Check it out! NewsSplash that highlights a lot of cool zebrafishy things, including the education resource sheet (with lots of links). #education_outreach #zebrafish

International Zebrafish Society@izfs.bsky.social · 6d ago

Reeling in the Educators: Kara Cerveny (@kara-cerveny.bsky.social), Chair of the #IZFS Education and Outreach Committee, writes about the Education Workshop at the recent #EZM. Included in the article is a link to a helpful Education Resource Sheet: www.izfs.org/newssplash/n... #NewsSplash

🧬 What does HFSP look for in frontier science? Discover what matters when preparing a Research Grant proposal in our upcoming webinar. 📅 17 Nov | 09:00 & 16:00 CET 🔗 Register: zurl.co/w6Iji #HFSP #ResearchGrants

A (very) belated bluetorial about a new preprint from the lab. Spearheaded by my super talented PhD student, Dávid Czimer we developed SCAMP - an open-source tool for profiling Alizarin Red-labelled calcification in fish larvae. 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

SCAMP - an open-source tool for profiling Alizarin Red-labelled calcification in fish larvae

Quantifying skeletal mineralization phenotypes in larval fish is complicated by the natural curvature of the notochord and by sample-to-sample variability in orientation, staining and imaging. Consequ...

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📢 SAVE THE DATE | 5th V4SDB Meeting | 1–4 September 2027 We’re excited to announce that the V4SDB meeting is heading back to the Czech Republic — this time to beautiful Prague! 🇨🇿 #V4SDB #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Conference

Everyone should be considering an #HFSP Research Grant. If you are not, you are doing something wrong and missing out!

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧪 Considering an HFSP Research Grant? Join our webinar on the 2028 call for application guidance and a live Q&A! 📅 17 Nov | Two sessions: 🕘 09:00 CET 🕓 16:00 CET 🔗 Register: zurl.co/qHCzP #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

Most histories take the double helix as the obvious goal of xrc on DNA fibers. If we want to honor Franklin, we need to stop trying to explain her work as almost getting the double helix. We need to understand her on her own terms. The Sponsel and Sutton paper takes us a good step in that direction

No true scientist will outsource the fun of the creative process to a machine. We must focus on finding and eradicating the science operators who will stop at nothing to get more recognition & power. The impostors can be identified. We need to rely more on the good old human interactions.

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 4w ago

Research evaluation faces growing pressure: demand for competitive research funding is rising, while AI is rapidly changing how proposals can be written and assessed. In this context, the ERC & Science Europe had a workshop with research funding and performing organisations from 5 continents.

Contrary to the appearances I wasn’t sleeping :).

Ádám Kun@kunadam.bsky.social · last mo.

Evolution Round Table Evolutionary biologist answer questions from the audience. Researcher's Night at Eötvös University

What if any dataset, any size, any number of dimensions, opened in a browser tab from a link? 🔬🧪💻 Luxar is out today: write it in Python, share it as a link, explore it in any browser. Open source. 🧵 @biohub.org Preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zen... Code: github.com/royerlab/luxar

21627 applications. Nothing to celebrate here. Impossible to evaluate fairly & safely. Neither the science (too diverse & possibly LLM generated) nor the soft criteria (likely LLM generated). Without an interview stage - a security risk! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applications

The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.

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Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

Calling all young developmental biologists from the V4 region and beyond! 🥼 Are you a Master’s student, PhD student, or postdoc? Take part in our questionnaire and help us understand your situation, needs, what’s on your mind, and how V4SDB can support you. 🧵 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/8a1p7Ws3ea

Gen. AI is rapidly becoming part of scientific work. But are we honest about how we use it? We screened 230 eco & evo journals & >2200 recent papers. The answer: nope. Our paper maps the problem & offers a solution. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @ioes-ju.bsky.social

A systematic map of generative AI guidelines and reporting in ecology and evolutionary biology: towards the framework of AI disclosure for Improved Transparency (AIdIT) - Research Integrity and Peer R...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded across scientific workflows, yet mechanisms for transparently documenting its use remain fragmented and weakly enforced. Focusing o...

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Thanks for coming :).

