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W. Brent Derry

@wbderry.bsky.social

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Parent, scientist, musician https://lab.research.sickkids.ca/derry/ ORCID: 0000-0002-1977-8475

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 4h

Bravo Blue Jays!!!

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 9h

#TodaysJam

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 15h

Zebrafish as a model to find non-invasive threatments for scoliosis. Go Brian! archive.tveyes.com/18120/355014...

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 16h

😢

Alliance of Genome Resources @alliancegenome.bsky.social · 5d

Nature has published an article on the crisis facing MODs
Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@zfinmod.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @yeastgenome.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social @ratgenome.bsky.social @geneontology.bsky.social @nature.com

Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures

Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.

www.nature.com

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 16h

PASSIVE AGGRESSION TRANSLATED

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 1d

Met a bunch of scientists who are also decent musicians. 🎸🎶

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 1d

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d

“Well, I dunno. … Okay, sounds good to me.”

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of my Alma mater.

Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1d

We got some more Gaucho Nobels! #UCSB

UC Santa Barbara celebrates new Nobel Prize winners! UCSB professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Sir John ☹️

Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad. I just gave a lecture last week on the history of animal cloning and John came up a bunch

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 1d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 1d

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 2d

#TodaysJam

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 2d

Not good.

Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

Leaving an ER without being seen is riskier than you think.

It’s linked to a 14% higher risk of hospital admission & death.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Too many Canadians are leaving ERs before getting assessed www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 2d

Regulatory T-cells for the 2025 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 2d

Your cat must be a lead guitarist.

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 3d

@bluejays.com FTW!!!

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Callista!

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 3d

Say hi to Don.

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 4d

Nice win @bluejays.com !!!

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 4d

Doin’ it right. Chef’s kiss!

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 4d

Disgusting 😡

W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 4d

Makes sense. Mothballs are also good for keeping skunks and raccoons away.

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 4d

#TodaysJam

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 5d

and scene

a tweet by Dana Gould @danagould that says:

Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did.
Because what he did had no value.
It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value.
He just made anger. Every day.
Rising, blooming & fading like a fart.
Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week.
Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone.
Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 5d

#TodaysJam

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 6d

Neat trick if you polycolonal ab's suck. Incubate them with fixed cells with a KO of your protein of interest, then spin. Protocol here: www.med.upenn.edu/markslab/ass...
I was amazed how well it worked on first try (I'm sure that I can completely eliminate unspecific bands)
#WesternBlot #cellsky

On the left - western blot of B16F10 cells wt and KO for CDK8. Our in house produced antibodies give a lot of unspecific bands. On the right same probes with antibodies preincubated with fixed CDK8 KO cells - there is a specific band and faint unspecific bands, which can be probably eliminated with increase of amount of KO cells.

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