Time-lapse of scale development and growth of a thyroid hormone mutant zebrafish (hypoTH), compared to a wild-type control. Credit to Dr. Andrew J. Aman & @dparichy.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Check out the first paper I contributed to!
Great thread. Great work. Congrats. #stuffthatmatters
List of different zebrafish strains from nacre and roy to glofish and starfire.
Different flavors of #zebrafish. Credit to Renee Daigle & @margaritapk.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Hand-drawn images of zebrafish from 21 days post fertlization (dpf)(top), 36dpf and 7dpf. Anterior to left. You can see the eye and tails of the fish with the distinct stripes.
Hand-drawn images of larval and juvenile zebrafish. Credit to @stednitz.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Amoebae stained for actin polymer are pseudocolored and organized into a mosaic pride progress flag. Each stripe has around 30 amoebae.
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
The last rainbow amoeba poster I made seemed a little too subtle, so here’s a new version!
Download any of my posters at: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/prin...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Art crafted at a Batik workshop ✨️
Top view of a larval zebrafish brain. Anterior pointing up. 3D projection that has been flattened. Pseudo-colored for depth.
Dorsal view of a larval zebrafish brain. Credit to @clairewyart.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
Here is a photo of a non-binary biologist (me) standing with a bunch of zebrafish, a species whose females can convert to male (which can sometimes make things a little annoying for me!).
Biological sex/human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️ 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Figure 1 (A) Example images illustrating a major delay in initiation of bone mineralization in sox10 mutants between 3 and 7 dpf revealed by Alizarin Red staining. Some mineralization is present by 5 dpf but never achieves control levels before lethality at 8 dpf.
Sox10 is required for systemic initiation of bone mineralization
Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske & co. @cincyresearch.bsky.social :
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204...
Just adding the tag for my other scientists out there having the strangest inauguration week conversations of their lives. 🧪
I released the LUT finder: A plugin to see all your ImageJ / Fiji LUTs in a table with previews, auto generated descriptions and filtering! You can try it with the KTZ_LUTs update site or from github.com/kwolbachia/L.... I'm looking for your feedbacks!
#FluorescenceFriday #MicroscopyMonday
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
At the @czbiohub even our computer workstations are
#zebrafish fanatics! (This is not a flux capacitor, but the CPU cooling system of @ilan_theodoro’s computer 🤣)
My first post here! I'm a Dutch PhD student interested in zebrafish development. If you have a nice opportunity for an exchange during my PhD, please let me know! Happy Holidays :)
A retina regrowing its photoreceptors after hibernation, visualized with spatial metabolomics on top of ultrastructure.
A highly detailed gray image of the dorsal view of a zebrafish head pointing to the left with two large black eyes on either side. A complex network of magenta blood vessels look like tangled spaghetti in the center (brain region) of the image. There are dozens of ameba-shaped green cells around the brain blood vessels and a few well-defined green lymphatic vessels on either side of the head. Protruding from the skin on each side of the head, to the right (posterior) to the eye, there are three volcano-like structures with long, transparent, hair-like projections. These are hair cells that the fish uses to sense changes in water flow.
Looking down at the head of a transgenic 17-day-old #zebrafish, blood vessels in magenta, lymphatic vessels in green. Extended depth of focus #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬
This is awesome.
meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance?
The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e
More fish photos to brighten up Blue Sky. Remember the original fish Twitter games we used to play? Like #EpithetEtymology, #GuessThatFish, and #WrasseWednesday? I’m bringing them all back!
Image of a shoal of zebrafish. Credit to Oregon State University.
#ZebrafishFunFacts: Did you know the popular WT strain 'AB' originated from a mating between strain A & strain B purchased by Charline Walker on two separate occasions from a pet shop in Albany, Oregon? This helped transform #zebrafish from household pet to a model of human disease & development. 🧪
“The collective diffraction of light produces an array of colors. When the fish contracts and relaxes its muscles to swim, the sarcomeres slightly change in length, causing a shifting rainbow effect.”
#scicomm
#animalcoloration
#iridescence
#fish
www.sciencenews.org/article/tran...
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🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
#sox10 and neural crest development in #zebrafish embryo—a beautiful movie from Takamiya et al.
