MwahahahahahadScientist
@mads100tist.bsky.social
Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology
ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...
journals.biologists.com
It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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My Behind the paper story on @the-node.bsky.social gives a digestible overview of our key findings but it is also my personal story of working on this paper and seeing it get accepted after Scott passed away thenode.biologists.com/a-bitterswee...
A bittersweet acceptance: Between a manuscript and grief - the Node
I was so excited when I received notification that my first first-author research paper was accepted. My excitement quickly turned into sadness with the realization that my co-PI was not seeing our vi...
thenode.biologists.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My Behind the paper story on @the-node.bsky.social gives a digestible overview of our key findings but it is also my personal story of working on this paper and seeing it get accepted after Scott passed away thenode.biologists.com/a-bitterswee...
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Over the last year, our website has had visitors from an outstanding 53 countries! With links to our Slack tankspace sign-up form, interviews of ZR!'s creator @kevinthiessen.bsky.social, and our Bioinformatics Bootcamp @the-node.bsky.social, do check it out!
🔗: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock #RockOn 🧪
🔗: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock #RockOn 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Over the last year, our website has had visitors from an outstanding 53 countries! With links to our Slack tankspace sign-up form, interviews of ZR!'s creator @kevinthiessen.bsky.social, and our Bioinformatics Bootcamp @the-node.bsky.social, do check it out!
🔗: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock #RockOn 🧪
🔗: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock #RockOn 🧪
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TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
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Tired of scrolling through the doom and gloom? Regularly check our profile for the best of all things #zebrafish and more! Now with more fishy fun facts 🤓 🧪
👉 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social
👉 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Tired of scrolling through the doom and gloom? Regularly check our profile for the best of all things #zebrafish and more! Now with more fishy fun facts 🤓 🧪
👉 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social
👉 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social
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Any leads appreciated 🙏
🤔 #AskZebrafish: Looking for a zebrafish version of the Mito-RiboTag mouse line. Has anyone made one or might have a vector they could share? Any leads would be thoroughly appreciated!
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Any leads appreciated 🙏
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Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
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Fluorescent micrograph of the enteric nervous system of a Pachon/surface hybrid cavefish. Credit to @pavaniperera.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fluorescent micrograph of the enteric nervous system of a Pachon/surface hybrid cavefish. Credit to @pavaniperera.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
December 13, 2024 at 9:11 PM
ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
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Oi, stickleback researchers!
One of my PhD students is on a quest for lateral-view photographs of sticklebacks (like the one below, obvs not a stickleback). Any population/species, so long as the location and date of collection are known.
Does anyone know where we might find data like this?
One of my PhD students is on a quest for lateral-view photographs of sticklebacks (like the one below, obvs not a stickleback). Any population/species, so long as the location and date of collection are known.
Does anyone know where we might find data like this?
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oi, stickleback researchers!
One of my PhD students is on a quest for lateral-view photographs of sticklebacks (like the one below, obvs not a stickleback). Any population/species, so long as the location and date of collection are known.
Does anyone know where we might find data like this?
One of my PhD students is on a quest for lateral-view photographs of sticklebacks (like the one below, obvs not a stickleback). Any population/species, so long as the location and date of collection are known.
Does anyone know where we might find data like this?
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November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Blood flow in a transparent zebrafish embryo. Credit to @damiandn.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Blood flow in a transparent zebrafish embryo. Credit to @damiandn.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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I also just learned that when Hopkins called him out on his sexism - in *2005*, when Lawrence Summers said all women were innately worse at science and math than men - it ended their 40-year friendship because he insisted he was right and she should apologize.
So yeah.
So yeah.
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I also just learned that when Hopkins called him out on his sexism - in *2005*, when Lawrence Summers said all women were innately worse at science and math than men - it ended their 40-year friendship because he insisted he was right and she should apologize.
So yeah.
So yeah.
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At the end of the day, for all the ongoing cultural changes, academia will always be possible to split into the people who are desperate to move deeper and deeper into the in-group and the people who know they’ll never be able to “earn” it
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
At the end of the day, for all the ongoing cultural changes, academia will always be possible to split into the people who are desperate to move deeper and deeper into the in-group and the people who know they’ll never be able to “earn” it
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Let's talk about sex! Research suggests natural zebrafish have WZ/ZZ sex chromosomes as evidenced by a single sex-linked region on chromosome 4. This trait is lost in laboratory fish as sex is determined by multiple genes, with influences from the environment. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Let's talk about sex! Research suggests natural zebrafish have WZ/ZZ sex chromosomes as evidenced by a single sex-linked region on chromosome 4. This trait is lost in laboratory fish as sex is determined by multiple genes, with influences from the environment. #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
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We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.
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Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
![Comments from Watson and Crick reveal the gender harassment that Franklin endured in the lab. Throughout The Double Helix, Watson's famous 1968 book recounting the race to the famous structure, Watson condescendingly refers to Franklin as "Rosy," a nickname never used to
her face. "There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents," he writes, though neglecting to critique his male colleagues' cosmetic or sartorial choices.
He adds that her "belligerent moods" interfered with Wilkins' ability to "maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA." For that reason, " [c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. ... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab." In the 1993 book Nobel Prize Women in Science, Crick was quoted as saying, "I'm afraid we always used to adopt-let's say, a patronizing attitude towards her."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:icsm7hd2dok5lxddyrig4gbt/bafkreiewhgtr2ax623ct6za3ap67uvjdxz5sjac7nirhnhcohb4gl75xii@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
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One in every five Palestinians that Israeli forces killed so far in 2025 across the occupied West Bank was a child, reports the UN.
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
Humanitarian Situation Update #337 | West Bank | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
October 2025 recorded the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since OCHA began documenting such incidents in 2006, with more than 260 attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or ...
www.ochaopt.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
One in every five Palestinians that Israeli forces killed so far in 2025 across the occupied West Bank was a child, reports the UN.
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
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Hungary 1956
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
knowablemagazine.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Hungary 1956
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
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My quote of the day
James Watson
James Watson
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My quote of the day
James Watson
James Watson
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This was notable news yesterday
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute
Judge dismisses final claim against scientist’s former employer and curtails lawsuit directed at woman who accused him of sexual harassment
www.science.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This was notable news yesterday
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)