Petra Kompanikova@petrakompanikova.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Always a good idea to hop on a train to Budapest. 🚆🍃 This time, checking & broadening my spatial transcriptomics pipeline at the superb @v4sdb.bsky.social Student Summer School 2026 🧬 Thanks @mvargam.eurosky.social for the great speaker line-up & my “Front Brno, Back Brno” crew for the company! 🔥

Four days and many spatial datasets later, the V4SDB Summer School 2026 has come to an end 🔬 Thanks to all the students who joined us, our sponsors, everyone behind the Summer School, and all our instructors and lecturers! 🧵

The V4SDB Summer School 2026 on Spatial Transcriptomics has been rolling since yesterday in Budapest 🔬, with excellent talks from Enikő Lázár (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Konstantin Khodosevich (BRIC, University of Copenhagen; @khodosevichlab.bsky.social ) on 🫀 Visium and 🧠 Xenium 🧵

🚨 Travel. Learn. Collaborate. The #IZFS Knowledge Exchange Grant supports researchers seeking to visit another lab, gain new experience, and expand their knowledge. Learn more and apply: www.izfs.org/awards/knowl... #ZebrafishGrant #ExchangeGrant

Biological Databases are critical infrastructure - not projects. As so much effort is put into harnessing AI to solve all our problems, we are allowing the foundational data resources crumble. Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dear @economist.com, More disclosure of risks (unknown but possibly substantial) & effectiveness (at best very low even in the 1 2019 article you cite & perhaps not to improve much) won't help the embryos involved make better decisions about their futures. Caution needed. I regret your position.

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In praise of designer-ish babies www.economist.com/leaders/2026... cc @hankgreely.bsky.social Once upon a time I studied these kinda issues. At that time, the idea of doing this was viewed (rightly or not) as clearly questionable... Social normalization is sneaky, especially when $$$ involved.

@dev-journal.bsky.social has joined sister journals, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @biologyopen.bsky.social, in offering a fast track option. If you have a paper with reviews from another journal, Development can use them to fast track a decision. Find out more at journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/jo...

We're excited to share that the recordings from #EZM2026 are available on the EZS website! You can now watch the 2026 CNV Award Lecture by Liz Patton here: 🎥 www.ezsociety.org/cnv-awardee-... Enjoy this inspiring presentation and please share it with colleagues! 🤩

EZS European Zebrafish Society

The European Zebrafish Society was formed as a successor of "EuFishBioMed e.V." to foster zebrafish research, providing a platform for researchers and a framewokr for grant funding for young researche...

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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:

Now fallen down a well of reading about Salp phylogenetics & development underlying bizarre life cycle. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The 1996 Development issue reporting the zebrafish screen (and the special issue commemorating it 25 years later) are now free to read, thanks @biologists.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Gaurav Varshney@varshneylab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In 2021, the journal Development published a special issue, “The Zebrafish Issue: 25 Years On.” Unfortunately, all the articles are behind a paywall. At the very least, special issues like this should be made open access. journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

What a night! Thank you @wien.gv.at for hosting us, the organizers to make this happen and the amazing quartet for the music. #EZM2026

Congratulations!

Máté Varga from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Biology is joining #BOARD26 to promote understanding of how animal research and other approaches complement each other. #EARA #SCICOMM 👉

Miért fontosak az állatkísérletek még a 21. században is?

Vannak alternatíváik, használjuk is őket, de az állatkísérleteket ma még nem tudjuk teljesen kiváltani.

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We are so glad to see Prof. Elizabeth Patton being honored with the CMV award! 🎊🎊 Her outstanding scientific contributions, academic leadership, and unwavering dedication inspired all of us! 👏👏👏👏 #EZM2026

The #EZM2026 (European Zebrafish Society @ezsociety.bsky.social meeting) is in full swing! More than 500 (not only zebra-)fish researchers from all over the world gather here in Vienna for the next 5 days to discuss science, exchange ideas and make new connections. #Fish #Zebrafish #Friends

One more week to apply!

Máté Varga@mvargam.eurosky.social · 5mo ago

We are back at it again: the next @v4sdb.bsky.social Student Summer School (on Spatial Transcriptomics) with support from @biologists.bsky.social and contrinbutions from Enikő Lázár, @yinanwan.bsky.social, Jonathan Enriques and khodosevichlab.bsky.social. Encourage your students to apply!