Eric Peterman

$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.

Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.

Pog saying "learn to cook, it's fun to do"

It's true

Currently reading The Power Broker. Robert Moses would be salivating to build this monstrosity

honestly surprised it took this long for this type of Dem to get no peace at public events

Why UW And WSU Oppose Bill To Pay For Working Families' College Tuitition In seemingly unlikely opposition, the State’s largest public universities testified against a bill in the Washington State Legislature that would pay for the higher education of more working class fam...

NEW: State lawmakers want to massively expand program to subsidize college tuition for Washington's working families by making big tech pay. But yesterday the State's largest universities testified AGAINST the bill. Here's why: www.theburnerseattle.com/post/why-uw-...

Penguin awareness day 2026, showing a picture of a penguin

Vital departmental communications!

Saw him in 2012 and I guess I am one of the lucky ones, listened to a whole 45 minutes of music

My name is forever tainted because this jabroni had like 5 dogshit games

This is the moment my staff taught everyone that you can sing my name to the tune of “Seven Nation Army”

Arends, Bennett, & Tapscott @fredhutch.org show that DUX4-induction of stable intranuclear RNA, including pericentromeric HSATII repeat RNA, leads to nuclear protein aggregation. HSATII RNP complexes impact RNA processing downstream of DUX4 expression rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#RNAbiology

Depth-coded somatosensory axons and a plethora of mpeg1+ immune cells (cyan) in the adult zebrafish skin.

Network of somatosensory axons and immune cells in the adult zebrafish skin. Credit to @errricpeterman.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Depending on our marker we will generalize even more, using "peripheral" or "sensory". This one was p2rx3a iirc

Turchetta posting

I post on the internet, am I qualified?

I hope they taught them the cheat codes to get all the cool weapons

🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.

Until the sun burns out

Cars are the real monsters

once again posting The Chart

*click generate summary*
Read the summary and say to yourself: do I trust this AI generated summary?
*go back and reads the paper anyway*

Dorsal view of a zebrafish larva with blood vessels in magenta. Anterior to left.

Vasculature in the blood-brain-barrier of a zebrafish larva. Credit to @natashaobrown.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Rainbow shading of a confocal micrograph of a developing mouse neural tube. The protein actin is stained and colored in rainbow to indicate depth in the section.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

Cover: Skin-resident macrophages (white) migrate towards a scratch wound (centre) in a zebrafish skin explant. To reach the wound margin, migrating macrophages must navigate through a dense network of epithelial cells, which are visualised using a reporter for epithelial junctions (α-catenin-Citrine, magenta). Live-cell imaging and chemical perturbations demonstrate that skin macrophages require microtubules to efficiently respond to tissue damage and navigate epithelial obstacles. See article by E. Peterman et al. (jcs264101).

cover image yeeeeeeeeehawwwww #flourescentfriday
check out our work in the most recent issue of @jcellsci.bsky.social !

i made this 2 days ago! did it with some baby bok choy and zucchini

Eric Peterman @errricpeterman.bsky.social, Jeffrey Rasmussen @jraslab.bsky.social @uwbiology.bsky.social & colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Microtubules in a skin-resident macrophage

now online! check out our work describing roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophages during directed cell migration. thanks to @jcellsci.bsky.social for a stress-free publication process
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

grad student

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟
The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

Born too late to do vibes-based biology. Born too early to have all of biology already figured out. Born just in time to write a manuscript with 9 supplemental figures and pay 10k for open acccess