
Lover of the fly eye and all things Drosophila, Cell and Developmental Biologist, Educator, Professor @wesleyan_u, Gardener, From a small valley in Africa.
Wesleyan University
Joined September 2019
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
My lab at Howard University is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2024. Please, share and RT.
I will be in the ASCB meeting #cellbio2023 next week (Dec. 2-6) in Boston. Candidates are encouraged to DM/email me to talk in-person during the meeting.
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
We are looking for an Imaging Specialist to run our microscopy facility at Biosciences, Uni of Birmingham. Know someone? Keen yourself? Pls apply by 19 June.
Pls RT. Thnx
@UoBbiosciences @CellMol_UOB
@UoBNeuroOphthal
#drosophila #imaging @_BSDB_ @GenSocUK
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
"How a healthy diet can maintain healthy muscles" 🥗💪
Explore today's #PictureOfHealth by our LMS group head, Susumu Hirabayashi, showing the effect high-sugar diets have on our muscles
#MeetLMS #WorldCancerDay #metabolism #muscles
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
Mark your calendar: The #devbiolwriteclub 2023 No Bullshit Boot Camp starts Monday January 9. I’ll give five assignments per week for four weeks to help you develop your craft as a writer. Please RT!
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
Friendly reminder that the @AICjanelia is looking for a new Advanced Microscopy Imaging Fellow! This is a post-doc equivalent program aimed at training scientists pursuing a career in microscopy core facilities. If you have any questions, let me know!
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
The rumors are true: WE ARE HIRING! Two assistant professor positions, in any area of biology. Come join a vibrant department and help us make it an even more exciting place to learn and research. Please RT widely! More info: biology.duke.edu/assistant-p…
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05138
We are hiring a Developmental Biologist at the department of Molecular and Cellular Biology @ucdavisbiology Come join us! I'm happy to answer questions.
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
I've posted each of these separately but now I'll announce them together. My department at Johns Hopkins is hiring two assistant professors this year! One in Dev Bio, one in biochem!!
Apps are due Oct 15
Please RT
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
We are still looking for a talented PhD candidate, interested in emt and cell migration using Xenopus neural crest cells. Possibility to join at Master 2 level this year and staying for PhD afterwards (3-year funding already secured). DM or email if interested.
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
U of Iowa Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept is hiring an Assistant Professor. Qualified candidates please apply! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/…
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
Want to work here 🍂🍁with fantastic collaborative colleagues (including me!)?! Dartmouth is hiring TWO new tenure-track faculty with broad interests in micro and/or immuno! 👩🏿🔬👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🧑🏾🔬 Details: geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/micr……Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/106872
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
10 years ago, my PhD work came out!
I learned a ton and had so much fun working with Hélène Berthoumieux @GKrens Guillaume Salbreux, Frank Jülicher @PaluchLab and @HeisenbergCPLab
Feeling nostalgic (and old👴). I wish I could go back in time⏲️!
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
THREE Tenure-track searches in Biochemistry and Biology at my institution in Bellingham, WA (a PUI with MS students)! Please RT!
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
Starting as a faculty at a university or research institute and looking for funding?
Download this updated and vastly expanded database of 563 (!) funding opportunities for early-career researchers: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding…
Description, amount, eligibility criteria, deadline.
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
Edge of the compound eye of a blue blowfly, Calliphora spec. 300 pictures at a scale of 10:1. You can see three different hair types at the edge of the eye. This fly is full of sensible sensors.
#diptera #fly #entomology – at Besigheim, Deutschland
Ruth I Johnson retweeted
“We didn’t have help from the major COVID vaccine producers, so we did it ourselves to show the world that it can be done, and be done here, on the African continent” 👏👏👏
It’s shameful rich countries and pharma aren’t doing more to share the vaccines.
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Ruth I Johnson retweeted
2,900 people died on 9/11 and 20 years later I still have to take my shoes off at the airport. 835,000 people in the US have died from Covid and vaccines and masks still aren’t mandatory? Someone help a girl understand…






























