Chrissy Hammond

We are recruiting three new lecturers!

Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators:

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Joel is such a creative scientist, but also such a generous kind individual. People like him are so important to our community.

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Exactly this. Success rates of 0.5% = a huge waste of effort.

Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
“Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” —

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)

Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (STANDARD) Brains, Blades, and Zebrafish: Dissecting Rhomboid Protease Roles in Neuronal Development and Signalling at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (STANDARD) Brains, Blades, and Zebrafish: Dissecting Rhomboid Protease Roles in Neuronal Development and Signalling at University of Bristol...

We’ve got a couple of PhD projects open. Including one with the lovely @adamgrieve.bsky.social and @scholpplab.bsky.social on Rhbdl proteins in #zebrafish which is open to UK and international students tinyurl.com/fishprotease

Massive congrats Steffen awesome news!

2026/27 Projects | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher Institute The below list of projects is being offered as part of the standard MRC studentship the MRC iCase studentships for 2026/27 entry.

Looking for a PhD position?

Join the Kague Lab as a PhD student in Precision Medicine (funded by the MRC) to work on a multidisciplinary project about Bone Fragility! 🦴

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usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

PhD defense of Abbi Smith

Glacier

Gulfoss waterfall, partially frozen

Deep snow at Pingvallir

Super fun experience doing a PhD defense in Iceland. Well done Dr Abbi Smith! Also a great opportunity to take the kids to Iceland and sneak in some glacier hiking and golden triangle trips in a frozen wonderland!

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

🔬 Limb regeneration depends on regenerative signaling center cells — but how do these cells influence others to proliferate, migrate, or differentiate?
We’re recruiting PhD or Postdoc candidates to explore this with our collaborator @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social !

Want to engage and « do something » about microplastics in your own environment.

Consider joining the foldscope community that has been mapping novel sources of microplastics around the world.

microcosmos.foldscope.com/post/zCoLNt3...

Photo of my amazing postdoc Jeremie presenting slides on bone repair in fish fins

Photo of my brilliant PHD student Rabia talking another conference member through her work on cell lineages in the scale and cell clusters than change during late stages of regeneration

Jeremie and Rabia presenting (on fracture repair and cell lineages in scales respectively) at #UKZF2025 - proud PI alert!

Thanks to CoB for supporting meetings like this. Three people from our lab went and said it was a brilliant meeting

Post an image from your summer that confers peace

Lucky to live in a city that has a free balloon fiesta so can see this in the morning

Lucky to live in a city that has a free balloon fiesta so can see this in the morning

Apply!

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

🧪 Job alert 🔊 we are hiring a Research Assistant - join the Simões Group at DPAG-IDRM @ox.ac.uk supporting #cardiovascular development and regeneration research, working with #zebrafish and #human stem cell systems: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... @oxforddpag.bsky.social @idrm.ox.ac.uk (1/4)

Just when you thought all had gone quiet on the COLGALT2 front- get ready to hear more! Delighted that @hammofish.bsky.social and I have been awarded a four year grant from MRC @ukri.org to study the role of this enzyme in the skeleton. Will be advertising PDRA and RA posts in due course! #orthosky

Awesome- so well deserved!

Job opportunity! This would be perfect for someone with an interest/background in animal behaviour and enthusiasm for scientific publishing. Help contribute to a fantastic journal! Deadline 31 July.

Skandar and the unicorn thief might go down well

Best way to spent a hot weekend. In the water. 6km swim for Bantham swoosh, then sea kayaking with the kids

This is a brilliant place to work. PI’s consider flagging this up to talented Masters students

This is today! Remember to sign up and come along!

This 👇🏾. A different set of rules, expectations on women, and perceptions of workloads is all part of the hidden curriculum of academia. If all leaders/senior colleagues can do is tell women to learn to say ‘no’ rather than ditching the double standards, they are very much a part of the problem.

Event carbon calculator - the Node I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your

Calling all meeting organizers… @biologists.bsky.social now have a calculator to estimate your event’s carbon footprint and to test various reduction scenarios.

thenode.biologists.com/event-carbon...

The most glorious early morning swim - perfect week to start the week in an empty lake