Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research?
The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field!
Application deadline: March 2
Please spread the word!
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I've updated my Bioinformatics Bootcamp: Zebrafish Special Edition blog post on @the-node.bsky.social! Please do share with trainees or anyone new to the community. I hope it adds some breadth to the many resources available to #zebrafish researchers. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...
If a student you know received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP, encourage them to contact their Congressional representatives! 🧪
ATTENTION
If anyone has any experience with appealing terminated grants (either the process or successful strategies 😀), please DM me.
THANK YOU!
Switching fields and/or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research?
The @mblscience.bsky.social 2025 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field!
(New & final) Application deadline: March 28
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
February in preprints
It's time for our monthly trawl for #DevBio and #StemCell biology (and related) #preprints 🔎
Congrats to everyone involved, and as usual, let us know if we've missed anything!
thenode.biologists.com/february-in-...
NIH funding is frozen. @annikabarber.bsky.social is keeping score: 50%+ of study sections planned for this year (77/148) have been cancelled.
I talked to Dr. Barber about why these delays are disastrous, and why scientists should be pooling info and speaking up: www.chronicle.com/article/nih-...
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...
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This is absolutely correct. Convo I had last week that is part of why I resigned:
Much more senior leader: no, we still can't post FRNs.
Me: Doesn't that mean we can't proceed?
MMSL: correct
Me: doesn't that mean we're not in compliance with the TROs?
MMSL: ...um...yea, in a way...
Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling. Story by Ben Mueller. Gift link: nyti.ms/435szDm
Switching fields to #zebrafish? Wanting to become an expert in zebrafish research? Check-out the @mblscience.bsky.social 2025 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course – a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field!
Application deadline: March 13
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Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Join us in beautiful Quintay to celebrate 25 years of the Practical Course on Developmental Biology!
To register go to biodesarrollo.unab.cl/mini-symposi...
Come to enjoy a unique blend of science, sea, and food – all for free!
Six glasses of Knob Creek bourbon for tasting.
When in Kentucky. Knob Creek bourbon tasting.
A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible.
Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.
A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt
Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément
Drawing of an adult male zebrafish. You can see the attention to detail in the scales.
Meticulous drawing of an adult zebrafish. Credit to @jacsciart.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Building the body of an embryo or maintaining tissues in adults rely on cell migration. From neural crest cells leaving the neural tube to form our peripheral nervous system to migrating lateral line cells in a zebrafish to skin cells migrating to repair wounds, its key 1/n
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ISRB Webinar - Europe, West Asia, Africa 📷 December 10th, 4pm Central European Time, featuring Teresa Adell and Jochen Rink on #PlanarianRegeneration
To quote @denisduboule.bsky.social , IMHO one of the best definition of curiosity-driven basic research & serendipity
"going off to look for mushrooms and coming back with blueberries. If you are payed to find the mushrooms, you won't come back with the blueberries. You will come back with nothing.
Three panel black and white comic. Panel 1. A smiling eel-like primitive fish shows off it's new iPhone in front of it to two trilobites. Fish dialogue: check out my new phone! It's got 16 gigabytes it can hold! Trilobite dialogue: oh yeah? How many trilobites can it hold? Panel 2: the fish looks on, concerned, as the two trilobites crawl onto the phone and others join. Panel 3: the fish looks upset, its phone is buried in several trilobites. Fish dialogue: please stop
An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte
For those who don’t know us yet, a quick intro.👋
preLights is a community-driven preprint highlighting service—supported by @biologists.bsky.social—encouraging #ECRs to highlight & discuss #preprints that spark interest/debate in the biological #community.
Interested in joining? DM (& follow) us!
For my #FF (for those who don't know, that means "follow friday", and it was used on Twitter to suggest to others new accounts to follow), I'll mention @molbiosystems.bsky.social!
Join us next year in Chile for the premier LatAm conference on eukaryotic gene regulation & functional genomics.
Pardon us, Bluesky! We didn't really introduce ourselves during this latest barrage. ZR! covers highlights of all things #zebrafish and other cool teleost species. We act as a resource hub for questions and queries from the community while celebrating all those that are part of it! #RockOn 🧪 #SciSky
I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.
“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
Graphic from ZHA for the talk speakers of Ammon and Becky Black
🚨 TODAY! Join the Zebrafish Husbandry Association for a free webinar on embryo genotyping at 11AM EST (4PM GMT). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🧪
Hand written sign on paper towel posted on a refrigerator saying no embryos here.
Multiple signs reminding students to take care of their embryos and plan their experiments.
So it begins. #zebrafish module for the Stowers Institute graduate program.
