Máté Varga
@mvargam.bsky.social
Developmental geneticist by training, science-blogger by choice. Interested in all things #zebrafish, #devbio and #scicomm.
Lab webpage: http://danio.elte.hu/index.html
Lab webpage: http://danio.elte.hu/index.html
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Máté Varga
@mvargam.bsky.social
· Apr 2
🥳Congratulations to the 104 pioneering scientists from 30 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPResearchGrants! 🎉Your frontier research is shaping the future of #LifeSciences! 🌍🔬🧪
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
🏆 Meet the awardees & their projects: www.hfsp.org/bookletRG202...
#ScienceDiplomacy #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
Being thrilled is a solid understatement here - I am extremely happy and grateful to @hfspo.bsky.social to be one of the awardees this year together with @fabianlab.bsky.social and Takaykui Onai. Stay tuned for exciting updates on the formation and function of labyrinth organ in paradise fish :).
It is a fantastically well written plea to fund basic sciences. Money quote: "We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it."
For the love of frontier research, or why Elon’s rockets keep blowing up.
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
By Nektarios Tavernarakis:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.
By Nektarios Tavernarakis:
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It is a fantastically well written plea to fund basic sciences. Money quote: "We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it."
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The figures from this book are all freely available through
@figshare.com, hopefully helpful for presentations and teaching:
figshare.com/projects/Epi...
Please let me know if you find any inaccuracies and I'll fix them. I've already updated one of the figures.
#EpigeneticsBook
@figshare.com, hopefully helpful for presentations and teaching:
figshare.com/projects/Epi...
Please let me know if you find any inaccuracies and I'll fix them. I've already updated one of the figures.
#EpigeneticsBook
October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The figures from this book are all freely available through
@figshare.com, hopefully helpful for presentations and teaching:
figshare.com/projects/Epi...
Please let me know if you find any inaccuracies and I'll fix them. I've already updated one of the figures.
#EpigeneticsBook
@figshare.com, hopefully helpful for presentations and teaching:
figshare.com/projects/Epi...
Please let me know if you find any inaccuracies and I'll fix them. I've already updated one of the figures.
#EpigeneticsBook
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Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner
His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.
An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
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Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.
That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.
That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Ernst Haeckel's dumbbells from the Haeckel House in Jena.
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Ernst Haeckel's dumbbells from the Haeckel House in Jena.
Share your favorite black and white movie.
September 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Share your favorite black and white movie.
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Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)
Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries
Quantification of the direct effect of genetic variation on human behavioural traits is important for understanding between-individual variation in socio-economic and health outcomes but estimates of ...
www.medrxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)
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With the caveat productivity is defined as the number of papers published, it's notable to see that the gender and English proficiency gaps are about the same overall. Then the gender gap decreases along the career, while the English proficiency gap widens
September 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
With the caveat productivity is defined as the number of papers published, it's notable to see that the gender and English proficiency gaps are about the same overall. Then the gender gap decreases along the career, while the English proficiency gap widens
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A giant in molecular biology and virology has passed. RIP David Baltimore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A giant in molecular biology and virology has passed. RIP David Baltimore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
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Wow, that was amazing! We thank everyone for attending the V4SDB 2025 meeting! You all made it an excellent conference, where we had the opportunity to hear from outstanding speakers,share ideas and experiences, and of course have some unforgettable time during social activities!
September 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Wow, that was amazing! We thank everyone for attending the V4SDB 2025 meeting! You all made it an excellent conference, where we had the opportunity to hear from outstanding speakers,share ideas and experiences, and of course have some unforgettable time during social activities!
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Next we look forward to hearing from Máté Varga @mvargam.bsky.social from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, who will tell us about the Evolution and Development of Breathing Strategies in Paradise Fish!
#V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo
#V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo
September 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Next we look forward to hearing from Máté Varga @mvargam.bsky.social from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, who will tell us about the Evolution and Development of Breathing Strategies in Paradise Fish!
#V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo
#V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo
Just realized that I have not moved over the lab’s yearly hike thread to Bluesky yet :-/. So previously (somewhere on X) we had summit photos for: Triglav 🇸🇮 (2864 m) in 2019, Säuleck 🇦🇹 (3086 m) in 2021, Kôprovský štít 🇸🇰 (2367 m) in 2022, Ankogel 🇦🇹 (3254 m) in 2023 and Mangart 🇸🇮 (2679) last year.
