Reposted by Chrissy HammondKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Welp, here we go - kicking off another academic year! Good luck everyone! 😀static.klipy.comHelm'S Deep King TheodinALT: Helm'S Deep King Theodin 3292
Reposted by Chrissy HammondZebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Very cool paper from @kaguelab.bsky.social that started in the lab of @hammofish.bsky.social 🐟 🦴 #zebrafish 052
Reposted by Chrissy HammondCatarina Henriques' lab at the University of Sheffield, UK @c-henriques-tria.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Today! Zebrafish Disease Models Society Aging RIG Webinar. 3PM UK time. 3 great speakers: www.zdmsociety.org/2026-zdms-ri... Register for free and join us: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...zdmsociety.org2026 ZDMS Rig Meet Ups — ZDMS 032
Reposted by Chrissy HammondJames Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026In our latest editorial @amjeve.uk & I take on the dreaded impact factor Like Monday mornings no one likes them but you can't ignore them & they keep coming around However there are things we should all do as authors, reviewers & editors journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...journals.biologists.comThe elephant in the room: impact factorSummary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ... 03616
Reposted by Chrissy HammondLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Amazing imaginative photography by Spanish duo Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda. TT: ClawClips 14165121355
Reposted by Chrissy HammondSally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 01/04/2026"We want to see the academic publishing industry change in a way that benefits science, not just profits" 02512
Reposted by Chrissy HammondCharlène Boumendil (She/Her) @charleneboumendil.bsky.social · 20/03/2026We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...igh.cnrs.frJoin IGH as Group Leader - IGHThe Institute of Human Genetics invites applications for a Principal Investigator position in its main research areas. Read more... 05262
Reposted by Chrissy HammondMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Let me post a spicy take here: most people don't read or cite other model organisms' work. Because of this, they keep rediscovering things and, most importantly, re-writing the timeline in favor of fewer and fewer models. That, plus an artificial limit of citations per paper equals this 🧪 1510927
Reposted by Chrissy HammondErika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026🦴🐟 I’ve step into the role of Senior Leader for the Skeletal Diseases Research Interest Group (RIG) within the Zebrafish Disease Models Society (ZDMS). 🐟🐟🦴🦴I’ll be reaching out soon to discuss our roadmap for the year, upcoming webinars, and collaborative initiatives. #ZebrafishResearch #ZDMS 072
Reposted by Chrissy HammondSteve Simpson @profstevesimpson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026We are recruiting three new lecturers! Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...bristol.ac.ukDetails | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol 0711
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Joel is such a creative scientist, but also such a generous kind individual. People like him are so important to our community. 120
Reposted by Chrissy HammondKim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues. 17438233
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Exactly this. Success rates of 0.5% = a huge waste of effort. 041
Reposted by Chrissy HammondDan 🐟 C @zebrafish007.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-) 342198324
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025We’ve got a couple of PhD projects open. Including one with the lovely @adamgrieve.bsky.social and @scholpplab.bsky.social on Rhbdl proteins in #zebrafish which is open to UK and international students tinyurl.com/fishproteasetinyurl.comFunded PhD SWBio DTP- (STANDARD) Brains, Blades, and Zebrafish: Dissecting Rhomboid Protease Roles in Neuronal Development and Signalling at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (STANDARD) Brains, Blades, and Zebrafish: Dissecting Rhomboid Protease Roles in Neuronal Development and Signalling at University of Bristol... 045
Reposted by Chrissy HammondErika Kague @kaguelab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Looking for a PhD position? Join the Kague Lab as a PhD student in Precision Medicine (funded by the MRC) to work on a multidisciplinary project about Bone Fragility! 🦴 👇 usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...usher.ed.ac.uk2026/27 Projects | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher InstituteThe below list of projects is being offered as part of the standard MRC studentship the MRC iCase studentships for 2026/27 entry. 032
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Super fun experience doing a PhD defense in Iceland. Well done Dr Abbi Smith! Also a great opportunity to take the kids to Iceland and sneak in some glacier hiking and golden triangle trips in a frozen wonderland! 141
Reposted by Chrissy HammondLara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 25/10/2025🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4nature.comGoogle Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authorsResearchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact. 37936
Reposted by Chrissy Hammondcanaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate? We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social ! 12017
Reposted by Chrissy HammondPrakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Want to engage and « do something » about microplastics in your own environment. Consider joining the foldscope community that has been mapping novel sources of microplastics around the world. microcosmos.foldscope.com/post/zCoLNt3...microcosmos.foldscope.comProtocol to detect and count microplastic particles using the Foldscope. 0249
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Jeremie and Rabia presenting (on fracture repair and cell lineages in scales respectively) at #UKZF2025 - proud PI alert! 070
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Post an image from your summer that confers peace 040
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Lucky to live in a city that has a free balloon fiesta so can see this in the morning 040
