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Karl Clark

@genetrapper.bsky.social
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He/him. Dad, husband, referee & Assoc Prof #geneediting #behavior #stress. I like cooking, youth soccer, and hunting/fishing. MN -> TX TAMU

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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My dog Beau thoroughly enjoyed our trip to a lake cabin in Northern Wisconsin last week.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Arrived in Madison, Wisconsin for the World Congress on Genetics in Livestock Production (WCGALP) meeting and as a former Wisconsinite living in Texas I found some cheese curds and a great beer at the Great Dane Pub.
A picture of food including fried cheese curds, Jamaican jerk wings, and an old glory IPA beer.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It was great connecting with colleagues and sharing laughs. Dr. Hackett told the story of his career compressed to about an hour or so and lots of his extended flock gave talks about their experiences and research. Some Peeryisms that were shared. “So what?, how many molecules? It’s your career.”
Dr. Perry Hackett presenting the story of his career.”A group of scientists mentored by Dr. Hackett at Stub and Herbs In Minneapolis.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Heading to Minneapolis for my PhD advisor’s (Perry Hackett) retirement symposium. I’m excited to see many colleagues and re-hash old tales of success, and now humorous setbacks.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Pro tip. When working with AI troubleshooting label printing on a project it doesn’t start with the obvious question. Are they plugged in, it might take hours of diving into rabbit holes before you realize they are unplugged because the software update you ran said to make sure they were unplugged.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Finishing the night with a glass of Vikre’s Boreal spruce gin on the rocks. I first enjoyed this gin camping on Wilson Lake west of Tofte, Mn on a cold fall night standing in a drizzle under the pines with other campers.
Picture of a bottle of Vikre Boreal spruce gin and a glass.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I moved from Minnesota to Texas less than two years ago, but my heart was in Minnesota this weekend. I’m saddened and enraged by the actions of ICE and the federal government but proud of the people of my former state where I spent more than half of my life. 💜
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R Michael Howard @ixcel.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This guy, Beau, is happy I am back home for his morning routine. I think it’s time for that walk now.
Golden doodle laying down, bit looking up at viewer seated in a chair off camera.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Just spent the week attending the Transgenic Animal Research Conference TARC XV. Lots of great research. I also got to connect or reconnect with some wonderful scientists. Plus Granlibakken is always a great venue and Lake Tahoe is beautiful.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Happy to have my zebrafish system installed in newly renovated install @tamu.bsky.social today. Thanks to Kevin and Matt from Iwaki for the install. Zebrafish on the horizon.
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Has anyone successfully tried to submit Form ITA-338P to request a tariff exemption for scientific instruments for nonprofit use? www.trade.gov/sites/defaul...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Grabbing lunch at Rock and Brews before a UT-San Antonio tour with my daughter.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Lost our black poodle Leila in December due to kidney failure and Abby today with Lymphoma. Great family experiences with these two. I picture the two of you running and playing together.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
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uOttawa Science @uottawascience.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨 Exciting news! @uottawa.bsky.social researchers discovered secretoneurin, a hormone that stimulates ovulation in zebrafish. This could impact fertility research and conservation! 🐟💡 #Zebrafish #FertilityResearch 👉 bit.ly/4lmbvzM
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Maura McGrail @mcgraillab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#zebrafish Our Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource is online!! zebrafishccr.org Check out what's available, imaging and information, and make a request. We're so very grateful to the NIH ORIP for supporting this work! Huge thanks to Parnal Joshi from Iddo Friedberg lab for creating the website!
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Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource - Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource
Bringing you precision Cre/CreERT2 and floxed lines driven by GeneWeld CRISPR targeted integration. Mission Our mission is to provide the Zebrafish community with Cre resources that open new areas of ...
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Maura McGrail @mcgraillab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource website (ZebrafishCCR) will be online soon!
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/03/2025
"Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference." #academicsky www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Neither Silence nor Compliance Will Save Harvard From Trump. Resistance Might. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...
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Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality
Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Your work is your rebellion” 💪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...
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To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out.  Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:
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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Apparently I have developed a pet peeve for CRISPR-Cas9 figures that a) don’t label the 5’-3’ ends of the DNA and b) ignore the convention of having the top strand go 5’ to 3’ from left to right.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Nice update on Leah Labs early efficacy fighting cancer in dogs! www.newsweek.com/dog-cancer-a...
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Dog with cancer "almost back to normal" after pioneering new treatment
The clinical trial involves injecting T cells and monitoring the therapy through PET scans.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Took a short flight to Fort Worth, TX to attend the IETS meeting. The first talk of the pre-conference meeting “new frontiers in CRISPR/Cas…” by Dr. Miguel Moreno-Monteros features #zebrafish work.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025... Trying at least 1 new to me recipe each week this year. Here was a relatively straight forward starter.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Watching the Packer game on Amazon prime… I feel like I was able to get better stream quality out from a small soccer game off my cell phone. If I squint I can sort of make out what’s going on.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A nice write up by Shelly Bradford in the Scientist. www.the-scientist.com/combining-ba... about work with my collaborators (Nicole Becker, Jim Maher and others) at the Mayo Clinic on using Tale dimers to regulate DNA expression.
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Combining Bacterial Systems Offers a New Approach to Gene Regulation
Researchers turned programmable proteins into a novel genetic tool, potentially enabling tighter control of gene expression.
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Pardon us, Bluesky! We didn't really introduce ourselves during this latest barrage. ZR! covers highlights of all things #zebrafish and other cool teleost species. We act as a resource hub for questions and queries from the community while celebrating all those that are part of it! #RockOn 🧪 #SciSky
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Morning send off from these two “innocent” trouble makers. Abby our near 15-year old Pudelpointer (in Jan 2025) and Leila our 10 year old standard poodle.
Close up of Abby a near 15 year old PudelpointerLeila, a standard poodle sleeping on an area rug.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
German soccer club St. Pauli quits X, calls platform a "hate machine" "Racism and conspiracy theories are allowed to spread unchecked and even curated," St. Pauli said in statement. The club urged supporters to follow its updates on Bluesky. @fcstpauli.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/german-...
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German soccer club St. Pauli quits X ahead of snap elections, calls platform a "hate machine"
Named after Hamburg's St. Pauli district, the club is known among soccer fans for its left-leaning supporter base.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service."
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Bluesky Adds One Million New Users After Election
With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
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Karl Clark @genetrapper.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Sunrise and sunset photos from near me deer hunting stand in southwest Minnesota.
Sunrise in MN fieldSunset in MN field with cottonwood and farmSunset silhouette of cottonwood
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