My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

This week's #MicroscopyMonday shows the early pupal optic lobe in the fruit fly. 🪰 Some newborn #neurons had key developmental signals altered to understand the effect on the type of neurons they become. 🧠 (Özel Lab)

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Not to sound pretentious but Pinot Grigio pairs well with lucky charms

Duolingo, you can't just end the story like that! How does Eddie explain his secondary source of income now that Junior thinks he's a lion tamer after finding his hidden stash of leather pants and whips?

Duolingo, you can't just end the story like that! How does Eddie explain his secondary source of income now that Junior thinks he's a lion tamer after finding his hidden stash of leather pants and whips?

Fixed it

Whenever it rains, I sing "Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain" by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In today's gentle rain, I decided to revisit the album that introduced it to me. So beautiful! If Toto's "I Bless the Rain Down in Africa" is a 10, this is a 100. open.spotify.com/album/5GoqzA...

10x developers watch dev videos at 10x speed.

They tell you to look out for the crocs in the Northern Territory of Australia but it's really the mini-dinosaurs which are still alive. [📹 dylanwallis6] Original post

I went and saw Project Hail Mary. A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie. Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that. He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

A comic about the old man upstairs. BONUS Panel below! 👇

Spent half of my class this morning talking about this ruling from yesterday. For all that the Trump administration claims to be acting in defense of Jews on campus, my Jewish students are so much more afraid of this ruling than of anything happening on campus. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??

This episode of #MST3K has been missing for 37 years. Holy shit! Apparently it was found at a garage sale and the quality is fantastic! Lost media geeks are going to have a field day! Keep circulating the tapes! youtu.be/u_Z4hnagGLE?...

Get all 30 of Tony and Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito mystery novels including: - The Blessing Way - Dance Hall of the Dead - Listening Woman - and more! Supports Trees Water & People | https://bit.ly/47wreqv

Not all memory looks like ours. This #BrainAwarenessWeek, explore nine surprising ways memory shows up across #biology—from flatworms to jellyfish to your own daily tools. 🪼 🔗 Read here: https://bit.ly/4bueOkc @danafoundation.bsky.social @brainfacts.org#BrainAwarenessWeek

sorry to poast too much about this but its my first published fiction since high school and i had fun imagining the many many spies at mar a lago buttondown.com/theswordandt...

This week's weather in KC

Time’s running out on Terry Pratchett's Discworld book bundle and reads like: - Night Watch - Guards! Guards! - The Light Fantastic - and many more! Supports Hilarity for Charity | https://bit.ly/40cBfFh

👂Today is #WorldHearingDay. How do we hear? The answer starts with tiny sensory cells called hair cells. These cells allow us to detect sound and maintain balance, but once lost in humans, they don’t grow back. But, #zebrafish can regenerate theirs. 🐟 Learn more in this #BioBasics: bit.ly/402Sid3

A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, saturation, and lightness aren’t shaped by culture or experience—they’re built directly into the mathematical structure of how we see color. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

I'm really excited about this. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is available in ebook format for a short time from @humblebundle.com for at least $16. I am starting with "The Color of Magic" and have been laughing since the introduction. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

Mind if I share some exciting news? We’ve officially raised over $45 MILLION for local bookstores 🥳

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

French and Spanish call "y" the "Greek I" (I Grecia, y griega). Are there any other non-latin languages that have a letter that calls out to its alien origin?

An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.

Holy shit, this thread is incredible.

As a dad, I, um, need to go ask my dad a few questions. BRB

Float like a glass squid. What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps

Rebooting my Python skills via #100DaysOfCode. Days 1-3 in the bag.

historically accurate☑️

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Masked. #grickledoodle #raccoons #robbers #masks #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Gen Z sees what was taken from them

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

TIL where the infamous "I GUESS" reaction image came from and. I can't bear this burden alone

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas. Stay safe and don't forget to check the weather before you head out. weather.gov.

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Lol

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set