Some exciting news! NCBI has finished the annotation pipeline for our new #zebrafish reference sequence GRCz12tu: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/annot... This is a big step up in data depth and quality and should be super helpful going forward.

We pay our academic editors (we don't do special issues with guest editors). Beginning in April, we also pay peer reviewers @biologyopen.bsky.social details to be announced at #biologists100 bit.ly/4h1cmCC @biologists.bsky.social

Epigenetics Folks, Science must go on! Please consider joining us for the Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference to be held August 10-15 in Barcelona. Please spread the word and apply early, as this meeting always oversubscribes! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

Yo-we can't buy your products if you don't labor to reverse the funding freeze, and you'll have to close your plant in Mebane NC @milliporesigma.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social

ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU

Switching fields to #zebrafish? Wanting to become an expert in zebrafish research? Check-out the @mblscience.bsky.social 2025 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course – a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 13 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

"...Moreover, federal reimbursement of indirect costs was seen as a way to get universities to accept federal funding at all, since at the time many universities “had no interest” in federal funding “owing to fears about government intrusion in curricula, research topics, and governance.”

Really appreciate Jonathan Lambert pointing out that NSF grants are congressionally mandated to weigh how grants broaden participation in science, putting the administration's executive order against DEIA in conflict with, and potentially undermining, congressional legislation

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

Zebrafish friends, IZFS has made it to BlueSky! 🐟

Pardon us, Bluesky! We didn't really introduce ourselves during this latest barrage. ZR! covers highlights of all things #zebrafish and other cool teleost species. We act as a resource hub for questions and queries from the community while celebrating all those that are part of it! #RockOn 🧪 #SciSky

We have 15 PhD positions available as part of the DANIO-ReCODE MSCA DN 🇪🇸🇩🇪🇸🇮🇭🇷🇦🇹🇬🇧 Great opportunity for anyone interested in developmental biology, regeneration, genomics, and computational sciences. For project descriptions and how to apply, check: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/290548

There's a lot of new people here. Welcome! So I'm reposting our starter pack. go.bsky.app/Npxsd7h

So proud of Goll lab graduate student Katie Duval for doing an amazing job defending her thesis today. Look out world, here comes Katie!

Congratulations to the winners of the Nobel prize! I hope their stories, particularly KK's, force us to confront the misogyny, bias and assumptions about "impact" and "excellence" that very likely limit the recognition of similar innovations that could improve our world.

Safe travels to everyone making their way to Durham! For conference attendees, please remember to use #ZDM16 in your posts 🙏

For those who haven't followed the news the Fiscal Year 2024 NIH funding bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee has unprecedented cuts: An overall 6.2% cut, a 2.6% cut in NIGMS, a 2.9% cut for the NCI & the NIAID budget slashed by 22.9%. Look at projected paylines under this vision 🧪

In some distant reality academics will talk about the life-changing EDI/DEI initiatives they’ve devised and delivered, or the weekend open days they’ve attended, or the pastoral support they’ve provided their students and the strong relationships that sustain beyond that, or…etc, etc.

Abstract submission for #TAGC24 is open now through Nov 9! Topics include Neurogenetics, Genomes & Genomics, Ecological Genetics, plus model organism meetings, amazing keynotes, industry sessions, career/networking events & much more. genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ab...

Come join our growing Department in a vibrant college town. The Biology Department at the University of Iowa has 2 tenure-track faculty searches - cell biology (#74981) and neurobiology (#74982). Application review begins 10/1. Apply at: jobs.uiowa.edu/content/facu...

not an original thought but bears repeating: half of writing is just being allowed time to sit on your ass uninterrupted and think about things really hard until you puzzle them out, which doesn't look or feel like work at all. but it is!

Feeling proud to have worked the word "sus" into my undergraduate Advanced Genetics lecture today. My 11 year old daughter would have been so incredibly mortified for me.

We are hiring a TT assistant prof in Plant Synthetic Biology or Bioengineering to be jointly appointed in the Dept Plant Biology and Inst of Bioinformatics at UGA! Deadline Nov 10 to start next Fall. Join us! ugajobsearch.com/postings/341666 🧪🌾🧫

I tend to believe that we need to invest heavily in building bottom up support systems, resources, processes in academia to level the playing field before we impose new panopticon-like top down standards and procedures. Otherwise every new standard will serve to select for the already privileged.

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I am very proud to present our latest work, describing how DNA methylation shapes the polycomb landscape. A team effort, led by @jrichardalbert.bsky.social , Teresa Urli and Ana Monteagudo-Sanchez! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Once again, we could avoid this dumb circling firing squad btw our starved campuses & solve nearly every other problem in higher education - up to & including parents’ hysteria about getting their kids into the Ivies - simply by Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

Same.

New to BlueSky (thanks @matlupien.bsky.social!) - who in the cancer research community is on BlueSky? Leave a comment so I can follow you!

Family lake camping with a favorite work colleague and their clan. This might be work-life balance at its finest!

September 18 we will start reviewing applications, please boost on this platform as well! Evolutionary ecologist, assistant professor, UGA Ecology, Athens Ga www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/329...

Have empty wall space in your fish facility? Hang up this helpful #zebrafish health conditions poster from University of Warwick colleagues! To download high-resolution PDF, visit resources.researchanimaltraining.com/articles/zeb...

Feels right to use my first post here to congratulate the UGA Genetics graduate students for putting together a fantastic departmental retreat! Great science, great energy, great food and lots of fun!