The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

New PI presenting to senior PIs at faculty mtg

Logan Cunningham@logancunningham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

Every PI

Scientist's way of saying 'I ❤️ you' "I found this paper/preprint that made me think of your project." "I checked the mice/cells/plates already." "I just sent you the edits you requested." "I have a slide/diagram that will work for that." "I had that problem with [lab equipment], I have a fix."

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

So incredibly sad to learn of John Gurdon’s passing. It is hard to overstate what a big deal he is to developmental biology - a legend. Leaving aside his phenomenal scientific achievements, I want to take a moment to highlight how he was also an exceptionally kind person and incredible role model.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

cam.ac.uk

We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs

this is me today

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪

Being a zebrafish researcher means you leave yourself this kind of ominous notes sometimes

Never been more proud

Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk

The university’s response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.

washingtonpost.com

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

Me, after repeating a PCR for the fourth time

Kevin Wright@kevinmawright.bsky.social · last yr.

All of this is so stupid and preventable

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Me, whenever I'm asked how it's going

am i even good enough to have imposter syndrome

RNA xkcd.com/3056

Ensembl? Or, NCBI? Both at MedakaBase!! medakabase.nbrp.jp MedakaBase promotes medaka fish biology, in the framework of versatile resource provision enabled by National Bioresource Project (NBRP) of Japan Find more at x.com/NbrpMedakaOmix

me: *telling my cat about my day* my cat:

*working in pediatrics ER* me: and how old are you kid: I’m 30 in dog years and— mom: honey the doctor doesn’t want to know about dog years me: wait let him cook

Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

Carolyn Ibberson@cbibberson.bsky.social · last yr.

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

From Postdoc killer to regenerative potential, ‘cloche’ pulls at (and repairs) the heart strings 🔥

bioRxiv Cell Biology@biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · last yr.

Cloche/Npas4l is a pro-regenerative platelet factor during zebrafish heart regeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.639191v1

Hard to imagine those halcyon days when the most hot button topic online was whether or not to name your lab after yourself.