New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We kicked off #SCGDB2025 with exciting award talks from Dr. Timothy Cox @craniofacialprof.bsky.social and Dr. Jennifer Fish, pictured here with SCGDB President Dr. Matthew Harris @fish4walking.bsky.social and local meeting host Dr. Kristin Artinger @artingerlab.bsky.social.

UMass Boston Biology is hiring at the Assistant Professor level! Join our collegial department at our ocean front campus! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Come Be part of The party

That time I bonded with some long-lived clams to uncover their anti-aging secrets 🐚🧬 #BiologyOfAging #MyMBLMoment #BoA @fish4walking.bsky.social

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

Registration and abstract submission are open for the SCGDB annual meeting in Minneapolis! Deadlines: 8/25 abstract for short talk, 9/7 abstract for poster, 9/7 registration. More information at scgdb.org.

Evo Devo is obviously the closing act! Nothing better than to go out with a bang.

Dear #izfc2025 participants, if anyone of you are interested in how transcription control defines mRNA fate and translation in zebrafish development, there are/will be several PhD and postdoctoral positions (funded by the Wellcome Trust) for this research. Please find me if interested.

We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I've written a Substack about the #ColossalBioSci #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign; it's focused on polluting the information landscape, rather than the underlying science (except for species concepts, I talk about them) open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...

Registration is open for the Boston Area Researchers Zebrafish Meeting! Abstract Deadlines are: April 25th to be considered for a talk, and May 16 for poster. #ZebrafishMeeting #Zebrafish sites.google.com/bc.edu/bazar... sites.google.com/bc.edu/bazar...

Need I repeat my statement?

I can't even look at that web page without uncontrolled need. Almost bought at 3,500$ guitar for tenure but stopped short of divorce. It is also why I cannot let myself walk into used record stores anymore.

Should we crowd source for our NIH brothers and sisters? Save our fish 2025!!

going to be a fantastic meeting...believe me

The hacked the @nanopore sequencer to read amino acids and PTMs along protein strands. This opens up the possibility for barcode sequencing at the protein level for highly multiplexed assays, PTM monitoring, and protein identification 🧬🧪🤯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...