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The new impact factors are out: Development – 3.6, Developmental Cell – 8.7. Why the steady decline in two of Dev Bio's flagship journals?

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Please read and share this opinion piece written by Carole LaBonne (our fellow Xenopus researcher) published in STAT in support for animal models in biomedical research. www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

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With a published genome & advancements in gene editing, the field of #zebrafish genetics has exploded in recent decades. We take a look back at major achievements in this infographic. For more, read this book chapter by @varshneylab.social et al (2015)($) doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

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Get ready to pay extra for your supplies and reagents.

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Welcome @burgesslab.bsky.social as an Associate Editor for #GENETICS 👋 Burgess, who will be joining the Experimental Technologies and Resources section, studies tissue regeneration in zebrafish and genome function. We’re delighted to have him on the team! Read more: buff.ly/k0yDk5c

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In @nature.com we describe the use of scalable #proteinengineering & #machinelearning to predict millions of bespoke CRISPR enzymes, offering safer & more efficient genome editing tools 🧬🖥️ @rachelsilverstein9.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New preprint just dropped! I really love this paper for many reasons, but the biggest is that this is a really old school genetics/devbio paper, traditional genetics approaches still have the JUCHE. Several years ago now visiting professor Chunxin Fan participated in an ongoing screen for

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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):

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Our Collaborative work on TRMT1, a tRNA-modifying enzyme, is out in @ajhgnews.bsky.social. A team of human geneticists led by Drs. Houlden' @qs-neurogenetics.bsky.social and Dragony Fu' labs identified 43 individuals from 31 families with biallelic TRMT1 variants. www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

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We are excited to announce a call for papers for a special issue of Genome Medicine genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com on "Clinical interpretation of genome variation". The submission deadline is Dec 18, 2025. More info here: go.sn.pub/gskvsk.

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Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25

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Our paper "Optimizing gRNA selection for high-penetrance F0 CRISPR screening for interrogating disease gene function" is now published in @narjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/nar/.... This work was led by our super postdoc @sheng-jia.bsky.social

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Piece by @stephaniemlee.bsky.social on one way we are trying to band together to get information about what the hell is going on. Kudos to @annikabarber.bsky.social interviewed here www.chronicle.com/article/nih-...

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We pay our academic editors (we don't do special issues with guest editors). Beginning in April, we also pay peer reviewers @biologyopen.bsky.social details to be announced at #biologists100 bit.ly/4h1cmCC @biologists.bsky.social

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A journal contacted me to serve as guest editor; I sent them my hourly rates. They came back saying, please suggest someone else who is willing to volunteer. 😆

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Reminder that NIH grants are NOT reckless spending. They are extremely competitive. The mean success rate of all grants is <24%. Far lower for R01's that are the lifeblood of most academic labs. All the data can be found here: report.nih.gov/funding/nih-...

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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Kickass worm-friend @rnareylab.bsky.social wrote a piece for @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and you should read it and send it to your red-state friends and fam. Hurting research hurts all of us. #invertsolidarity 🧪 www.heraldbanner.com/opinion/colu...

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An update on NIH funding and the loophole that's keeping it out of scientists' reach. H/T to @avaskham.bsky.social, who had it first. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.chronicle.com/article/desp...

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It’s @katherinejwu.com with the receipts. The NIH memo undercutting the NIH came directly from Trump officials. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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I just found out that the study section for my grant has been canceled one day before its scheduled meeting.

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AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social has a weird policy of allowing only two authors to be listed as senior authors; HGG Advances goes even further, allowing only one person to be listed as a corresponding author. It only hurts the junior investigator.

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🆘 Email from my colleague on the Hopkins Research Council🆘 Can anyone confirm? 🧪

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Disruptions to the NIH impact more than just science; they will hit all Americans in our wallets. I spoke yesterday with Becky Fogel from @kutnews.bsky.social about the important role NIH-funded research plays in the economy. 🧵 1/n www.kut.org/education/20...

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“zTadCBE variants thus offer a robust set of [cytosine base editors] for precise and efficient C-to-T editing in zebrafish, promising to advance the rapid functional assessment of genetic variants in vivo.” New work from @varshneylab.social et al. 🧬🐟

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