You can only live in Bath for so long before the inevitable happens…

This week's #FluorescenceFriday may be blurry, but it's no less fabulous! Our first ever transgenic fish in Bath 💃. Credit to Cora for capturing this perfect moment of science joy!

Take a doomscrolling break to enjoy this movie of a zebrafish gut digesting a fluorescently labeled lipid-rich diet 🤩

This is stunning!! 554 sections through a larval zebrafish eye, reconstructed so that you're inside the eye looking out into the world 🤩. Literally a fisheye perspective!

It is mentally and emotionally exhausting to be the subject of endless discussions about whether or not you count as a human. So much legislative focus on trans lives revolves around creating a sense of isolation and loneliness. What a shame.

My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview

A friend at work knows an ice cream parlour with air conditioning, wifi and real life actual kittens, and I have no idea why she ever comes to work!

Fine. I’ll admit it. Every once in a while I see some fly shenanigans on here that makes me miss those funky little critters

This whole qed thing feels like a grift. We use one algorithm to define the best papers and another to show you how to write them. The more I think about it the more distasteful I find it.

A bit scruffy, but it is pride and I’m celebrating a month of fabulous in my new home

A few days ago I expressed concern about the urge people feel to out-perform the far right and this is the exact kind of shit I was talking about. My visibility is not a mistake, it’s an enrichment.

I'll start taking AI more seriously when it realises that the best heatmap colors come from pigeons.

I’ve been so inspired by the qed ranking system that I developed my own competitor. Take the first number this site gives you, multiply it be the number of times you name drop Haaaahvahd per day. You’re welcome 🙏

My lab gets me

Good.

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is this amazing democratizer of science, and @qedscience.bsky.social is now creating an "elite/other" classification. I find it so off-putting, it makes me never want to use the service. This technology is being grossly misused, in my opinion...

We're hiring! The Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London is seeking a new Assistant Professor in ecology, evolution, or environmental science. It's a great department with great students at a great university. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

the name is unfortunate and some of the analysis is striking. however, it’s interesting that they perform some analysis (where the “top-ranked” preprints originate from or are funded by) but not other analysis (gender of authors), given some AI agents’ bias

Happy Cat World Domination Day to those that celebrate

DDo 🌈 24/30. Love lives here.

I like taking pictures. Big and small. 1) The milky way 2)Stylized image of the mouse yolk sac vasculature with blood vessels in magenta and hematopoietic cells in green.

A massive congrats to Mckenna for winning the 2026 Christine Beattie Award!! Mckenna is an excellent scientist and a tremendous lab citizen - it means so much to see her get receive this recognition.

Don't miss this!

And a special happy birthday to Cyndi Lauper, who gave us this timeless affirmation.

Because of the month that's in it, I thought it might be worth sharing my feelings about the UK from the perspective of an LGBTQ individual that recently moved here. Caveats: I'm an n of 1, and I've only been here for six months, so these really are first impressions.

I do not enjoy this day

FWIW, Development has been one of my favourite journals across my entire scientific career, and it's heartening that they're not interested in IF chasing.

#FluorescenceFriday fish fabulousness by Mckenna. Moving is kinda scary, but my word, seeing gorgeous magenta fluorescent phagocytes decorate a fish gut in your new lab makes it worthwhile!

Be still my beating heart. Another mini milestone for the lab - we now have adult fish!

No but seriously: @reviewcommons.org is the best publishing experience you didn't know you were missing. Have had 4 papers through Review Commons now. All positive experiences (even the critical ones). If I'd submit to a journal in Review Commons, I might as well just submit to Review Commons! 👍

Registration deadline for Abstracts to be considered for a talk is tomorrow! 🐟 The deadline for the "From Postdoc to PI" will remain open for two more weeks. Come to Heidelberg so we can have fun. There will be prizes! 🧪

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

✨ We look forward to hosting Lesley Weaver from Indiana University at the #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰 Her lab studies how inter-organ communication and hormone signaling regulate adult stem cells and maintain tissue homeostasis. 🪰✨ #devbio #drosophila 🪸

We may have blinded the experiment, but the labels understood the assignment 💅

A comment in @natcomms.nature.com for the use of defined microbial communities for microbial applications I was glad to be involved in this highly collaborative discussions during online workshops last year, the thought from which are now published www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌈 At a time when progress can't be taken for granted, I 'm especially proud to share this @natcellbio.nature.com Q&A piece. I had the pleasure to discuss with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his inspiring journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. #PrideInSTEM 👉 rdcu.be/fnXQ6 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'd always wanted to work on aging, but never quite figured out what questions were within my reach. It's such a fascinating area.

Look, people. We have superb keynotes, we are giving prizes, we are giving postdocs a megaphone to tell everyone why they should be hired. This is the meeting to be at. Sign up, join us, and have the time of your life while discussing science with people that know where the cleithrum is🐟🧪

This is one of the most uplifting threads this month!

#CrohnsDisease is associated with NOD2 mutations, but what's NOD2's role in the #intestine? Mckenna Eklund & @edanfoley.bsky.social show that #NOD2 interacts with #estrogen to regulate intestinal homeostasis, perhaps explaining the sex-specific pathogenesis of CD @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ojTEuZ

Normally writing papers exhausts me, but working on this brought such joy. A very exciting study from Mckenna linking errant estrogen signaling with gut defects in NOD2-deficient fish.

Proofs!!!!

Pollinators hard at work in Bath!!

the cat may be shedding just a little

#FluorescenceFriday fabulous served by Mckenna. A fish gut with nuclei in blue, phagocytes in red, and f-actin in white 🤩. I love the organised chaos of the apical brush borders at the luminal interface, while macrophages stubbornly cling to the basal surface.

Check out this report on what happens when a journal pays reviewers for their work. Fast turnaround times and streamlined experience for authors. @biologyopen.bsky.social published by @biologists.bsky.social has now gone beyond the trial and show the results from a year of implementing Fast & Fair.

Done printing! #microsky #bugsky #sciart

When the light sends rainbows, you celebrate

Everyone once in a while you do some computer archeology and end up coming across old friends, like this IHC image of blood cells in the gut of an adult fish. I remember seeing these cells pushing their way into the epithelium, and thinking "look at you little heroes"

Such a smash!