Karl Clark
@genetrapper.bsky.social
He/him. Dad, husband, referee & Assoc Prof #geneediting #behavior #stress. I like cooking, youth soccer, and hunting/fishing. MN -> TX TAMU
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This guy, Beau, is happy I am back home for his morning routine. I think it’s time for that walk now.
August 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This guy, Beau, is happy I am back home for his morning routine. I think it’s time for that walk now.
Just spent the week attending the Transgenic Animal Research Conference TARC XV. Lots of great research. I also got to connect or reconnect with some wonderful scientists. Plus Granlibakken is always a great venue and Lake Tahoe is beautiful.
August 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Just spent the week attending the Transgenic Animal Research Conference TARC XV. Lots of great research. I also got to connect or reconnect with some wonderful scientists. Plus Granlibakken is always a great venue and Lake Tahoe is beautiful.
Happy to have my zebrafish system installed in newly renovated install @tamu.bsky.social today. Thanks to Kevin and Matt from Iwaki for the install. Zebrafish on the horizon.
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Happy to have my zebrafish system installed in newly renovated install @tamu.bsky.social today. Thanks to Kevin and Matt from Iwaki for the install. Zebrafish on the horizon.
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Has anyone successfully tried to submit Form ITA-338P to request a tariff exemption for scientific instruments for nonprofit use? www.trade.gov/sites/defaul...
www.trade.gov
June 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Has anyone successfully tried to submit Form ITA-338P to request a tariff exemption for scientific instruments for nonprofit use? www.trade.gov/sites/defaul...
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Grabbing lunch at Rock and Brews before a UT-San Antonio tour with my daughter.
April 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Grabbing lunch at Rock and Brews before a UT-San Antonio tour with my daughter.
Lost our black poodle Leila in December due to kidney failure and Abby today with Lymphoma. Great family experiences with these two. I picture the two of you running and playing together.
Morning send off from these two “innocent” trouble makers. Abby our near 15-year old Pudelpointer (in Jan 2025) and Leila our 10 year old standard poodle.
April 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Lost our black poodle Leila in December due to kidney failure and Abby today with Lymphoma. Great family experiences with these two. I picture the two of you running and playing together.
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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
April 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
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🚨 Exciting news! @uottawa.bsky.social researchers discovered secretoneurin, a hormone that stimulates ovulation in zebrafish. This could impact fertility research and conservation! 🐟💡 #Zebrafish #FertilityResearch
👉 bit.ly/4lmbvzM
👉 bit.ly/4lmbvzM
April 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🚨 Exciting news! @uottawa.bsky.social researchers discovered secretoneurin, a hormone that stimulates ovulation in zebrafish. This could impact fertility research and conservation! 🐟💡 #Zebrafish #FertilityResearch
👉 bit.ly/4lmbvzM
👉 bit.ly/4lmbvzM
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#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!
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!
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 ...
zebrafishccr.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#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!
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 website (ZebrafishCCR) will be online soon!
March 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource website (ZebrafishCCR) will be online soon!
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
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"Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference."
#academicsky
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Neither Silence nor Compliance Will Save Harvard From Trump. Resistance Might. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference.
www.thecrimson.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference."
#academicsky
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
#academicsky
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...
Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality
Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending
www.thetimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...
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To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years
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February 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
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The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
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To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:
February 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:
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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Apparently I have developed a pet peeve for CRISPR-Cas9 figures that a) don’t label the 5’-3’ ends of the DNA and b) ignore the convention of having the top strand go 5’ to 3’ from left to right.
February 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Apparently I have developed a pet peeve for CRISPR-Cas9 figures that a) don’t label the 5’-3’ ends of the DNA and b) ignore the convention of having the top strand go 5’ to 3’ from left to right.
