Dr. Carrie Spratford

🎶 ‘Scuse me while I tweet this fly 🎶 #Drosophila #whythefly

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Which film feels like comfort even though it shouldn’t?

What movie did you expect it be “meh” but turned out to be really good

@TheCinesthetic 😭

What is a character death that really upset you?

@TheCinesthetic The only correct answer

what character death hit you the hardest?

I can’t believe I’m missing the emotional #Survivor backstories because I had to clip David drinking his milk

FEDERAL WORKERS FIRED BY ELON/TRUMP/DOGE: “We’re not deep state actors. We’re not federal bureaucrats. I’m a veteran who wants to help veterans. We join the civil service to help others and serve our country.”

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⚠️🚨Our lab needs your help! We decorated gingerbread houses to start off our holiday party. Vote for your favorite!!! Numbered 1-8, left to right (see first 2 pictures). Winner gets bragging rights!

Important piece ⁦@eLife⁩ from ⁦@NIH⁩ leadership Basic research is like the backstage crew at a concert—it’s not in the spotlight, but without it, the whole show would fall apart. Let’s not forget the science that makes the magic happen! elifesciences.org/articles/102368

@haydenlapiana32 @MJ54 Well done can end up a bit too crispy for me, but Light well is perfection!

People who say In N Out has the worst fries are lunatics. They are the absolute best in the world.

@ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience @StevenRayMorris you may be interested in this 🦖

Inspired by Jurassic Park, researchers have come up with a way to store DNA in an amberlike substance without freezing it. scim.ag/7Pq @NewsfromScience

@lydiagrmai @KafuiDzirasa @Erika_Bach Amazing—congratulations on this huge accomplishment, Lydia!! 🥂

this moment marks a 14-year dream realized, and i owe a huge thanks to so many people…first, my research mentors for supporting my journeys into new scientific waters at every career stage @KafuiDzirasa @Erika_Bach and twitterless Deepika Vasudevan

i am thrilled to announce that the Grmai Lab will open its doors Jan 2025 in the Department of Comparative Medicine @YaleSOM ! our lab will study the complex inter-organ signaling cues that influence metabolism and fertility during homeostasis and stress.

@jiwonshimlab @Nature It makes more sense why the crystal cells would increase in a low CO2 background now! Amazing job expanding on the previous findings 🤩

@CSpratford @Nature Thank you Carrie. This work stemmed from our previous CO2 paper and I feel I owed you a lot!!

Excited to share our latest work on the role of Drosophila crystal cells in respiration, published today @Nature! Huge congrats and many thanks to all the authors- Dr. Mingyu Shin, Eunji Chang, and Daewon Lee and our collaborators. (1/3) doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

@RajaramKrithika @MicrobiologyOSU Congratulations Krithika!! 🥂

@DBT_inStem @Tina20578 @GeneticsGSA @DBTIndia @tinalab_inStem @BLiSC_India Congratulations, Tina!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Congratulations to @Tina20578 for bagging the associate editorship with @GeneticsGSA ! She will be part of the editorial team for Cellular Genetics. #editor #associateeditors #lifescience #genetics Announcement here: genestogenomes.org/tina-mukherjee… @DBTIndia @tinalab_inStem @BLiSC_India

@StevenRayMorris This whole album kind of slaps, actually

@StevenRayMorris open.spotify.com/track/5vYhA0rQ…

Any notable songs with ‘dinosaur’ in the lyrics? I know Vanessa Carlton has one, Peach PRC has one too.

What does the nervous system of a sea urchin look like? Can we study intact organ systems in calcified animals? I’m excited to share this preprint (with @FormeryLaurent and @lab_lowe) on whole-body tissue clearing in fragile invertebrates, where we tackle those questions.

I just wrapped up teaching BR10H for the 23/24 academic year. I am so lucky to be able to work with the best of the best students at UCLA. Take a look at the next generation of science superstars— they’re going to change the world!