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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @currentbiology.bsky.social I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers

Biology is amazing.

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 6d

Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins

📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al @lovelessradio.bsky.social lab
@syracuseu.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social

➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with Lux Fatimathas

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Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · 20d

We are hiring! We are currently interviewing for an entry level staff position in the lab, but it is not too late to submit a postdoc application! Send a note of interest to me and apply here: bit.ly/3VmmM7m

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 14d

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/...

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Lerit Lab @lablerit.bsky.social · Aug 19

@ascbiology.bsky.social Abstract submissions are open! Submit an abstract to the ‘Emerging concepts in centriole and centrosome assembly and function’ minisym. PRIZES for trainee talks & posters plus a mixer thanks to generous sponsors @jcellsci.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social & Nikon

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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · Aug 27

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 22d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 23d

In honour of Postdoc Appreciation Week, here are three ways we support postdocs:
1. Since 2023, we’ve supported 24 postdocs as they transition to becoming a group leader through our Pathway to Independence programme. Meet our latest fellows: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... #NPAW2025

A graphic showing someone at a lab bench on the left and a desk on the right.

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Lotte B. Pedersen @lottepedersen.bsky.social · 28d

KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia

Rezi et al. show that kinesin-3 KIF13B regulates ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and small extracellular vesicle (EV) release of ciliary proteins while suppressing their relea...

www.cell.com

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 26d

If anyone wants to hand one over because of its “ugliness,” I’ll gladly take it.

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New preprint! 🚨
#Zebrafish LRO #cilia are structurally diverse & essential for LRO morphogenesis. #Optogenetics + #vEM reveal new roles for cilia in organ architecture.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 20

National Institute of General Medical Sciences R35 MIRA awards issued within the last 14 days. I am still waiting to see if mine is funded. Regardless of my outcome, I am in awe of the dedicated program and awards management staff who are so clearly doing their damndest to fund strong science.
🧬🔬🧪🥼🇺🇸

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Favour Ononiwu on a successful PhD defense! 🎓✨

👏 Wishing her all the best as she takes the next steps in her career #ZebrafishResearch

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 29

Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the ’80s and ’90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.

www.newyorker.com

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · Jul 29

www.science.org/content/arti...

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite

Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

www.science.org

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Manning Research Group @manningresearch.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yay! New paper out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... . How do dynamical forces generated by tissue movement affect organ morphology changes during embryonic development?
Using Kupffer’s vesicle in zebrafish embryo we showed that dynamical forces produce shape changes in a developing organ.

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · Jul 29

Want to publish a NIH-funded paper in Nature? Well - unless your institution has an agreement with Springer, you'll have to be mega-rich to be compliant with NIH's new no-embargo policy. Springer is insisting on gold OA - that's $12,690 and that's extortion.

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is a useful summary of how some major publishers are responding to the new NIH policy. We've just updated our policies at @biologists.bsky.social: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social and @jexpbiol.bsky.social will allow authors to deposit the accepted version with zero embargo.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · Jul 10

Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Jul 10

🧪 After the workshop on 7/7, the FDA and NIH are asking for public comments on implementing novel methodologies and other strategies to reduce the use of animal testing by 7/14:

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

www.fda.gov

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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · Jul 8

This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development

Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

www.drugdiscoverytrends.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jun 17

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
🧪🌎

“Why Are We Funding This?”

Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.

www.americanscientist.org

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · Jun 5

Looking for fluorescent reporters for your favorite tissue/organ? Check out the zTrap Gene Trap & Enhancer Database (ztrap.nig.ac.jp/ztrap/) from the Kawakami Lab at NIG! Travel grants are available for shelf-screen (Email Sensei Koichi for more info) 😎

Contact details: ztrap.nig.ac.jp/members.html

On zTrap website, you will be able to search lines by anatomy such as the swim bladder (for example). One line that looks promising is gSA2AzGFF328A (below)that has an insertion in the gene axla4a.

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · Jun 4

Meet Athena, a REU undergraduate from the University of Arizona, who had her first experience observing live zebrafish embryos 🐟 in our @syracuseu.bsky.social lab.
Welcome to Dev Bio, Athena! 🧬🔬 #REU2025 #ZebrafishDevelopment #SyracuseBiology #UndergradResearch #DevelopmentalBiology

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · May 31

I wrote my PO and she responded with no real definite answer :-( just to hang in there.

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Heidi Hehnly-Chang @lovelessradio.bsky.social · May 30

Hehnly lab postdoc Yan Wu looking beautiful with her poster at the @syracuseu.bsky.social office of research postdoc poster session. She presented on her recent study featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social.