Elevated DNA damage without signs of ageing in the short-sleeping Mexican cavefish offers a unique model to study sleep, DNA repair, and ageing. buff.ly/6VrO19l

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /

We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Turquoise killifish naturally develop hallmarks of age-related macular degeneration with advancing age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.683644v1

PRI is continuing to build on our collaborative mission, connecting leading plant scientists to drive unique solutions to global challenges in food security and climate resilience, and we invite applications for multiple tenure-stream faculty positions: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista... #PlantSciJobs

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city! https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman #postdoc

And here’s another thread about perfection! The world doesn’t actually WANT perfection from you demand for perfection is a cudgel used by people in power to control you, to keep you feeling small, to keep you easy to manipulate Remember that. As they yell at fat generals bsky.app/profile/swil...

Webvision Has A New Home! www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...

#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!

Hey, if you are actively coughing and sniffing at a conference, WEAR A DAMNED MASK. We need to start having policies at meetings to hand out masks and enforce their wearing to limit infectious disease spread.

Nixon Lab is hoping to recruit a postdoctoral fellow interested in alcohol-microglia and/or alcohol-neural stem cell interactions in recovery from alcohol-induced brain and behavioral damage/dysfunction. Open fellowships on our NIAAA-funded T32! Please spread the word!

New paper! Kudos to first author Jaeeun Lee, who is a fantastic and hard working student. We showed that at photoreceptor presynapses, ELFN1 enrichment depends on postsynaptic mGluR6. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

The mysterious non-PSD localization of PSD95 🟣 in the retina outer plexiform layer... co-stained for postsynaptic TRPM1 🟢 #FluorescenceFriday

Everyone at @ucleye.bsky.social has been deeply saddened by the passing of a highly esteemed colleague in June 2025. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

So far the most effective way I've found to get students to not use ChatGPT is to say, "you can use it if you want to; if you do, here is the list of things you should do to make sure that it doesn't embarrass you" & then have them write a reflection about their choice

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding whole genome doubling: Insights from evolution, development and disease' organised by Renata Basto and Zuzana Storchova. biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n

Are postdocs the rarest species, or is it just me? We have two funded positions—apply now and join us on these exciting projects! #zebrafish #zebrafishcareers #iPSC #devbio #regeneration

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

A good man has left this world. May he be remembered, because his life was a blessing.

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

The University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Fellow to to lead the MND Alert Project and contribute to the expanding Better Outcomes in #MND research group. Closing date: 13th March. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Are you a PhD student interested in #SciComm, community building and publishing? Are you in the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes where an internship forms part of the PhD training? Join us as an intern and work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social! More details:

We are delighted to welcome three new correspondents to the FocalPlane team. Look out for blog posts from Sally Horton @crick.ac.uk, Varsha Mahapatra, Utrecht University and @nclnoel.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk in 2025. Check out our introductory post ⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/24/a...

Good story up on funding lag from WESA, an NPR station in Pittsburgh. www.wesa.fm/health-scien... 1/2

Dive deep into glaucoma research at the #BrightFocus #Glaucoma Fast Track, held Oct 8th in conjunction with the @iser.bsky.social ISER/BrightFocus Symposium. This intensive program offers valuable insights & connections for those new to the field. iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org/fast-track/

Our lab has multiple open positions for post-docs to study the regulation and function of cytoplasm mechanics during embryo development. Details below 👇👇 Please Repost !!! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston broadens block on Trump's NIH grant 15% overhead limit (indirect cost rates) to all recipients nationwide. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #TROpalooza ain't done

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Dynamic gene expression atlas of the larval zebrafish brain. Credit to @ishainer.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

We are hiring a senior research technician to work with me on my Moorfields Eye Charity-funded killifish ageing retina project! If interested, apply by 18 February, and feel free to email me with queries.

We are hiring a senior research technician to work with me on my Moorfields Eye Charity-funded killifish ageing retina project! If interested, apply by 18 February, and feel free to email me with queries.

Looking for a high qualtiy scientific meeting being held in Canada this year? The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting (Regional SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting) is happening May 25-28 in Kelowna BC. Registration is now open! www.sdbonline.org/meeting?Reso...

Hand-drawn images of larval and juvenile zebrafish. Credit to @stednitz.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Cool paper (and great resource). I’m especially keen the disconnect between mRNA and protein levels in adult tissues! Pay attention #devbiol, it’ll be the same in embryonic tissues. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The nanodrop said I had no DNA, but I did the cloning anyway and it woooOoOooorked

Stunning capture of the complex zebrafish eye. Credit to Dr. Ivar Noordstra. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Ok I had to see this so now y’all do to: I just ran into someone touting the “skin benefits” of raw dairy on the basis that “dairy maids were known for their clear skin”. You guys. Dairy maids were known for NOT BEING POCKMARKED. You know why? They didn’t get smallpox as often.