Ian Scott
@icscott.bsky.social
Parent, scientist (zebrafish heart development), struggling athlete, lover of board games and RPGs.
Another exciting opportunity in Toronto for developmental biologists!
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October 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Another exciting opportunity in Toronto for developmental biologists!
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... ON/595870817/
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... ON/595871017/
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... ON/595870817/
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Two exciting Assistant Professor opportunities in Toronto! apply.interfolio.com/172703
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September 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Two exciting Assistant Professor opportunities in Toronto! apply.interfolio.com/172703
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Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish:
www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
Society for Developmental Biology | Resource
www.sdbonline.org
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our postdoc ad is up on the SDB website! Come to Portland and study regenerative neurogenesis in planarians and zebrafish:
www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...
Very happy to be part of this amazing work from Jason Moffat and Sanna Masud - Victoria Saba Echezaretta's rescue experiments are remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target - Nature
The enzyme ABHD18 is shown to have a key role in cardiolipin metabolism in mitochondria, offering a potential route for a small-molecule treatment of the rare genetic disease Barth syndrome.
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September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Very happy to be part of this amazing work from Jason Moffat and Sanna Masud - Victoria Saba Echezaretta's rescue experiments are remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please repost!
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Please repost!
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please repost!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Please repost!
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It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky!
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
Post Doc Portal | OHSU
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August 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's been a while! If anyone still follows me, I have 1-2 postdoctoral positions open in planarian and zebrafish stem cell and regenerative biology. Please re-Sky!
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
postdoctoral-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35509/p...
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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
ki.se/en/about-ki/...
Teaching stream faculty position in molecular genetics!
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) - Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) - Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Microbiology
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August 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Teaching stream faculty position in molecular genetics!
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Great swims by Summer Macintosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey, but the 4th place swimmer (Yu Zidi) is 12 YEARS OLD!!! 😱
GOLD #2 FOR 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH
🇨🇦 MARY-SOPHIE HARVEY BRONZE
Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh wins the women’s 200m individual medley in a time of 2:06.69.
With that medal McIntosh is now Canada’s most decorated long course world championship swimmer with 10.
🇨🇦 MARY-SOPHIE HARVEY BRONZE
Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh wins the women’s 200m individual medley in a time of 2:06.69.
With that medal McIntosh is now Canada’s most decorated long course world championship swimmer with 10.
July 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great swims by Summer Macintosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey, but the 4th place swimmer (Yu Zidi) is 12 YEARS OLD!!! 😱
July 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Great opportunity to join the vibrant developmental biology in Toronto (and boss around me and @wbderry.bsky.social).
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/673968/p...
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/673968/p...
Program Head – Developmental, Stem Cell, and Cancer Biology - Toronto (Region), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute | 673968
Provide leadership and mentorship to members of the Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer and influence the scientific direction of the Research Institute
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July 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Great opportunity to join the vibrant developmental biology in Toronto (and boss around me and @wbderry.bsky.social).
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RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025)
here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)
here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)
July 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025)
here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)
here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)
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A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
June 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
A nice run of free-er time to read and think science lately and cut into the very deep pile off paper pdfs I have accumulated. Happy to report that I have dug into it by downloading 2-3 new papers for each one I read! So I should be done by... :-(
June 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A nice run of free-er time to read and think science lately and cut into the very deep pile off paper pdfs I have accumulated. Happy to report that I have dug into it by downloading 2-3 new papers for each one I read! So I should be done by... :-(
Slow to the game, but the Collaborative Dev Bio program at U of T is finally on BlueSky - @devbiouoft.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Slow to the game, but the Collaborative Dev Bio program at U of T is finally on BlueSky - @devbiouoft.bsky.social
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It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):
April 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):
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There is still time to apply! Come and join us!
🚨We are hiring!🚨 We have postdoctoral positions available! If you're passionate about studying cardiac regeneration and development, join our team in vibrant and beautiful Montreal! Please help spread the word 🫶
For more details see here research.chusj.org/RECHERCHE/fi...
For more details see here research.chusj.org/RECHERCHE/fi...
March 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
There is still time to apply! Come and join us!
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You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
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March 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...
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❣️You still have time! We are accepting abstract submissions for this year’s conference. Please find important dates and details at the link below.
www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
❣️You still have time! We are accepting abstract submissions for this year’s conference. Please find important dates and details at the link below.
www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...
www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...
Deep into editing MSc and PhD theses right now - also such a treat to see students get their accumulated thoughts and perspectives down after all their hard work and development.
February 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Deep into editing MSc and PhD theses right now - also such a treat to see students get their accumulated thoughts and perspectives down after all their hard work and development.
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Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
February 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Birth defects are the #1 cause of death in the first year of life (🧵). Birth defects kill more than twice as many children as cancer. Birth defects are diseases of developmental biology. Here are CDC statistics for 2021. 1/5
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
wisqars.cdc.gov/pdfs/leading...
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Looking for a high qualtiy scientific meeting being held in Canada this year? The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting (Regional SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting) is happening May 25-28 in Kelowna BC. Registration is now open! www.sdbonline.org/meeting?Reso...
Society for Developmental Biology | Meeting
www.sdbonline.org
February 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Looking for a high qualtiy scientific meeting being held in Canada this year? The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology Meeting (Regional SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting) is happening May 25-28 in Kelowna BC. Registration is now open! www.sdbonline.org/meeting?Reso...