"AI is designed to kill humans, but in the most soulless way possible, stripping away even our ability to own and express our pain." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.

Lovely summary on why #zebrafish make excellent models of human disease! Featuring @crumplab.bsky.social 🐟🧪

Hey science hivemind can you help me? A while ago I came across a great quote about how science/biology is really complicated and if you study or think about it long enough it only gets more complicated Cannot for the life of me find it again. It was maybe from a scifi author in the 60s or 70s? 🧪🧬

Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

So, I'd rather read my colleagues' work and provide them with what I feel are useful comments because that's what I believe is best for everyone and science

The public dismissal of serious concerns about the uncritical adoption of LLM tools in science as "reflexive loathing", by a person who has done very good things for science (via biorxiv in particular), makes me sad one less tool in the scientific publishing workflow for me—bye biorxiv, I'll miss u

PNS is just a fancy word for externalized services

LLM PR will have the exact same flaw but with a difference. Authors will be able to iteratively run their work through LLM PR before submitting, making the surface level that both LLMs and humans can pick up on even more immaculate, further concealing the deeper issues.

The consequence of that flaw in human PR is that scientists learn to conceal deeper flaws by having an immaculate surface. The economics of science are such that work that has been completed has to be published, so PR won't lead to the deeper issues being addressed. There's no money to pay for that.

#ZebrafishFunFacts: Using the discarded slide film from his doctoral research, Professor and amateur artist Michael Barresi created a mosaic of an adult #zebrafish. Learn about his upcoming art installation on human embryos called 'Using Art to Demystify Science': www.smith.edu/news-events/... 🧪

Question from Slack: Looking for antibodies against mscarlet-i that people have good experience with? #AskZebrafish

AI stans "Don't worry people, we're very cautious in our piloting of the face-eating leopard machines"

We.have.to.talk.to.each.other

There are no words for how evil this is

Query from Slack: Looking for notch2 mutant zebrafish and someone willing to share them? Preferably in the US. 🔍 #AskZebrafish

Does anyone know of a good textbook/review broadly on erythropoiesis? I'd love to hear your suggestions! 🩸 #hemesky #bloodsky

I was going to order a new UV bulb for my fish rack from Aquaneering and it looks like the shipping alone is going to be $212. I don't know how universal UV bulbs are if I could order it from some other random source to get around this. Do others know? #zebrafish

Your favorite guessing game has returned to social media! Here's how to play #GuessThatISH: We present a pic of a #zebrafish embryo that has been stained using an unknown in situ probe by Thisse et al. You tell us what it looks like! The catch? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY! Let's play! #ThisseThursday 🧪

how about you pay your reviewers instead.

My lab notebook is a series of videos a la Blair Witch Project

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

There has been a resurgence in Tripodfish interest, so let's check them out! #LetsChangeThat

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

REMEMBER, REMEMBER

On my way to Zurich to speak at the 'Fish n Chick' series at UZH, invited by the irreplaceable @axonsalex.bsky.social 🧪

Just to remind ppl that zohran campaigned as unapologetically pro-Palestine so stop saying it’s an untenable position

If I get murdered, I want someone to add wings and a trident to my chalk silhouette

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

I hope they do get everything that's coming to them. And then some

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Collaborative work from @jingwenshen.bsky.social @ditalialab.bsky.social & @kenposs.bsky.social

Want to catch up on all the #DevBio, #StemCell (& related) preprints that came out in September? Check out our September #preprint list👇 thenode.biologists.com/september-in...

Now out in Cell! Congratulations to all involved, especially @chiarafornetto.bsky.social For a breakdown, see the bluetorial from when we posted the preprint: bsky.app/profile/neur... Funding: @erc.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ukri.org @leverhulme.ac.uk @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

Mad example of this trend from real life though - we pitched an investigation to a commissioner at a major broadcaster, and they put the thing we were investigating and said “oh I’ve put it into ChatGPT and it says the answer is…” And then we’re confused when we said “thats not true”!

"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"

In a phrase I never thought I'd say: Someone made a devastating white-spotted pufferfish edit. Let's meet the fish behind it. #LetsChangeThat

New awareness campaign

Biology is ridiculous. Look at that ridiculous thing

To celebrate the most recently attributed José Luis Gomez Skarmeta prize #JLGS2024 we interviewed the prize winner @dariloops.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social on his research and his thoughts on #DevBio youtu.be/eldKr4MIrIU?...

If we let the paid employees of a small number of ethics-free AI companies dictate the directions in which our scholarship should develop and the ways in which researchers must go about their work now, we are indeed fucking ourselves over.

I've updated my Bioinformatics Bootcamp: Zebrafish Special Edition blog post on @the-node.bsky.social! Please do share with trainees or anyone new to the community. I hope it adds some breadth to the many resources available to #zebrafish researchers. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...

Finally got my hands on a rare find: Sonja Buckley’s autobiography. She was instrumental in the development of tissue culture techniques for virus isolation & study, which required CONSIDERABLE skill pre-gloves, BSCs, & mechanical pipettes - & was the first person to isolate Lassa virus.

Thread coming soon, but be the first to read the latest from @franziau.bsky.social!

Slow-mo video of zebrafish mating. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Timely review from Mokalled Lab at WUSTL

Alt text is for people with vision problems. For people who can't read the text no matter what form it appears in, who use screen readers. The alt text is needed for those. That's why it was created. Also, it's just copy and paste it's way easier than describing an image, the work is done for you

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.