Yet another #zebrafish genome update: We just updated our ZebrafishGenomics public datahub for the UCSC browser (available all the way at the bottom here: genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgHu...). We added several useful tracks including:

341,699 comments submitted to the OMB Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance Proposed Rule. Very nice work, internets.

Great inspiration from @hormiga.bsky.social. I’m working on mine this weekend. . .

Submit your OMB comment this weekend.

This one is important. It's due on Monday.

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The AFDB50 is now also searchable at search.foldseek.com/folddisco Happy Motif Hunting!

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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@neildegrassetyson.com: "The relationship of the executive branch and science has never been as devastating as it has been under the current administration... We will sink lower economically, in our health, our wealth & our security, until everyone wakes up and is reminded how important science is."

The largest and most diverse collection of Indigenous American genomes 👉🏻 “The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” @macscastro.bsky.social @hunemeier.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @jrockdrigo.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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This is amazing news! And I just heard BioEYES is coming to Kings College London as well 👀

Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences@jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BioEYES is growing its impact globally. With new support, the hands-on science program that introduces students to biology through zebrafish is launching in Accra, Ghana. @bioeyes.bsky.social magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2026/02/bioe...

It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

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The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/5

Committee Releases Conferenced Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bi...

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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I’ve been quiet for a while, cleaning up my social media and quietly doing the work that has to be done in order to persist. Maybe I’m looking at this from the perspective of someone who doesn’t fully understand the capabilities or higher-level decision making within universities. 1/4

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting Dr Marianne Bronner for our CReM seminar series. Through this series, we’re committed to giving our mentees and trainees exposure to 🤯 science from those pushing the boundaries in their field, and extraordinary mentors , and Marianne checks every single box.

Reaffirming the value of model organisms in training scientific minds | @natcellbio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Careers | Arcadia Science

Evolve with Arcadia.

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Yesterday, October 7, Sir John Gurdon passed away. Dr. Gurdon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, together with Shinya Yamanaka. Through a series of experiments using Xenopus eggs, Gurdon showed that the nucleus of a mature cell can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state.

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

Biozentrum, University of Basel@biozentrum.unibas.ch · 11mo ago

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

Assistant or Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Kentucky: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/601... #academic jobs #edusky

Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology

The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...

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Despite their high rigidity, microtubules (MTs) dynamically bend and buckle in cells. MT-self repair is inherent to their metastable nature, but it remains unclear whether just inherent repair mechanisms are sufficient to maintain MT integrity🧵 (1/9) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congratulations @vcmentowski.bsky.social for solving a remarkably challenging molecular puzzle

The BUB1 and BUBR1 paralogs scaffold the kinetochore fibrous corona

The kinetochore fibrous corona docks on CENP-E and a second elusive receptor identified as the checkpoint protein BUB1.

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The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/t...

The new NIH grant review format and the iron law of unintended consequences

The NIH introduced a revised approach to the peer review of grant applications in the most recent summer review rounds. The Simplified Peer Review Framework has a number of new features, some of wh…

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#zebrafish genome update, our T2T assembly of the inbred strain of AB (M-AB) generated by my buddy Nori Sakai has now been released at NCBI and will be a second reference genome for zebrafish (GRCz12ab):

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Key advice for scientists writing grants…

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · last yr.

When asked for advice she said, “Don’t be discouraged by rejection. You can come back.” The key, she added, was a killer second draft: “If you can write the best second draft that can be written, that’s more impressive than anything you can write the first time.” Gift link:

What's the best software for making and styling a protein sequence alignment? Please tell me there's something better than MS Word?

🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet… 📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Still accepting late-breaking abstracts for #ZDM18, for those finterested! More details at the conference website: www.zdmsociety.org/zdm18-abstra...

Vicky Tan@vickytan.bsky.social · last yr.

Calling all #zebrafish researchers, ZDMS is hosting #ZDM18 in Boston this year (Oct 13-15) 🐟. One of my favourite conferences with interesting talks and is always fun! Abstract submissions and early bird registrations close on July 11. Hope to see you there! www.zdmsociety.org/zdm18-home

My quote of the day If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. Lyndon B. Johnson

An amazing clinical triumph for regenerative medicine! A great example of how federal funding results in patient cures. Let’s keep these stories going, America! “World's First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy” #helpisontheway! www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...

World's First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy

In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children’s Hospital of Phila...

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On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n