The duality of man

My hottest parenting take is that Raffi is not only the great to ever do it, but he’ll probably never be bested. Michael Phelps-ass children’s songwriter.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

My paper is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🐟🐭🧠 Thankful to the contributors and @annamolofskylab.bsky.social for the support! How does the developing brain clear millions of dying neurons? Read below, if interested. #zebrafish #neuroscience #microglia #devbio @zebrafishrock.bsky.social 1/5

Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Exactly two years ago we wrote a review on wound healing, but at the time it was posted in the site that shall not be named, so check out here if your favourite cell was featured, and leave a complaint here if I missed it 😅 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let me post a spicy take here: most people don't read or cite other model organisms' work. Because of this, they keep rediscovering things and, most importantly, re-writing the timeline in favor of fewer and fewer models. That, plus an artificial limit of citations per paper equals this 🧪

yall know i would almost never inflict a 2:30 video on you but i was on my feet whooping and cheering ten seconds in

TGIF. Here's a video of TORWAI, a couple guys from Thailand who play 2000s hard rock/metal/numetal/etc. while cooking. Here's their cover of System of a Down's "Chop Suey" youtu.be/Ru4aqzjvplw?...

Time to dust off a classic

$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight. Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what? Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.

It's true

honestly surprised it took this long for this type of Dem to get no peace at public events

NEW: State lawmakers want to massively expand program to subsidize college tuition for Washington's working families by making big tech pay. But yesterday the State's largest universities testified AGAINST the bill. Here's why: www.theburnerseattle.com/post/why-uw-...

Vital departmental communications!

This is the moment my staff taught everyone that you can sing my name to the tune of “Seven Nation Army”

Arends, Bennett, & Tapscott @fredhutch.org show that DUX4-induction of stable intranuclear RNA, including pericentromeric HSATII repeat RNA, leads to nuclear protein aggregation. HSATII RNP complexes impact RNA processing downstream of DUX4 expression rupress.org/jcb/article/... #RNAbiology

Network of somatosensory axons and immune cells in the adult zebrafish skin. Credit to @errricpeterman.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Turchetta posting

I post on the internet, am I qualified?

🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.

Until the sun burns out

once again posting The Chart

Vasculature in the blood-brain-barrier of a zebrafish larva. Credit to @natashaobrown.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT. #SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

cover image yeeeeeeeeehawwwww #flourescentfriday check out our work in the most recent issue of @jcellsci.bsky.social !

Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

now online! check out our work describing roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophages during directed cell migration. thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for a stress-free publication process journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟 The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

reading a review that cites a review: okay, maybe that citation will include some primary sources reading the second review that cites more reviews: okay maybe THOSE citations will include some primary literature. reading the next set of reviews that cite EVEN MORE reviews: i give up

Seeing the paylines drop from 20 to 10 to 5 percent over the years

It's technically a Nature sister journal but this paper deserves the highest accolade I can give

Our grandkids are going to be flabbergasted looking back on this. Is a genocide happening? Yes. Are the people carrying it out murdering aid workers and starving children? Yes. Are they being aided by the US? Yes. And yet all anyone talks about is the motives and tactics of the people opposing it.

Dendritic atoh1a+ cells serve as Merkel cell precursors during skin development and regeneration Read this #LifelongDevSI Research Article by Evan Craig, @jraslab.bsky.social and colleagues @uwbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... 🎥Microvilli dynamics in zebrafish Merkel cells

🎉 Our study identifying the direct precursors of Merkel cells is now published in @dev-journal.bsky.social Thank you to our reviewers @reviewcommons.org and collaborators for helping us improve the manuscript. Check out these cell behaviors we visualized in #zebrafish skin. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

Not only did the better candidate (and person!) win, it's extra special to see establishment dems and their endorsements eat shit. Not even my city and I'm over the moon.

#DanioDigest (May 2025) Community News: Prof Caren Norden @nordenlab.bsky.social‬ appointed Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology at PDN at the University of Cambridge. Prof Elizabeth Chen @echenlab.bsky.social elected as President of @ascbiology.bsky.social‬ for 2027. (1/38)

Meltdown May ended 2 weeks ago

My latest article is up on Developmental Biology~ Learn about data that waited 15 years to be published! 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/deve...

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

Hey Cell and Developmental Biologists. This is an excellent survey that will really help the @biologists.bsky.social journals improve their interactions with authors, reviewers and readers--take a moment and fill it out!

#DanioDigest (April 2025) Community News: Prof Wendy Bickmore @wbickmor.bsky.social elected as an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Prof Dr Andrea Rentmeister @rentmeisterlab.bsky.social#DanioDigestreceives 2024 Franco-German Georg Wittig - Victor Grignard Prize. (1/46)