iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazingly, despite the limitations, this show gets better with age. Catch the Animated Series if you want to see the 4th season!

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sneaking out of my day job to share new work from @UViiVE: our third preprint on building an agentic-first biotech, from bits to bioactives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Sofiya Hupalo @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The NIMH Director job announcement and search is back on: hr.nih.gov/jobs/search/... The NIMH Director provides executive direction and scientific leadership for NIMH, overseeing a $2.3 billion budget and ~1600 employees, trainees, and contractors. Up for the challenge 😉? Apply!

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

FishFolk - post if you are here in Madison!

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A quiet conversation on the side, a closed-door phone call, a printout showing an email out of context... this 'whispernet' is a true poison in academia. Our 'culture of silence' feeds these voices, and the threat of being a recipient keeps most of the reasonable folk on the sidelines.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2025

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Should have called it 'Just Keep Swimming'!

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

From a wonderful group of colleagues! We hope it helps with thoughts and suggestions on using #zebrafish. Ping me with any questions. #werallfish

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Sebastian is awesome. Catch him while he has extra availability.

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Genotyping zebrafish can be a challenge. We have been refining a non-destructive approach that is scalable, accessible and can be used in 48 well and 96 well formats. We use this for measuring mitochondrial DNA editing and heteroplasmy, but works on nuclear DNA, too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Non-Destructive Larval Genotyping of Danio rerio for Mitochondrial DNA Genetics

The rapid advancement of nuclear and mitochondrial genomic editing tools has created an urgent need for efficient, non-lethal larval genotyping methods in zebrafish Danio rerio research. This study op...

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Brendan Evano @brendan-evano.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚨 JOB OFFER in our lab at Institut Pasteur 🚨 We are looking for a postdoc! Please repost 🙏

Postdoctoral research position in Institut Pasteur

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Just finishing up with the amazing 7th European Zebrafish Investigators' Meeting, hosted by the Paris Brain Institute. Some take-homes:

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Coming up on 25 years of morpholinos.

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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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Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Just realized I passed an unusual anniversary - I've been an academic professor for more time on Planet Earth than I spent becoming a professor. Have a few more years, I hope! Do not plan to go for 2x however...

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is an awesome new site for a terrific resource that's taken years to make! Congrats to the great @mauramcgrail.bsky.social for getting this launched.

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

LinkedIn- ‘are you looking for a new job?’ Me. Why no. Also me- is LinkedIn telling me something?!

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The challenges around academic research literally never changes…

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is an important message. Historically, the NIH is considered money well-spent that saves lives. Win that fight and mindshare, we can argue over how to improve once we get the core story around value right.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive
Language English
Item Size 98.5G
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/02/2025

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Cannot tell this story enough. Had an antivaxxer basically share this paper represents a heroes’ work. No, it’s truly faked data that’s killed many thousands of people.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I was at the first March for Science. Was amazing and positive-focused. We have real agency! Speak up is the first step. Action is critical for impact however. Hitting likes and reposts (like this one!) should just be a first step.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 02/02/2025

Wired is, quite simply, doing the most comprehensive and important journalism of this administration so far.

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Kevin Thiessen, PhD @kevinthiessen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Want to improve engagement on your paper? Include it in the first post of your thread! The masses rarely read threads but will click on links (especially with a preview image). Your Altmetrics will thank me! #SciSky

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Insurers are the adults in the room. They will literally go out of business if they ignore climate change.

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

'Congressionally Directed' - hmmm, the White House sure has a lot of power! The CDMRP website is down with 404 errors. cdmrp.health.mil

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Please RT Housing policies in the US (eg redlining) made it more difficult for Black Americans to generate wealth through home ownership. This has bothered me. I ran across a curated list of GoFundMe accounts for Black homeowners who lost their homes in the LA fires docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Planning your summer science adventures? Join us at this amazing Gordon Conference in the Swiss Alps. Follow this thread for the diverse topics and speakers already on board, and we're starting to look at abstracts for more invited talks! Please re-post

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I’ve become that curmudgeon where change is not good. Stop with these kind of ‘nomenclature revisions’. All it does it emphasize papers using the new monicker, and risks archiving older research. This is self-serving and is not worthy of serious practitioners of philosophy (ie PhD or equivalent).

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A group leader position at Cambridge in the Neurobiology Division is open: www.fens.org/careers/job-... Contact @jefferis.bsky.social who is coordinating the search for informal queries.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Apply for our Pathway to Independence programme, a scheme supporting postdocs going on the job market in 2025 with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: buff.ly/3VJGgDC

Pathway to independence: a new initiative supporting postdocs on the job market

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This is a good read. I would add : supporting top independent podcasts is critical. Find places where critical thinking that looks at many sides of the elephant. That means they show you sometimes a view that challenges you.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Would love to add options for authors to be innovative in how they communicate their science. Maybe we can add different options to organize preprints too. Let biorxiv be biorxiv, let the community explore and experiment

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Steve Ekker @scekker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Rare disease impacts many. And we have the scientific tools to make real solutions. Time to crack these challenges to go from hopeless to hope to help to cures.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Many academics point to bioRxiv as “the one thing improving science publishing”. If so, the one thing you all can do is persuade colleagues to submit and make this a norm. 1/2

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