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Fred Berry

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Scientist-Developmental Biology, Skeleton Seeking knowledge in all things-Cooking, Music, Beer, Running Haven't met a rabbit hole I didn't like Edmonton, Canada sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/fredbe…

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Jason "The Germ Guy" Tetro @jatetro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely THRILLED about the opening of Canada's latest network for those wanting to translate their research to health. Welcome #RegenerativeMedicineHub! Please RT, share, and don't forget to send @amvoronova.bsky.social your thoughts! youtu.be/brIy7Ce1WGY?...
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Reach In: Introducing the Regenerative Medicine Hub
YouTube video by UAlberta FoMD
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Developmental pleiotropy revealed by mosaic heterozygous Snrpb deletion underlies CCMS-like axial skeletal defects www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Hauke Drechsler @hd-sci.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Free unasked advice: If you want to illustrate your paper but you cannot make polished illustrations yourself - it's ok to go with basic illustrations made in power point or to get a professional illustrator/artist to do these things for you. Using AI, however, to look bold and deliver this slop: /1
AI-generated scheme showing a kinesin motor melting into a microtubule
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Now we can know what cell culture media tastes like! Generation of Human Taste Bud Organoids as a Human-Mimetic Platform for Modeling Taste Perception www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Generation of Human Taste Bud Organoids as a Human-Mimetic Platform for Modeling Taste Perception
We established a human taste bud organoid system derived from circumvallate papillae. This model has been highly anticipated in the field of taste research, where feasible approaches for validating ta...
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Paul Chrystal @pwchrystal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How does one gene perform different functions in different tissues? Our new publication in @CommsBio sheds some light on the disparate roles of Usher Syndrome disease gene PCDH15. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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One Autistic Senior Citizen🇨🇦 @oneautisticsenior.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please share if you can not sure if he has been found www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Calgary police ask public to search their properties for missing 11-year-old boy | CBC News
Calgary police are expanding their search for a boy missing since Thursday, asking residents of the entire city to search their property.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Snowbirds
A view from a window looking at a skyline with blue sky and wispy clouds. An office building with glass windows is to the left.  Planes flying in formation are in the distance Blue sky with 9 planes flying in formation
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 30/06/2026
The Alberta government is moving forward with its plan to merge health-care numbers with government-issued identification and proof-of-citizenship. #abpoli
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Alberta’s All-in-One ID Card Heightens Privacy Risks | The Tyee
Based on groundless fraud fears, it will create headaches for seniors and families.
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Why was Ferroptosis coined when Mortiferrous is right there!
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Kenji Sugioka @sugi05.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
One month left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab at UBC! Funding is available for up to five years #DevBio #cellbio
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jobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 15/05/2026
Love live imaging? Join us to study cell division, cytoskeletal dynamics, and morphogenesis in C. elegans embryos. Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Cell Biology, Sugioka lab UBC University of British Columbia See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-b
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Let's hope this spring sticks around
An elevated view of a river. Bare trees on a hillside to the right. The river winds to the left with more forest across the far shoreAn elevated view of Edmonton that tired out the photographer as he ran up a steep incline.  Taken through bare trees. A city skyline is seen off in the distance on  banks of a partially ice covered river.  The sky is mostly blue with white wispy clouds at the top of the picture
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I woke up to quacking this morning. For the past few springs, a number of ducks have stopped off in my yard for a bit on their migration home
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Why yes. I did give a speech in the Senate about the joy of sex. A speech about sex and libraries, and the dangers of trying to censor what our teens can read and watch and do online. In a world full of digital risk, we need to teach our kids media literacy, and sexual literacy too. #cdnpoli #ableg
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Oh, for the love of sex! The climax of Bill S-209
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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Ryan Gray @slewzeus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
New preprint showing Adgrg6 and Sox9 genetically interact, increasing the penetrance and severity of scoliosis in mice and that Adgrg6-Sox9 signaling works through a self-reinforcing feedforward circuit to maintain ECM expression in connective tissues of the spine. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Impossible to overstate how timely the @orssociety.bsky.social meeting feels, again, this year. Cannot wait to see dear friends and hear exciting science. Keep an eye out for these amazing scientists at #ORS2026 this week: @cpane94.bsky.social @gkotsaris90.bsky.social @eseidlscience.bsky.social
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations" Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations? rdcu.be/e7zx7
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Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations
Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Perspective, Maizels and Briscoe discuss the limitations of current models of gene regulatory networks and outline solutions to harness data abundance without...
