Associate Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital It should be fun, or what's the point? http://heimanlab.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mvjfv7woek2gok, ha ha, but seriously did you know that Santa Anna (the Mexican general who took the Alamo) eventually moved to New York and helped invent Black Jack, the first US chewing gum, after importing one ton of chicle that he had intended to sell to make tires? [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2026 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjfv7woek2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mung66zvus2dCan an ant person tell me what these brown crawly ants and black flappy ants are up to? Other than a major ruckus.03 Sep 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mung66zvus2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3muigjj3otk2w"The brain is one of the most important organs in your entire head" [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3muigjj3otk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mt7qvlvz522iFor the last year, aECM Club seminars have brought together researchers working on apical ECM in diverse species and tissues - yeast cell wall, C. elegans cuticle, Drosophila lens, mammalian inner ear and pancreatic lumen, and many others. Sign up for 2026-27: https://forms.gle/DDJUxGLkcSRbEJq7616 Aug 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt7qvlvz522ihttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3msgt4mbnps2k#aECM [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgt4mbnps2khttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3msdhuqbrws2u"baby, you can just call me LIN-28, 'cause I have hundreds and hundreds of interactions and most of them are totally pointless" [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Aug 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdhuqbrws2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mrzcileess2hholy guacamole it's already August?01 Aug 2026 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzcileess2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mrdzcxmeis2iFor 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 https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=34433&localeCode=en-us23 Jul 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdzcxmeis2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mqzgt6xdhs2wLove 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jul 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzgt6xdhs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mqwsjkitac22The 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). https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/23118 Jul 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwsjkitac22https://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mqv3b4opkk22Reviewer #2:18 Jul 2026 01:08 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqv3b4opkk22https://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mqpqdc4eac2m"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" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/07/award-winning-biologist-connie-cepko-set-to-retire/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/07/award-winning-biologist-connie-cepko-set-to-retire/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020260714%20(1)&spMailingID=36311026&spUserID=MjIxMzk1MDgzMjcS1&spJobID=3184032468&spReportId=MzE4NDAzMjQ2OAS215 Jul 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpqdc4eac2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mpl7bocpks2jClever 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? [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 09:28 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpl7bocpks2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3moko767zik2ewell 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." [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jun 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3moko767zik2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mo5bjti2fs2tI'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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jun 2026 03:06 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5bjti2fs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/heiman.bsky.social/post/3mniixbasb22mone of the most Drosophila titles ever [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:njd7xbw3s3loqsmbrs5v4msg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mniixbasb22m