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Lucky to live in a city that has a free balloon fiesta so can see this in the morning 020
Reposted by Chrissy HammondMax Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 23/07/2025📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c 13744
Reposted by Chrissy HammondFilipa Simões @simoesfilipa.bsky.social · 07/07/2025🧪 Job alert 🔊 we are hiring a Research Assistant - join the Simões Group at DPAG-IDRM @ox.ac.uk supporting #cardiovascular development and regeneration research, working with #zebrafish and #human stem cell systems: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... @oxforddpag.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk (1/4)my.corehr.comJob Details 11823
Reposted by Chrissy HammondSarah Rice @grainofscience.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Just when you thought all had gone quiet on the COLGALT2 front- get ready to hear more! Delighted that @hammofish.bsky.social and I have been awarded a four year grant from MRC @ukri.org to study the role of this enzyme in the skeleton. Will be advertising PDRA and RA posts in due course! #orthosky 241
Reposted by Chrissy HammondSinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Job opportunity! This would be perfect for someone with an interest/background in animal behaviour and enthusiasm for scientific publishing. Help contribute to a fantastic journal! Deadline 31 July. 054
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Best way to spent a hot weekend. In the water. 6km swim for Bantham swoosh, then sea kayaking with the kids 040
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 11/07/2025This is a brilliant place to work. PI’s consider flagging this up to talented Masters students 000
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 09/07/2025This is today! Remember to sign up and come along! 000
Reposted by Chrissy HammondIzzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 08/07/2025This 👇🏾. A different set of rules, expectations on women, and perceptions of workloads is all part of the hidden curriculum of academia. If all leaders/senior colleagues can do is tell women to learn to say ‘no’ rather than ditching the double standards, they are very much a part of the problem. 1468
Reposted by Chrissy HammondAlex Gould Lab @alexgouldlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios. thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...thenode.biologists.comEvent carbon calculator - the NodeI am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your 43719
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The most glorious early morning swim - perfect week to start the week in an empty lake 010
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Nice 48 hours, some good science news Friday, then 2 days white water paddling with the husband 000
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Thanks so much for being the awesome advocate for all things fish for so many years. We all owe you a beer!media.tenor.coma group of fish are swimming in a tank with green algaeALT: a group of fish are swimming in a tank with green algae 020
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Interested in #zebrafish aging, then please sign up for the #zdms aging rig webinar. 4 great speakers. 9th July. 10am ET, 3pm UK. Link to register us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 032
Reposted by Chrissy HammondAndy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 18/06/2025This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life. 160108832997
Reposted by Chrissy HammondJeroen Bakkers @bakkerslab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025We are hiring a new PhD student in #Bioinformatics and Organ #Regeneration using to join our team at the @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social If you are interested in how the heart regenerates and want to work in a dynamic and experienced team please apply here. www.hubrecht.eu/job/phd-stud... 21712
Reposted by Chrissy HammondMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Answer me, these riddles 3, and my data I shall bequeath! 📊📄 1. What is on a USB in a drawer no one knows about? 2. Which version includes the published record? "_final_final" or "_final" but with the most recent "file opened last" date? 3. Refer to riddle 4. #AcademicSky #SciPub 1211
Reposted by Chrissy HammondClaire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 12/05/2025PhD opportunity 👇Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK health inequity @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social & Prof Kai Yang @winchesterschoolofart @unisouthampton.bsky.social Apply now ✍️ rolling deadline start Oct 25 cidns-cdt.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comPrecision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com 044
Chrissy Hammond @hammofish.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Always a massive pleasure to come up to Sheffield and get to chat to the brilliant scientists up here 151
Reposted by Chrissy HammondCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Can't believe we're all going to be replaced by this 49579189
Reposted by Chrissy HammondEthan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place. 1747381099
Reposted by Chrissy HammondRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"we have been watching with growing concern policy changes in the US...The scale of disruption to science is unprecedented...We are concerned with policies that threaten censorship & removal of public data...To our colleagues in the US, we stand with you" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...journals.biologists.comScience under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent timesAs Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati... 510043
Reposted by Chrissy HammondMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2024einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️ 6790193194
Reposted by Chrissy Hammonddave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 12/03/2025whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍 191115123010
Reposted by Chrissy HammondRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/nopenrxiv.orgHomepage - openRxivopenRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community. 552558846