Our little starlet sea #anemone has a few tricks up its tentacles. This is a pretty cool spotlight on a pretty wild project. Thanks Science Magazine and Christie Wilcox for sharing our work Whitney Laboratory.

#DevMeeting23 was so much fun and chalk-full of data and opinions! Now, after a month of letting all that information percolate, I’ve settled on 3 main takeaways. But really it could be summed up in these opening remarks: “We really need to expand our repertoire.”

#ICYMI We are looking for new correspondents for the Node! Apply by 20 November: thenode.biologists.com/become-a-node-…

The Babonis Lab at Cornell University is hiring a full-time technician to start in January 2024 (or sooner). We use marine inverts to understand how novel traits arise. (And we have a confocal - eeek!) For details and to apply: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Hood coral larvae can withstand being dunked in liquid nitrogen and thawed with a laser—but scientists are still working to increase the number of corals that survive this cryopreservation process. By Brent Foster. l8r.it/g4hC

“Our atoms are no different to those in rocks and air, and yet here we are, a little knot of atoms that can walk around the planet and think about itself and others.” This is a wonderful piece of writing by @philipcball in Nautilus Magazine.

Scientists have spent years cryopreserving coral in the hopes of restoring reefs. For the first time, some unfrozen specimens have reached adulthood, Brent Foster reports for Hakai Magazine. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Speaking of #sciart, on Dec. 8 our lab is hosting #WhitneyMagnified—a grad student benefit to celebrate our science & to share our work with the community. Pretty pics (🔬+🖌️) guaranteed to delight. 🧐

#JoinOurTeam We’re seeking an innovative leader with a bold and inclusive vision for the future of #MarineBiology Whitney Laboratory! 🌊+🐢 🪼 🪸 🪱 🐟 🦠 🔬 Details to apply here ➡️ bit.ly/3um0kBe #UFJobs #UF #Hiring #NowHiring #HigherEd #TenureTrack #Professor #GoGators

❄️Winter Internship Announcement❄️ Interested in learning about sea turtle husbandry & assisting our animal care team? Applications for our Winter Cold Stun and Animal Husbandry Internship are open until Dec. 8! Details⬇️ bit.ly/3NcVfle

Be sure to check out our presenters at the #SICB2024 poster session TONIGHT 3:30–5:30PM! Swing by, say hi, talk science! P1-107 (#NMOs, Brent Foster ) P1-109 (#Ctenophores, Lucas Gutierrez) P1-110 (#Ctenophores, Natalia Padillo) P1-128 (#Bioinformatics, Joseph Ryan)

In this 'Show and tell' post, Brent Foster shows an image of a sea anemone stinging cell to introduce the paper Whitney Laboratory "Single-cell atavism reveals an ancient mechanism of cell type diversification in a sea anemone" thenode.biologists.com/tweaking-a-gen…

Uniting researchers working with unconventional experimental organisms Read this The Company of Biologists story about #DevMeeting23: biologists.com/stories/dev-me… And check out a related J Cell Science meeting 'Diversity and Evolution in Cell Biology': 📅24-27 Jun 2024 biologists.com/meetings/jcsev…

Application deadline for the new #director of #UF Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience closes this weekend! Details to apply 👉 bit.ly/Director-UF-Wh… youtu.be/ifH2xVXx9F4?si…

Finally sharing a project Brent Foster and I worked on since last summer at least! We interviewed #nonmodelorganism researchers to see why they do it, their challenges, and what they aim to achieve through their work: thenode.biologists.com/non-model-orga… the Node #theNodeCorrespondents

We’re (probably) not born to kill — so don’t blame #evolution- a book #review by Brent Foster(Brent Foster), #Lab Tech & #Science Writer at the FLORIDA, Whitney Lab on Oxford Academic's publication of Ferguson's #book …veandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/wer… #chimpanzees #biology #anthropology

New #SciArt profile: Brent Foster Apart from #ScienceWriting, one of #theNodeCorrespondents Brent Foster Whitney Laboratory also enjoys drawing and painting, and often takes inspiration from the marine invertebrates he works with: 🎨thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile…

Congratulations Justin Waletich, Gonzalo_Quiroga_Artigas & @christyschnitz for their paper, "The genome of the colonial hydroid 𝘏𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals," published in Genome Research. Link in 🧵