Time to admit that despite extensive investment and effort we’ve largely failed as a field to understand how regulatory information is encoded in DNA and there isn’t clear progress on the horizon.

今日から下田は黒船祭です

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【受講生募集!! 7/11まで】 浅虫海洋生物学教育研究センターでは夏の公開臨海実習の参加者を募集中です！ 日程は2025年8月8日〜15日です。申し込み締め切りは2025年7月11日です。 詳細は以下の浅虫センターHPをご覧ください biology.tohoku.ac.jp/lab-www/asamus…

The vast majority over discoveries are low hanging fruit when they are made. The key to scientific progress is progressively making more fruit low-hanging. One of the deep problems we have in science is that we reward the people who pick the fruit rather than the ones who lower

Interested in skeletal development? Biomineralization? Invertebrate body plans? Imaging? Then this three year postdoc Biological Sciences is for you! There are still ~2 weeks left to apply. Details are here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… and please reach out to me if you're interested!

今日はウニの2細胞期を二つの割球に切り分ける作業。細ーいガラス針を使って顕微鏡の下で手作業 下が切る前の2細胞期で上の二つが切ったあと　切った後の細胞の直径は50μmくらいですね

GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD

A question you actually give a shit about, that nobody else is working on because everyone else thinks is impossible to solve, where you have a crazy idea about how to crack it.

Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

There’s still time to submit abstracts to this conference. Looking forward to seeing people at the conference. NXR will be there to answer any questions you have and discuss opportunities to use NXR resources.

The responses I'm most invested in are the genuinely curious ones that happen in the open, constructively asking the hard questions and wondering how to get involved. Here are some of my quick thoughts in response 👇

Nice work @DarinToEvo! May prove to be a game changer for transformation marine larvae! Excited to see how it works in other species.

After a point, the same with reading papers or attending talks/conferences in your field.

Please read and share this opinion piece written by Carole LaBonne (our fellow Xenopus researcher) published in STAT in support for animal models in biomedical research. statnews.com/2025/05/19/ani… #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

After over a year of incubating, I’m excited to share a new project inspired by a ~decade of in vivo drug discovery experience 🧬 Artemis is a Focused Research Organization (FRO) to establish alternative, naturally physiologically human-like animal species for complex disease

UC San Diego Assistant Professor Matthew Lovett-Barron of the Department of Neurobiology has been selected to receive a 2025 McKnight Foundation Scholar Award, one of the most prestigious awards for junior neuroscience faculty members. go.ucsd.edu/3ZRbFpM

Thrilled to be part of this amazing study powered by Nicholas Bellono and Corey Allard ! Grateful for the chance to contribute

A nice paper that used X. laevis from the NXR!

I am dumbstruck by labs that will spend millions on molecular biology reagents, sequencing services, and fancy microscopes, while refusing to spend a red cent on husbandry.