Behaviour @icouzin.bsky.social (Collective behaviour/ Schooling /Virtual reality) https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adq6784 ‪@noimthemary.bsky.social‬ & #NelsonLab (Behaviour/ Larvae startle response/ Cadherin-16) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003164#NelsonLab(10/38)

A few days ago, President Trump issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR, the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.

New paper dropped: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Sign reveal for today’s Stand Up For Science Protest

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

THE Rep. Jasmine Crockett to Elon Musk: "Fuck off." So say we all. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Video clip courtesy of @calltoactivism.bsky.social

The lady in my audiobook pronounces the H in “white”. No me gusta

Well, today feels ominous…

Every single part of this message gives me the ick

Just got my first request to review a paper since graduating!

Spotify calling me out

Me: I should really limit my news consumption for my own sanity Also me: I should follow every single person that works at NPR

It's good day to remind everyone that RFK Jr doesn't believe that HIV causes AIDS. This conspiracy makes him an unfit choice to lead the department of health and human services. He also believes vaccines cause autism. Call/email your senator and oppose his confirmation. #WorldAIDSDay2024

The first 22 hours of #Zebrafish development. Blood vessels labeled in green #WeinsteinLab 🔬🧪

Intracranial lymphatic vessels in a larval zebrafish. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

The Onion buying InfoWars is hilarious

Learning to section zebrafish larvae is by far my favorite technique I’ve learned this year

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.

I’m an not nearly professional enough to be on professional bluesky

Five day old zebrafish larvae stained with DAPI, labeling cell nuclei.

I don’t exactly fit into the category of scientists/artists that you typically find under hashtags like #scienceart but I am a scientist and I do make art! The model organism I tend to draw is Homo sapiens though 😂

Being an avid reader finally paid off with an internet quiz! 😝 www.arealme.com/vocabulary-s...

One post-election struggle is deciding what I want my new media diet to be moving forward. Not sure I can take 4 years of hearing every shitty things that man does but I also want to stay informed. Might need to pick one or two daily sources and then listen to music the rest of the day for my sanity

For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study

Snow day + library books = a good Friday after a shitty week

So… not the best week…

Our new preprint is out!

Way to go UW! www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

My newest paper is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Breaking News: Jon Stewart will return to host “The Daily Show” on Monday nights during the 2024 election campaign. Stewart, who hosted the Comedy Central show from 1999 to 2015, will also be an executive producer.

New potato recipe unlocked

The spam accounts have arrived

I’ve never seen anyone actually finish a roll of parafilm in my 18 years working in labs

I’m going to see Mariah!

Some of my favorite abstract paintings I’ve made

"We are proud to announce that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded to insurance broker and Findlay, OH resident Darren Weston for his astounding discoveries that vaccines don’t work and will kill you."

Vasculature across the blood-brain barrier in a zebrafish larva. Credit to Dr. Rob Wilkinson. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

We have a pumpkin vandal

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is reviving a program to mail free rapid coronavirus tests to Americans.
 Starting Sept. 25, people can request four free tests per household through covidtests.gov.

I’m loving this new zebrafish stamp from USPS! www.nih.gov/news-events/....

I had hoped to completely leave Twitter last year when I deleted my account but I will probably have my other account forever since I got locked out. Oops

My little pup is an old man now. 11 today!

Behavioral and transcriptomic analyses of mecp2 function in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.13.557635v1

The preprint of some of my graduate thesis work is out now!

Always exciting to have a paper cited but my paper has been cited incorrectly twice this week 😳

“Arrival” being on Netflix is amazing news for me. Apologies to my husband though because he has to watch it *another* 100 times

@heydebigale.bsky.social you’re my very first friend on here ❤️

The first piece of art that I will share on here, as this week was my grandma’s birthday and she’s been (extra) on my mind. She gave me the gift of art. Here’s a drawing I made of her after she passed in 2021. I used her paints and my pencils and in a way, we made this together ❤️