Developing news

Welcome to our light-hearted look at the goings on in the world of developmental biology in the last two weeks (or so).

Lab Life on twitter

• Read about the controversial opinions/science-life hacks

• Plans versus reality

• A storybook ending

Science in the News

• The current NIH director, Francis Collins, is retiring at end of the year. He urged that a woman should succeed him, but what would your list of eligibility requirement be?  Is a medical degree an essential? The ability to address the inbuilt inequity in science?

Articles in Science and Nature address these and many other issues with the appointment.

https://www.science.org/content/article/should-next-nih-director-hold-medical-degree

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02842-7

• HHMI has launched their own $2 billion program to improve diversity and inclusion in science

https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-launches-2-billion-10-year-investment-advance-diversity-and-inclusion-science

• Inequity in science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02601-8

• Science and politics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02885-w

Career advice and opportunities

• You are not alone. Even Nobel laureates fail to get all grants funded

• Undergradute Research opportunity with the SDB

https://www.sdbonline.org/choose_development

• American Association for Antomy scholar program and the story behind it.

Science communication

Dance your PhD contest is back, including a new machine learning category

https://www.science.org/content/page/announcing-annual-dance-your-ph-d-contest

prelight in #devbio

Deciphering the epicardial signals that promote myocardial growth

Hedgehog and glycolysis: the perfect team to regulate energy production in the developing Drosophila wing disc

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