Lots of very serious people are working on how to share big datasets across archives and rigging up all sorts of cloud proxy systems and bridges and whatnot and I am here to tell you that torrents with multiple webseeds have already solved that problem

@fim.bsky.social: recommendation on mail-in service for developing film rolls? Found my dad’s old camera and took it for a spin.

Could @marimo.io and @processing.org work together? Always wanted to dynamically alter stuff on the processing canvas and I love the UI and widgets of marimo. Tutorial possible?

Some zebrafish line eye dancing at @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course. Teaching OKR how John Dowling and Jim Fadool taught me during the zebrafish course.

Should have taken more pictures. Blame it on the lack of sleep. But here is @gregschwartznu.bsky.social giving a lecture on retinal ganglion cells after @richkramerlab.bsky.social talked about the rod pathway. @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course.

And today: Dave Zenisek and more ribbons! @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course

John Dowling showing students (and faculty) some ribbon synapses.

Super excited to share that our new study is published @natneuro.nature.com today!! Here we show that intersectin and endophilin form condensates between the active zone and the reserve pool and maintain synaptic vesicles near the active zone for rapid replenishment. rdcu.be/evi5y

Working on lecture for the @mblscience.bsky.social neuro course at the library. Front view vs. back view?

On our way to @mblscience.bsky.social Neurobiology course!

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Berry season!

It’s @juanonyme.bsky.social yo!

Here world! Enjoy some fluffiness this Friday! Sometimes updated here: www.instagram.com/bowie.brite/

Dr. Kevin Emmerich, my former graduate student, will be presenting a summary of his thesis work as a finalist for the 2024 Outstanding Paper Prize from Development. Webinar is next Wednesday, May 28th: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Played find @john-m-ball.bsky.social amongst the dark outfits tonight

First undergrad graduated from our lab!!! @umdscience.bsky.social

From MBoC Dr. Robert Krauss, Professor of Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, wants to bring clarity to a classic biology term: “master regulator.” What should it really mean? ➡️ www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #ASCB #CellBiology

#Resistance via #Stickers! I am still mailing 1oz envelopes of Resistance Stickers to anyone in the US who will commit to posting them up around town. Fill out this address form and they'll be in the mail this week! forms.gle/kw7nV45sLH91... Please share. #disability #lgbt #politics #believewomen

In this strange times, attending #ARVO2025 has been a breath of fresh air. Inspired by the work, energized by the community and just so so grateful for the chance to spend time with friends and colleagues ❤

How can organs regenerate fast? Bioelectricity helps -- by coupling sub-second electrical injury signals to regenerative proliferation. First preprint from my potsdoc :D with @liujinghui.bsky.social @ritamateus.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and collaborators @mpipks.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social

The Conway Lab (NIH) and Butts Lab (UMD) are seeking a brilliant postdoc to study high-acuity vision combining large-scale electrophys and deep computational modeling. Prior experience (broadly speaking) is recommended: please email Dan Butts with CV and brief research statement.

From @alexchesler.bsky.social lab!!

Finally recovered back to racing. Felt good to do something else in the middle of the chaos.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

A second new study describes JACUZI-SD, a new method for efficiently and non-stressfully inducing sleep deprivation in larval zebrafish, which works by delivering randomized water pulses via a custom milli-fluidic device integrated with a 96-well plate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You know you are a retinal neuroscientist when you see this shower floor and your first thought is, "I wonder what the voronoi domain regularity index is for those black tiles?" Here is my favorite paper on this topic from Benjamin Reese's lab: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32026463/

What is up with “pique my interest” popping up in all emails from undergrads and grad school applications? Why are the LLMs bent on marking more use of phrases like that?

Course updates! ⚠️ Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis is REOPENING applications (deadline March 31), and Visual Neuroscience is EXTENDING applications (deadline April 1). Flyers below ⤵️ Read more and apply here: bit.ly/4acDH2V #ScienceStartsHere

Been using Marimo hosted on my GitHub page for classes and made some awesome ones already.

Introducing marimo AI ✨ Go from idea to Python (or SQL) notebook in seconds — — play with the notebook in our WebAssembly playground‚ or run it locally with the open-source marimo notebook.

What's the point of making a website if you can't have fun with the 404 page.

#ZebrafishMeeting at the renowned @mblscience.bsky.social, for those finterested!

Hey, visual neuroscientists 👋 Interested in hands-on training in modern techniques and building a lifelong network of colleagues and friends? Look no further! 🧠 Apply for the MBL's Visual Neuroscience course by March 19: bit.ly/4kn48HH #ScienceStartsHere

Doesn’t this kind of ad targeting seem way too specific? (Even if very accurate…)

Some new arrivals since we last posted including @kdrerup.bsky.social, @kt-kindt.bsky.social, @pennylamphd.bsky.social, @saukaspengler.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience 🧪

That’s my back right there

New findings out of #UMD's Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department could lead to breakthroughs in RNA-based #DrugDevelopment. Antony Jose and his team's research on how double-stranded molecules naturally enter cells and influence future generations was published in @elife.bsky.social.

Super resolution confocal image of a lateral line neuromast in a 5-day-old zebrafish 🐟 The green dots are amazing specialized presynaptic structures called synaptic ribbons 🎀 Hair cell actin labeled in orange, acetylated tubulin in neurons & hair cells labeled in purple #FluorescenceFriday

Applications for the Neurobiology Summer course at the beautiful MBL are still open. Our group will be there doing fun experiments. I hear there will be extra zebrafish representation this year!

My open source library for projection mapping is officially released today, free for all to use. Built on the @processing.org creative coding framework, it’s based on years of SPACEFILLER projection mapping installations. shapemapper.dev

Our town’s snowplow trucks got renamed. Here are the winning names: My favorite is “control salt deleted”

We all learned the center-surround, rod and cone structure, but this is a lot of detail about glia and blood vessels in the retina and what happens in degeneration. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #MATLAB #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Many academics point to bioRxiv as “the one thing improving science publishing”. If so, the one thing you all can do is persuade colleagues to submit and make this a norm. 1/2

Hard to beat the white elephant gift exchange in the lab this year; anyone else surrounded by amazing students?

I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!

To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread. #sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

Study finds axons are not the cylindrical tubes pictured in books but more like pearls on a string. Article Link: www.oneneurojhu.org/2024/12/10/s... “These findings challenge a century of understanding about axon structure,” says lead researcher Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D. @watanabelab.bsky.social

Today, I inherited a precious Huxley manipulator from Catherine Carr’s lab. I first trained as an electrophysiologist using these and i have never found something that’s more stable. I can’t wait to put this one to good use.

Ready for live imaging! New transgenics that we hope to share about soon.