Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms.
This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.
Happy to share the lab’s latest preprint! Led by PhD student @isaiahwill.bsky.social, we hope that this thorough characterization of expression patterns for many #drosophila fat body driver lines will be a useful resource to the fruit fly community.
The Zenodo repository where we are collecting all the examples we can find:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Voting is now open in our image competition with #ELMI2026. Thanks to everyone that entered the competition, we received so many wonderful entries.
Voting closes on 18 June, the penultimate day of #ELMI2026 @ppbioimaging.bsky.social.
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🍰Read also the Research Briefing:
👉https://rdcu.be/flTlO
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Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology
We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026.
thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...
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YEN 2026 Conference and Image Competition
Haven't submitted your image for the YEN 2026 Image competition? Good news, the deadline has been extended until 10 June. ⬇️ @yen-network.bsky.social
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Tight junctions form essential paracellular barriers and regulate cell polarity and tissue mechanics. This Review discusses how tight junction components assemble into strand networks, and explores ti...
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FocalPlane x ELMI2026 image competition: vote for your favourite - News
During embryogenesis, morphogen signalling is known to pattern tissues as they remodel. Using genetic and optogenetic perturbations, together with theoretical frameworks of phase transitions and bioch...
Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.
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We hope you are looking forward to the Young Embryologist Network Conference 2026! The meeting will be held at the Francis Crick Insitute on the 15th June
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
