Crystal Rogers, PhD
Principal investigator of a cell and #DevBio research lab at UC Davis School of Vet. Med. Co-Editor In Chief of @diffjournal.bsky.social. Posts are my own. https://www.crystalrogersphd.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9549-1089
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- I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
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- Representation Matters, ESPECIALLY now. Huge shoutouts to Gelila Petros & Alex Washington (UNC PREP alumni), @drstarbird.bsky.social, Wiley, Hutch, and the entire committee! We did it! (Yes, there’s actually a couple more Atlas projects in progress 🤪🤭🤫)
- Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
- Last weekend, the Bronner Lab alumni, current mentees, and friends/collaborators got together at #BronnerFest2026 to celebrate science and a storied and inspirational 30 years @caltech.edu for Dr. Marianne Bronner. It was amazing and the community that she has built is 🔥! Hope to see you all soon!
- Huge thanks to Dr. AJ Hinton, the Microscopy Society of America, and Early Career Committee for the invitation to speak in this series! My talk will kick the series off on Monday at 10:30 PT/1:30 ET with several talks over the rest of the month (first two weeks featured here)! 🔬🧬
- Please check this out! It is an awesome course that was created to help postdoctoral fellows prepare their job materials and interview skills! Lots of excellent information and guidance. The job market is hyper competitive right now so every leg up helps! 👀
- #Postdocs! Going on academic job market? Apply for SDB GetHIRED! Take stock of what you want, know your options, prepare an outstanding job packet, organize your research & chalk talks, perfect your interview. Deadline: March 5 sdbonline.org/gethired
- This is phenomenal news and I am excited to be a faculty member in the newly renamed, UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine! 🎉 @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
- UC Davis has received a $120M gift—the largest ever made to veterinary medicine—from Joan and Sanford I. Weill. Our school is now the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine, launching a bold new era with truly limitless impact for animal and human health. www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
- Please check out these amazing women! They are fantastic scientists, committed mentors, supportive friends and honestly super stars! 🤩@bradylabs.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/podcast...
- Friends, we are past the point of, “it’s too hard for me to watch, it’s too much for my mental health.” Please watch the videos. They are scary and devastating but you need to prepare yourselves because this violence won’t stay in Minnesota. My heart breaks for those who have been harmed and killed.
- Is anyone else having incredible angst about whether or not their labs will continue to be able to do science? I submit-revise-resubmit grants and hope upon hope something with get funded so I can continue to have a lab, but I get waves of panic and sadness over the current state of things. 😢🧬🔬
- Friends… today I drank enough caffeine to pull an all nighter in Vegas and drank almost zero water… ouch. 😖 0/10. Do not recommend.
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- Thank you to @labonnelab.bsky.social for sharing this and fighting for science! The way things are going- I have no idea if I will ever get scientifically funding again. I will keep trying but if I’m not politically favored- is it futile? 💔
- I explained the dangers of the recent politicization of grant reviews at NIH for The Hill, and also that while diversity otherwise remains a bad word, geographic diversity is somehow laudable. thehill.com/opinion/tech...
- Ugh- typo. Scientific funding- not scientifically. “Don’t post before coffee!
- Yes please for my shoulders and hips… 😩
- they're gonna need to dunk me in this scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...
- Anyway, none of my clothes fit so I assume someone came in over the break while I was wearing sweatpants everyday and shrunk all my jeans and dress pants. No idea how to catch the person that did this to me. 😂😭😬
- Any of my neurodevelopmental connections looking for an opportunity? The @ucdavis.bsky.social MIND Institute is hiring “Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research,” where translational is defined broadly! Please check it out! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07378
- Really bad day for the eduroam WiFi to go out on campus… 🫠
- Here we go again! Have a wonderful first week back to academia everyone!
- So many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them. Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠
- Happy new year everyone! I don’t know about everyone else but 2025 was rough for me. I hope that 2026 is a better year. Looking forward to starting out the new year with positivity and renewed purpose.
- In case anyone needs a smile… I dressed up sweet Roxie the Bulldog in several outfits over the Christmas holiday and she patiently wore them without protest- even the Santa hat!
- Happy holidays from Chonk, Princess Bubblegum, and the rest of the axolotls! Does anyone study axolotl vision? They always move to the front of the tank to see me when I wear red or have red nails. 😍
- Happy holidays from our lab to yours! Wishing you a peaceful and/or productive holiday season. Whichever one you need the most! 🎄
- Reposted by Crystal Rogers, PhDHAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
- Holy jeez…. Starting this week with 6AM Monday rescheduled study section due to a 40+ day govt shutdown, middling with new NIH common forms that are buggy, and ending the week with “SURPRISE” Friday jury duty text/email from a summons I never received is peak 2025. Like… 2025 is 2025ing to the end.
- Grateful for the @diffjournal.bsky.social community in 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted, reviewed, edited, and attended our @intlsocdiff.bsky.social Differentiation Across Scales Virtual Seminars. We welcome new submissions, support no-cost pub options, and encourage preprints. On to 2026!
- Please check the journal out here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/diff... and the virtual seminars here: www.isdifferentiation.org/Events/Semin...
- Congratulations to Raneesh on a successful poster presentation and for representing @sarathomasy.bsky.social’s group and my group so well! We are very proud!
- I’m sad to miss #CellBio2025 this year, but a student I co-mentor with @sarathomasy.bsky.social (Raneesh Ramarapu) will be presenting a paper poster and a digital poster about single-cell developmental trajectories and microtubules in corneal formation! Please check it out! @ascbiology.bsky.social
- No academic quarter has ever quartered as hard as this quarter has quartered and I have never been more over a quarter than I am today. 🫠 I can’t wait to turn in grades.
- Applications for Life Science Editors Foundation JEDI awards are open! Do you have a paper for grant you are working on that could use a little editing help or guidance? Please apply! lifescienceeditors.org/apply/
- Reposted by Crystal Rogers, PhDWin your local ugly Christmas sweater contest (like we did) with a festive #zebrafish jumper! Available in mama and baby, too. Designed by fellow shoal member, Priyanka Oberoi. Full selection here: www.redbubble.com/people/priya... Find more cool gift ideas with the hashtag ➡️ #ZebrafishGear 🧪
- Always Lampoon’s Vacation…. Original, euro, and Christmas.
- My dog also perches like a cat on the top of couch pillows… ears everywhere, feet fat, just doing it up.
- You know what? Looking into this face can lighten any mood. She’s fully ridiculous and adorable. Very interested in food items. 💯
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- DVM-PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu will be representing COVSL and @RogersLabUCD well @ASCBiology this year - check out his awesome work! @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social
