Diana Hofman, PhD candidate 🐠🦴🌈
@dwmhofman.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Radboud University 🇳🇱. I study the effects of hormone disruptive chemicals on zebrafish skeletal development. 🌈🐠🦴🧪
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Great thread. Great work. Congrats. #stuffthatmatters
Proud to present the peer-reviewed version of our Cell Type Allometry paper, out today in Science Advances!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types?
Here’s an update of the main points and revision items
(with memes!)
Thread 👇🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types?
Here’s an update of the main points and revision items
(with memes!)
Thread 👇🧵
May 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Great thread. Great work. Congrats. #stuffthatmatters
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Different flavors of #zebrafish. Credit to Renee Daigle & @margaritapk.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
February 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Different flavors of #zebrafish. Credit to Renee Daigle & @margaritapk.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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Hand-drawn images of larval and juvenile zebrafish. Credit to @stednitz.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
February 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hand-drawn images of larval and juvenile zebrafish. Credit to @stednitz.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
The last rainbow amoeba poster I made seemed a little too subtle, so here’s a new version!
Download any of my posters at: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/prin...
The last rainbow amoeba poster I made seemed a little too subtle, so here’s a new version!
Download any of my posters at: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/prin...
February 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
The last rainbow amoeba poster I made seemed a little too subtle, so here’s a new version!
Download any of my posters at: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/prin...
The last rainbow amoeba poster I made seemed a little too subtle, so here’s a new version!
Download any of my posters at: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/prin...
Reposted by Diana Hofman, PhD candidate 🐠🦴🌈
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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Dorsal view of a larval zebrafish brain. Credit to @clairewyart.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
January 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Dorsal view of a larval zebrafish brain. Credit to @clairewyart.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Reposted by Diana Hofman, PhD candidate 🐠🦴🌈
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
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Here is a photo of a non-binary biologist (me) standing with a bunch of zebrafish, a species whose females can convert to male (which can sometimes make things a little annoying for me!).
Biological sex/human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️ 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Biological sex/human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️ 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
January 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Here is a photo of a non-binary biologist (me) standing with a bunch of zebrafish, a species whose females can convert to male (which can sometimes make things a little annoying for me!).
Biological sex/human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️ 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Biological sex/human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️ 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Reposted by Diana Hofman, PhD candidate 🐠🦴🌈
Sox10 is required for systemic initiation of bone mineralization
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske & co. @cincyresearch.bsky.social :
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204357/365396/Sox10-is-required-for-systemic-initiation-of-bone
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske & co. @cincyresearch.bsky.social :
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204357/365396/Sox10-is-required-for-systemic-initiation-of-bone
January 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sox10 is required for systemic initiation of bone mineralization
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske & co. @cincyresearch.bsky.social :
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204357/365396/Sox10-is-required-for-systemic-initiation-of-bone
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske & co. @cincyresearch.bsky.social :
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204357/365396/Sox10-is-required-for-systemic-initiation-of-bone
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Just adding the tag for my other scientists out there having the strangest inauguration week conversations of their lives. 🧪
If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...
Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination
A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Just adding the tag for my other scientists out there having the strangest inauguration week conversations of their lives. 🧪
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Evo-devo aficionados, don't miss this really cool paper by @mathithiru.bsky.social, @crumplab.bsky.social et al.
Development of the mammalian outer ear and fish gills share regulatory programs (with cross-compatible enhancers!), suggesting a common evolutionary origin of these structures.
Development of the mammalian outer ear and fish gills share regulatory programs (with cross-compatible enhancers!), suggesting a common evolutionary origin of these structures.
January 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I released the LUT finder: A plugin to see all your ImageJ / Fiji LUTs in a table with previews, auto generated descriptions and filtering! You can try it with the KTZ_LUTs update site or from github.com/kwolbachia/L.... I'm looking for your feedbacks!
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I released the LUT finder: A plugin to see all your ImageJ / Fiji LUTs in a table with previews, auto generated descriptions and filtering! You can try it with the KTZ_LUTs update site or from github.com/kwolbachia/L.... I'm looking for your feedbacks!
