For those interested 🧪

Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎨Calling all artists and scientists!🐟🧬 The Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) is launching its first #SciArt Competition. We are looking for creative work that illustrates how zebrafish research is transforming human health. And there’s cash prizes for the winners! 💰🐟 See thread for details⬇️

Exciting new SciArt initiative by ZDMS 🐟 🖼️ Please share with anyone who may be interested, we would love to see broad engagement!

Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS)@zdmsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎨Calling all artists and scientists!🐟🧬 The Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) is launching its first #SciArt Competition. We are looking for creative work that illustrates how zebrafish research is transforming human health. And there’s cash prizes for the winners! 💰🐟 See thread for details⬇️

Can you help us find guests for the Night Science Podcast? We received generous sponsorship from Research Theory and they're challenging us to host 5 scientists each working in flight, genomics, nuclear power, computing & space. Ideas? @nightsciencepod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

hi @zebrafishrock.bsky.social community! Who of my friends am I going to see at ZDM18 in Boston next week?!? Excited!

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...

Females are larger than males. How? Here is one solution- they have MORE nuclei in their flight muscles and grow LARGER heart and fat body cells with MORE ribosomal mRNAs. Fun collaboration of @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social with @soumitrakp.bsky.social & Brian Oliver www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Big day for our team: our pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) organoid paper is now up on bioRxiv! This was a tour de force across 6 institutions, 37 authors, building patient-derived organoids from 35 PPGL patients /🧵 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Patient-derived organoids reveal hypoxia-driven plasticity and therapeutic vulnerabilities in pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas

Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) are rare chromaffin cell-derived neuroendocrine tumors of sympathetic (catecholamine-producing) or parasympathetic (nonsecretory) origin, frequently driven...

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This @nightsciencepod.bsky.social episode with Martin Schwartz was so awesome! The idea to toss all the "ego" aspects of science (including worries/insecurities about career prospects) and follow the curiosity/passion path to do your best work is something I strive for every day.

What an exciting announcement! Best of luck to @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher on this new endeavor. The cultural shift is much needed. I am on board!

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · last yr.

🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!

Now online! www.youtube.com/channel/UCs9...

BPPB Seminar

Founded during the pandemic and maintained by a rotating team of volunteers from the biological physics / biophysics community, the BPPB (Biological Physics / Physical Biology) Seminars provide a mean...

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Dagan Segal@dagansegal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This already happened and I wasnt on top of posting 😅 Thankful for the great opportunity to share my work at @bppbseminar.bsky.social .This is such an engaging and fun community and seminar series, highly recommend! Stay tuned for a recording (they are also on top of their youtube channel!).

🎉 Congrats to postdoc Horacio Martín Pallarés on being named a 2025 @pewtrusts.org Latin American Fellow! His work in the @bazzinilab.bsky.social (a 2010 PEW Fellow) investigates how #Zika & #dengue viruses hijack host cells. Read about the fellowship and full circle moment: bit.ly/4mHWJTS

I keep getting more and more followers here but i think they are mostly bots, right?

To celebrate the summer, our ReSCU-Net paper is out @jcb.org !! Work led by our dungeon master @ray-hawkins.bsky.social, developing a novel neural network architecture and applying it to explore the role of gap junctions in embryonic wound healing in #Drosophila 🧪. shorturl.at/xNRKn

This already happened and I wasnt on top of posting 😅 Thankful for the great opportunity to share my work at @bppbseminar.bsky.social .This is such an engaging and fun community and seminar series, highly recommend! Stay tuned for a recording (they are also on top of their youtube channel!).

BPPB Seminar Series@bppbseminar.bsky.social · last yr.

Please join BPPB on Fri July 25 for talks by Dagan Segal (Insights from zebrafish into cancer cell adaptation) and Trevor GrandPre (Trait-space patterning is dictated by the tempo & mode of mutation). For more information & to sign up for our email list, please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

Time to find creative new ways to fund science!

Edwin Antony@professorantony.bsky.social · last yr.

Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe! www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

Very cool work using zebrafish model to bring new insight into pediatric cancer initiation! Congrats @jackkucinski.bsky.social @kendalllab.bsky.social and team!

Jack Kucinski@jackkucinski.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m happy to share our published work in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! With zebrafish modeling of rhabdomyosarcoma, we showed that PAX3::FOXO1 utilizes homeobox motif recognition to initially bind closed DNA and activate neural programs present in the human disease. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Very cool thread on something I knew very little about!

epithelial mechanics fan club@epimechfc.bsky.social · last yr.

What is buckling, and why is it relevant in understanding epithelial morphogenesis? 🧐 I am @onenimesa.bsky.social and I will share some papers to understand this aspect of #EpithelialMechanics

Such cool work! Check out this recent paper by my colleague @jamieson-ai.bsky.social et al. with immediate real-world impact!

Andrew Jamieson@jamieson-ai.bsky.social · 2y ago

First post on bsky to share our working published in @nejm.org (AI): Rubrics to Prompts! Deploying AI in the real world with a great team. ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

REMINDER: Last chance to submit a scientific picture or art of a embryos, stem cells or organoids to the YEN Image Competition. Deadline is 1st May! #YEN2025

Benny was my PhD mentor. Infectious enthusiasm and burning curiosity is exactly right. He was such a great mentor to me and many others and he will be sorely missed. יהיה זכרו ברוך. May his memory be a blessing.

James Briscoe@jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · last yr.

Sad news. Benny Shilo, a pioneer in dev bio & Drosophila genetics, has died. I'll remember the infectious enthusiasm and burning curiosity he brought to every conversation I had with him.

Hey @drlizhaynes.bsky.social Thanks for representing! (Not tattooed myself but respect the art of self expression :)) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Science on our sleeves: the research that inspires our tattoos

Inked scientists choose scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate their research passion.

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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Groundbreaking study in Cell from @leventallab.bsky.social: phospholipid asymmetry is a defining feature of the plasma membrane and cholesterol fills the holes — major implications for how this membrane works. A #lipidtime must-read! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry

This work challenges a major assumption in cell biology by showing that lipid bilayers can have drastically different phospholipid abundances between their two leaflets. This lipid abundance asymmetry...

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Talks...on the train! What? @odedrechavi.bsky.social, @natanellae.bsky.social, @meital.bsky.social, @svobodalab.bsky.social, @paveltomancak.bsky.social, @itaiyanai.bsky.social, @zernickagoetz.bsky.social Register now for: "an atmosphere of enthusiasm, lucid criticism, nonconformism, and friendship".

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · last yr.

Who does that? We rented a train JUST for the conference, that will take the participants from Prague to the woods of Bohemia. There'll be talks ON THE TRAIN. In Prague we'll have 5 locations with different atmospheres. #theconferencetoendallconferences Register now: woodstock.img.cas.cz

Outer ear = gills! First step towards creating human mermaids🧜‍♀️🌊

John Wallingford@jbwallingford.bsky.social · last yr.

This insanely cool paper is making my day!!! (Cue arguments about Haeckel being right!) Congrats to Gage Crump, Andrew Gillis, @goodfrognosis.bsky.social and all the other authors. Well done! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788155/

Look who's on bluesky! I recommend you follow @assafzaritsky.bsky.social

Assaf Zaritsky@assafzaritsky.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello, World!

📢 #AI & #CellularPhysiology researchers 👉 tune in via Zoom March 30-April 1 for a free livestream of our conference on the emerging intersection of AI and biological research. Topics will range from AI-driven genomic insights to dataset challenges & more. 🔗Register to watch: janelia.news/register

Wow! 😍

Mathieu Preußner@mathpreu.bsky.social · last yr.

Mesonephric glomeruli of #zebrafish for #FluorescenceFriday 🔬 kdrl-mCherry nicely reveals the capillary tuft of the glomerulus. The zebrafish kidney stops developing at the mesonephros stage! It serves as their main kidney structure, and they don't develop a metanephros like humans do.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature

The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

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