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

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📢 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

To be, or not to be, part-time in academia? This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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...

Over 300 signatures so far, listed here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... - please keep signing and sharing.

For #zebrafish people - we have a joint @ZDMSociety @InfoIzfs webinar focused on single-cell tech coming up on February 20th. Featuring Yinan Wan, Jialin Liu and Loic Royer. Register here: www.izfs.org/education/we...

#ECMatrix researchers, please share: Just under 2 weeks until the abstract deadline (21st Feb) for the 3-day Matrix Nexus meeting in Freiburg. Topics include #cancer #collagens #proteoglycans #proteases #tissueengineering & a session dedicated to #ECRs! www.matrixbiologie.de/annual-meeti...

And in the uk the Newton Fellowships too! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Another great job opportunity @BristolBioSci. This one is a lectureship in evolutionary biology, and we are looking for an academic lead to our MSc in bioinformatics, so genomics and phylogenetics will be strong cards to play!

I am recruiting an #ERC funded PostDoc to work on the evolution of vertebral counts in cichlids. This is an experimental project & will be looking for candidates with experience generating reporter lines, live-imaging and experimental embryology. Application deadline: 25th Feb. tinyurl.com/33jbu8fa

🧪Alright, if you've been wanting more concrete info on what's going down at the CDC, and how scientists and academic publishers are responding, I got you. A 24-hour sprint for @natureportfolio.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here’s why we need to study & fund developmental biology: to understand, prevent & treat birth defects. Infants can’t speak, so we must be their advocates