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Although I hold some nostalgia for these books, I can't read them because the text is too small!
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#rarediseaseday
Two speakers standing in front of a lectern.  A screen shows a ribbon and the text 2026 filled with zebra stripes
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Lunar New Year and Ramadan have been observed here for more than 100 years. And that is a legacy worthy of celebration!
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not the six pack I'd have selected for a long weekend, but S2 was happy to find this
A six pack of Irn Bru shrink wrapped in orange plastic with the company name IRN BRU in white letters on an orange background
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The law and order party? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Conservative Party faces significant financial loss after convention voting devices go missing | CBC News
Conservative convention organizers are urging delegates who may have walked off with pricey voting devices to return them to the party so it can avoid incurring significant unexpected costs.
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Happy International Clash Day to all those who celebrate! www.kexp.org/internationa...
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International Clash Day
A collection of content created by KEXP for International Clash Day.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
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Index of Inspiring Black Scientists | Wiley
The Inspiring Black Scientists Index is a curated database celebrating diverse contributions to science. Join us in promoting education and collaboration.
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Flying Canoë Volant
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
any frogs in there?
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Reskeet this with your home river. The North Saskatchewan River says hello
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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal @oacjournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
As we usher in the new year, we also wanted to celebrate the achievements of a giant in the hashtag#osteoarthritis community. Read more about Frank's legacy and the Frank Beier Graduate Opportunity Scholarship in this month's issue here: www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106...
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Defending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.” A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The staff and associate editors at Genome are great. It is wonderful to work with a group that 'tries a little harder'.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
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The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
Let’s not quit Canada. Let’s make it better for everyone—including Albertans
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I can't be the only one who sees "FAQs" as an acronym and pronounces it like "Facts"?
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 27/12/2025
Typical tech bros, they could have saved so much time, money, precious metals and energy if they'd just asked a passer by to kick them in the nuts instead.
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
God damn them all. I was told we’d cruise the seas For America’s worst We’d fire our guns Shoot the queers, Now I’m a broken man Who cowers in fear, Felonious Trump’s last privateer. 2/2
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Oh, the year was 20 and 25 (How I wish I was in Europe now) When a letter of marque came from The Prick, He’s the scummiest President and a dick. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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To stop drug boats, GOP lawmakers want to license privateers
A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque authorizing private raids at sea.
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
We can normalize actually reading the items we cite (or at least checking that they exist and say what we think they do)
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bioRxiv Developmental Biology @biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The developing tendon and enthesis are hypoxic and rely on hypoxia-inducible factor 1a (Hif1a) during postnatal development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The path to this paper has so many stories. Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.
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Genes & Development @genesdev.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
RESEARCH PAPER: MEF2C controls segment-specific gene regulatory networks that direct heart tube morphogenesis By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau ➡️ genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24… Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau #transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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CXXC Finger Protein 1 drives BMP signaling and progenitor cell differentiation during limb development
The mechanisms mediating endochondral bone formation remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that CXXC Finger Protein 1 (CFP1) is required for t…
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/12/2025
People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms? Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people." Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
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Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Maybe no one wants to watch a MK Dons game and need other distractions? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New technology a 'game changer' for stadium fans say experts
Innovation developed with the University of Bristol will help enchance the experience for fans.
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Differentiation Journal @diffjournal.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Mirco Galiè summarizes studies that support the hypothesis that the partially or fully mesenchymal phenotype might represent a general paradigm of stem cell plasticity underlying embryonic development, regenerative potential, as well as their pathological counterparts: bit.ly/3JADAW0
Fig. 2. According to the traditional concept of mesenchyme, during embryonic development, mesenchymal-like tissues form through EMT from epithelial-shaped tissues in two major steps at the early stages of gastrulation. Specifically, the primary mesenchyme originates from the epiblast to form mesoderm and primitive endoderm; this process is regarded as the prototype of EMT. Subsequently, the mesoderm reverts to an epithelial morphology to generate transient embryonic structures, including somites, which then undergo a further round of EMT to generate secondary mesenchyme. Secondary mesenchyme is considered the embryonic connective tissue and provides the precursors of the connective tissues of the adult body.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 31/10/2025
My latest on three important questions about the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Can they? Must they? Should they?
Three questions to answer about the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause
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Fred Berry @fbberry.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9h...
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Bela Lugosi's Dead (Official Version)
YouTube video by Bauhaus - Topic
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