Many congratulations to Professor Judith Eisen @uoregon.bsky.social for winning the Streisinger Award for "sustained and foundational" work in the zebrafish field. Well deserved!
Arturo Rosenblueth was a pioneer of cybernetics and, along with Norbert Wiener, had this to say: "The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance". Let's remember that metaphors are useful for thinking and discussing science, but they are not reality.
Please check out our recent perspective paper, “Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.” Huge thanks to the 50 scientists who came to California to discuss the future of #DevBiojournals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
ABSTRACT. The field of developmental biology has declined in prominence in recent decades, with off-shoots from the field becoming more fashionable and highly funded. This has created inequity in disc...
🧪 My department is hiring! Tenure track faculty position in genetics. Researchers using any eukaryotic model, including fungi and plants are encouraged to apply! We are a broad biology department with strengths across all kingdoms. Join us! Apply by March 1 tinyurl.com/y4evds8p
Postdocs going on the academic job market this year: there's still time to apply to Development's 'Pathway to Independence' programme: mentoring, training & networking to help with the transition to a PI position. Application deadline 31 Jan: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
I always liked this quote in defense of basic science: "To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economizing on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles". — George Porter
Random thought: Playing a game, one person says a word and the next person makes a new word by changing only a single letter: E.g. Rain — Raid — Paid — Pain — Gain — Grin — Grit — etc. Can all 4-letter words in the dictionary be connected like this? Do some miss out? How many?
The Biology Department at the University of Oregon @uoregon.bsky.socialcareers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...
I watched The Wizard of Oz over Christmas, and last night the sequel, Return to Oz. I'm not sure what I expected from the sequel, but it certainly wasn't this terrifying Foucauldian nightmare about childhood mental illness at the turn of the century A "children's" horror movie!
