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Ian Scott

@icscott.bsky.social
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Parent, scientist (zebrafish heart development), struggling athlete, lover of board games and RPGs.

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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exciting opportunities at a world-class institute in Toronto! apply.interfolio.com/192324
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Reyes-Lamothe lab @reyes-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’re hiring! The Biology department at McGill is hiring a tenure-track professor in Quantitative Cell Biology. We’re looking for an outstanding researcher and educator to join our community. Deadline: October 9 Info & application: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... Please share!
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Assistant Professor in Quantitative Cell Biology - Department of Biology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Cawa Tran, PhD @cawatran.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Dept. of Biology at the University of San Diego seeks two tenure-track assistant professors for Fall 2027, with experience in cell biology and/or organismal biology (both broadly defined) & strong interest in undergraduate-research mentoring. Please repost! jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Details - Assistant Professor, Biology
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
An overlooked plus of CIHR's potential move to one review/year for Project grants is that it would HALVE the number of times you would have to face crushing disappointment on an annual basis 👍.
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
She broke the 200m Butterfly world record yesterday - over a decade old (and that one used the "shark suit"). Summer McIntosh is truly a generational talent.
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Well deserved! Janet has had so much impact on science AND scientists.
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Christian Mosimann @chrmosimann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Open Rank- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Really no noticeable changes in just under 30 years!
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Rubén Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨WE ARE HIRING🚨 Interested in regeneration? cardiac development? just like doing zebrafish research? Join us in beautiful Montreal! Check here if interested www.izfs.org/jobboard/ame... @zebrafishrock.bsky.social @isrbio.bsky.social @izfs.bsky.social
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Next up - papers finally published by your (grand)children...
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
cross-posting for the organizers: "Don't miss out on this year's Weinstein Conference on Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration, in New York, May 6-8! weinstein-conference.com Apply for a travel award ($500-1,000) by April 10th by filling out the following form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Join leading scientists in New York for the 2026 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration Conference — an international meeting showcasing breakthroughs in heart development, congenital heart disease, and cardiac regeneration.
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Mikko Taipale @miketilapia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity 🤜🤛 and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - Toronto (City), Ontario (CA) job with Taipale Lab, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto | 12849004
The Taipale lab in the Donnelly CCBR and University of Toronto is looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Another exciting opportunity in Toronto for developmental biologists! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... ON/595870817/ jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... ON/595871017/
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Careers at U of T
View All U of T Faculty Positions, View All U of T Opportunities for External Positions, View All U of T Current Non-Appointed Opportunities, View All U of T Opportunities in Affiliated Hospitals
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Two exciting Assistant Professor opportunities in Toronto! apply.interfolio.com/172703
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Bret Pearson @sheckyfeinblatt.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish: www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
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Society for Developmental Biology | Resource
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Very happy to be part of this amazing work from Jason Moffat and Sanna Masud - Victoria Saba Echezaretta's rescue experiments are remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target - Nature
The enzyme ABHD18 is shown to have a key role in cardiolipin metabolism in mitochondria, offering a potential route for a small-molecule treatment of the rare genetic disease Barth syndrome.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!
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Bret Pearson @sheckyfeinblatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky! postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
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Post Doc Portal | OHSU
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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · 25/06/2025
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Teaching stream faculty position in molecular genetics! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) - Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) - Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Enhancers are "just DNA" - finding all of them in the genome is hard. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Great swims by Summer Macintosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey, but the 4th place swimmer (Yu Zidi) is 12 YEARS OLD!!! 😱
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Also see: career.sickkids.ca:8001/psc/CRPRD/CA...
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Great opportunity to join the vibrant developmental biology in Toronto (and boss around me and @wbderry.bsky.social). jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/673968/p...
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Program Head – Developmental, Stem Cell, and Cancer Biology - Toronto (Region), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute | 673968
Provide leadership and mentorship to members of the Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer and influence the scientific direction of the Research Institute
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025) here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)
Frank Stahl, screen capture from: https://youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g
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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · 25/06/2025
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A nice run of free-er time to read and think science lately and cut into the very deep pile off paper pdfs I have accumulated. Happy to report that I have dug into it by downloading 2-3 new papers for each one I read! So I should be done by... :-(
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Slow to the game, but the Collaborative Dev Bio program at U of T is finally on BlueSky - @devbiouoft.bsky.social
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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):
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Rubén Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
There is still time to apply! Come and join us!
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
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We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
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Weinstein Conference @weinsteinconf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
❣️You still have time! We are accepting abstract submissions for this year’s conference. Please find important dates and details at the link below. www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Deep into editing MSc and PhD theses right now - also such a treat to see students get their accumulated thoughts and perspectives down after all their hard work and development.
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5 wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
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Andrew Simmonds 🇨🇦 @simmondlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Looking for a high qualtiy scientific meeting being held in Canada this year? The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting (Regional SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting) is happening May 25-28 in Kelowna BC. Registration is now open! www.sdbonline.org/meeting?Reso...
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Society for Developmental Biology | Meeting
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Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Let’s spread the wonder and beauty of developmental biology! This was such a fun project to be part of with the @bsdb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social and Cambridge Film Works. youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ
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BSDB - The Fascinating World of Developmental Biology (full length)
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Weinstein Conference @weinsteinconf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
So thrilled to announce Mike Levine. PhD from @princetonmolbio as one of our two keynote speakers at #WeinsteinCVD2025, May 14-16! Don't forget to submit your abstracts before FEBRUARY 21 and register at childrenswi.org/weinstein
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Weinstein Conference @weinsteinconf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Weinstein Committee is soliciting nominations for the 2025 Markwald Award. If you have a scientist you'd like to nominate send it to mpatterson@mcw.edu by February 7th!
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Michelle Collins @mmcollins.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Join us in Toronto for the next Canadian Zebrafish Meeting! Registration and abstract submission will open soon.
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Weinstein Conference @weinsteinconf.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference at childrenswi.org/weinstein. The conference will be held in Milwaukee, May 14-16! Please share, retweet and distribute ❣️❣️❣️#WeinsteinCVD2025
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/01/2025
This is breathtaking. Aurora borealis... from *above*. Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station
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Weinstein Conference @weinsteinconf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Calling all cardiovascular scientists.... @WeinsteinConf is in Milwaukee May 14-16! Abstract submission now open. Registration portal is imminent! childrenswi.org/weinstein Are you a trainee and want to be considered for a platform talk - abstract due Feb 21!
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Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference | 2025. Online registration by Cvent
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@weinsteinconf.bsky.social is now up and active! Start planning for May 14th-16th in Milwaukee for this fantastic trainee presentation-based CV development meeting.
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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Coming soon: We have a Scientist position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health Program at SickKids. Should post details later this week. Stay tuned.
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1000WomeninSTEM @1000womeninstem.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#WIP #womeninSTEM trading cards #1000portraits The first 10 portraits are now available as collectible cards. If you have any comments, please let me know. There's always room for improvement. 1️⃣-1️⃣0️⃣ (link aninfinityofhypotheses.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...)
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Ian Scott @icscott.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
16 year-old can now legally drive on his own: it is a brave new world!
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Delighted to announce a new call for applications for our Pathway to Independence programme. Now entering its third year, this scheme supports postdocs going on the job market in 2025 - with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Application deadline 31 Jan 2025. 1/3
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PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
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