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holy guacamole it's already August?

For neuroscience PhDs with a strong interest in teaching and mentoring: MIT is hiring a scientific program manager to support activities around a new NIH neuroscience PhD training grant. Salary range $91k - $129k #NeuroJobs careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

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Love this question! I have wanted to study it for C. elegans amphid dendrite diameters. Do the diameters increase as the dendrites double in length across larval development? What about in mutants with short heads? I thought it would be too tricky to measure but this paper gives me hope!

The NIH Data Book has a lot of interesting, well, data. There are a little under 100k US biomedical graduate students, ~38k men and 57k women. When I started grad school in 1997, there were about half as many students, and slightly more men than women (26k, 23k). report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/...

Reviewer #2:

"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Award-winning biologist Connie Cepko set to retire  — Harvard GazetteAfter decades of advancing work on vision-threatening disease, she passes the torch to scientific successors.news.harvard.edu

Clever approach from @astavoe.bsky.social for those pesky lines that were integrated with Rol -- edit them back to nonRol! I wonder what else we could build from all the existing integrated arrays. Switch colors?

well put! "...while Development's IF is modest, researchers in our field trust papers published in our journal as interesting, valuable and robust science that stands the test of time... It is our Academic Editors and the Development name that define our standards, not a number."

I'm glad @carlbergstrom.com posted this. I received one today, and a couple in the last few months, and was wondering if others were receiving them and how they were responding. Overall I've felt like I'd rather risk wasting my time than risk ignoring someone who's genuinely curious.

one of the most Drosophila titles ever

oh come on this is totally unfair. I'm sure Gaby's brain is bigger than a poppy seed.

Interview with Irina Kolotuev, whose abilities we benefit from as collaborators (4 papers & 1 preprint so far!) "EM... requires patience, attention to detail and meticulousness [as do] my hobbies (embroidery, miniature painting, model building)... experiments feel like an extension of playing."

Not sure what they think buzzwords like "impact beyond the institution" mean but I received a WPI packet with a 14-page document titled "external impact" and it is all citation metrics and journal impact factors -- this is NOT a step forward in scholarly assessment of scientific contributions.

Fun read! Another classic example is Cynthia Kenyon's discovery that loss of the insulin receptor DAF-2 extends lifespan in C. elegans, which came out of the control for a clever mutant screen in which progeny of single F2s are sent into dauer with daf-2(ts) to track lifespan of the parent.

Congratulations to my much better half!

This should be put up on the Sphere during the @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting in Las Vegas!

Twice now, I have emailed Percival Scientific about minor issues with our 15-year-old incubator and, both times, they replied within hours with technical documents on how to fix it myself. So good when companies empower customers to maintain and repair equipment ourselves! This is the way.

good thread of replies to honest question