We just got an acceptance letter on a paper I'm so freaking proud of! I don't remember when I last felt this moved by a publishing decision.

Yup. All of us need to remember what we're doing as reviewers. It's important that we ensure the results/interpretations are accurately interpreted, but we really don't need to stray into language that impacts the trainees. I'm genuinely sorry your student experienced this

Getting accepted is great. It's a big accomplishment for you and your team. Congrats! It's a pity the other one didn't work this time around, but hopefully the comments might help reframing it for other journals.

Thanks for writing this.

I'm beginning to believe my fish only love me for the snacks.

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

A lot of musicians doing the right thing these days, but this is one of my favourites

Cluster of small white flowers

Happy spring Monday to the #NativePlants 🌱 feed. My Black Chokeberries (Aronia melanocarpa) are now in full bloom. I love the delicate white flowers on these, but also really like the glossiness on the leaves!

a cat with a sad look on its face asking for forgiveness ALT: a cat with a sad look on its face asking for forgiveness

Ackk!! I just replied all!!!

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Excellent news as RSV vaccine in pregnancy protects babies from developing RSV and massively reduces risk of getting seriously ill and needing Hospitalisation

Thanks! Every time we take one of these steps brings me right back to remembering how exciting research can be.

The image shows a section of a zebrafish gut, consisting of finger-like villi that extend into the lumen. In this image, each villus has large blue cells filled with mucus (shudders involuntarily), as well as basal cells that stain intensely for the PCNA proliferation marker.

We did it!! Our first IHC in Bath!!! Cora captured this gorgeous image of Alcian blue+ goblet cells, as well as PCNA+ epithelial cells in an adult gut. We still have fine-tuning to do, but these beautiful/simple views of such a complex structure will always make me smile.

Microscopy image of a section of human brain tissue at the level of the striatum with white matter fiber tracts outlined in bright green

And some love for the human 🧠 for #FluorescenceFriday. I like these zoom outs where you can see a whole structure - here, striatum. Green is MBP and outlining the white matter tracts, 🟣 is DRD1 and if you zoom in (see zooms in following posts) there is 🔴 for RXFP1 marking clusters of island cells.

This image shows three framed pictures of flowers. On the left are sky blue forget me nots, in the centre are white snowdrops (I believe) and on the right is a magenta tulip with white-edged petals. A colour was selected from each flower to generate a heat-map that runs from soft blue to a rich pink tone. The heat-map is shown below the flowers.

Swapping #FluorescenceFriday for something new 🌸
Our latest heat-map colour scheme is inspired by flowers from Bath, giving our data a refreshing spring freshness.

Congrats! Very well deserved!!

One quick type and suddenly I'm working on inflammatory vowel diseases.

Each publication in a #Microbio26 journal helps fund 4 student travel grants. Please publish with us if you can!

In the alternate approaches section

No problem! I can't imagine how much work went into this project. I'm still dancing through all the hoops needed to move my Vibrio to the UK, and I think I'm experiencing separation anxiety 😂

I miss Vibrio. This is absolutely fascinating science.

Imaging a section of an adult zebrafish gut. Epithelial nuclei, visible as simple grey columns, line up in an orderly, densely packed layer. A single cftr+ BEST4 cells is visible in magenta. Between the epithelial layers the gut associated vasculature delivers protective immune cells to the gut. In this image, a cyan spic+ dendritic cell is visible among those immune cells

This week's #FluorescenceFriday offering comes from Tori McCabe: a sneak peak into a gut showing a spic+ dendritic cell in cyan and a cftr+ BEST4 cell in magenta. I always liked how clearly you could see the dendritic cell patrolling directly below the epithelium.

You know what would be great? If we could spend a few days focusing on things other than debating the existence and rights of trans people. It feels like we’ve got bigger fish to fry right now.

A welcome editorial message.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If cell diversity and developmental biology are your thing, my talk will extremely be your jam. Come for the whole-mount spatial transcriptomics and 14Tb light-sheet videos, stay for the humble RNA in situs. Everyone loves in situs 🧪🐟🧅

A question on Jeopardy asking: "IF YOU TOOK AP BIO, YOU MAY WELL HAVE STUDIED DROSOPHILA, THESE INSECTS, TO LEARN ABOUT HEREDITY"

Me, laughing maniacally "They called me crazy for studying flies. Well who's crazy, now?"

Photo of earth from outer space taken by a space ship

Fuck. Another photo where they caught me sneezing! This is so embarrassing!!

ahahaha. I will never unsee this!!

Close up of a larval zebrafish gut. In this image, several phagocytes have wrapped themselves along the intestine, and are sending protrusions into the gut. The gut itself is visible as a simple long tube. Individual lips-rich cells are visible in cyan.

It's a rainy Easter and I'm working on draft 22 (😢) of this manuscript, so here's a mental reset #FluorescenceFriday peek at some wonderfully busy magenta-labeled phagocytes crawling along a lipid-rich (in cyan) larval fish intestine.

An image showing a mosaic of the 10 winners of our awards.

Pride in STEM is 10 this month, and we are so proud to celebrate these 10 change-makers who were proposed and voted in by the community.

Read about their work, their impact, and their commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM and beyond, here:

prideinstem.org/2026/04/01/t...

Knuckle tattoos that on one hand says “necessity” and the other “sufficiency”

From the very start.