Looking for a PhD position? Join the Kague Lab as a PhD student in Precision Medicine (funded by the MRC) to work on a multidisciplinary project about Bone Fragility! 🦴 👇 usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

Swimming solo for a bit until I decide what I want to do with the account. Definitely a different environment than even four months ago. 😅 Excited to build things back up again 💪

PhD available in my lab, co-supervised by Dr. Emily Noel (Sheffield) and Dr. Beck Richardson (Bristol). Please could you help me share with potential candidates? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

Wonderful opportunity with two great mentors on an exciting project!

Forgot how much I like running @zebrafishrock.bsky.social. I don't think I'm fooling anyone by saying I'm off social media. I miss telling people they rock and various other puns. I lasted three months 🤦

If you've benefited from ZebrafishRock and its community, you can thank ZFIN. i.e. ZebrafishRock is actually Kevin searching ZFIN

Starting the UK Zebrafish Husbandry Meeting with an important lesson on pain in #zebrafish from @lynnesneddon.bsky.social 🐟

Our new paper on valve disease in aged #zebrafish is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... This has been a long running collaborative effort with contributions from lots of great people!

Today is World Mental Health Day and it's no better time to remind people to be kind to others. You don't know what hidden illnesses someone might be struggling with. Give them the benefit of the doubt. #MentalHealthMatters #WorldMentalHealthDay

I'm treading lightly with this one but the science communication bit of @zebrafishrock.bsky.social is back for the foreseeable future. I'll be sharing my plethora of fun facts (including some new ones) with the community. Enjoy!

If you are looking to expand your K-12 class offerings, consider this wonderful article about teaching a complex subject using #zebrafish. Well done, @bioeyes.bsky.social 👍

In some cultures, this can be seen as good luck and I’m all here for it 🥰

Sharing my own pretty image on #ZebrafishZunday! #devbio

Finally starting to feel FOMO about social media, especially the positivity surrounding @zebrafishrock.bsky.social’s feed. It was a respite from the demoralizing news cycle that I haven’t found an answer to yet.

"Don't mind me, just strolling by" 🤣 Caption this (oddly human-like) cell:

After 7 years and a lot of memories, I've finally decided to retire Zebrafish Rock! on social media. I really want to say it was always positive but I've had a tumultuous experience with the account. Those that make the community more toxic continue to be promoted to positions of power. 1/4

Some errors in here but slowly learning how to use BlueThread app for these mega-posts. (e.g. Need to use https:// rather than www.) Here’s a link if it’s helpful to others: bluethread.pythonanywhere.com

Absolutely love this! I went with the blue embellishments and put it in a silver frame. It looks fantastic 😍

I often get reminded of my pitfalls as a scientist. Papers hardly cited, overlooked for awards, called ‘Only an influencer’. But for the last week I had some really long imaging sessions with good results and I felt like a proper Scientist. Those moments are few and far between but it felt great 😊

Thrilled that my blog post was the most-read hit on the Node for the month of May ☺️ It acts as an intro to the amazing tools that are (freely) available to #zebrafish researchers. Do check it out if you haven’t yet. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...

Congrats to @stednitz.bsky.social and Andrew Lesak on their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! They use HMM to identify two interaction states in #zebrafish: one visual for long-range interactions and one lateral line for quick, close interactions. Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCYh3QW8S...

Didn’t realize this was made and shipped from Bristol 🤣 I love this #zebrafish print even more now! I got it with the blue embellishments 🤩 The artist @thewildprintstudio.bsky.social is still selling the rest of the edition, for those interested. Working link here: www.thewildprintstudio.com/shop

That urge to start a new society is growing by the day 😵‍💫

I had a lot of fun putting this together 😃 If you want to know all the cool (and free!) resources available to #zebrafish researchers, check it out!

My Bioinformatics Bootcamp turned blog! Enjoy this collection of free #zebrafish resources, now posted on @the-node.bsky.social. While not comprehensive, it gives an assortment of cools tools available to researchers. Feedback would be appreciated! thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...

Cross-posting from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-... These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!

You can help me figure out how to troubleshoot posting the #DanioDigest to the Node! Will sincerely miss @joyceyu.bsky.social in this role 🥺

People forget that I do this whole Zebrafish Rock! thing as an unpaid volunteer. We are not affiliated with any society and shouldn’t be micromanaged as such. More and more I question why I do this. It’s not fun anymore.

That feeling when you complete a lot of single-cell injections only to find out the embryos were never fertilized 😭

Very happy to have hosted Rebeca in the lab all the way from 🇧🇷!!! She is working super hard for her PhD and really deserves this. Well done Rebeca! 👏🏻🎉 www.frontiersin.org/journals/car...

Say what you want about Starbucks, but as an Expat abroad in foreign countries it might as well be the American consulate: Free WiFi and a barista named Simon that speaks English 😆

How your email finds me this week:

We hope you enjoy the new format on the Node! Definitely easier to post/edit using their tools 😊 Feedback always appreciated 🙏

Shared on Twitter that the digest was on the Node now with a link to the website. Forgot that Twitter/X suppress links in posts. 🙃 What a toxic hellscape that was. Good riddance 🤮

Feedback welcome on this new venture on the Node 🙏 Happy how it turned out and hope the reach of our community expands as a result!

With a whole slew of intolerances/allergies to tease apart, a sick wife, a cranky kid that doesn’t care for dad atm, trying to avoid the news while attempting to run a social media resource, I can’t win in my personal life.

Trying to come up with #ZebrafishFunFacts for the Bristol Heart Festival and found that the diameter of an adult #zebrafish heart compared to that of an adult human heart is the same ratio as the diameter of the Earth compared to the Sun. Think about that! 🤯

Got an invitation to review a grant on otoliths 🪨 It’s my first professional recognition as an otolith expert 🥰

Apparently, when Brits say “You, alright” they do not want you to say how your day was and then ask how they are doing. -From the most disappointed Midwesterner ever

Something a little different - this on working part time in academic research. Some of the pleasures but also the challenges. Was lucky to work with some brilliant people on this and we had a great experience with @elife.bsky.social

There’s an Easter egg in here that likely offends an entire country (Sorry Kiwis) 😂

Looking forward to welcoming Prof. Anna Huttenlocher to the University of Bristol for our @uobppn.bsky.social Snapshot Seminar series (kindly sponsored by @physoc.bsky.social). Would love to have more people stop by for the talk, if they are in the Bristol area! To be held on 27th Feb. at 1PM GMT.

Glad SDB brought back the #scicomm award and thrilled it went to my fishy comrade @mads100tist.bsky.social! Congrats, Joaquín 🎉

Lots of cool science going on in the Wittamer Lab! Consider applying 😎

Nobody was going to remind me that Black History Month actually starts in October in the UK 🤦‍♂️ I can still celebrate American occasions though, right 😅

Observing and celebrating Black History Month by learning more about the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks, which is more than just HeLa cells. If you’d like to know more as well, read this piece from the University of Bristol: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/imp... I’ll share a bit in this thread 1/n

You want this job 🤩 Berta is lovely and her research is kickass!

I think I’ve finally (partially) acclimated… Zee for zeh-brafish 😬

Want to improve engagement on your paper? Include it in the first post of your thread! The masses rarely read threads but will click on links (especially with a preview image). Your Altmetrics will thank me! #SciSky