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Casey Schneider-Mizell
@csdashm.com

The glass fish as model organism seems really cool, but the exclusivity is bizarre to me for so many reasons and a downer to see the promised model of overlapping 15 year topics with take an ironically non-transparent left turn.

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HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...

thetransmitter.orgExclusive: Janelia sunsets rodent work, launches transparent fish projectThe Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is banking on whole-brain imaging in the Danionella fish to advance neuroscience, but some scientists forced to close their labs say that…
Casey Schneider-Mizell
@csdashm.com

Group leaders will land fine, but morale during this transition at the institute is going to be rough. I also worry reduce the impact of the wonderful visitors program and the conference program.

Casey Schneider-Mizell
@csdashm.com

Also, when I was there, small lab sizes but a common organism and tools made labs quite focused and adjacent but non-overlapping in their fundamental work, making it easy to celebrate all successes. Everyone doing glassfish whole brain imaging has me wary there will be more toes to step on.

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Divya Sitaraman
@dsitaraman.bsky.social

I was having similar feelings about this. Science will be amazing and I am excited about the outcomes. But as someone who benefitted from the visitor program I worry about singular focus at the cost of smaller connected labs and closing of other equally cool areas of research e.g. 4D cell phys.