cover image yeeeeeeeeehawwwww #flourescentfriday
check out our work in the most recent issue of @jcellsci.bsky.social !

i made this 2 days ago! did it with some baby bok choy and zucchini

Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

now online! check out our work describing roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophages during directed cell migration. thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for a stress-free publication process
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

grad student

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟
The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

Born too late to do vibes-based biology. Born too early to have all of biology already figured out. Born just in time to write a manuscript with 9 supplemental figures and pay 10k for open acccess

reading a review that cites a review: okay, maybe that citation will include some primary sources
reading the second review that cites more reviews: okay maybe THOSE citations will include some primary literature.
reading the next set of reviews that cite EVEN MORE reviews: i give up

Seeing the paylines drop from 20 to 10 to 5 percent over the years

It's technically a Nature sister journal but this paper deserves the highest accolade I can give

Our grandkids are going to be flabbergasted looking back on this. Is a genocide happening? Yes. Are the people carrying it out murdering aid workers and starving children? Yes. Are they being aided by the US? Yes.

And yet all anyone talks about is the motives and tactics of the people opposing it.

Dendritic atoh1a+ cells serve as Merkel cell precursors during skin development and regeneration

Read this #LifelongDevSI Research Article by Evan Craig, @jraslab.bsky.social and colleagues @uwbiology.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....

🎥Microvilli dynamics in zebrafish Merkel cells

🎉 Our study identifying the direct precursors of Merkel cells is now published in @dev-journal.bsky.social Thank you to our reviewers @reviewcommons.org and collaborators for helping us improve the manuscript. Check out these cell behaviors we visualized in #zebrafish skin. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

Not only did the better candidate (and person!) win, it's extra special to see establishment dems and their endorsements eat shit. Not even my city and I'm over the moon.

#DanioDigest (May 2025)

Community News:

Prof Caren Norden @nordenlab.bsky.social‬ appointed Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology at PDN at the University of Cambridge.

Prof Elizabeth Chen @echenlab.bsky.social elected as President of @ascbiology.bsky.social‬ for 2027. (1/38)

shut the fuck up

Meltdown May ended 2 weeks ago

My latest article is up on Developmental Biology~
Learn about data that waited 15 years to be published! 👀
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/deve...

Dining one day a week at Canlis and starving the other six

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations?

I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