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
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At the @czbiohub even our computer workstations are
#zebrafish fanatics! (This is not a flux capacitor, but the CPU cooling system of @ilan_theodoro’s computer 🤣)
#zebrafish fanatics! (This is not a flux capacitor, but the CPU cooling system of @ilan_theodoro’s computer 🤣)
January 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
At the @czbiohub even our computer workstations are
#zebrafish fanatics! (This is not a flux capacitor, but the CPU cooling system of @ilan_theodoro’s computer 🤣)
#zebrafish fanatics! (This is not a flux capacitor, but the CPU cooling system of @ilan_theodoro’s computer 🤣)
My first post here! I'm a Dutch PhD student interested in zebrafish development. If you have a nice opportunity for an exchange during my PhD, please let me know! Happy Holidays :)
December 24, 2024 at 9:21 PM
My first post here! I'm a Dutch PhD student interested in zebrafish development. If you have a nice opportunity for an exchange during my PhD, please let me know! Happy Holidays :)
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Looking down at the head of a transgenic 17-day-old #zebrafish, blood vessels in magenta, lymphatic vessels in green. Extended depth of focus #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Looking down at the head of a transgenic 17-day-old #zebrafish, blood vessels in magenta, lymphatic vessels in green. Extended depth of focus #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬
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This is awesome.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: Yes, gap genes specify segment identity in arthropod embryos. They’re named b/c of their mutational effect, which causes the loss of contiguous body segments, resembling gaps in their body plan. Here’s a figure that may help explain…
Me: Yes, gap genes specify segment identity in arthropod embryos. They’re named b/c of their mutational effect, which causes the loss of contiguous body segments, resembling gaps in their body plan. Here’s a figure that may help explain…
December 22, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This is awesome.
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Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
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"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
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Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance?
The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e
The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e
Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again!
This year’s competition has a special category on artificial intelligence research or quantum science—no Ph.D. needed
scim.ag
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance?
The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e
The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e
Thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social for this lovely piece on our #brainmicrobiome work on salmonids www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? | Quanta Magazine
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 2, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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More fish photos to brighten up Blue Sky. Remember the original fish Twitter games we used to play? Like #EpithetEtymology, #GuessThatFish, and #WrasseWednesday? I’m bringing them all back!
November 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM
More fish photos to brighten up Blue Sky. Remember the original fish Twitter games we used to play? Like #EpithetEtymology, #GuessThatFish, and #WrasseWednesday? I’m bringing them all back!
Reposted by Diana Hofman, PhD candidate 🐠🦴🌈
#ZebrafishFunFacts: Did you know the popular WT strain 'AB' originated from a mating between strain A & strain B purchased by Charline Walker on two separate occasions from a pet shop in Albany, Oregon? This helped transform #zebrafish from household pet to a model of human disease & development. 🧪
November 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM
#ZebrafishFunFacts: Did you know the popular WT strain 'AB' originated from a mating between strain A & strain B purchased by Charline Walker on two separate occasions from a pet shop in Albany, Oregon? This helped transform #zebrafish from household pet to a model of human disease & development. 🧪
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“The collective diffraction of light produces an array of colors. When the fish contracts and relaxes its muscles to swim, the sarcomeres slightly change in length, causing a shifting rainbow effect.”
#scicomm
#animalcoloration
#iridescence
#fish
www.sciencenews.org/article/tran...
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#scicomm
#animalcoloration
#iridescence
#fish
www.sciencenews.org/article/tran...
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These transparent fish turn rainbow with white light. Now, we know why
Repeated structures in the ghost catfish’s muscles separate white light that passes through their bodies into different wavelengths.
www.sciencenews.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:58 AM
“The collective diffraction of light produces an array of colors. When the fish contracts and relaxes its muscles to swim, the sarcomeres slightly change in length, causing a shifting rainbow effect.”
#scicomm
#animalcoloration
#iridescence
#fish
www.sciencenews.org/article/tran...
🧪 🐟 🌈
#scicomm
#animalcoloration
#iridescence
#fish
www.sciencenews.org/article/tran...
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