Joel is such a creative scientist, but also such a generous kind individual. People like him are so important to our community.

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Exactly this. Success rates of 0.5% = a huge waste of effort.

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

We’ve got a couple of PhD projects open. Including one with the lovely @adamgrieve.bsky.social and @scholpplab.bsky.social on Rhbdl proteins in #zebrafish which is open to UK and international students tinyurl.com/fishprotease

Looking for a PhD position? Join the Kague Lab as a PhD student in Precision Medicine (funded by the MRC) to work on a multidisciplinary project about Bone Fragility! 🦴 👇 usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

Super fun experience doing a PhD defense in Iceland. Well done Dr Abbi Smith! Also a great opportunity to take the kids to Iceland and sneak in some glacier hiking and golden triangle trips in a frozen wonderland!

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate? We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !

Want to engage and « do something » about microplastics in your own environment. Consider joining the foldscope community that has been mapping novel sources of microplastics around the world. microcosmos.foldscope.com/post/zCoLNt3...

Jeremie and Rabia presenting (on fracture repair and cell lineages in scales respectively) at #UKZF2025 - proud PI alert!

Post an image from your summer that confers peace

Lucky to live in a city that has a free balloon fiesta so can see this in the morning

Lucky to live in a city that has a free balloon fiesta so can see this in the morning

Apply!

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

🧪 Job alert 🔊 we are hiring a Research Assistant - join the Simões Group at DPAG-IDRM @ox.ac.uk supporting #cardiovascular development and regeneration research, working with #zebrafish and #human stem cell systems: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... @oxforddpag.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk (1/4)

Just when you thought all had gone quiet on the COLGALT2 front- get ready to hear more! Delighted that @hammofish.bsky.social and I have been awarded a four year grant from MRC @ukri.org to study the role of this enzyme in the skeleton. Will be advertising PDRA and RA posts in due course! #orthosky

Job opportunity! This would be perfect for someone with an interest/background in animal behaviour and enthusiasm for scientific publishing. Help contribute to a fantastic journal! Deadline 31 July.

Best way to spent a hot weekend. In the water. 6km swim for Bantham swoosh, then sea kayaking with the kids

This is a brilliant place to work. PI’s consider flagging this up to talented Masters students

This is today! Remember to sign up and come along!

This 👇🏾. A different set of rules, expectations on women, and perceptions of workloads is all part of the hidden curriculum of academia. If all leaders/senior colleagues can do is tell women to learn to say ‘no’ rather than ditching the double standards, they are very much a part of the problem.

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios. thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

The most glorious early morning swim - perfect week to start the week in an empty lake

Nice 48 hours, some good science news Friday, then 2 days white water paddling with the husband

Thanks so much for being the awesome advocate for all things fish for so many years. We all owe you a beer!

Interested in #zebrafish aging, then please sign up for the #zdms aging rig webinar. 4 great speakers. 9th July. 10am ET, 3pm UK. Link to register us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

We are hiring a new PhD student in #Bioinformatics and Organ #Regeneration using to join our team at the @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social If you are interested in how the heart regenerates and want to work in a dynamic and experienced team please apply here. www.hubrecht.eu/job/phd-stud...

Answer me, these riddles 3, and my data I shall bequeath! 📊📄 1. What is on a USB in a drawer no one knows about? 2. Which version includes the published record? "_final_final" or "_final" but with the most recent "file opened last" date? 3. Refer to riddle 4. #AcademicSky #SciPub

PhD opportunity 👇Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK health inequity @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social & Prof Kai Yang @winchesterschoolofart @unisouthampton.bsky.social Apply now ✍️ rolling deadline start Oct 25 cidns-cdt.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Always a massive pleasure to come up to Sheffield and get to chat to the brilliant scientists up here

Can't believe we're all going to be replaced by this

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

"we have been watching with growing concern policy changes in the US...The scale of disruption to science is unprecedented...We are concerned with policies that threaten censorship & removal of public data...To our colleagues in the US, we stand with you" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Maybe of interest to the talented ECR network of @themeshwork.bsky.social ? www.manchester.ac.uk/research/bic...

We’ve created a new field called “chronogenetics”: controlling gene expression with the cell’s internal clock! Lara Pferdehirt & Anna Damato made living implants that sync to the body & automatically deliver biological drugs on a 24 hr cycle. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ZebrafishCareers 🇦🇺 (Group Leader)

Look at this post! So good, and really fucking good ideas. An avenue we can use to megaphone our message and efforts. www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...

Did you know your heart beats 100,000 times a day? Join us on Thu 13 March at the Bristol Heart Festival ❤️, a FREE hands-on event exploring #heart health, cutting-edge research & life-saving skills! ➡️ brnw.ch/21wR4Fs @uobppn.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

We're advertising a fully-funded BBSRC PhD studentship @newcastleuni.bsky.social to work on understanding the biology of COLGALT2 in cartilage using/developing cool model systems w/ Dr James Henstock at @northumbriauni.bsky.social. Pls reach out if you are interested in applying! bit.ly/3DiqHN9

Are you interested in tissue engineering, immune responses and mechanoresponses? We are part of an exciting "organ-on-a-chip" PhD project, led by Ana Ferreira-Duarte at @newcastleuni.bsky.social To find out more and to apply, visit: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

This is an excellent statement by the RS. It could have been issued weeks ago, but at least it has been posted. The underpinning issue, that ignoring evidence and (worse) spreading misinformation causes harm, needs to be publicised as widely as possible. Education, in all its forms, is essential.

Are you a researcher planning to apply for Wellcome funding in the next two years? We’re offering researchers the opportunity to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee and learn how grant applications are assessed. Learn more ⤵️ wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Something a little different - this on working part time in academic research. Some of the pleasures but also the challenges. Was lucky to work with some brilliant people on this and we had a great experience with @elife.bsky.social