September 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Just realized that I have not moved over the lab’s yearly hike thread to Bluesky yet :-/. So previously (somewhere on X) we had summit photos for: Triglav 🇸🇮 (2864 m) in 2019, Säuleck 🇦🇹 (3086 m) in 2021, Kôprovský štít 🇸🇰 (2367 m) in 2022, Ankogel 🇦🇹 (3254 m) in 2023 and Mangart 🇸🇮 (2679) last year.
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Some of our colleagues arrived yesterday to attend the amazing two-day Young Developmental Biologist Workshop, a Round table on the use of Artificial Intelligence in research, and of course some social networking!
#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids
#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids
September 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Some of our colleagues arrived yesterday to attend the amazing two-day Young Developmental Biologist Workshop, a Round table on the use of Artificial Intelligence in research, and of course some social networking!
#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids
#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids
Better later than never, I guess - we are quite happy to see this paper out in @commsbio.nature.com. Spearheaded by my super talented colleague, Zoltán Varga, we have compared the behaviour of zebrafish and paradise fish larvae, which turned out to be quite different. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
August 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Better later than never, I guess - we are quite happy to see this paper out in @commsbio.nature.com. Spearheaded by my super talented colleague, Zoltán Varga, we have compared the behaviour of zebrafish and paradise fish larvae, which turned out to be quite different. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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A selection of covers from early (1951-1953) Decca classical long-playing records designed by the legendary graphic artist Erik Nitsche. (1/4)
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A selection of covers from early (1951-1953) Decca classical long-playing records designed by the legendary graphic artist Erik Nitsche. (1/4)
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Well, let's give it a try.
Infographic paradise from Hungarian magazine Tudomány és Technika (Science and Technique)
The youth educational magazine Tudomány és Technika (Science and Technique) was published biweekly in Hungarian between 1954 and 1963, but in Czechoslovakia, in Bratislava.
attilabatorfy.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Well, let's give it a try.
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📢The full programme for the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025 is now online! Check out the exciting line-up, including selected short talks and flash talks.
v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/programme/
See you in 25 days in 🇸🇰⛰️!
#developmentalbiology #evodevo #conference
v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/programme/
See you in 25 days in 🇸🇰⛰️!
#developmentalbiology #evodevo #conference
August 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📢The full programme for the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025 is now online! Check out the exciting line-up, including selected short talks and flash talks.
v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/programme/
See you in 25 days in 🇸🇰⛰️!
#developmentalbiology #evodevo #conference
v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/programme/
See you in 25 days in 🇸🇰⛰️!
#developmentalbiology #evodevo #conference
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🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference
Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Infographic paradise from the youth magazine Tudomány és Technika (Science and Technique) published in Hungarian but in Slovakia, Bratislava between 1954 and 1963. And this is just a "small" selection! 1. source adt.arcanum.com/hu/collectio...
July 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Infographic paradise from the youth magazine Tudomány és Technika (Science and Technique) published in Hungarian but in Slovakia, Bratislava between 1954 and 1963. And this is just a "small" selection! 1. source adt.arcanum.com/hu/collectio...
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Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
Philosophy of Biology
Welcome to Cambridge Core
cup.org
July 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
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We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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I wrote a little bit about a cool recent paper looking at heritability estimates from very large registry data, and how we still really don't understand why outcomes track in families. A short 🧵:
We still do not understand family resemblance
...
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I wrote a little bit about a cool recent paper looking at heritability estimates from very large registry data, and how we still really don't understand why outcomes track in families. A short 🧵:
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Dear #izfc2025 participants, if anyone of you are interested in how transcription control defines mRNA fate and translation in zebrafish development, there are/will be several PhD and postdoctoral positions (funded by the Wellcome Trust) for this research. Please find me if interested.
July 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Dear #izfc2025 participants, if anyone of you are interested in how transcription control defines mRNA fate and translation in zebrafish development, there are/will be several PhD and postdoctoral positions (funded by the Wellcome Trust) for this research. Please find me if interested.