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MwahahahahahadScientist

@mads100tist.bsky.social

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Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights @[email protected]

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 8d

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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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 23m

#ZebrafishFunFacts: Cited more than 1500 times, 'The behaviour and ecology of the zebrafish, Danio rerio' by Spence et al. (2007) highlights the special abilities of a small cyprinid found on the Indian subcontinent. A more recent take by Parichy (2015) expands on this in context of evolution. 1/2 🧪

Zebrafish and their geographic range.
(A) Historic and more recent sites where zebrafish have been reported in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and possibly Myanmar (Spence et al., 2006; Engeszer et al., 2007b; Spence et al., 2008; Whiteley et al., 2011; Arunachalam et al., 2013). (B) Zebrafish from several populations in northeastern India (Engeszer et al., 2007b). The upper two fish are males and the lower two fish are females; males tend to have a slightly yellow cast ventrally. (C) A group of zebrafish (a single fish is highlighted with the arrow) in a stream-side pool in Meghalaya, India, north of Bangladesh. Scale bar: 5 mm (B). Image and text credits: D Parichy.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 48m

Happy bday dude!

elmo is wearing a party hat and holding a party horn

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 7h

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 2h

I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
the computer crashed
(Computer crashed)

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 13h

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now):

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 4h

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 12h

Chanquete vive la lucha sigue

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 12h

Can you believe I have a whole aim about that in my research plan? I don't recognize myself

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

Well, the day you win it I have the receipts to say "I gave this guy so much shit he paid for beers once"

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

Hot damn

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

Just get the pie, Lotje. As your lawyer, I recommend you get the pie.

MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine installing one of those false molars, but instead of cyanide it's a nougat

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

The one

a woman is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 13h

How many Jenses there are in the world? Just one. Just one.

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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 2d

The transition to land was powered by flexibility, not innovation, with animals reshaping old genomic parts to solve new problems.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations, Miki and team!

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 21h

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20h

Did Bluesky nuke its search engine? I'd look this up to see if others are having the same experience, but, well, there's no working search engine now.