Diana Voss

@dianavoss

Cardiac Development • Epigenetics • #newPI • MTSU Asst. Prof of #physiology & #devbio🫀🔬🧬🐭 #firstgen 🚨🚨Posts may contain science, bad jokes, cooking 🧵s, 🎨, &/or political snark. Opinions are mine. The typos are free.

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Diana Voss@dianavoss· 8d

Who’s hungry? 🤤 #latelunch #seafoodtomato #homemade #food #chorizo

Bowls of rich tomato broth filled with sliced chorizo, shrimp, & mussels and topped with parsley and sliced Italian bread.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 9d

Chicken ice cream you say? 🤔🍗🍦 #dessert #strangesnacks #food #tienda

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 10d

One of my favorite pins… with modifications 😈

Close up of pin collection, centered on a pin that says “today Satan” because the leading word “not” has been painted over.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 10d

What a great way to start the last weekend of my postdoc! 🥰🍻 Thanks to all involved, especially our reviewers that both challenged us & helped us make the manuscript better. I’ll share it here as soon as it is in the wild! #postdoc #sciencewriting #celebrate

Screen shot of JCI decision email.

RE: Combined loss of histone methyltransferases GLP and G9a disrupts neural crest cell fate determination

Dear Dr. Epstein,

I am pleased to inform you that we will accept your manuscript…

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 16d

It’s slowly getting there! Still have several inches of length & sleeves to go, but it actually looks like a shirt now! 🤩👕🧶 #wip #knitting #knitsky #yarn #fiberarts

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 20d

I’m going to miss so many things about living in #Philly. The sights, food, my regular corner store… But most of all I will miss the people that made my time there special. In a few years, we’ll all be flung across the globe but for a moment we shared space. For that I will always be grateful 🫶

Group photo at farewell dinner. Small group of 7 stand smiling between two dark wooden dragons. The walls are a pale purple and there is a bright chandelier made from beads that form a short curtain. Back row: Faith, Diana, Vasia. Front row: Suean, Laura, Krishna, Pedro

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 22d

This felt weird. #newPI

Screenshot of abstract submission. The drop down next to "*Scientific Career Stage" has "Professor" highlighted to be selected from a list of different career stages (Professor, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Graduate Student, Undergraduate Student, etc..). Other field titles can be visualized below the dropdown list (Email Address, Co-Author Details) as well as submission buttons.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· 29d

Found some new friends in our neighborhood 👻🦖🫶 #streetart #graffiti #art

A small tree in the left foreground. A red brick wall fills the center third of the frame. Painted on the wall is a black and white ghost. To its right is an outline of a cartoon dinosaur. To the right stands a triangular shrub.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jul 9

This seems legit… I think 🤞😅 #moving #newPI #carefulwithmybaby

Microtome strapped to a black plastic pallet.

Side view of microtome strapped to pallet

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jul 8

😆 #NYTimes

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jul 2

My goddess, what have we done… 🫢🫣🤤 w @michaelbyrum.bsky.social #dessertfordinner #plantains #sweettooth

Small cardboard container on a blue dish towel. Scrawled on the box is “platano”

Opened food container reveals warm, gooey plantains smothered in sugar glaze and melted chocolate sprinkles.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jul 1

Spent yesterday making gifts for my future lab… tiny wax blocks filled with mouse organs! Plenty for everyone, help yourself 🥼🧊👀

A small plastic container filled to the brim with histology blocks.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 25

Free iced coffee on my way into work? Yes, please! 😁 #lacolombe

Blue can with white writing “La Columba cold brew, medium roast”

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 22

@faithwk.bsky.social asked for some spinach on her sandwich… I mean I guess this is technically “some”. Thanks, Gia!

Opened sandwich with a single tiny leaf of spinach.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 20

The Quaker Tradition allows two parties to unite themselves with declarations of love and promise for a lifetime of respect, commitment, & mutual understanding. @michaelbyrum.bsky.social & I marked today as our union. Thanks to @faithwk.bsky.social & Adam Smull (not featured) for bearing witness.

