Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Fastest half - but still very slow…

Almost show-time at the Bay Area Science Festival. Come see how cells can learn! If you can’t make it, you can find out about the super-powers of time organisms at the Nature’s Tiny Marvels web site: sites.google.com/view/natures...

“having children play with the Lego set before their own MRI scans has significantly helped decrease anxiety and increase familiarity with the procedure.” www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

Weekend fun little project - my first foray into LED-DTL logic which uses the large voltage drop of an LED to simplify the classic “diode-transistor logic”. Here is an AND gate

Our collaboration with @mbonhivers.bsky.social is now out in @plosbiology.org! 🎉Using U-ExM, we mapped the formation of the flagellar pocket collar in T. brucei. Huge thanks to everyone involved — one step closer to #PhDone! #ExM #oneringtorulethemall #Bilbo1 #trypanosoma #protistsonsky

Are you in/near the SF Bay Area? Do you like Science? What about Festivals? Then you might want to check out the Bay Area Science Festival Oct 25. I’ll be there showing how single cells can learn! www.bayareasciencefestival.org

had a fun joint opening lecture for #UCSFTetrad Cellbio course with @nachury - but a question arose about eukaryotic evolution: if asgards used symbiotic bacteria for respiration, is there similarity with how RBCs use the liver for respiration? is the alanine cycle a vestige of eukaryogenesis?

A molecular-resolution look into the near-native architecture of the spinach chloroplast🌱. This one was a long time in the oven, but we're happy to finally share our "version of record". What long-standing debates did we settle? Check back for a short thread🧵 on Monday. #TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪🧶🧬🔬🌾

Again I am years behind: I have only recently noticed that critical information such as equal-contribution authorship is lost in important platforms such as PubMed, Google Scholar, ORCID... Fairness is critical to every one. Why nothing has been done to correct this? Something needs to be done!

Proud (and surprised) to be awarded a UCSF Medical School Excellence in Teaching Award! Celebrating here with my REGN module colleagues Igor Mitrovic and Kathy Hyland

The link seems to have changed please check it out here. www.ascb.org/society-news...

Next week, we have Ulises Diaz from UCSF giving us a talk in the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm online seminar series. For more info, visit cytophys.org. Join us.

congratulations to vincentv boudreau and @aralbright.bsky.social for winning the MBoC Paper of the Year award from @ASCBiology for their work on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis www.ascb.org/society-news...

New preprint! 🚨 We uncover a slow adaptation to stretch that links star-bundling of keratin filaments with nuclear escape from its keratin cage. Led by @tomgolde.bsky.social‬ 🙌 @IBECBarcelona www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social

The Ulva-covered sea steps of Venice. Hard to believe each green sheet is only two cell layers thick!

Cells can form patterns within themselves just like embryos do. How? Connie Yan's new preprint shows how the anterior-posterior cytoskeleton pattern in Stentor is dictated by regionalized scaffolding proteins www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Day 2 of the Venice Summer School on Emergence and Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems. Morning lecture by Nicole King on origins of multicellularity. Web site for the summer school meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

Day 2 of the Venice Summer School on Emergence and Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems. Morning lecture by Nicole Kingb on origins of multicellularity. Web site for the summer school meetings.embo.org/event/25-mul...

Yogi Jaeger kicking off the Venice Summer School in Emergence and Evolution

“This appears to be the administration's response to Congress: An attempt to place a major roadblock to any new funding and establish the structure that will formally exert the ideological control that it wants.” Great reporting from @jtimmer.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Check out this meeting on physical and molecular aspects of regeneration and growth, should be super interesting! meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...

Weekend project - making more Stentor habituation devices so the students can try out more ideas at once in the CCC Summer Course

Halfway student check-in presentations in the CCC Summer Course: Cytoplasmic fusion and mixing during feeding by giant cells

Halfway student check-in presentations in the CCC Summer Course: The cell as a low-pass filter

Halfway student check-in presentations in the CCC Summer Course: how cell cycle regulates cellular regeneration

Halfway student check-in presentations in the CCC Summer Course: using a diy tracking microscope to follow cells being steered by light

Senate Appropriations has a modest *INCREASE* in NIH funding but it will need to be recconciled with the house cut. If you have not been calling your representative of late now would be a good time to start again www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

CCC Summer Course getting off to a great start - this summer the research projects include signal processing by cells, steering cells with light, how the cell cycle coordinates with cell regeneration, microfluidic mixing inside cytoplasm,  and engineering seaweed tissues one cell thick.

CCC summer course getting going - our group is trying to use ideas of signal processing to understand how Stentor cells learn.

👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

Chesterton's fence is, in short, the principle that it is foolhardy to remove a fence without knowing why it was put there in the first place.

if you're putting a giant skeleton in your yard this year remember to communicate in some way that you do not support john fetterman

Dev bio friends - what’s your go-to FISH method?

Every night I nano-retire from work for around 8 hours. It’s been a trend among gen-X but was probably started by the boomers or maybe even before.

U of U Summer Science Day is less than two weeks away! Come to the U on Saturday July 12th between 10am-4pm for lab tours, science demos, talks, and fun for all ages! Free and open to the public. Schedule will be coming out in the next day or two! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...

NSF is losing headquarters, displacing 1,800 employees. NSF staff are outraged - not only by the lack of planning/communication, but also by HUD Secretary Turner’s requests for luxury additions (executive suite, private dining room, reserved parking, personal gym) in the new HQ. zurl.co/BvVac

An honest-to-god descriptive headline.

MAGA HULK SMASH SCIENCE

It's odd that even an authoritarian like Trump would want to destroy US science, but there we have it. It is hard to see any other rationale for this random act of chaos. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Our paper on single-cell learning is now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! @wallaceucsf.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this