NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

Science on our sleeves: the research that inspires our tattoos Inked scientists choose scientific images to mark career accomplishments and illustrate their research passion.

Nature has a story on science tattoos, in which they quoted me about my 2011 book, Science Ink (still in print!) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming

Talked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S.

“Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.”

Read the article here. No subscription required:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

I’d argue that while vision research would be de-emphasized on the whole, areas of work at the front of the eye which is not neuroscience per se, like aqueous outflow and corneal work would be even more harmed.

So what you say?

Glaucoma and myopia, the two leading causes of blindness would suffer.

2025 Study section tracking

Study section tracking sheet update of the day answers your burning question: Is my study section rescheduled? I've rearranged to put sections that didn't meet on the left and added a column noting if it's been rescheduled. Subject to change as FRNs go out! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

From the other site... (from EVP at Columbia to a training grant director)

Glad to see y'all again

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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 🧪

Super resolution confocal image of a lateral line neuromast in a 5-day-old zebrafish - it looks like an orange and purple flower with green dots

Super resolution confocal image of a lateral line neuromast in a 5-day-old zebrafish 🐟
The green dots are amazing specialized presynaptic structures called synaptic ribbons 🎀
Hair cell actin labeled in orange, acetylated tubulin in neurons & hair cells labeled in purple #FluorescenceFriday

Chemdle Curated daily chemistry problems. Six attempts to solve the questions, on topics from named reactions to total synthesis.

Synthetic chemists! If you haven’t discovered chemdle yet, you are missing out big time! Synthesis meets wordle!

www.chemdle.com

H&E section of a zebrafish larva with the head and eyes to the left. The brain is in the middle. Muscle on the right. It’s been cuts so perfectly you can see both otoliths.

The perfect histological section through a five-day-old zebrafish larva. Credit to Sara Coordes from Baumann Lab (prev. Uni Heidelberg). #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Anonymous #AskZebrafish: What is the best practice for generating a stable CRISPR/Cas9 knockout (i.e. to avoid genetic compensation)? Guides flanking either side of the gene? Around the promoter sequence? Use of an ssODN? Any advice would be thoroughly appreciated.

Hello Bluesky 👋! We are excited to officially join the #zebrafish community here on BlueSky! This is the official account for the International Zebrafish Society! Be sure to give us a follow to stay up to date on all things IZFS 🐟

It's such a joy to see a well made poster with good storytelling but so hard to make one myself.

Link should be working now. You can also access the PDF without paywall here: rdcu.be/d5Ml5

Motile cilia modulate neuronal and astroglial activity in the zebrafish larval brain The brain uses a specialized system to transport cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), consisting of interconnected ventricles lined by motile ciliated ependymal…

Have you ever wondered what role motile #cilia and cerebrospinal fluid (#CSF) play in brain development and physiology? If yes, please check out our latest article now published in Cell Reports and spearheaded by the newly minted Dr D'Gama www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research from the Drerup lab uncovers how VapB, an ER-mitochondria contact site protein, regulates the birth and death of mitochondria in neurons. #Neuroscience #mitochondria #ALS #zebrafish
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...