I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Excellent work!

A great opportunity.

We are ready for the 3rd annual Center for Heart and Vascular Research Retreat!! @unmc-chvr.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social @unmcphysiology.bsky.social

#Microtubule #SmoothMuscleCell Contractility MT support #SarcoplasmicReticulum - #PlasmaMembrance contact RyR2 channel clusters on tubulin filaments Nocodazole ⏫Ca2+ spark spread ⏬RyR2-BKα co-localization ⏫myogenic tone @vesselman.bsky.social #SciSignal 2017 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am delighted to share the work of my amazing student Dominic Isaacs! Out today in PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...), Dom beautifully used optogenetics to show that thin-strand pericytes in the brain can send long-range electrical signals to control arteriole diameter and brain blood flow.

Congratulations! A well deserved honor.

Here’s a new mini review from the lab - our first publication from Rochester: academic.oup.com/ajh/advance-...

Happy to share my paper at PNAS! #Choriocapillaris is intrinsically sensitive to light, endowed with #Opsins, a mechanism that we show is necessary for ocular physiology and the mysterious #choroid. t.co/TcxDuuS30O