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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New PI presenting to senior PIs at faculty mtg

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Beware, here there be nucleases

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We don’t have the fish but we have the plasmid, and find that since it’s a secreted factor anyway you can pretty much just inject every time and the mosaicism doesn’t matter

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Scientist's way of saying 'I ❤️ you' "I found this paper/preprint that made me think of your project." "I checked the mice/cells/plates already." "I just sent you the edits you requested." "I have a slide/diagram that will work for that." "I had that problem with [lab equipment], I have a fix."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Congratulations! Beautiful paper

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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

So awesome to see this! Congrats :)

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Also, I will always take credit for being the person who convinced him to get his first smartphone and taught him how to take selfies

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

He was a consummate gentleman and scientist. The ways he treated people, loved science, and ran his lab are all things I’ve always tried to emulate. He had an outsize impact on me and so many others, and he will be sorely missed.

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

He entrusted me with resources and space to try things, ask for help, fail, and succeed on my own. He had tea with us every day and chatted freely about life and science. He always kept doing benchwork – his office had a microscope, incubator, and injection rig so he could do his own experiments.

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Even as an inexperienced student, John treated me - and everyone in his lab - as a colleague. When I showed up on my first day, John was the one who met me at the front door to let me in and show me around the institute which bore his own last name.

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

When I was an undergraduate just starting lab work, I (somewhat naively) cold emailed John asking if I could work in his lab for the summer. Even though I was just a random student from the US that really had barely any experience to speak of then, John agreed to take me on.

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

So incredibly sad to learn of John Gurdon’s passing. It is hard to overstate what a big deal he is to developmental biology - a legend. Leaving aside his phenomenal scientific achievements, I want to take a moment to highlight how he was also an exceptionally kind person and incredible role model.

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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

this is me today

on left: dog with muscles, it says "doing experiments as a postdoc: 12 hours a day, all successful, much data"
on right: sad weak dog, it says "doing experiments as a PI: i loaded 6 mass spec samples, hope it works"

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪

Graffiti at the end of an underpass in Heidelberg saying 'LAB!'.

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

😭😭😭 devastated to hear this honestly — Thank you for everything Kevin!! Have loved ZR at every stage and appreciate everything you’ve done for the community

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Good luck - excited to see what you do next!

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Being a zebrafish researcher means you leave yourself this kind of ominous notes sometimes

A single yellow post-it note in the middle of a big black screen. The post-it says "Fish".

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Zebrafish Rock! is, no joke, a core part of the fish community that helps tie it all together

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is gonna kill my productivity if this is true 😭

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Sam Wattrus @samwattrus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Counterpoint: the synthetic wolf species thing could never have happened without NIH funded research in academia happening first

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Me, after repeating a PCR for the fourth time

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me, whenever I'm asked how it's going

red button meme with options of "mention the collapse of democracy, science, and freedom in the US" vs "fine"

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

am i even good enough to have imposter syndrome

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Tree-thinkers Lab✨分子生命史研究室 @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ensembl? Or, NCBI? Both at MedakaBase!! medakabase.nbrp.jp MedakaBase promotes medaka fish biology, in the framework of versatile resource provision enabled by National Bioresource Project (NBRP) of Japan Find more at x.com/NbrpMedakaOmix

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Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

me: *telling my cat about my day* my cat:

Picture where you see two options listed: a circle with the word Listen next to it, and a triangle with the word Bite next to it

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Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

*working in pediatrics ER* me: and how old are you kid: I’m 30 in dog years and— mom: honey the doctor doesn’t want to know about dog years me: wait let him cook

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