#PILife

7 day old zebrafish embryo with green-glowing cells outlining the cardiovascular system, craniofacial muscles (faint), and the heart, with undulating blood vessels around the developing gut and glowing pectoral fins. Embryos has been imaged from below, with head facing up.

Want to observe how beautiful #devbio is?
Make more transgenic #zebrafish (ideally showing lateral plate mesoderm-derived structures, of course). 🧬🫀🐟🧪
(7 dpf tmem88a:EGFP, ventral view; pic cred Marycruz Flores Flores)
#PILIfe #LPM #MesodermIsStillRelevant

First step: not knowing where things are in your own lab. 🧬

Second step: assuming everyone new in the lab learns the same protocol details that you remember. 🧠

Third step: over-glorifying how good you *think* you were at the bench. 🧪

#PILife #MidCareerSuddenlyHitsYou

Office plaque that upgrades from Associate to Full Professor bt using a sharpie for edits.

Testing out the next update to my office plaque, effective 7/1/2026!

Tremendously grateful to all past and current lab members, collaborators, colleagues, et al. 🐟🧬🫀💙🧪🎓

Onwards, always.
#PILife #Zebrafish #AlwaysBeWriting @cuanschutz.bsky.social @cudevbio.bsky.social

SF-bound for #TBX4Life 2026 to discuss how #devbio & model organisms partnered with clinical insights can help decode causes of TBX4-associated sydromes.
#PILife #HaveFishWillTravel #zebrafish

Necessary/sufficient (celebratory edition).
#PILife #AlwaysBeWriting #Academia

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Typo of the day: Developmetal
#devbio #PILIfe #AlwaysBeWriting

Saturday morning in your 40s.
#PILife #IShouldBeWriting

“I hope this email finds you…”

It finds me in panic over how I mark in the system that I received all these packages.

#Help #PILife

Always be going where they need (and want) you.
#PILife

This, tbh. Similar for "in preparation".
#PILife

Fantastic program and initiative by @socdevbio.bsky.social for postdocs going on the job market - register!
#devbio #PILife

Reminds me one summer when hub, wearing Hawaiian shirt & shorts, was walking downtown & a homeless guy yelled, “Who do you think you are? Magnum PI?"

#PILife #PrivateInvestigatorsGetNoRespect 😂

When your UMAP mimicks the structure of the clustered cells:
#zebrafish #devbio #PILife #MesodermIsStillRelevant

But of course.
#PILife

#PILife is, defending basic research on a review panel all day long - and receiving a rejection notification for a big grant (different funder) on the same day.

Onwards. Always.
#devbio #evodevo #diseasemodels #zebrafish #zerbafish 🧬🐟🫀

Do Mac users still just generally assume *everyone* has Facetime and Keynote?
#AskingForAFriend #PILife

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Me: Scores won’t post for 2 business days (Tuesday next week).

Also me: refreshes eRA Commons every 7 minutes 🫠

Curse you, random SRO who posted early that ONE time.

#science #grantlife #pilife

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It’s the last day of the first academic week of the year and I am somehow regretting my Dry January choice #PIlife

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How your request of proof corrections by Dec 31st find me #PIlife Whether you celebrate or not have a relaxing time or a wonderful Christmas! See you hopefully in a better 2026

#Zebrafish #PILife

There be Neurons.
#PILife #zebrafish #zerbafish #multiome #ButWhatDoesItMean

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Giving a lecture on the last day before the holidays #PIlife

Excited to contribute to @cuanschutz.bsky.social's Academy of Research Mentoring Educators!
#PILife #Mentoring

You know something really expensive is probably happening when your postdoc texts you a video with “well that’s not a good sound” #PILife

Never made it onto a cover, but as a canvas in the office. 🐟🧬
#PILife #devbio #zebrafish #MakeMoreTrransgenics #LPMIsBeautiful #evodevo

Lab outing @denverbotanic.bsky.social! Keeping with the fluorescence theme.
#PILife #zebrafish #devbio

We got an unexpected visitor to the Ciona tank! Little dude has his own little container now and is doing well #nudibranch #seaslug #PIlife

What a day! Another one flies the nest with a brilliant PhD defense. Congratulations Doctor @castellosanjuan.bsky.social ! I am so proud of you!!! #PILife #ProudMentor #PhD

Happy Friday from our lab meeting to yours!
#PILife #devbio #TeamWork #zebrafish #zerbafish #MakeNewTransgenics @cudevbio.bsky.social