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Swathi Arur
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Professor. Studies the impact of environmental cues and small RNA pathways on germ cell development and cancer metastasis. Editor @Development, Secretary @GeneticsSocAmer. Views are my own.
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dev-journal.bsky.social
Development Editor Peter Rugg-Gunn will be attending the upcoming Westlake x Nature Stem Cell 2025 conference, 'Stem cells across the lifespan Embryogenesis | Aging | Therapy,' which starts next week in Hangzhou, China.

Speak to Peter about your next Development paper.
Peter Rugg-Gunn Editor, Development Babraham Institute, UK "Development publishes important, interesting and high-quality papers, as well as a community-centred approach, preprint-friendly policies and a not-for-proft model, which invests back into community support for early-career scientists, etc." Key topics: Early embryogenesis, stem cells, cell fate control and differentiation, chromatin and epigenetics.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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genetics-gsa.bsky.social
🌿 Join us next week, on November 18, at 2 p.m. EST, for a special seminar honoring 2025 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Joanne Chory. Jennifer Nemhauser reflects on her mentor’s legacy—from plant photobiology to climate solutions.
Register now: buff.ly/oArHihE
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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biyolokum.bsky.social
Choose Development! An amazing program for undergrads to do research in the summer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Do...
Introduction to SDB Choose Development! - 2026
YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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stuartcantrill.com
Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪
A black & white picture of Lise Meitner sat on a chair while holding a book. There is a bookcase in the background A black & white picture of Marie Curie
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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wbderry.bsky.social
Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
SCIENTIST – Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology Program - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children - Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program | 12848200
Discovery-based and/or translational research using model organism genetics and/or stem cell and organoid platforms to study paediatric cancer.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
The UNC Department of Biology is seeking a Director of Biology Teaching Labs, a key leadership role overseeing our undergraduate laboratory program. 1/n
Learn more and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...
Director of Biology Teaching Labs
The Director of Biology Teaching Labs provides leadership and direction in the management of the Biology Department's undergraduate laboratories and will be responsible for the undergraduate laborator...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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mollyschumer.bsky.social
Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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rogerslabucd.bsky.social
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular, cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health and disease. The candidate should have an active research program that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of- the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research for students, trainees, and the community across various life and professional experiences. • Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in physiology or a related field. • Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or functional anatomy to professional or graduate students. • Experience with grant writing. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse community. Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Sunrise in Davis CA
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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cruk-mi.bsky.social
We have exciting research projects led by group leaders including @jloke1.bsky.social, @giampazolias.bsky.social, @turajliclab.bsky.social, @sylvaindelaunay.bsky.social and @santiagozelenay.bsky.social

See full details of all #PhD opportunities here:
www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/phd-student-...
PhD Student Recruitment 2026 - OPEN | CRUK Manchester Institute
We are pleased to announce seven exciting postgraduate opportunities within the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute for new PhD Students to start in 2026
www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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pracheeac.bsky.social
We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look!

www.arcadiascience.com/careers
Careers | Arcadia Science
Evolve with Arcadia.
www.arcadiascience.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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dev-journal.bsky.social
Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot

A Perspective by @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social, @kaliceaphd.bsky.social, Jamy Peng, @spiraldoc.bsky.social & @rogerslabucd.bsky.social on how to combat scientific misinformation

