Our paper on flexibility in the cellular encoding of sexual state in C. elegans is out today! Great work from @TheScientistHan, @LeighWexler (former @portmanlab graduate students) and Hayley Wnuk (current graduate student). Here’s a synopsis. #celegans cell.com/current-biolog… 1/ First: this is a story about biological sex, not gender. The latter is socially and culturally influenced and is deeply tied to self-identity. Humans have this; worms don’t. 2/