1/ Happy to share that our work with Arjun Raj is finally out: cell.com/cell-systems/f…! We use clone barcoding to identify intrinsic factors predicting successful reprogramming to pluripotency. The original thread is below, but we also wanted to highlight some new findings.

Erm, how did Figure 1 get past a peer reviewer?! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… H/T @aero_anna

#TAGC24 kicking off with some truly inspiring awardees including the worm community’s own Paul Sternberg receiving the Thomas Hunt Morgan medal. Looking forward to 4 days of great science with old and new friends!

Are you a C. elegans researcher wishing to learn cutting-edge techniques or a non C. elegans researcher wishing to get introduced in the system? Join us! Less than 10 days to register for the EMBO C. elegans course at embl.org/about/info/cou…

Drives me nuts that Peacock cuts away from the middle half of the 800 and 1500 free for commercials on their Olympic trials coverage - that is actually the part of the race where the race is often won or lost. It’s not that long, show us the whole race!

Excited to launch our cloud-based image analysis platform today at nimbusimage.org! Analyze and interact with your data, all in the browser. Follow sign-up instructions to request an account.

Felicia Peng Felicia Peng from the John Murray Lab defends on Monday!

Penn's Department of Genetics has several new tenure-track assistant professor openings. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/147616

Same cell type, same trans environment, same sequence—different expression pattern. Locking in of stochastic differences into epigenetic memory. I just think this is so cool!

New WormBook.org chapter! With Nuria Flames Lab and Richard Poole we wrote Neurogenesis in C. elegans, now in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/geneti… We discuss neuron development specifically, but do have a look if you think about acquisition of cell identity more generally

Asking for an extension to your NIH grant ESI status is easy in eRA commons. Look into it! Lots of eligible reasons to extend, including having kids.