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)

THE THRILLING WIENIE 500 FINISH WITH SLAW DOG’S COME FROM BEHIND WIN (via @indycar.com & Fox)

I made a long video about the "someone's got to do it" memes, where they came from, what they're really saying, and what these posts reveal about collective trauma, political cynicism, our decaying faith in democratic institutions and so so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrj...

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!

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Check out #SDBSciCommIntern Samantha Fernandes' samfernandes.bsky.social story on 2023 SDB Emerging Research Organisms Grant Recipient Emma Rangel-Huerta & her work establishing rice coral as a #devbio research organism. www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Dudes rock. This guy had venomous snakes bite him 856 times over 18 years and made himself hyperimmune to snake venom, potentially generating a broad spectrum anti-venom. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Gets the coveted meme from me

#DanioDigest (March 2025) Community News: Dr. Brant Weinstein at NIH named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  Prof. Robyn Tanguay at Oregon State University awarded the 2025 @sotoxicology.bsky.social‬ Leading Edge in Basic Science Award. (1/34)

The children yearn for the fish

monday monday monday! check out our new preprint studying microtubule requirements in skin macrophages. lots of neat zebrafish imaging and tissue damage assays www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

timeline cleanse, enjoy some zebrafish scales/skin/immune cells and figure 1A of our upcoming preprint #fluorescencefriday

i mean generally there isn't a ton of fanfare about who gives these "responses", but oh man. talk about a total misread, throwing up an absolute freak on behalf of democrats. not surprised!

TOMORROW (WED): Rallies are being held across the country to protest the funding cuts to science and the illegal firing of federal workers. Please join if you can. We need to show that many people oppose these destructive attacks on science and healthcare. Details: labor4highered.org

Those circumstances? We want ad money AND the extra money you pay for an ad-free service

your regular reminder that trans rights are human rights and anti-trans hate is a tool of the reactionary/extreme Right to erode ALL rights, especially women's rights, to divide and conquer. Resisting anti-trans hate is inherently anti-fascist and pro-feminist.

The SHARED STREETS BILL (SB 5595) gets its first hearing TODAY in the Senate Transportation Committee. SUPPORT IT BY SIGNING IN PRO: app.leg.wa.gov/CSI/Testifie...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

broke - Kamala Harris: “i will follow the law when it comes to transgender individuals” woke - Stephen Smith:

Why did pages supporting DEI need to be "under review" in the first place? @asm.org is not a government organization. It is not subject to the Executive Orders, which call for the systematic erasure of many ASM members. This is a pathetic, cowardly excuse for voluntarily complying with fascism.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

To all AI VC investors: I am also available to flush your money down the shitter

Hello Bluesky 👋! We are excited to officially join the #zebrafish community here on BlueSky! This is the official account for the International Zebrafish Society! Be sure to give us a follow to stay up to date on all things IZFS 🐟

Came back to see Shai Halud (pacific sea lamprey)

Now that's what I call a fish nursery! Even on vacation, gotta check out the fish. National salmon hatchery in leavenworth, WA.

clocking in at the science factory, time to make some science

From MBoC @jraslab findings demonstrate that Langerhans cells exhibit context-specific changes in calcium activity and highlight the utility of skin as an accessible model for imaging calcium dynamics in tissue-resident macrophages. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

ATP acts as i) cellular energy currency, ii) danger signal, & much more ATP induces fast migration of leukocytes, w depends on P2X7, Panx1 channels, & CaMKII, w leads to actin cytoskeleton (cyan) changes www.science.org/doi/full/10.... @focalplane.bsky.social #CellMigration #fluorescencefriday 🧪🔬

hey you! go read my wife's latest work describing DUX4-induced RNA and protein aggregation

I'm a moderate on the issue of cars, I don't think they should be banned but I do think they should all be this. Now I know what you're thinking: what if I need to go fast or need more space? That's just too bad