Heads up I will be hiring a postdoc and some techs in the new year! Lots of ephys and fiber photometry. If you've got soon to graduate PhD students or undergrads, send 'em my way!

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

Why do babies kick in the womb? Today I'm delighted to share our latest paper, led with great creativity by postdoc @cpane94.bsky.social, in wonderful collaboration with Niamh Nowlan at UCD Dublin. "Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development" A paper thread:

*New preprint alert* uncovering a mechanical pacemaker that synchronizes nephron formation with branching of the kidney's epithelial tubule tree. Read below to learn about this twisty journey lead by Sam Grindel and Sachin Davis in the lab. [Movie by Nils Lindstrom] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The path to this paper has so many stories. Today I want to tell one about the value of saying so when you don't have the answer - and of the importance of community.

Had a major breakthrough in my grant proposal yesterday - by not writing. Sometimes not-writing is the best writing.

Very excited to see our paper, led by @amilangscience.bsky.social, out today in @pnas.org! This one was a true adventure, filled with surprises at every turn. “Erythroid precursors regulate local oxygen tension and repair outcomes in the bone marrow niche.” www.pnas.org/eprint/NJ8XC...

My son is writing a report about viscous dampers and Newton’s Laws. He has asked for my help; I am in my glory.

in college i did an engineering school study-abroad in paris. our assignment was to visit the louvre, decide what we would steal, and design a heist...

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

HUGE congratulations to Aboubacar Wague for 🏆 winning the ISFR 3-MT Research Pitch Competition today! Aboubacar presented his work on the anti-bacterial properties of Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors in infection control during fracture repair! 🦴🦠🔬 #bonehealing

Out latest preprint, from @cpane94.bsky.social in the lab, is out today! Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... So excited for this one - a wonderful collab with Niamh Nowlan, supported by the US-Ireland Partnership Programme ❤️

Such a pleasure to contribute to this nice session 🧫🦴🔬 thanks for the shout out @ricgottardi.bsky.social so glad for your contribution to the project I just highlighted. Looking forward to amazing days in #Davos at #eors2025 🩻🎉

Today @asbmr.bsky.social celebrates another superstar in the MSK field! @gkotsaris90.bsky.social at UPenn focuses on how mechanical cues influence the immune landscape during tissue regeneration ! Check out his bibliography and follow him to keep up with his work #ASBMR #memberspotlight ‍🔬

Such a bittersweet day in the lab - so proud of you @madhura0327.bsky.social! 🙌🏻 I’m so excited to see everything you’ll discover next with @cjrosenlab.bsky.social!

Proud to see @cpane94.bsky.social giving an @asbmr.bsky.social Member Spotlight Webinar next week (Thursday the 12th)! He'll be talking about his latest work: "Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development" Register here: d5jjrf04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/5I+113/d...

Honoured to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Connective Tissue Society! A testament to the great work by our fantastic lab members and collaborators over the last 25 years or so. Thank you all!!

Congrats @clarissacoveney.bsky.social & @tdcapellini.bsky.social!

One problem we face today is how few people understand the science that helps us all. Some scientists are able to explain the importance of their work. @baym.lol of Harvard University is one of them. Science is for everyone, and benefits us all more than most people know.

Eadweard in the wild @cpane94.bsky.social

Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Helping Gracie with her school science project today. I truly did not realize how impossible it is now to find actual sources of reliable information without knowing how to dig into the deep pages of the internet. It’s all AI junk.

This short WBUR interview with my dear friend Michael @baym.lol - about the govt’s cuts to his lab at Harvard is excellent. He so clearly articulates what’s at risk. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

I’m in this joke.

Our paper, led by Chris Panebianco (@cpane94.bsky.social) is out today at Developmental Dynamics! "Dynamics of postnatal bone development and epiphyseal synostosis in the caprine autopod." anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our problem is not that our society does not sufficiently appreciate the economic return on investment in science. It is that we value education and knowledge generation only in economic terms.

Nothing calms like going to the library and bringing home a good poet.

Me: *frowns at email Monica: “Joel, what’s wrong?” Me: “oh, just had a grant rejected.” 10yo: “AGAIN?” 13: “Does that mean we’re going broke?”

Facilities, overhead.

i wish we could go back to arguing over the merits of two-aim R01s on twitter again. turns out those were the days.

The dignity of continuity had been taken away. Both past and future were disappearing from them, the past because nobody would remember it, the future because nobody could imagine it. What they knew was passing from the world. Before long it would not be known. They were the last of their kind. -WB

Annemarie’s latest paper is out today! CYR61 delivery promotes angiogenesis during bone fracture repair. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @amilangscience.bsky.social @madhura0327.bsky.social @cpane94.bsky.social @eseidlscience.bsky.social @ricgottardi.bsky.social et al.

Happy Easter! He is risen!

As I tell my group when we read papers: “Never trust pseudotime.”

Deleting every “superfluous that” makes your writing less clear.

Finished rereading The Brothers Karamazov today. I sobbed. Again.

13yo spent the morning asking me philosophical questions about science. S: “Dad, if you could have a genie just come tell you the answer, is there a question you’d ask, or would you rather figure it out yourself?”

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 So, I stepped outside my comfort zone with on our latest preprint. As a cancer cell biologist, I typically spend my days in the lab, but I'm incredibly proud to share our latest work that looks to address the issue of cancer disparities in rural communities through education. 1/n

My 1st @bsky.app post is not about science or T. Instead I am happy to share that my first film Through Thin Ice is screening at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - please join us Feb 15 in Missoula!

📢 Abstract submissions are open for the 51st International Musculoskeletal Biology Workshop, July 19-24 in Midway, UT. Explore challenges in #musculoskeletal disease and innovative solutions. Award deadline: April 30 | Final deadline: June 30 Learn more: www.ors.org/msk-2025/

Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Peace of Wild Things -Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

Also works astonishingly well as career advice.

Tweet works for pretty much everything in cell biology too.

Congratulations, Dr. Nijsure! So proud of you! 🙌🏻

Tomorrow is @madhura0327.bsky.social’s Ph.D. thesis defense! I’m so proud of everything she’s accomplished. If you’re at Penn, hope you can make it. If you’d like a zoom link, just reach out to Madhura. “The Role of YAP in Bone Fracture Repair” 3.00 PM, Reunion Auditorium John Morgan Building

I’m not rebelling against my God; I simply do not accept His world. -Dostoevsky

Taught my kids how to play Euchre tonight. This is a new level of parenting joy I hadn’t anticipated when they were small.

Not even Sinclair Lewis saw this coming.