Apparently it’s both postdoc appreciation week AND bisexual awareness week. With such an an auspicious congruence, all my experimenting better work beautifully.

Me when I think I’ve timed my experiments perfectly but, for some reason, *this* cross is taking an extra 3 days to come out:

A gorgeous resource. I can’t wait for someone to find what drives adoption of each of the identified heterogeneous stem cell fates. Congrats to all authors!!

A true highlight of #TAGC24 : running into Tamara Davis, my genetics professor, PI, and ultimate role model at @BrynMawrCollege . If I am a geneticist at all, it is thanks to her.

#TAGC24 ! Have you ever wondered how stem cells give their daughters everything they need to replace their mothers - but keep them from doing so until necessary? Come by my talk during Friday afternoon’s Dev Genetics session to chat all about it.

I'm excited to share the preprint of my final postdoc work! We surprisingly found that the insulin receptor and Tor dynamically regulate the germline expression of the R2 retrotransposon to control Drosophila rDNA maintenance. https://t.co/2g70HSFCmT

As a biorxiv paper, I referred to this as my “emotional support preprint” - I would reference it constantly. As a published work, it’s an even more beautiful demonstration of differential morphogen effects across a diffusion gradient. Congrats to Mayu and all authors!

Come find me at ASCB #cellbio2023 ! I’ll be the one drinking out of the @Dev_journal water bottle like the interdisciplinary traitor who loves free conference swag that I am 😆

So hype for this gorgeous gonad from @JaclynFingerhut to represent the @WhiteheadInst.

And first author @J0Nelson is currently hiring a technician for his new lab! I have nothing but the highest recommendation for him as a mentor, and all interested candidates should apply.

As so much of my work is converging on "are special stem cells that special, really?", it's so wonderful to read a paper that beautifully explains *why* asymmetric division and other stem cell behaviors really, truly, are special.

Wonderful work with textbook genetics! Elegantly shows why orthogonal approaches are crucial w/ respect to functional genetics. From an evolutionary perspective it is paramount to implement stringent methods to test the essentiality of new genes!

It was so fun designing a new undergraduate seminar on cellular immortality this summer, and even more fun to get to put it into action this semester! MIT undergrads truly never cease to amaze me. (And if you know any - we still have room!)

Jon has been the world’s best baymate for the past 2.5 years, and though we’re all so sad to see him go, it’s so exciting to imagine all the amazing work that will come out of the Nelson lab. Can’t wait for many a reunion at CSHL meetings (which Stony Brook profs go to for free)!

One of the best things about science is its ability to be self-correcting. This is a truly fantastic example of rigorous work to clarify an important point, and I have so much admiration for this team

Congratulations to Whitehead Institute Member Yukiko Yamashita, who has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Learn more about this prestigious recognition and @yamashitaflylab's research: https://t.co/XSImIY0T68

Meet the first member of our #Artemis II Moon crew: mission specialist @Astro_Christina! Christina Koch visited the @Space_Station in 2019, where she took part in the first all-woman spacewalk. She began her career as an electrical engineer at @NASAGoddard.

"I actually feel that research is like a team sport. You have to work really hard together to see how far you can take the science," says Sheri Grill, a postdoc in @REMLehmann’s lab studying germ cells. Read our latest #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles:

The images from @JaclynFingerhut never cease to amaze me, and it's wonderful to see this incredibly striking testis receive this prize. Congrats!!!

I really loved this story when I heard Heya present it last year, and the paper is just as beautiful a demonstration of (surprising!) cell fate control. Congrats to all involved!