i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

So incredibly sad to learn of John Gurdon’s passing. It is hard to overstate what a big deal he is to developmental biology - a legend. Leaving aside his phenomenal scientific achievements, I want to take a moment to highlight how he was also an exceptionally kind person and incredible role model.

We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs

this is me today

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪

Being a zebrafish researcher means you leave yourself this kind of ominous notes sometimes

Never been more proud

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

Me, after repeating a PCR for the fourth time

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Me, whenever I'm asked how it's going

am i even good enough to have imposter syndrome

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Ensembl? Or, NCBI? Both at MedakaBase!! medakabase.nbrp.jp MedakaBase promotes medaka fish biology, in the framework of versatile resource provision enabled by National Bioresource Project (NBRP) of Japan Find more at x.com/NbrpMedakaOmix

me: *telling my cat about my day* my cat:

when I start feeling my feelings today

*working in pediatrics ER* me: and how old are you kid: I’m 30 in dog years and— mom: honey the doctor doesn’t want to know about dog years me: wait let him cook

Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

From Postdoc killer to regenerative potential, ‘cloche’ pulls at (and repairs) the heart strings 🔥

Hard to imagine those halcyon days when the most hot button topic online was whether or not to name your lab after yourself.

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

Asked my colleague how to get ROI data out of my imaging data, and he told me to apply a mask to the image? I don't see how this helps at all?

ZFIN is now on Bluesky!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

US federal science agencies: We'll remove all references to gay and bisexual issues from our websites and publications. Meanwhile, this beaker filled with color-changing silica gel desiccant beads:

Just downloaded all NIH reporter data 1985-2024, you can do it here, might come handy. Took me maybe 5', is 1 GB in size. reporter.nih.gov/exporter

Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.

Well well well, who would've thought science is political eh

Diversity makes your science better, pass it on.

Does anybody have any of the FUCCI zebrafish lines (original version or dual FUCCI) under the ubi promoter and might be able to share some fish with us? Nearer to Boston is of course easier :) #AskZebrafish @zebrafishrock.bsky.social

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In his lane. Never paid taxes. Flourishing.

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

One for my #zebrafish fam, with love 🧪

Do mutations that drive evolution improve many traits or few? Does this change over the course of evolution? Excited to share our work in PLOS Biology exploring these questions in the first 2 adaptive steps w/ Yuping Li, @gsherloc.bsky.social, @petrovadmitri.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

My "Data will be made available upon reasonable request" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Collecting data 🧐 Having data 😎 Analyzing data 🤢

Sure thing, Sharepoint. I want to open Excel in my browser. Why not. I want to open my powerpoint slides in minesweeper. I don't care anymore. I want to open a can of coke in a thirty foot concrete cube. Fuck it.

Estimating your own contribution to the field

me (weighing chemicals): it says here the compound can be "a bit static-y" lol i'm sure it's fine my spatula:

me joining this new app