Non-science related thought after the holidays: one of the best gifts I've ever received? A nice ratcheting screwdriver. Truly nothing as nice as the way it smoothly clicks, and makes tasks so much more satisfying.

Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.

Maybe one of the most dishonest pieces I’ve read in years: laundering your company’s reputation for killing tens of thousands of people with denials through the life story of a slain employee. Maybe take some responsibility for the societal harms and people you kill. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

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 don't think it should be a controversial opinion that batshit crazy persons should not be in charge of the health of hundreds of millions of people, including millions of young and unborn kids, who don't have the luxury of you learning from your mistakes. Also, see Samoa and the measles vaccine.

This is a good news! Good that HHMI recognizes talent is spread out rather than in some elite universities @hhmi.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/howa...

Delighted to see @hhmi.bsky.social take this important step with the investigator program. I hope that this will lead to a broader array of voices in science, and a broader, more inclusive number of institutions with the amazing resources provided by HHMI www.thetransmitter.org/funding/howa...

Paper accepted today! Congrats @bengarcia-danio.bsky.social on your next first author publication! Can't wait to see the next one from your PhD!

Great to see the tree of life being corrected, showing the proper place for zebras. After all, aren’t we all fish, at least monophyletically?

Go red: « The mScarlet family of fluorescent proteins keeps growing! Meet mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong), an ultrastable RFP ideal for many advanced microscopy applications. Plasmids are now available via WeKwikGene! wekwikgene.wllsb.edu.cn/plasmids?sea... »

Reintroducing the lab by featuring some recent papers on acoustic communication in the tiny glassfish Danionella cerebrum (@danionella.bsky.social). Antonia Groneberg carefully characterized the ontogeny of their singing in JEB: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... 🧵

It’s been 3:50 for quite a while now 🤔

So who will train undergraduate and graduate students who don't get into those "top universities" because they never had access to them? Us, in the non top universities can do also brilliant research AND train so many talented students.

There are “talented” scientists everywhere. It’s the resource hoarding at large institutions that is the real problem.

When Albuquerque made their bus system—including their bus rapid transit lines—free, not only did ridership jump it was actually found to be more cost effective.

Everyone should check out @immunojordan.bsky.social who just joined, and incredible scientist doing super cool marsupial immunology!

Yo, listen up here's a story About a little guy That lives in a blue world And all day and all night And everything he sees is just blue Like him inside and outside A bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) for #SundayFishSketch

An amazing talk from a great scientist!

Excited for my first bluesky post announcing TWO openings for tenure track positions in virology! I am chair of the search committee and with a new department head Mike Gale we are in an exciting building phase. Please share with anyone who might be interested: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

As a proud comparative/non-model immunologist working in trout, lungfish, and zebrafish, and friends working on opossums, skinks, and sharks, reach out! We’re always looking for more folks to collaborate with, and trust me, it only gets cooler the deeper you go!

Now more than ever the world should learn about the life and impact of @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social neuroscientist Ben Barres, the movie is underway! @atqmovie.bsky.social

I created a simple flow chart to help my lab trainees choose the most appropriate stats test in Prism (*for single-factor comparisons only). Feel free to share with your group if you think it could be helpful first start.

Nice! Is Weird Al Yankovic over here yet? Gonna need a theme song for #GarWeek. Maybe rework something from Simon and GARfunkel?

The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California Davis, School of Medicine, invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Microbiome Sciences. Apply by December 11th at: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847

We need post docs, students, and faculty in Congress, communicating what scientists do from scientists, unfiltered

Gut IgA1 and IgA2 subclasses co-emerge early in life, largely derive from clonally related and somatically mutated plasma cells in adults, and show unique changes of both frequency and reactivity in IBD @gmagrilab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1084/jem....

US based organisation (but presumably open to anyone anywhere in STEM 🧪). "Mentors do not need to be disabled, but willing to learn about the disability community and empower disabled individuals."

I think I’m finally caught up adding individuals to the #DisabledInSTEM Starter Pack!! If I missed you, please reach out! 💜

microscopy repost! zebrafish skin macrophage expressing the EB3 microtubule reporter #microscopymonday #macrophagmonday #microtubulemonday

Just swam over to Bluesky and decided to dip my fin in the water. I am a Postdoc in the Weinstein lab and currently on the faculty job market. I developed an injury system to study cutaneous wound healing in adult zebrafish. Check out my movie showing neutrophil recruitment after injury.

Are you an #ECR who would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next ~6 months but don't have sufficient funding, check to see if you are eligible for our JCS-FocalPlane Training Grant. Next deadline: 22 November 2024 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

Top science bluesky topics to date: 1. How about them impact factors? 2. Elsevier should stop existing... right? 3. Science

We will be hosting 3rd Full Circle Symposium for Native Biologists hosted at UCSF in April 2025! We aim to build community and provide meaningful opportunities for Native scientists. If you are a Native biologist who is interested plz fill this out to stay up to date: forms.gle/AN7nfkhdB3Fv...

#Mentoring Effective mentoring recognizes the challenges trainees often encounter when moving to unfamiliar locations for their training. We should be empathetic and ensure that our approach focuses not only on the training but also on their overall well-being.

I guess the internet figured out I was Spanish

Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman (UCLA) talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes this [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda."

Hello friends! We’re here to celebrate and share all things fluorescent. Tag us as you share findings related to the use or publication of FPs and other probes

Feeling chaotic, just made a Truth Social account to talk about science

This is a movie of actin filaments in a cultured cell. I like watching it and I hope you do to.

#MicroscopyMonday One of my favorites - it looks like it should be stained glass. MCF10A cells stained for DNA (blue), alpha-tubulin (green), and YAP/TAZ (red). I love all the stages of the cell cycle that are on display.

Looking to satisfy your fish fix? Begin with one of our Starter Packs covering the #zebrafish community: 🐟🧪 PIs/Group Leaders/Senior Scientists v1: go.bsky.app/2cHYybY PIs/Group Leaders/Senior Scientists v2: go.bsky.app/4zBuxAF Early-Career Researchers/Trainees: go.bsky.app/HwxuHey

We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista... Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂

Flood your timeline with fish! 🐟

Recent paper (Nature)-why are males more vulnerable to severe infections (ex acute #COVID), while females suffer more from autoimmunity (SLE, MS etc and also #LongCovid)? X/Y or hormones? We study adaptation of immune systems in gender-affirming testosterone treatment: nature.com/articles/s41...

Talked @kaguelab.bsky.social into joining Bluesky! Give her lab a follow for their cutting-edge bone research and top-notch #scicomm 👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience #zebrafish