Steve Ekker
scekker.bsky.social
Steve Ekker
@scekker.bsky.social
Platypus entrepreneur scientist precision genomes engineer (nuclear&mito). Zebrafish J EIC. ‘Longhorn’ leader@ UT Austin & Dell Med. Active w/ LEAH Labs, LifEngine, Forjazul. DGI/Immusoft cofounder. First SAB @ OpenTrons. Was faculty UMN & Mayo. Posts=mine
No, we are spending all of our leadership on even MORE gerrymandering.
August 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Great to hear! I was lucky to have Dr Chris Wylie as a senior faculty member at UMN for years showcasing COB and Development. Really like the mission of COB
July 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I used Grok to assess this, and Grok just 'spewed forth' - citations to primary sources. Terrible.
July 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Indeed. Such BS when reviewers are making such demands. Let the authors decide on the story they want to tell!!!!
July 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I’d think an ‘AI editorial tag’ could go a long way too
July 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Maybe make it a tagged-annotated process. So even if issues are missed the first time, cannot correct later? Time to make our papers more like software where bugs just get fixed
July 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
When can AI tools dramatically reduce these costs while still keeping humans in the loop?
July 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
July 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We #fishfolk call them 'water habitats'!
July 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
@izfs.bsky.social Zebrafish Disease Models Society should be this handle too, but I do not think it's active. @zdms.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thanks!
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Great thread. It’s getting even more complicated when genetic compensation is coming to light. Meaning there are additional layers of both genetics and environmental inputs that will change the system and our phenotypes. The ‘winners’ of simple views are those selling articles by clickbait headlines
April 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The most cited it the developmental staging series by Chuck Kimmel, as I recall.
April 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM