Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

This is the winter of our rage. Bless the protesters in Minneapolis.

@artingerlab.bsky.social some hopeful news?!

Will he get to push supplements as a cbs contributor?

This is who they murdered

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Coloradans pay attention and defeat this evil shit

Also, as of 12:45: “Dozens of federal agents climbed into unmarked vehicles and have departed the scene of this morning's fatal shooting in south Minneapolis. With federal agents gone, the scene has grown suddenly quiet.”

Absolutely essential

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Jesus fucking christ

Incredible work, cell biology of cuticle nanopore formation. Check out the video summary (second post in this thread)

Oh it all makes so much more sense now…

It is widely thought that 🕷️ mostly experience the world through their tactile and vibratory senses. However, vertebrates and invertebrates like insects can smell, so what about spiders? This comparative study identifies putative glomeruli in 🕷️👃🤨! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The best

MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action. Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com

A favorite place…

“To this day, grants continue to be ‘realigned’ with administration priorities, a clear form of ideological coercion.”

We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l

25 Years Later, Xenbase Still Supporting Scientific Leaps @cincyresearch.bsky.social scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/25-years-lat... www.xenbase.org/xenbase/ academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

As a friend points out: Turns out Nicholas Maduro’s biggest crime was being more newsworthy than the Epstein Files

Congrats Simon Han & @brugmannlab.bsky.social on your publication @cincyresearch.bsky.social A dual role for GLI3 signaling in neural crest development journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

So many students don’t understand the importance of having letters of recommendation from professors who actually know them. Please put in the effort! Go to office hours! Send your CV! Don’t ask for letters if professors can’t identify you in a lineup or if you didn’t do well in the class. 🫠

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

Well heck.

🤞 that this pans out. Also, of course, none of this would have been possible without #NIH funding.

Edward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration.

The plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

Now @thenode.bsky.social #SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...

Such a tragedy Will miss you, Meathead...

And let's not forget they're also glow in the dark (thanks @chemzymes.bsky.social)

Some funding good news for a change (from AAAS policy alert) The House and Senate released a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Of importance to the research community, the bill prohibits the DOD from imposing a 15% cap on indirect costs to institutions of higher education.

@mckey-lab.bsky.social

Lest we forget the heroism of Dorie Miller on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Snow on Sumida River - Tsuchiya Koitsu

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

"Scientific Reports likely to generate >$100M this year...When a journal publishes 45K articles...some bad papers will be published. The big unknown is whether [the now infamous “Factor Fexcetorn” paper] is the visible tip of a research integrity iceberg" newsletter.journalology.com/p/another-on...

Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.

When the data are so beautiful it hurts 💔

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

@fantauzzolab.bsky.social you’re on a roll!!

Beautiful work! Congrats to all @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social @hejcell.bsky.social

Another developmental biology model systems short course is in the books. So immensely grateful i get to teach this fun class with @mckey-lab.bsky.social

Tim Hutton-actor, Steve Bernstein -Sex Mob, Peter Apfelbaum-Heiroglyphics

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