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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cerebellar mitochondrial dysfunction coincides with structural and behavioral abnormalities in 3q29Del mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Jim Bear @coronin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This was a really fun story to see develop. OptoPLC does some fascinating things to cell motility

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All the cool kids are making segmentation tools! Hurrah!

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Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS) @zdmsociety.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Comparisons like this are important to learn about the biology and etiology of human diseases, which can improve patient care/outcomes. Learn more about the study behind these videos by reading the original research by @drlizhaynes.bsky.social et al: elifesciences.org/articles/74270 🐟 #DiseaseModels

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The White House has finalized changes to F, J & I student visa terms. Beginning Sept 15 2026, visas will generally be limited to four years, replacing the current Duration of Status policy. www.ascb.org/science-policy/white-h…

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Maria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

An intact human heart, rendered transparent. Because disease doesn't happen in 2D. Whole-organ tissue clearing and light-sheet microscopy reveal coronary vessels (magenta) and atherosclerotic plaques (gold) across the intact organ. More at: shorturl.at/iqTBh 🫀🔬 #FluorescenceFriday!

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Phil Abitua @ohnolog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

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Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🧬 🧪Our RNA velocity benchmark is out in PLOS Comp Biol We tested 5 methods on mouse & zebrafish data. They often disagree (just 1/100 driver genes shared 😬). A hypothesis tool, not ground truth. Open access 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... Led by the brilliant Sarah Ancheta (not on bsky)

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I definitely could have used this in prior work - awesome!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

May 29th. If you're in Paris, mark your calendars. Lock your pipettes. TELL YOUR cHAIR. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 🧪🐟

Image ALT: A seminar announcement at the Institut Jacques Monod, with my name and credentials, a picture of me and my work. The title of the talk is "Spatiotemporal Emergence of Somatosensory Neuron Diversity" Friday 29th of May 2026 at 11:45am. Then location info, CNRS logos. The background is white and most of the info is in orange and white letters.

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Gabriela Lima @gabrielalima19.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It’s out! 🐟 We compared three regeneration superstars—axolotl, zebrafish, and Polypterus—to ask how animals regrow limbs and fins. We find shared core processes, and other programs fine-tuned by evolution in surprising, lineage-specific ways. tinyurl.com/mpftkn7y

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is a very thoughtful way of working as a group to determine boundaries on AI use within a lab and I completely agree with their conclusions based on my own experience testing LLM tools!

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Tessa Solomon-Lane @tksolomonlane.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My lab’s study of behavioral development 🐠 has long faced a roadblock: how do you follow an individual’s development if you can’t identify who’s who? How do you identify a juvenile fish the size of a grain of rice? Here, we share two safe, effective tagging methods! doi.org/10.1002/jez.... 🧪 (1/5)

Screenshot of an academic paper titled: Tagging Very Small Fish: Two Effective and Low Impact Methods. Published in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology

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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

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Damian Dalle Nogare @damiandn.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Hmmm on a test image I generated using Gemini, it even did a pretty good job of simulating gaussian noise.

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Saving for my axon guidance lecture next year! Beautiful!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

So how did it go? NIH made 43 DP2 awards, the lowest number in a decade. I really wish Director Bhattacharya would spend doing his actual job rather than badmouthing the agency he is charged to lead and spouting platitudes on podcasts and elsewhere. 6/7

A bar graph showing the number of NIH New Innovator awards since their creation in 2007.

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Zara was a star, a cherished friend, and an untiring advocate. I wish she had the chance to stay here with us and help create a brighter future, but she already gave us so much in her time here. I'm glad she will be honored in the next cohort of LE fellows ❤️

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Live visualization of extracellular matrix dynamics during development and regeneration in zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I need to get some better frames now that I'm a big kid (supposedly) but finally got my collection of Bob Goldstein prints in my office! There's a Clare Waterman one out of view too!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2025

It is time to recognize research software as a valuable scientific contribution in itself, beyond a tool — and to support it go.nature.com/438X8qS

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Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Seventies Susumu Ohno vibes! Fashion goes in circles.

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Here's a movie from the 3D neuroimaging paper - this is the telencephalon of a 19 month old tg(kdrl:mCherry, mpeg1:eGFP) fish. We use imaris to strip the top layer (the skin and skull) off the projection so we can see just the tissue beneath the skull. This was taken with a Bruker 2P+ multiphoton.

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Alyssa @lyssa12.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We are so excited to include these new Fellows-to-Faculty Fellows in the Simons Foundation fold!

