I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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So cool! Congrats!! 🎉

Congrats Mathieu and coauthors!! As someone who tried (and more often than not failed) to take pictures of the incredibly fragile zebrafish gills, I am so floored by these perfect dissections and images at multiple stages of development. ⭐

Wow! 😍 What an amazing dissection and so gorgeous! What is labeled?

Thank you! :)

Thanks especially to @crumplab.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to do exciting, diverse experiments, as well as the necessary guidance and confidence!

Thank you to all co-authors! It's hard to emphasize how amazing it's been to work with people of such diverse expertise who still had an interest in various obscure aspects of this work.