Matthew Harris

Preach!! J’s gottta own it

Save the date card featuring a skyline of the host city of Seattle for the SCGDB annual meeting Sept 28-30, 2026

We are excited to announce that the 49th Annual Meeting of the SCGDB will be held September 28th-30th, 2026 in Seattle! The meeting will be hosted by the University of Washington

Need more guitar visuals

I mean…goldfish?

Arn’t they already?

New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams WOODS HOLE, MA—Saying they saw no conceivable reason to bother with the bivalve mollusks, biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced Thursday that there was absolutely nothing to...

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It was tough (first one magnificent). Watched on plane and satellite froze during bottom 8th to ninth inning. Groaaan.

We kicked off #SCGDB2025 with exciting award talks from Dr. Timothy Cox @craniofacialprof.bsky.social and Dr. Jennifer
Fish, pictured here with SCGDB President Dr. Matthew Harris @fish4walking.bsky.social and local meeting host Dr. Kristin Artinger @artingerlab.bsky.social.

Fish-a-pod

UMass Boston Biology is hiring at the Assistant Professor level! Join our collegial department at our ocean front campus! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Yeah, those posts have kept me sane for the last few months

Does it go to eleven? (And yes)

@fish4walking.bsky.social

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We just buy all NH fentanyl to keep NH GNP balanced

Delaware is ‘the first state’
For ratification. Fun fact: New Hampshire was first named North Virginia, and it was once under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts- still is.

Just another Friday night in North county

YouTube video by WMUR-TV New Hampshire man faces fourth impaired driving charge after crash in Boston, DA's Office says

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Can you post the paper url?

Hell ya. Jealous.

That time I bonded with some long-lived clams to uncover their anti-aging secrets 🐚🧬 #BiologyOfAging #MyMBLMoment #BoA @fish4walking.bsky.social

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

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Registration and abstract submission are open for the SCGDB annual meeting in Minneapolis! Deadlines: 8/25 abstract for short talk, 9/7 abstract for poster, 9/7 registration. More information at scgdb.org.

Evo Devo is obviously the closing act! Nothing better than to go out with a bang.

Dear #izfc2025 participants, if anyone of you are interested in how transcription control defines mRNA fate and translation in zebrafish development, there are/will be several PhD and postdoctoral positions (funded by the Wellcome Trust) for this research. Please find me if interested.

Schematics depicting the dorsal and ventral sides of fins and limbs

We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...