Choose your top 25 favorite comic book adaptations (live action or animated). One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 3: Daredevil

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 11: Golden youtu.be/yebNIHKAC4A

Listening to The Fate of Ophelia (The Chainsmokers Remix) by #TaylorSwift and #TheChainsmokers: youtu.be/yX2kZ8OIsfU #MusicMonday #Musicsky

#1song2Versions 2️⃣✖️ #MusicChallenge 🎶 @suoradellanotte.bsky.social 🗣 Bob Dylan 🔊 All Along the Watchtower 🗣 Jimi Hendrix 🔊 All Along the Watchtower

Choose your top 25 favorite comic book adaptations (live action or animated). One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 2: The Dark Knight

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 10: Almost There youtu.be/ThMwHKfzz1I

Can we design mutations that bias proteins towards desired conformational states? Today in @science.org, we introduce Conformational Biasing (CB), a simple and scalable computational method that uses contrastive scoring by inverse folding models to identify conformation-biasing mutations.

Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment go.nature.com/4sxSygV

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans go.nature.com/4juumIa

This artificial skin, inspired by octopuses, can change its colour and surface texture on demand go.nature.com/3YtuwGn

UCSF scientists build brain organoids at scale equipped with blood vessels, "leading to high fidelity neurodevelopment." Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does an LED light change when dipped in liquid nitrogen? 💡🧪 Museum Educator Adelaide plunges an LED into liquid nitrogen and watches its color shift from orange to yellow to green.

Drop some BOWS!

Physicist/chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett invented non-reflective glass in 1938. It revolutionized optics & led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. First woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. She was born #OTD in 1898. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

Drop some TABLES 🏓 🖤 🍽️

Today is #NationalMilkDay 🥛 Why is milk white, and what makes it go sour over time? This graphic explains: www.compoundchem.com/2018/06/02/milk#NationalMilkDay #ChemSky 🧪

The number 2026 is, mathematically, more interesting than it appears

Choose your top 25 favorite comic book adaptations (live action or animated). One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. Day 1: Wonder Woman

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 9: You’ve Got a Friend in Me youtu.be/1MPZRcyTrcU

Rachel Carson's book 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 (1962) documented how DDT led to thin eggshells & reproductive failure in predatory birds like bald eagles. It led to the 1972 US DDT ban, sparked environmental awareness & helped bald eagles recover from near-extinction. #WomenInSTEM It's Save the Eagles Day!

Drop some WHEELS 🚙 🏎️ 🖤 🚛

In its second season, “The Pitt” refuses to both-sides issues that it considers straightforward. @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the rarity of moral clarity in recent TV:

January is #InternationalBloodDonorMonth. What makes blood types different and which are compatible with which? Learn more with this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2018/01/12/b...

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 8: You’re Welcome youtu.be/79DijItQXMM

Exciting new work from @aliceyting.bsky.social and coworkers @stanfordbiosci.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Review: HBO’s “The Pitt” deservedly emerged as an Emmy darling this past year. And the second season proves that the show understands its strengths — and its limits.

🧪 EXCLUSIVE 🧪 from @science.org: Scientists have swabbed a 500-year-old drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci—and may have found a piece of his DNA. www.science.org/content/arti... Yes, really. A quick thread:

You don’t need a brain to benefit from a good night of sleep. Despite lacking a central nervous system, jellyfish and sea anemones have sleep patterns remarkably similar to those of humans, researchers report. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3NgeAEQ

Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2026, from vaccines for infectious diseases to new treatments for advanced cancers and long COVID. #medsky 🧪

Online Now: The ADAPT learning cancer treatment system: ARPA-H’s initiative to revolutionize cancer therapy

This artificial skin, inspired by octopuses, can change its colour and surface texture on demand go.nature.com/44WUbuD

Nature research paper: Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit go.nature.com/45m7t4b

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 7: A Whole New World youtu.be/EXTLJmYsaUQ

iGluSnFR4f and iGluSnFR4s are the latest generation of genetically encoded glutamate sensors, for tracking rapid dynamics and for recording from large populations of synapses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬 pertpy: a unified, scalable framework for single-cell perturbation analysis, now out in Nature Methods Designed for modern perturbation data - CRISPR, drug screens, patient treatments - scaling to millions of cells and 1000s of conditions. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Share some walkie talkies, radios, stereos

Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans

In a recent study, researchers used honey from native Brazilian bees as a solvent to extract bioactive compounds from cocoa bean shells, a waste product of making cocoa and its derivatives. cen.acs.org/food/food-sc... #chemsky 🧪

“When you get to know people who are different from you, you begin to learn more about yourself. You change. You grow.” #StrangerThings #WednesdayWisdom

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 6: Be Our Guest youtu.be/DtCEI9SDtqQ

Review @natrevcancer.nature.com Opportunities and challenges of targeting cGAS–STING in cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to announce a new review article that Andreas Villunger @villungerlab.bsky.social, Dario Rizzotto (not on bsky) and I wrote. In this article, we discuss mitosis as a central cell cycle stage for integrating DNA damage, cell death and inflammatory responses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Booksky www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by 2050 go.nature.com/4slEUO5

Book review 📚 These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them go.nature.com/3Ls2yYu

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans go.nature.com/4prixUM

Choose 31 of your favorite songs from animated films, one per day in no particular order. Day 5: A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes youtu.be/cyOLHOcLdr4

Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: LINE-1 Locus Transcription Nucleates Oncogenic Chromatin Architecture - by Michael Lee, Yuannyu Zhang, Jian Xu, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @stjuderesearch.bsky.social

Woo hoo! 🎉 Shout out to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly for her featured image on FocalPlane! ✅ the link for more about her research interests! 🧪 🔬 🤩 👩‍🔬🙌 #Microscopy #DevBio #Neurodevelopment #Cytonemes

🧪 I've been deep in the cancer space in recent months, including this feature, out in the most recent issue of @nature.com, on cancer dormancy and how it can lead to metastasis decades after a person has ostensibly been declared cancer-free. www.nature.com/articles/d41...