That was the most of the solar eclipse we got from home. Pretty impressive moment, though.
Alejandro Barrallo
@abarrallo.bsky.social
25+ years of zebrafish. Hair cell toxicology research. Associate professor at the Universitat de Barcelona. Father of one. Photographer of birds
We are hiring!! We offer a 4-year PhD contract to join our newly granted project on EvoDevo and Genomics in the University of Barcelona 2026-2030. Postdocs are also welcome ➡️ evodevogenomics-unibarcelona.weebly.com/join-us.html @geneticsub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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Tribuna con @xrbustelo.bsky.social, @jaestebancbm.bsky.social, JM Torralba y J Gil sobre la resolución provisional de los proyectos PID (“Plan Nacional”), con media de 50.000 euros/proyecto/año (costes directos). Hay otras convocatorias, pero esta es básica e insuficiente elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
¿Qué ciencia puede realizarse con 50.000 euros al año?
“Esta limitación presupuestaria dificulta afrontar los experimentos complejos que hoy exige buena parte de la investigación en múltiples campos”, denuncian los autores
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Oldest, longest kept, most beloved meeting T-shirt
Against all odds, me & @mireyaplass.bsky.social got funded by @idibell.bsky.social to perform some scRNAseq on zebrafish hair cells!
Like one of the commenters said: before modern medicine half the children died. Just walk in a 100 year old cemetery
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Demoledor: elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
La Academia de Ciencias de EE UU tumba el estudio de Barbacid sobre la ‘curación’ del cáncer de páncreas por ocultar sus intereses empresariales
La organización retira el trabajo en la revista PNAS y reprocha que el científico y dos colegas no declararan que poseen parte de la compañía Vega Ocotargets para la explotación comercial de los resultados
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Job Alert!🚨 Opening for a Postdoctoral Research Officer in Sensory Neuroscience at Swansea Uni. to work on an exciting project investigating the structure & function of the cupulae of the lateral line neuromasts in #zebrafish. More details to apply: www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... 🧪 #PostdocJobs
onlinelibrary-wiley-com.sire.ub.edu/doi/10.1002/... "We would like to express our gratitude to the editors of BioEssays... Sven journals rejected the manuscript... without peer review. One editor explained “We don’t want to get a reputation for publishing hit pieces on papers in other journals.”"
A potential late sequelae of measles after normal recovery. Occurs in ~ 2/10,000. Fatal. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org today
My quote of the day Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson
New in #eNeuro: A Mouse study from Schenberg and colleagues reveals that 50% of Type I inner hair cells in the ear are required for minimal balancing. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0303-25.2026
I don't think my kid would miss a few of his bricks...
College of Biological Science@uofgcbs.bsky.social · 7mo agoLEGO blocks aren’t just for kids 🐟 Research from Dr. Sarah Alderman’s lab @integrativebiology.bsky.social shows zebrafish raised with LEGO early in life learn faster, show less anxiety-like behaviour & handle stress better than those raised in barren environments 🗞️: www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...
Well, this is a brilliant #IDSky article that cuts close to the bone! 😬 Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)! #AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social
Infected With the Academic Bug
It starts innocently. A paper you’re proud of, the thrill of seeing your name on PubMed. Everyone is genuinely happy for you; you’re a threat to no one. Bu
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Zebrafish aren’t just fascinating to watch — they can regenerate parts of their heart, fins, spinal cord, and even retina! 🐟✨ This makes them one of the most powerful model organisms for studying regeneration and human diseases 🧬🔬.
New preprint out from our lab! Great effort from the four first authors, all of them talented PhD students. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Early downregulation of HC-specific genes in the vestibular sensory epithelium during chronic ototoxicity
Exposure of mammals to ototoxic compounds causes hair cell (HC) loss in the vestibular sensory epithelia of the inner ear. In chronic exposure models, this loss often occurs by extrusion of the HC fro...
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First day of summer holidays. I could sleep a bit more. 8:00 am sharp gardeners start blowing leaves and mowing the park
the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.
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Grant funded! Insufficiently, though, as usual...