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We are delighted to welcome three new correspondents to the FocalPlane team. Look out for blog posts from Sally Horton @crick.ac.uk, Varsha Mahapatra, Utrecht University and @nclnoel.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk in 2025. Check out our introductory post ⤵️: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/24/a...

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Good story up on funding lag from WESA, an NPR station in Pittsburgh. www.wesa.fm/health-scien... 1/2

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Dive deep into glaucoma research at the #BrightFocus #Glaucoma Fast Track, held Oct 8th in conjunction with the @iser.bsky.social ISER/BrightFocus Symposium. This intensive program offers valuable insights & connections for those new to the field. iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org/fast-track/

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Our lab has multiple open positions for post-docs to study the regulation and function of cytoplasm mechanics during embryo development. Details below 👇👇 Please Repost !!! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston broadens block on Trump's NIH grant 15% overhead limit (indirect cost rates) to all recipients nationwide. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #TROpalooza ain't done

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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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Dynamic gene expression atlas of the larval zebrafish brain. Credit to @ishainer.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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We are hiring a senior research technician to work with me on my Moorfields Eye Charity-funded killifish ageing retina project! If interested, apply by 18 February, and feel free to email me with queries.

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We are hiring a senior research technician to work with me on my Moorfields Eye Charity-funded killifish ageing retina project! If interested, apply by 18 February, and feel free to email me with queries.

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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...

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Hand-drawn images of larval and juvenile zebrafish. Credit to @stednitz.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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So I've given a bunch of feedback on Specific Aims the last week or two & as has always been the case, for new PIs there are very paradigmatic mistakes almost always made.

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Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

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Cool paper (and great resource). I’m especially keen the disconnect between mRNA and protein levels in adult tissues! Pay attention #devbiol, it’ll be the same in embryonic tissues. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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The nanodrop said I had no DNA, but I did the cloning anyway and it woooOoOooorked

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Stunning capture of the complex zebrafish eye. Credit to Dr. Ivar Noordstra. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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Ok I had to see this so now y’all do to: I just ran into someone touting the “skin benefits” of raw dairy on the basis that “dairy maids were known for their clear skin”. You guys. Dairy maids were known for NOT BEING POCKMARKED. You know why? They didn’t get smallpox as often.

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Fellow PIs: I noticed new students are not familiar with Microsoft Office programs as they grew up using ChromeBooks and not PCs. Are there free resources/courses to suggest to these students? I am not interested in using Google docs/sheets for data/writing as they lack many features

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Are you a #DevBio/#StemCell researcher and keen to do more #SciComm? ✍️🎨 We're looking for new correspondents to work together with the Node team to develop and produce content over the coming year. 📅Apply by 20 January 2025 Find out more: thenode.biologists.com/become-a-nod...

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Zebrafish retina with fluorescently labelled UV cones (magenta) wearing UV opsin antibody hats (cyan) and rods labelled with @jfadlab.bsky.social's wonderful 4c12 antibody (yellow). #FluorescenceFriday

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🧪 Wang et al. used chinchilla rabbits to mimic hyperlipidemia disorders & showed that males fed a high-fat high-sucrose diet are good models of age-related macular degeneration👁️. https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/17/11/dmm052015/363235/A-high-fat-plus-high-sucrose-diet-induces-age #AMD

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📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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In today’s adventures in AI and teaching, I found myself BAFFLED by a student’s bibliography because all of the links in the bibliography went to the articles they referenced in their paper and were real articles, but the citations were completely made up I was confused till I got ChatGPT out

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Proud to have been a part of this!

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Full spectrum of ‘zebrabow’ embryos. Credit to @jhenninger.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!

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Continuing to go through my trove of cool videos... here is a classic from my work with Philipp Keller's team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social A developing fly embryo imaged with a SiMView #lightsheet microscope augmented with our Autopilot self-alignment system. www.nature.com/articles/nbt... 🧪🔬🪰💻

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🧪 Now hiring a postdoc to do curiosity driven science in C. elegans. We study sleep, memory, whole brain networks, aging and anything else that a worm can do that you might be curious about. We have 5 years of NIH funding starting January… Here’s our most recent pub www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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My first image of the cornea. It's more beautiful than I expected - no offence, cornea folks! 🟥 Phalloidin, 🟨 Calnexin, 🟦 DAPI.

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Thrilled to present our latest BioRXiv on brain/body interactions during defensive freezing behaviour! (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). You might think that a frozen animal has, well, frozen muscle activity, right? Wrong! Underneath the still surface of a fly, something in the legs is beating… 🧵

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Intracranial lymphatic vessels in a larval zebrafish. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

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You get 20 extra characters on Bluesky which is great because it means, when you copy your old tweets into Bluesky you can always add “THUS SPOKE THE LICH!” to the end and it will still fit.

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It's #FluorescenceFriday Here is an image of froggie vitreal blood vessels. They are so beautiful! A somewhat funny side effect is that the frogs are fully fluorescent for a couple of weeks after doing this type of imaging. They are fine and it washes out by 2 weeks. #SciArt 🐸🧪

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Killifish retina in situ HCR for #FluorescenceFriday. #sciart

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New position at UCL!! Lecturer in Neuroscience in the Department of Imaging Neuroscience, home to the internationally renowned Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL). Details are here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... 70% research, 30% teaching on a new BSc Neuroscience course.

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Job alert 🚨 ✨ Our lab is searching for a technical assistant/research technician 🫀 to investigate heart regeneration and repair. Heidelberg is an awesome place to do science and the quality of living is great! Please forward to anyone who may be interested and please repost to spread the word 🙏

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🐈😊 #Gene #Genetics www.science.org/content/arti...

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The University of Montana is looking to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor in Neuroscience! Come join me in the mountains of Missoula, Montana. It’s a great place to carry out your research program! Please help me spread the word: apply.interfolio.com/159540

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Welcome to Development's Bluesky account 🧪 Development is a leading primary research journal in developmental and stem cell biology, published by The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social, a not-for-profit organisation, and edited by expert researchers in the #DevBio field.

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🧪The final Development presents... webinar of 2024 will be chaired by Development’s Senior Editor @amjeve.bsky.social. We will hear from Madalena M. Reimão Pinto and Gabriel Aughey on the topic of gene regulation. #DevBio #GeneRegulation 📆Wed 4 Dec 15:00GMT Register here: bit.ly/3OpUfu2

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