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Whoa - neuronal ciliary proteome! Tons to dig into here - different from kidney cilia proteome (perhaps unsurprising) and enriched for many postsynaptic proteins, strengthening previous suggestions of cilia as postsynaptic signaling structures. @nachury.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia

Neuronal cilia have emerged as crucial signaling hubs, yet their molecular composition and integration with synaptic communication remain poorly understood. Using a newly developed Arl13b-TurboID mous...

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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Maximising imaging volumes of expanded tissues for inverted fluorescence microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Trying to stay hopeful and see joy in these times, and I thought this was lovely.

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This is so sad. I'm so sorry fly friends. Solidarity from team fish. 💔

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It looks like as a signatory to the UN Florence Agreement, if you 1) buy an item as a nonprofit or educational institution, 2) from a signatory country, 3) can demonstrate it is for research purposes, and/or 4) the item is not made in the US in significant quantities, you can import duty-free!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

From @aaas.org check-in with Sudip Parikh: a letter by 14 Republican senators urge the Office of Management and Budget to release NIH funding. If this includes your state (AL, ME, WV, SC, KY, KS, AR, PA, NC, IN, AK), Sudip recommends contacting & thanking them for being American science leaders.

Director Vought:
We write to ask you to fully implement the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, including funds appropriated for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The continuing resolution supp011s NIH initiatives across a range of critical research areascancer, cardiovascular disease, rare pediatric disorders, and more. These vital efforts are not only necessary to Make America Healthy Again, but also have a direct impact on American families, biomedical innovation, our economy, and competing with Communist China.
We are concerned by the slow disbursement rate of FY25 NIH funds, as it risks undermining critical research and the thousands of American jobs it supports. Suspension of these appropriated funds - whether formally withheld or functionally delayed - could threaten Americans' ability to access better treatments and limit our nation's leadership in biomedical science. It also risks inadve11ently severing ongoing NIH-funded research prior to actionable results.
We share your commitment to ensuring NIH funds are used responsibly and not diverted to ideological or unaccountable programs. We are confident Secretary Kennedy and Director Bhattacharya are well positioned to uphold gold standard research by ensuring that NIH awards are grounded in transparency, scientific merit, and a clear alignment with national interests. Our shared goal is to restore public trust in the NIH precisely because its work is focused on results, accountability, and real-world impact. Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition.
We respectfully request that you ensure the timely release of all FY25 NIH appropriations in accordance with congressional intent. Doing so will ensure continued momentum in curing disease, supp011ing American innovation, and delivering result…

Sincerely,
Katie Boyd Britt
John Boozman
Shelly Moore Capito
Bill Cassidy
Susan Collins
Lindsey O. Graham
David H. McCormick
Mitch McConnel
Jerry Moran
Lisa Murkowski
Thom Tillis
Todd Young
Dan Sullivan
Tim Scott

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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is an excellent article on the termination of all federal funding at Harvard. This visualization shows all of the terminated programs that were supposed to train the next generation of scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Image showing all ~$2 billion in grants terminated at Harvard, highlighting the many terminated grants that were focused on training and career development

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I've been a bit quiet lately because I've been working on a new project - I had a baby in May and am enjoying my maternity leave! 🐣 Baby and I are doing great! Lots to adjust to for us both, but we are learning!

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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The Stephen Katz R01 has been expired early. This was a critical funding opportunities for early stage PIs to foster taking their talents to new, big, important problems. Why?

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Stefanie Robel @stefanierobel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just got news that @hhmi.org decided to not review Hanna Gray fellowship applications. I am sorry but that’s fucked up. People spent months working in those. So now you disadvantaged these candidates even more. They could have used the time to advance their research instead.

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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Here are #NSF education and advocacy talking points. #SaveNSF (Shared with permission - CC0; no attribution required)

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Kevin Dean @kevin-dean.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Navigate, now available on PubMed. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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navigate: an open-source platform for smart light-sheet microscopy

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ok y'all false alarm, I went into work and turduckened my work computer to log in to my home computer and was able to get imaris to display properly. Weird glitch - absolutely no idea what happened.

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Dr. Liz Haynes 🐟🔬 @drlizhaynes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just in case anyone else has had this niche experience: Can't see Imaris display on a computer with a floating license I'm remoting into from home. It's just a white screen. Feels like a security update? (I've been able to do this in the past).

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🧵🧪”Paying taxes can feel like money lost. In truth, it is money shared. When we fund the NIH, we are betting on ourselves and on one another. We are saying that every American life is worth saving, whether that life sits next door or across the country.”

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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Anatomical and Molecular Characterization of the Zebrafish Meninges www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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