Michael & Diana holding the “ceremonial” wedding certificate.

Diana gives Michael his wedding band with promise to love & support. 💘

Michael placing wedding band on Diana while giving beautifully hilarious commitments of dedication.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 20

FOMC (Fear Of Missing Citations) 🥲 Surely 11 of you can find SOMETHING to be excited about 🥹

Screenshot from google scholar showing 655 citations of my works.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 16

All checked in and ready for my last one 😁 Excited for a full day of science!

Badge reads:
Penn Postdoctoral Association
2016 Penn Postdoc Symposium
Diana Voss
University of Pennsylvania

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 14

Had fun with @michaelbyrum.bsky.social at the Odunde festival on South St today. The beef patties and curried goat did not disappoint 🤤🌶️

Selfie of Michael & me walking through the crowds on South street.

Large styrofoam plate filled with spicy curried goat, sweet yams, and Mac and cheese. Two flakey meat pies rest on the container lid.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 13

Yeah, but mistakes have consequences… also I don’t know which model she received but replacement valves are generally pretty obvious in their direction if you know anything about them. An echo should have revealed the problem without the need for multiple invasive surgeries. 🫤

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 11

When I first moved to #Philly it was the middle of COVID. Once we could return to lab I started taking selfies on #SEPTA each day as a way to document the experience. I kept taking the photos for ~3yrs. Some days I'm happy, some I'm sad. All captured as I was. 590 photos in all. Enjoy.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Jun 6

Some days you beat the pancake stack… some days it beats you. 🥲 #nailedit #brunch

Horrifyingly bad stack of burnt, folded, and oblong shaped pancakes with a slumped pat of butter sits on a paper plate that is resting on a blue tea towel.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· May 24

I understand time travelers are a key demographic, but they’re missing the target by #spamming me today for my vote last Tuesday 🤪🗳️🕰️ #missedconnections #election #howtolose #philly

Screenshot of a voice message delivered at 9:09 AM on May 24, 2026. The message reminds me to vote Tuesday, May 19th.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· May 16

After a few restarts, the cotton shirt is moving along nicely. Still a few errors here and there but not bad for my first attempt at “real” clothing. 😁 #wip #showmeyourknits #knitsky

Knitting project: shirt in progress. The knit is in a blue green cotton yarn. The neckline is a folded hem. The shirt is being knitted top down.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· May 14

Does this pocket have another purpose?? I may never know. 🤪👩🏻‍🔬 #lablife #phd #postdoc #bodyheat

Tiny pocket of jeans with a small plastic tube inside being warmed by body heat.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· May 9

They were so much fun! 🫀

Small plastic cups with red jello that has an anatomical heart printed on top.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· May 5

Did I spend more time on this than I should have… I mean, sure. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Do I have regrets? Absolutely not. #WeinsteinCVD2025 #sciart #heart #art #simpleanimation

Diana Voss@dianavoss· May 3

Just sitting here incubating my response to reviewers… #cutandrun #dnacleanup #postdoc #phdlife

Blue 96-tube rack sitting on a bench top with 13 pcr tubes containing a brown liquid.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Apr 28

Just like riding a bike… #histology #revivingskills #PIinwaiting

View of a microtome stage with a ribbon of tissue sections flowing down from the block. A paintbrush holds the end of the tissue ribbon.

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Apr 26

I’ve never read a book so fast or had so many complicated feels. 🌪️ Plot: popular tradwife influencer with everything wakes up on a late 19th century farm with a new family and no modernity… Can’t wait to see how this looks as a movie 🎥 🍿 👀

Book cover with light green to orange left to right background gradient behind a warped image of a barn and farmhouse. The cover reads “Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke A novel”

Diana Voss@dianavoss· Apr 12

My coffee has questions