Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

Useful approach, for those interested! By @fanjumeng.bsky.social & @pjmurphy249.bsky.social 🧬🐟

Folks, it is finally out! Our paper on T2T assemblies of the zebrafish genome is on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

New study online today! We present a method to identify insertion sites of Tol2 transgenes in zebrafish #zebrafish #Tol2 #Transgene www.cell.com/cell-reports...

TransTag enables simple and efficient transgene mapping in zebrafish via tagmentation: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...

(Longish thread. Apologies) I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/

💥🥳 At long last, our latest paper is out! Gag proteins of endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Led heroically by Sylvia Chang & @jonowells.bsky.social A study which has changed the way I think of #transposons! No less! 🧵 1/n

Some #zebrafish news. After consulting with the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) we will annotate one of our Tübingen T2T assemblies as a reference genome. This is an excellent assembly that we can get into the hands of the zebrafish research community right now. We are continuing our efforts

Paper out !!🥳big thanks to all authors @marliesoomen.bsky.social @diego-rt.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @jonathangoeke.bsky.social @lorenzamottes.bsky.social & 'bluesky-less' Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/

Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.

The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The life of each of us began when a sperm and an egg came together. But what happens at a molecular level? Our latest work in Cell led by @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha reveals a conserved fertilization complex that bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates! (1/11) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

Very cool paper showing that Sox and Oct family transcription factors predate metazoans. Choanoflagellate Sox can replace mouse Sox2 in generating iPSCs!! 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our Department of Biological Sciences at University of North Texas has two more tenure-track positions! One is Plant Biology careers.untsystem.edu/jobs/assista..., the other one is Computational Biochemistry careers.untsystem.edu/jobs/assista...

Hi all, just to say thanks for all the enthusiasm about the #epigenetics, Chromatin and Gene Regulation starter pack. The interface is a bit unreliable so a few people I added got missed off 😬. If you notice this applies to you, just message me and I'll try again. go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn

Our department at the University of North Texas is recruiting! Tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of Cancer Biology. Come to join us! careers.untsystem.edu/jobs/assista...