Fred Berry
@fbberry.bsky.social
Scientist-Developmental Biology, Skeleton
Seeking knowledge in all things-Cooking, Music, Beer, Running
Haven't met a rabbit hole I didn't like
Edmonton, Canada
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/fredberrylab/
Seeking knowledge in all things-Cooking, Music, Beer, Running
Haven't met a rabbit hole I didn't like
Edmonton, Canada
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/fredberrylab/
Not the six pack I'd have selected for a long weekend, but S2 was happy to find this
February 14, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Not the six pack I'd have selected for a long weekend, but S2 was happy to find this
The law and order party?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservative Party faces significant financial loss after convention voting devices go missing | CBC News
Conservative convention organizers are urging delegates who may have walked off with pricey voting devices to return them to the party so it can avoid incurring significant unexpected costs.
www.cbc.ca
February 10, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The law and order party?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Happy International Clash Day to all those who celebrate! www.kexp.org/internationa...
International Clash Day
A collection of content created by KEXP for International Clash Day.
www.kexp.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Happy International Clash Day to all those who celebrate! www.kexp.org/internationa...
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Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
Index of Inspiring Black Scientists | Wiley
The Inspiring Black Scientists Index is a curated database celebrating diverse contributions to science. Join us in promoting education and collaboration.
www.wiley.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...
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Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day
any frogs in there?
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 PM
any frogs in there?
Reskeet this with your home river.
The North Saskatchewan River says hello
The North Saskatchewan River says hello
Reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the South Saskatchewan River.
Mine is the South Saskatchewan River.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Reskeet this with your home river.
The North Saskatchewan River says hello
The North Saskatchewan River says hello
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As we usher in the new year, we also wanted to celebrate the achievements of a giant in the hashtag#osteoarthritis community.
Read more about Frank's legacy and the Frank Beier Graduate Opportunity Scholarship in this month's issue here: www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106...
Read more about Frank's legacy and the Frank Beier Graduate Opportunity Scholarship in this month's issue here: www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106...
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
As we usher in the new year, we also wanted to celebrate the achievements of a giant in the hashtag#osteoarthritis community.
Read more about Frank's legacy and the Frank Beier Graduate Opportunity Scholarship in this month's issue here: www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106...
Read more about Frank's legacy and the Frank Beier Graduate Opportunity Scholarship in this month's issue here: www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106...
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Defending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.”
A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
January 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Defending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.”
A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
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The staff and associate editors at Genome are great. It is wonderful to work with a group that 'tries a little harder'.
Thanks to the dedication of our editors, reviewers, society partners, and employees, we had a very successful and rewarding year. Read about the milestones that made 2025 so meaningful ▶️ https://ow.ly/eAnq50XKwi8
#BestofCSP #YearInReview
#BestofCSP #YearInReview
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The staff and associate editors at Genome are great. It is wonderful to work with a group that 'tries a little harder'.
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Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
Let’s not quit Canada. Let’s make it better for everyone—including Albertans
albertaviews.ca
January 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I can't be the only one who sees "FAQs" as an acronym and pronounces it like "Facts"?
December 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I can't be the only one who sees "FAQs" as an acronym and pronounces it like "Facts"?
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Typical tech bros, they could have saved so much time, money, precious metals and energy if they'd just asked a passer by to kick them in the nuts instead.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Typical tech bros, they could have saved so much time, money, precious metals and energy if they'd just asked a passer by to kick them in the nuts instead.
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God damn them all.
I was told we’d cruise the seas
For America’s worst
We’d fire our guns
Shoot the queers,
Now I’m a broken man
Who cowers in fear,
Felonious Trump’s last privateer.
2/2
I was told we’d cruise the seas
For America’s worst
We’d fire our guns
Shoot the queers,
Now I’m a broken man
Who cowers in fear,
Felonious Trump’s last privateer.
2/2
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
God damn them all.
