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Edan Foley

@edanfoley.bsky.social
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Studying zebrafish intestinal biology at the University of Bath with an interest in sex and mucosal immunity. Trying to import the oxford comma to Britain. she/her 🐠 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🎶

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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
that’s such a good question - I’ll have to check when i go the next time.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)
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FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy
Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Recent radio interview www.wuky.org/podcast/dr-g... #MicroSky
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Two grant-funded research projects could help foster new preventive treatments for Lyme disease
There’s a virus within a bacterium within a parasite, and University of Kentucky researchers are figuring out how to make them kill each other. Dr. Greg talks with a UK researcher who has been studyin...
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sorry, I know I've posted enough #FluorescenceFriday images 🔬, but this is so frigging cool - 3D reconstruction from Xenium data of cell types across the nucleus accumbens in human 🧠. Credit to JHU Biostats PhD student Jianing Yao and @rphillips3.bsky.social who are leading this project 🤩
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fabulous!!! 😍
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Fascism works not only by the passage of arbitrary, dehumanizing laws but by the arbitrary, dehumanizing enforcement of the laws.”
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bwahaha. how bad is it that my first thought was wnt?
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As long as it doesn't interfere with my long game plan of getting a damehood!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At some stage, we'll deplete the national strategic reserve of "l"s with all this fancy spelling!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I can forgive their inability to write a good Eurovision song, but I'll never forgive them for insisting on two "l"s in signaling 😆
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Amid the rush to burn DEI infrastructure to the ground, it’s worth remembering that the goal was never favoritism. It was a fair shot for people long excluded by unconscious or real bias — prominent scientists, including Nobel laureates, openly argued some “races” were innately unsuited for science.
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
thank you!!!!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thanks, Izzy - it's been a very welcome improvement!
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The last 2 years have been disturbingly clarifying, scientifically, politically and organizationally. I have had to focus on what I have control over: organizing at my uni, ensuring the success of trainees in my lab and acknowledging that my approach to research may not align with future funding
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Definitely! That Slack group is invaluable - it's part of how I found the job posting for here!
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Excited about our new manuscript @elife.bsky.social: Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate doi.org/10.7554/eLif...! Huge congratulations to Rahul Nagvekar and the team!! ✨⭐🍾🐟 We generated a genetic model to identify engulfing macrophages in the #killifish aging brain!
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Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate
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John F. Rawls @jfrawls.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Rawls Lab is hiring! We are seeking a motivated research technician to support cutting-edge studies in gastrointestinal physiology using zebrafish & mice. To learn more about this hands-on & in-person position at Duke University in Durham NC, click here: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-R...
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Too much gas-lighting?
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Fozzie Bear Sings on Stage
ALT: Fozzie Bear Sings on Stage
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“You’re not seen as middle age, you’re seen as old, whereas your comparable male counterpart is seen as in his prime time,” @amydiehl.bsky.social said about the gendered ageism that women ages 40-60 can face.
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Kristen Kwan @blockintheback.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I am sincerely honored and excited to be named the Vice Chair for Vision Research at the @moraneyecenter.bsky.social at @utah.edu. I am thrilled to work with everyone to build upon the Moran's rich history in vision research. Stay tuned for much more to come - we will be growing!
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Moran Eye Center Names Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah has named Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research. In this leadership role, she will help guide the strategic direction of the Moran...
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
thanks! we find the lcp1 antibody works very well too. To look at macrophages, we used anti-GFP on sections from mpeg:gfp fish and that worked reasonably well (at least in adults)
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Petros Ligoxygakis @petrosligoxygakis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The “fruit” of my sabbatical year at Chongqing University: how an insect discriminates between pathogenic vs. commensal fungi and how we can manipulate that interaction to generate biological insecticides for eliminating insect pests and recover crops. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Immune surveillance on the insect body surface recognizes a pathogen-derived fungal protease to activate defenses - Nature Communications
Early immune surveillance promotes effective antifungal defense. Here, the authors show that a secreted lectin, IML1, binds diverse fungal spores on the cuticle, but immunity is triggered only upon cl...
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Veronica @vfarm15.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Honored and delighted to share this piece — every scientist really does have a role to play in advocacy, even if it doesn't look like what you'd expect. I hope this encourages others to find their own way to advocate, whatever form that takes. 🔬💛
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Jingle all the way is a love song to socialism masquerading as a slapstick Christmas movie.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/07/2026
To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New idea: Students interested in joining a lab get reference letters about the PI by former trainees.
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
thanks!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
it’s a hill just outside Bath with some gorgeous views of the surrounding country.
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thanks - that's my favourite tattoo! I'm doing everything I can to soak up all this gorgeous weather while it's here!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The final version of our paper looking at effects of RANK deficiency on gut function in zebrafish is now online!
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Rank-dependent control of tuft and BEST4 cell development in the intestine - Nature Communications
Here they provide evidence that RANK signaling contributes to specification of intestinal epithelial tuft and BEST4 cells, and that loss of RANK impairs the ability of the host to navigate infections ...
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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔥🧪🔬 A blaze of neural crest cells migrates through a developing quail embryo on one of embryonic development's most epic journeys. Beautifully captured by @vanderspuy.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🐣 #Devbio
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks. The students and instructors have made the whole experience quite memorable
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Woke up to pee, saw Lindsey Graham died, immediately jumped on Bluesky to see the good posting. Have fun, everyone, but please steer away from the homophobia. Maybe this dude would have been less of a massive piece of shit if he hadn’t been steeped in self-loathing. Dunk responsibly
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For #FluorescenceFriday - human induced pluripotent stem cells trying to differentiate into locus coeruleus-like neurons... pretty pink one on their way and stained for tyrosine hydroxylase 🔬🤩🧠. Image credits to @lieberinstitute.bsky.social Stem Cell core and Imaging Development team. So excited!
Microscopy image of cells in a dish that are stained different colors for cell type markers
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Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is a great meeting and I’m looking forward to attending and catching up with all the great symbiosis science. I’ll also be there in my role as EiC of the new @isme-microbes.bsky.social journal ISME Host Microbe. Happy to discuss about your next manuscript!
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Nichole Broderick, PhD @nabroderick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Let’s fill these remaining states and support a great program, connecting classrooms with real scientists!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I’m still waiting on the perfect moment. Recently I’ve been learning the different pubs. There are some lovely ones here
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I was so upset when I found they were closed!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Enjoy. London is one of my favourite cities
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Especially when it’s thrifted!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I once found the perfect pair of jeans at Anthropologie for $8 and it remains the finest moment in my life!
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview
Cartoon of a red panda (Ailurus fulgens) looking forwards with a paw raised. Around the panda is written "THIS PREPRINT IS 100% PAWESOME!"
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks!
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks. I can see that this happens outside of your control, but to me it feels like a cynical manipulation of my work by qed. I’m afraid to say that I’ll have to consider this when we approach future lab papers
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm trying to follow these threads and am getting a little confused. Can you please clarify: when I submitted my preprints to BioRxiv last year, did you know qed were ranking them?
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is this amazing democratizer of science, and @qedscience.bsky.social is now creating an "elite/other" classification. I find it so off-putting, it makes me never want to use the service. This technology is being grossly misused, in my opinion...
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Wonderful news. Congrats! The research plan sounds very exciting!
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
the name is unfortunate and some of the analysis is striking. however, it’s interesting that they perform some analysis (where the “top-ranked” preprints originate from or are funded by) but not other analysis (gender of authors), given some AI agents’ bias
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Edan Foley @edanfoley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thanks!
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