Had a blast at #IZFC2025 🐟🧪 Was great to get feedback on my work and hear about the cool research everyone is doing. Continuously grateful to have joined such a positive research community! 🎉

Grateful for at least 3 more years of science and truly appreciate of everyone at NIDDK who kept this moving despite the clusterfuck that is our government right now 🎉 stay tuned for more pretty fish images and ideally some insights into polarity and migration 🐟 🧪

Can’t wait to see everyone at SDB this week! Excited to give a talk in Thursday morning’s Cell Polarity session 🐟 🧪 #devbio

A fish a day keeps DOGE away

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give us this day our daily fish

Anyway here’s a picture of a zebrafish I took through the eyepiece of a microscope today because despite all this horrific bullshit I’m still really into how an embryo became an embryo #devbio 🧪

In a time where antivax sentiment is causing a rise in preventable illness, my 84 year old grandfather shared this piece of history when I visited this weekend - he spoke about how people lined up in droves in NC to get vaccinated against polio. 1/2

Good news, the F32 I spent months working on got an impact score of 20! Bad news:

Like what is even the point of anything anymore… 🧪 #devbio

Postdoc’s first blastula to blastula transplant 😍 all the thanks to @vprincelab.bsky.social’s teaching and experimental help 🐟 #devbio 🧪🔬

A lot going on in the world, a lot going on in this fish

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Me just going to do my little experiments while waiting to see if the study section for my F32 will even happen

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PSA for my Cell Polarity friends: unfortunately this GRC has been canceled. Apparently the GRC takes minimum conference attendees incredibly seriously, so make sure you attend if you can afford to, and if you want a fav conference to stick around.

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#devbio 🧪

🎵 Deck the fish with clumps of Kaede 🎶 fa lalalala lalalala 🎵 'tis the season to shoot lasers 🎶 fa lalalala lalalala 🎄🐟🔬🧪 (photo conversion credit to Elaine Kushkowski, time wasted on FIJI credit to me) #devbio #zebrafish

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Here’s an oldie but a goodie because my fun live-imaging gifs aren’t working on this site 😢 HCR for ptprfa/b in a 96 hpf zebrafish 🐟🔬🧪

First first author paper published! Now I can do fun things like design cover art submissions 🫁🌸 🧪

Gotta admit that a day 2 zebrafish embryo is a lot cuter than a day 2 mouse embryo 🐠🧪🔬

Is Fluorescence Friday a thing here?

If so, here’s some embryonic mouse dermal vasculature 😍 (cyan CD31, yellow VegfR3, magenta Prox1)