “scale entwinement.” We present an approach for predicting the dynamic behavior of such systems"

Where did our neck muscles come from?🧪
Here's our #evodevo #devbio deep dive feat. #zebrafish, mouse, axolotls, & more!

Led by Eglantine Heude & Tajbakhsh lab at Pasteur, the team at National Museum of Natural History France, & lab alumni Karin Prummel & Rob Lalonde.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Which one are you?
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar

During thanksgiving, I sometimes wish that I was a slingjaw wrasse. They can extend their jaws 1/3 of their entire body length. Perfect for getting seconds without standing up. We printed one today from a specimen we collected in Okinawa

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Finding a personal niche in science, where I can be an expert, is more challenging than I expected.

The work to defend the rights of women and immigrants and trans people, to preserve basic democratic and economic and international institutions, and to protect our planet - all just became immeasurably harder and more exhausting. Still very much worth it, though. Let's keep going.

Finally made the transition from X. Gotta say, feels lot cleaner here somehow