Doug Menke

Thrilled to be featured on the cover of @devdynamics.bsky.social

highlighting our 2 anole studies published:

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
&
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks so much @thomsanger.bsky.social for hosting me when I took this image!

Now out: The new ENCODE registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements (🐭/👶)

Major consortium effort, led by @moorejille.bsky.social - stay tuned for her "meme-torial"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov

Hivemind: has anyone had a response from #NCBI about submissions started prior to the government shutdown?

Five things to know about NSF’s new rules on merit review Fewer outsiders, less feedback, and an uncertain fate for a new science board report

As you celebrate the holidays, here are 10 things to know about the dramatic changes to how NSF does business. This story looks at merit review. The second part will explain the significance of NSF's new structure. www.science.org/content/arti...

Not that long ago, in vivo mouse enhancer design was a dream. Today, it's a reality! Using transfer deep learning to design de novo synthetic embryonic enhancers active in the heart, limb, and CNS. Great collab with @alex-stark.bsky.social lab! @ucibiosci.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social

Careers | Arcadia Science Evolve with Arcadia.

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

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?!

Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️

[Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ]

(1/n)

As Editor’s Choice winner of the MBL Embryology course image competition, Arthur Boutillon’s image (‘Embryonic eye of Anole lizard’) features on this cover of Development.

Learn more about Arthur and his work in the interview now available on the Node ⬇️👀
thenode.biologists.com/interview-wi...

To @dbmenke.bsky.social and other lizard colleagues, look what you have done. (Anolis pictures from PR.)

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

One of the reasons I love this piece is that, in clearly showing why the administration’s attacks on medical research funding are so devastating, it also makes one of the clearest cases for why that funding has always mattered. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves

Vaccine scientists and medical leaders have announced they are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government. scim.ag/3ES9r1Q

Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...

Together with fellow @biologists.bsky.social EiCs we've written about the unprecedented cuts & policy changes to research in the US

We stand with our US colleagues during this challenging time

Science transcends borders—setbacks in one nation affect us all

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) Sign-up/Contact Form The Open Consortium of Squamate Genomics (OCSG) is a new global initiative (2024) with an overarching goal of increasing both quality and quantity of lizard and snake genomic resources, as well as inc...

🐍 Do you talk about reptiles with strangers🦎

🧬 Do you lay awake thinking about N50 scores? Close your eyes and see Manhattan plots?🧬

Well, have I got the answer for you. Come check out the Open Consortium for Squamate Genomics (OCSG - that’s a mouthful).

Sign up here:
forms.gle/TTmTwAMUqzWJ...

Anole Annals Your source for the latest on Anolis lizards.

Anole Annals is now on bluesky! Follow us (and check out our blog anoleannals.org) for all anole research, news, and more!

Thanks, Axel!

Has anyone had success with any of the Cas9 fusions to promote HDR efficiency?

I want to share a #datahound analysis I have been working on for some time with this newly forming community.

The NIH Modular Cap: A Once-Sensible Policy Destroyed by Active Inaction

1/n

Welcome to our Bluesky account. With so many of our community members now present on Bluesky, we felt it was the right time to join. We will use this account to bring you news from the Company, our journals and our community sites.

Could you add me to the list? Thx!

Reminder for newcomers that bioRxiv has Bluesky accounts in every subject category - great way to keep up (please re-skeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Here is a link to my developmental biology starter pack. Please add and follow.

go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn

Photo of a green lizard, a green tree monitor, hanging from its front limbs against a black background. The text, “hang in there” is in the bottom left corner.

Hang in there!
#Herpetology

Hard to beat baby knight anoles (Anolis equestris) - they'll lose these white stripes down their body as they grow into adults

🦎🦎🦎

Please share broadly! We (Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto) are looking for a new faculty member! Deadline Dec 19. Those working on model organisms and using genomics, computational and systems approaches are strongly encouraged to apply! Reach out w/ Qs!

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Great list! I hope everyone on it shares with their colleagues the fact that there are THREE Asst Professor openings in Plant Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill this year, two in Plant Molecular Biology viewed broadly & one in Plant Evolution-review will begin soon
www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002229/...

Baby saying "The ability to self-assemble tissues and organs is truly remarkable

The ability of the animal body to self-assemble based on the information encoded in our genomes is one of the most remarkable miracles of the living world. We now take for granted the idea that shared cellular machinery mediates this and read textbooks laying things out in molecular detail. 1/n 🧪

Anolis carolinensis was also the first reptile to have its genome assembled.

An illustration of some cartoon fish and their varying sex-determining genes (SDGs). Header test says, "Strangely, fish have a variety of different SDGs rather than a single gene, like in all mammals or in all birds." The text on the bottom right continues, "But sometimes, even closely related fish have different SDGs like these three ricefishes." The illustrated fish species and their associated sex-determining genes (SDMs) include: Striped catfish & amhr2; Northern pike & amh; Herring & bmpr1b; rainbow trout & irf9; Mexican blind cavefish & gdf6; Greater amberjack & hsd17b1; Senegalese sole & fshr; Japanese ricefish & dmy; Luzon ricefish & gsdf; and Indian ricefish & sox3.

This short graphic novel about Fish Sex Determination from Sophia Breslin, John Postlethwait, & Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social is AMAZING!
blogs.uoregon.edu/fishsexdeter...
🧪🐠🧬

I’m excited for the upcoming publication of our paper summarizing the lessons learned from seven years of specimen digitization. The oVert project has produced tens of thousands of datasets and is changing the way people view and use collections.