What are HOX genes doing in planaria? Our most recent preprint aims to shed some light on this puzzle Before diving in, a brief history of past efforts to understand HOX genes in planaria is warranted biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Stowers Institute @HHMINEWS bioRxiv

Emotional flow of science: Failed experiment —>😢 it didn’t work —>😡 at the wasted time —>😓 the project is doomed —>🤔 new ideas to optimize —>🤩 for the next expriment! Great scientists still have many failed experiments but they can move from 😥 —> 🤩 very quickly!

Don’t know who created this but should be shared with any PhD student/mentee Jen Heemstra

Trying to figure out where my experiment went wrong x.com/Skeeter696969/…

2020: Exhausted after I finish work. 2021: Exhausted before I start work.

IMPRESSIVE. this will be international news. This is the National Palace in Mexico City, home of the president. The feminist movement has projected "Femicide Mexico", "A rapist will not be governor" and "Legal abortion NOW". This is what we are going through. #8M2021

“It underscores the fact that still in the 21st century, we truly do not know what is possible in biology...” ⁦Science Magazine⁩ ⁦Current Biology⁩ ⁦Stowers Institute⁩ sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/s…

me as an undergrad: bouncing between 5 classes, 12 extracurriculars, and lab while still managing to have a robust social life me as a grad student: what do you MEAN i have to take one class???? when will i go into lab?????

Sick of Zooms, webinars & remote meetings, really ...

Science is cool but academia is not

Meanwhile, inside the box, Schrödinger's cat plans its revenge.

i want to be a bookstore cat in my next life

🔥🔥🔥🔥Developmental genetics of color pattern establishment in cats 😸🐱🐈🐈‍⬛😸🐱🐈🐈‍⬛😸 nature.com/articles/s4146…

To review such a magnificent paper...

Science 99% of the time

"Nunca te rindas, futura científica"

"..You have the right to be angry sometimes" - Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson who first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous and fiercely independent and partly based on the author herself. #InternationalWomensDay

Estudiantes y egresados de la LCG en el simposio de #40aniversario del CCG CCG UNAM Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui Selene FeRNAndez @paleogenomics Agus BAC y más

I am really happy to see our review on #condensates finally out at The Plant Cell Big thanks to all coauthors for the input and contribution including Alisdair F Fernie, P. Bozhkov PanosMoschou (PM) Monika Chodasiewicz @bti_skirycz and Jorge Solis 🎉🎉 👇🏼 academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…