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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last week I got to attend the EMBO regeneration meeting, and now I’m flying out to Cologne to attend the CMMC meeting. Am I going to be completely exhausted and hopelessly behind on lab work? Yes! Am I super excited to see all these cool talks? Double Yes!!!

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just got back home from Krems after attending the EMBO regeneration meeting. It was an absolutely fantastic week full of super exciting science. I’m already looking forward to the 2028 edition.

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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

AI-generated illustration of the soma-to-germline transmission of retrotransposons described in our work

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Travelling to the EMBO regeneration meeting today was absolutely fantastic! I’m looking forward to a week of amazing science

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Looking forward to seeing lots of people at this webinar.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I can’t watch… Penalty shootout NED-MAR 🫣

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One of the reasons I am so happy with our current roof top apartment is that it has Betonkerntemperierung. Without any air conditioning it has a very consistent temperature with a maximum of 23C even in the middle of summer.

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IMP @impvienna.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Join us on June 18 at ISTA for a day dedicated to developmental and stem cell biology, with talks, poster sessions, flash talks, and opportunities to connect across the Vienna life science community. More. 👇

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Anahí Binagui-Casas @abinagui.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🚨Can embryos regenerate their tails? A question I had. With support from @biologists.bsky.social, Val Wilson, Elly Tanaka and Wouter🙏, I visited Vienna to start by cutting axolotl embryo tail buds. The answer: Not always!😮...Sparking a fun and exciting collaboration that is only the beginning.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Cargo bikes give you a chance to explore the area with your kids, stop for a picnic, and get a bit of exercise in.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Massive shoutout to first author @abinagui.bsky.social !!! The common view is that regenerative competence declines with age. We challenge this idea by showing that axolotl tail regenerative competence is emerges during a defined embryonic window. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So between a SC and TF antibody, which one would you choose?

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Now that is a good way to spend a Sunday. 70 km ride with the kids loaded up in the cargo bike. Explore the local area, have a good chat, and get some exercise in.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Does the sadness you get after reviewing a paper that will probably get rejected ever go away? Asking for a friend.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Only 80 Km from Vienna. I could cycle to this meeting.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

And the “de-extinction” grift continues. Your regular reminder that it's only a dire wolf if it comes from the Late Pleistocene epoch, otherwise it's just sparkling dog.

Headline and photograph for yet another credulous media article hyping up Colossal Biosciences, published in Time on April 30th 2026. "The company that brought back the dire wolf is eyeing a blue antelope for its next de-extinction" by Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

…This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!…

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two men are standing in a store talking to each other and the words hello polly are on the screen

ALT: two men are standing in a store talking to each other and the words hello polly are on the screen

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Science Magazine @science.org · 13/04/2026

Physicists have now uncovered the hidden math behind these satisfying can-crushing videos. Learn more: scim.ag/4cxjozU

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Previously we had shown that axolotl tail regeneration occurs in the absence of somitogenesis. In the updated manuscript we propose that vertebral segmentation during tail regeneration occurs through a process of buckling instability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I tried something today and finished applying for a fellowship. Now I can just forget about it for another 7 months while we wait. 🤞

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Here I was still hung up on wether it should be Ambystoma or Amblystoma www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Amblystoma Not Ambystoma

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Are there any folks on here who hold or have previously held an ARC Future Fellowship and wouldn't mind sharing there application documents?

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: www.vbcphd.at

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Vienna is upping the price of its yearly public transport pass from €365 to €467. The financial argument used to justify the price increase shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how public services should be run. www.thelocal.at/20250901/end...

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End of €1-a-day travel: Vienna announces €467 annual pass from January 2026

Vienna will raise the price of its annual public transport ticket to €467 on January 1st 2026, ending the long-running €365 offer. Single journey as well as time-limited tickets are also becoming more...

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

On my way back to Vienna after a fantastic #ISRB2025. I got placed on standby so currently I am waiting at the gate hoping to catch my flight.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Star Trek: where not just the science, but the German language defies all logic.

Still from Star Trek TNG episode ‘the Nth degree’. Barkley and holodeck Einstein have a scientific discussion resulting in Einstein exclaiming ‘Grüss Got… they just might.’

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Come work at the VBC in lovely Vienna!

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Here is your reminder to always ask local experts for advice when applying for a new grant. I just wrote an Expression of Interest for a foreign grant and it is surprisingly different from what I have written for FWF grants.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Bagel time, have a great weekend all!

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Karen Echeverri @karenecheverri.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Delighted to see this work from my lab published today, where we identify a population of ETV-1 positive glutamatergic neurons that are activated in the brain in response to a distant injury. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration - npj Regenerative Medicine

npj Regenerative Medicine - Neuronal activation in the axolotl brain promotes tail regeneration

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Miranda Marvel @mmarvel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's been a long time coming and I'm super excited to share our new preprint is out: "A novel transgenic reporter to study vertebrate epigenetics". We generated a zebrafish epigenetic reporter and found a fatty liver disease mutant with weird epigenetic phenotypes 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Close up of a zebrafish larval body showing depth-coded epigenetic reporter signal in the liver tissues of a ppat mutant zebrafish

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If you have never made a potato pavé before, let this be your reminder that you probably should try making it at least once.

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This applies arguably even more to scientific writing, where both structure and terminology are often considered peculiar.

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Check out the IMBA groups that are offering fully funded positions in this call - we have 25+ openings. Pass on or share with your colleagues! ow.ly/UZAg50QJUer Start your application by 11 April

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Have the penguins announced any retaliator tariffs yet?

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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Many congratulations to Helen Skaer, winner of this year’s @bsdb.bsky.social Waddington Medal #biologists100

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Wouter Masselink @woutermasselink.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Excited to be in a surprisingly sunny Liverpool for #biologists100.

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