Sam Wattrus
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Developmental Biologist interested in how tissues make and unmake themselves www.wattruslab.org
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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
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Andrew Lawrence
9 days ago
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
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
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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 🧪
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Chris Tape
3 months ago
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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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.
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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/nobel-laureate-professor-sir-john-gurdon-dies-aged-92
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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
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Caroline Bartman
6 months ago
this is me today
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Alexander Luckmann
6 months ago
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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Fillip Port
7 months ago
Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪
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MadScientist
9 months ago
Being a zebrafish researcher means you leave yourself this kind of ominous notes sometimes
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Never been more proud
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Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk
The university’s response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/14/harvard-rejects-trump-administration-demands/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ0NjAzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ1OTg1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDQ2MDMyMDAsImp0aSI6IjcyZjRmMzcxLWE3MGYtNGVlNC1iOGQ4LTM3YTBkY2ExMGRiYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lZHVjYXRpb24vMjAyNS8wNC8xNC9oYXJ2YXJkLXJlamVjdHMtdHJ1bXAtYWRtaW5pc3RyYXRpb24tZGVtYW5kcy8ifQ.4tnnKPBmyPcT2LmVsUPYy_LuwArdGP0zRi6-CxGr2u8
10 months ago
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Graham Coop
10 months ago
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.
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MadScientist
10 months ago
Me, after repeating a PCR for the fourth time
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Randall Munroe
11 months ago
Lungfish
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Grace Lindsay
11 months ago
Me, whenever I'm asked how it's going
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Jerry Chen
11 months ago
am i even good enough to have imposter syndrome
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Randall Munroe
11 months ago
RNA
xkcd.com/3056
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Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室
12 months ago
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
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Josh Trebach, MD
about 1 year ago
me: *telling my cat about my day* my cat:
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Josh Trebach, MD
about 1 year ago
when I start feeling my feelings today
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Josh Trebach, MD
about 1 year ago
*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
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12 months ago
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Jeremy Berg
12 months ago
Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...
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Zebrafish Rock!
12 months ago
From Postdoc killer to regenerative potential, ‘cloche’ pulls at (and repairs) the heart strings 🔥
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Piali Sengupta
12 months ago
Hard to imagine those halcyon days when the most hot button topic online was whether or not to name your lab after yourself.
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Matt Barber
12 months ago
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.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/impact-nih-research/serving-society/direct-economic-contributions
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Jeremy Berg
12 months ago
A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
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Daniel Colón-Ramos
12 months ago
I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday
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Matthijs Dorst
about 1 year ago
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?
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the fairy bear
about 1 year ago
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Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN)
about 1 year ago
ZFIN is now on Bluesky!
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Darby Saxbe
about 1 year ago
🚨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.
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c0nc0rdance
about 1 year ago
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:
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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️
about 1 year ago
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
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RePORT ⟩ RePORTER
https://reporter.nih.gov/exporter
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 1 year ago
Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.
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MadScientist
about 1 year ago
Well well well, who would've thought science is political eh
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Jonathan Roberts
about 1 year ago
Diversity makes your science better, pass it on.
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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
about 1 year ago
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gavin jones
about 1 year ago
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In his lane. Never paid taxes. Flourishing.
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Better Things Are Possible
about 1 year ago
The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes
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MadScientist
about 1 year ago
One for my
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fam, with love 🧪
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Grant Kinsler
about 1 year ago
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,
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A high-resolution two-step evolution experiment in yeast reveals a shift from pleiotropic to modular adaptation
Evolution is expected to involve mutations that are small and modular in effect, but recent findings suggest that mutations early in an adaptive process can have strong and pleiotropic effects. This s...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002848
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MadScientist
about 1 year ago
My "Data will be made available upon reasonable request" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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Philip Bender
about 1 year ago
Collecting data 🧐 Having data 😎 Analyzing data 🤢
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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io
about 1 year ago
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.
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Oded Rechavi
about 1 year ago
Estimating your own contribution to the field
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Elisa Granato
about 1 year ago
me (weighing chemicals): it says here the compound can be "a bit static-y" lol i'm sure it's fine my spatula:
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Rachel Bedford, PhD
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me joining this new app
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