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@christinadcota

Assistant Professor of Biology @Colby, tunicate researcher, dog lover… All views are my own. https://www.instagram.com/cotalab_colbycollege/

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#ColbyMbl #JanPlan @mblscience.bsky.social

01.02.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MRC day!@mblscience.bsky.social #ColbyMBL

17.01.2026 04:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What’s your night looking like? #ColbyMBL @mblscience.bsky.social @colbycollege.bsky.social

15.01.2026 04:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Back @mblscience.bsky.social w/ @colbycollege.bsky.social #ColbyMBL

14.01.2026 01:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Science of Sea Squirts A gathering of scientists and students on Allen Island allows for the close study of a distant human relative, the tunicate

news.colby.edu/story/the-sc...

14.08.2025 18:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apply to the Semester in Biological Discovery!
Apply to the Semester in Biological Discovery! YouTube video by Marine Biological Laboratory

Applications for the 2026 @mblwoodshole Semester in Biological Discovery (SBD) program are already open! The first round of rolling admission acceptances will be on September 15. (The 2026 SES application will open in September.) #colbymbl

youtu.be/cBYQXS-ihio?...

24.06.2025 21:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in science communication? Check out the 2025 YVOS program! 👇@yvoscience.bsky.social

27.01.2025 11:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here is the link from the @yvoscience.bsky.social Bluesky account…

27.01.2025 11:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Went to MBL to teach about tunicates and CRISPR, left with a new found love of butterfly wings. Thanks for having me @christinadcota.bsky.social !!

24.01.2025 19:14 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What to do when @mblscience.bsky.social doesn’t have anyone working on your favorite system? (Hard to imagine, but it is January!) Invite a friend! @edgigante.bsky.social teaching students about neural development in tunicates and showing the how to do CRISPR. #ColbyMBL

24.01.2025 11:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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24.01.2025 11:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nearing the end of our time @mblscience.bsky.social! Trying to squeeze in as much as we can: axolotls, microscopes, qRT-PCR…#ColbyMBL

24.01.2025 11:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Another busy day @mblscience.bsky.social with #ColbMBL: confocal imaging, rna extractions and wonderful talks on butterfly wing patterning and structural coloration from Dr. Nipam Patel. We ended our day by looking at some of the amazing butterflies in Dr. Patel’s collection.

21.01.2025 02:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@colbycollege.bsky.social students are mounting their butterfly imaginal wing disc/HCR insitus for imaging @mblscience.bsky.social #ColbyMBL

17.01.2025 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 5 @mblscience.bsky.social Dr. Jessica Stock (Albertin Lab) talked to us about her work examing brain development in cephalopods #ColbyMBL

17.01.2025 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#ColbyMBL

17.01.2025 01:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ALWAYS worth taking a break from the lab for the rare books tour @mblscience.bsky.social! #ColbyMBL

17.01.2025 01:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 3 @mblscience.bsky.social
started with a microscopy lecture from @carsten_wolff
then off to the MRC for a tour and HCR in situs in the afternoon. We are off and running! @colbycollege.bsky.social #ColbyMBL

16.01.2025 02:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@colbycollege.bsky.social Biology Honors student Chloe Hample-Forcier teach #ColbyMBL students how to collect butterfly wing imaginable discs @mblscience.bsky.social

15.01.2025 00:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day1 HCR #ColbyMBL #ColbyBiology #ColbyJanPlan

15.01.2025 00:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Back @mblscience.bsky.social with #ColbyMBL.

15.01.2025 00:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0