🔔Join us next 📅Wednesday to hear about 🧬fascinating research from @maggiechasse.bsky.social & Pengda Liu! 🗒️If you're not already registered, click here to sign up: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🤖you can also join the conversation at our discord: discord.com/invite/dXqT89r

#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026) 1963 PARP 1970 RNA Pol II 1975 Nucleosome 1977 Split genes 1980 Promoter 1983 enhancer 1986 Nuclear receptor

May 4th is Melanoma Monday, as part of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month! Did you know #zebrafish are pushing the boundaries of #melanoma research? With a wide range of genetic & molecular tools, researchers are closer to unraveling its pathogenesis & discovering new therapeutics. 🐟🔬 #KnowYourZDM

How is technology transforming zebrafish cancer research? 🐟🔬 The first @zdmsociety.bsky.social Cancer RIG is ✨diving✨ into just that and we'd love to see you there! 📅 Monday, May 4th | 10–11:30 AM EST

The Cancer RIG is excited to kick off the 2026 series with a webinar on technology! 🐟🧬🤩

I always tell my students to “follow the data.” Thinking of adding a supplemental clause like, “unless the data lead you to the immune system.”

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

📣 The @zdmsociety.bsky.social Cancer RIG is now accepting applications for a June webinar! 📣 We’re highlighting trainees & early-career investigators! 🤩 🔥 Apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/g/MvGJerwFHh

🐟 Fish 🐠🐠 Fish 🐟🐠🐡 Fishes 🦑🦀🦪 Also, somehow, Fish 🦈 Gristle Fish 🦫 Fish (Lent) 🐝 Fish (California)

📣 The @zdmsociety.bsky.social Cancer RIG committee is excited to invite nominations (self-noms welcome) for a June webinar! 🧬 We’re especially highlighting trainees & early-career investigators! 🤩 Submit a nomination here: bit.ly/46CSaVg (ping @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social)

Doing exciting research and/or tech development in the #zebrafish cancer field? 🧬✨ The @zdmsociety.bsky.social Cancer RIG committee is organizing research AND technology 2026 webinars — and we want to connect with you! Please DM if interested! (Ping: @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social)

Big congrats to Dr. Len Zon for being awarded the 2026 @marchofdimes.org Richard B Johnston Jr, MD Prize for his work in #devbio. His pioneering research has illuminated how blood develops in embryos, leading to a deeper understanding of genetic blood diseases. www.marchofdimes.org/about/news/r... 🧪

We are losing scientists from the government at an unprecedented rate - some were fired, but many more were forced out through trauma and fear. www.science.org/content/arti...

If you are a scientist funded by NIH and agree that if the HHS/NIH bill is held hostage by linkage for funding to DHS/ICE, we need to shutdown both and save lives, its time to speak up. Right now, with a few exceptions, the silence is deafening

Become ungovernable

As a cancer scientist, it’s definitely, “are they really hiding the cure for cancer?”

The best hello; the hardest goodbye. So thankful for a beautiful 13 years. 💕

In the spirit of Halloween, we’ve resurrected our social media presence! We look forward to reconnecting with the community and celebrating all those that are part of it 😊 #RockOn

The most wonderful group of scientists, and now friends, to organize a trainee focused meeting to kick off SMR 2025!

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

I was about to tag @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social but she beat me to it. 😂😂

One of my cats is very regal and one is very much not. This custom poorly drawn pet portrait perfectly captures their dichotomy 😂😂

My yearly PSA to vote Grazer, a true feminist icon. 👑 @fatbearweek.bsky.social

We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs

We're super excited to announce the entire lineup for the Fall season of Fragile Nucleosome Seminars, starting on Sept 10th at 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC with @gracebower.bsky.social and @creminslab.bsky.social! register here for the entire series: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My recent postdoctoral work is out today in @nature.com! We found that physical confinement makes melanoma cells more invasive and drug tolerant. Thanks to all who made this work possible @whitefishlab.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social #NIH #NCI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finding moments of peace 💕💕

🎓 Planning to apply to STEM graduate programs? Join us for our webinar: “Applying to Grad Programs in STEM” on Thursday, 8/28 at 5.30pm ET. Gain key insights on: ✅ Grad school application timeline ✅ How to choose the right program 🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/gsmi-2025-...

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Very proud of our partner papers in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social and @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social from collaborative work in my lab and Benjamin Stanton's lab focused on fusion-positive #rhabdomyosarcoma. #TeamFishAndChIPs

🚨🚨🚨 Tol2kit announcement! We have rebuilt the wiki that was corrupted a few months ago! We’re in the process of also linking it to the original address. Please visit us here: tol2kitkwan.genetics.utah.edu Thank you for your patience!! #zebrafish #transgenesis #plasmids #sharing

10th percentile for ESI 😅

Now this was just rude @nytimes.com

Camp Zon 2025 has officially kicked off! Bittersweet to be my final year directing this amazing program — cannot wait for the next two weeks! #Zebrafish #Outreach 🐠

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

the year 4 "can't wait to be a PI" to the year 5 "hopefully I can at least keep my current job for another year or two" senior postdoctoral fellow in 2025 pipeline

🆕 Our back-to-back papers reveal a surprising villain in ICB resistance: NK cells. 🧬 Targeting regulatory NK cells may boost T cell–driven immunotherapy. #Immunotherapy #CancerResearch #ICB #NKcells #Melanoma #CD8Tcells

Your silence most offends me

Taking back mojo dojo casa house. #NoKings

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

This happens tomorrow, still time to register, free webinar, cutting edge zebrafish cancer model stories! Come join us!

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

Finishing a talk at the airport with wine. Like a true academic. Next stop? Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics GRC! 🐟🐠

Free Webinar - Cancer research using zebrafish models, #ZDMS 2025 Cancer RIG Meet-up on Wednesday 28 May (10-11.30AM EST) exciting stories by rising stars of zebrafish cancer research field us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'