I was told we’d cruise the seas
For America’s worst
We’d fire our guns
Shoot the queers,
Now I’m a broken man
Who cowers in fear,
Felonious Trump’s last privateer.
2/2
I was told we’d cruise the seas
For America’s worst
We’d fire our guns
Shoot the queers,
Now I’m a broken man
Who cowers in fear,
Felonious Trump’s last privateer.
2/2
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Oh, the year was 20 and 25
(How I wish I was in Europe now)
When a letter of marque came from The Prick,
He’s the scummiest President and a dick.
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
(How I wish I was in Europe now)
When a letter of marque came from The Prick,
He’s the scummiest President and a dick.
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
To stop drug boats, GOP lawmakers want to license privateers
A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque authorizing private raids at sea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Oh, the year was 20 and 25
(How I wish I was in Europe now)
When a letter of marque came from The Prick,
He’s the scummiest President and a dick.
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
(How I wish I was in Europe now)
When a letter of marque came from The Prick,
He’s the scummiest President and a dick.
1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
We can normalize actually reading the items we cite (or at least checking that they exist and say what we think they do)
So. What are best strategies for us as researchers? How do we divert this sewage, what infrastructural elements help drain it out of the system? What are best—and by that I mean efficient, least effortful—practices whenever we encounter this kind of crap? We need public education in info hygiene.
Do people realize that this is also happening with case law?
Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We can normalize actually reading the items we cite (or at least checking that they exist and say what we think they do)
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The developing tendon and enthesis are hypoxic and rely on hypoxia-inducible factor 1a (Hif1a) during postnatal development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.693209v1
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The developing tendon and enthesis are hypoxic and rely on hypoxia-inducible factor 1a (Hif1a) during postnatal development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.693209v1
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The path to this paper has so many stories.
Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.
Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.
Very excited to see our paper, led by @amilangscience.bsky.social, out today in @pnas.org!
This one was a true adventure, filled with surprises at every turn.
“Erythroid precursors regulate local oxygen tension and repair outcomes in the bone marrow niche.”
www.pnas.org/eprint/NJ8XC...
This one was a true adventure, filled with surprises at every turn.
“Erythroid precursors regulate local oxygen tension and repair outcomes in the bone marrow niche.”
www.pnas.org/eprint/NJ8XC...
Erythroid precursors regulate local oxygen tension and repair outcomes in the bone marrow niche | PNAS
Oxygen tension dynamically regulates stem cell fate and tissue regeneration, yet how
local oxygen availability is controlled within the bone marrow...
www.pnas.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The path to this paper has so many stories.
Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.
Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.
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RESEARCH PAPER: MEF2C controls segment-specific gene regulatory networks that direct heart tube morphogenesis
By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract
Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau
#transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract
By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract
Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau
#transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
RESEARCH PAPER: MEF2C controls segment-specific gene regulatory networks that direct heart tube morphogenesis
By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract
Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau
#transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract
By Muncie-Vasic et al. and Benoit Bruneau
➡️ https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/23-24/1451.abstract
Jon Muncie-Vasic Benoit Bruneau
#transcriptionfactor #embryodevelopment #cardiactract
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People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms?
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms?
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
Reposted by Fred Berry
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
Maybe no one wants to watch a MK Dons game and need other distractions?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New technology a 'game changer' for stadium fans say experts
Innovation developed with the University of Bristol will help enchance the experience for fans.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Maybe no one wants to watch a MK Dons game and need other distractions?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mirco Galiè summarizes studies that support the hypothesis that the partially or fully mesenchymal phenotype might represent a general paradigm of stem cell plasticity underlying embryonic development, regenerative potential, as well as their pathological counterparts: https://bit.ly/3JADAW0
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Mirco Galiè summarizes studies that support the hypothesis that the partially or fully mesenchymal phenotype might represent a general paradigm of stem cell plasticity underlying embryonic development, regenerative potential, as well as their pathological counterparts: https://bit.ly/3JADAW0