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Picture of Perspective title and authors from article PDF
October 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social
Looking to start your own lab? 🧬🧪 The Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI) is offering group leader positions in RNA biology, RNA medicine & RNA technology. Apply by October 31 at www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...
E15 Groups
The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Researchopens a call for
www.helmholtz-hiri.de
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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trayon.bsky.social
Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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flybase.bsky.social
There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us.
#FlyBase #Drosophila
FlyBase Update – October 2025 The termination of the NIH/NHGRI FlyBase grant has placed the long-term sustainability of FlyBase at risk. However, thanks to the generous support of several key individuals and institutions, we are pleased to announce that FlyBase will remain operational through the coming year. We extend our deepest gratitude to Yukiko Yamashita, Cassandra Extavour, Hugo Bellen, Thom Kaufman, the Genetics Society of America / Drosophila Board, the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center, an anonymous donor and the Wellcome Trust. We are especially thankful for a generous gift from Seemay Chou, Jed McCaleb, and The Navigation Fund. We also greatly appreciate the continued support from the broader Drosophila community – your donations and service fees have been vital in helping us stay afloat. Special thanks also go to Jessica Manning for her tireless administrative work at Harvard, to Ruth Lehmann, Hugo Bellen, and Paul Sternberg for advice and efforts, and to the Board of the European Drosophila Society for all their efforts. Sadly, we must also share that several long-standing FlyBase team members have recently moved on. We are immensely grateful to Susan Russo-Gelbart, Lynn Crosby, Gil dos Santos, Kris Broll, Victoria Jenkins, and TyAnna Lovato for their many years of dedicated service and contributions to FlyBase. Looking ahead, ensuring FlyBase’s sustainability beyond the next year – and successfully integrating with the Alliance – will require new funding sources. We kindly ask for your continued support: • European labs: Please consider contributing to the Cambridge, U.K. FlyBase group • U.S. and other non-European labs: Please consider contributing to the U.S. FlyBase groups • Both U.K. and U.S. FlyBase are working diligently to establish an invoicing system. We appreciate your continued patience. For more information on how to support us, please visit: Contribute to FlyBase wiki page https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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crick.ac.uk
Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.

Apply by 05 November 2025

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
PhD students
Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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gotworms.bsky.social
Great opportunity and submissions are a little down so nominate your outstanding recent graduate, worm peeps!
barrlab.bsky.social Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · Sep 30
Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans
genetics-gsa.bsky.social Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · Sep 30
📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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umakarma.bsky.social
PLEASE NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR ACADEMIC AWARDS.

And ask friends to nominate you. And apply again next year if you don't get it.

I've been on a handful of committees that can give people things. A frequent complaint is that we can't give great people recognition if we don't "see" them in the pool.
jinxungoh.bsky.social Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Sep 29
When I was a younger faculty, I kept wavering on whether I should apply for the Rising Star every year. And then when I finally worked up the courage to apply, I was no longer eligible. Lesson here is that you should not miss your shot and just apply! Don’t pray for someone to secretly nominate you!
psychscience.bsky.social Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Sep 29
This designation recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. #AcademicSky

Nominate a colleague to be an APS Rising Star by October 1!
www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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lewislab.bsky.social
Very excited to announce that our department is now accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Cell Biology: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Come join our wonderful department!
Assistant Professor Cell Biology
Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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goyallab.bsky.social
**POSTDOC POSITION** My lab (www.goyallab.org) at Northwestern and CZ Biohub Chicago looking for a postdoctoc in quantitative biology. We work on a range of topics, including single-cell cancer plasticity, modeling single-cell perturbations, theory, and stem-embryo models. contact via email. Pls RT
Goyal Lab
www.goyallab.org
September 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social
The Department of Cell & Systems Biology at University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Animal Morphogenesis.
#CellBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #mechanobiology #TissueMorphogenesis
#SystemsBiology

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis
Assistant Professor - Animal Morphogenesis
jobs.utoronto.ca
September 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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genetics-gsa.bsky.social
🚨 Just over one week left! Apply for GSA’s Peer Review Training Program by Sept 30.

Gain hands-on experience, learn what editors look for, & build skills to boost your research career.

🔗 buff.ly/MHmDxEF
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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mdgarfinkel.bsky.social
T-minus 14 days for registration opening for the Annual #Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago next March.

Looking forward to seeing all our meeting support staff from @genetics-gsa.bsky.social . Ditto for our valued curators @flybase.bsky.social .

#genetics

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Homepage - 67th Annual Drosophila Research Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM