Selling my Academy of American Poets award. It's not a medal, just a letter, but it will make you a poet if you buy it from me.

Shot one roll of color and one black and white, and now I'm sending them to the past to get developed.

A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ld

whole-genome data for 7 rhododendron ~50% transposable elements (TEs) 🤩 TEs significantly associate w genomic differentiation & structural variances Gene duplication & loss significantly associated w flower color & expression potentially driven by TEs 🧪🪴🌸🌺🧬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fun! Link to original research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

LEGO blocks aren’t just for kids 🐟 Research from Dr. Sarah Alderman’s lab @integrativebiology.bsky.social shows zebrafish raised with LEGO early in life learn faster, show less anxiety-like behaviour & handle stress better than those raised in barren environments 🗞️: www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...

Looking for a postdoc? Work on vertebrates and have lab experience? Come be the lab manager/museum postdoc for the LSU Museum of Natural Science! (It's a great stepping stone to being a curator!)

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey, science community (whoever is here). Can you please help me amplify this message? Postdoc position available in Düsseldorf!

🧪 A fascinating discussion of the disjunct between biological systems and digital computation, that really emphasises the vast gulf between the neurons in our brains and the nodes in a computer-hosted neural network.

I don't go around bragging about it, because I want to be known for my own accomplishments, but I am a direct descendant the first human.

Join me this evening when I reduce complex philosophical ideas to bumpkin-y nonsense and poo jokes. Ever wonder why there's language? Me neither! Let's not break our streak. Miracle Nutrition on @wfmu.bsky.social WFMU tonight at 6 eastern. Shemp Jive!

I've had a couple estranged family members die before I could make peace wih them, and it really isn't as bad as you think.

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Always wanted to be a mall Santa, but I figured I'd never be fat with a big white beard. Now I am, but there are no more malls.

What it looks like to me, a known simpleton, is that bourbon distilleries flooded the market years ago then tried to create artificial scarcity, then tried to destroy the hemp industry, now they are dramatically shuttering facities and blaming trade. Also, bourbon is really cheap and good right now.

I feel like life is a test and I got done early so now I'm just sitting here looking at my watch.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

Kaitlyn Rutter, Susan Brockerhoff & co generated a #ZebrafishModel carrying mutations in the enzyme required for de novo purine synthesis, then examined how these mutations affected cone photoreceptor degeneration, a process that typically results in blindness. #retinopathy Read more bit.ly/4ixBIdt

Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B #StateOfNeuroscience

Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

I was lucky enough to inherit a bunch of racks where a graduate student had labelled all of them with Rack jokes 😂, perfect. I am dead at Racksputin.

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵

Our paper showing the first ever recordings of spiking activity from neurons in the human lateral geniculate nucleus has just been published in Nature Communications! Congrats to the whole team. #neuroskyence @nin-knaw.bsky.social @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last night's show at Institute 193, Hearty White's The Map, was a hit! Grateful to everyone who came (some from far away!). Thanks to John Ferguson and Joe Watts, the modern day Vertov/Kaufman brothers. And Robert Beatty, the modern day Robert Beatty.

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

Vacationed one year in Big Rock Candy Mountains. You could do the Lake of Stew Canoe Adventure or the Lake of Whiskey canoe tour package. We opted for the whiskey lake, because honestly the one made of stew didn't look or smell right. Also found out I'm allergic to cigarette trees on that trip!

Folks, it is finally out! Our paper on T2T assemblies of the zebrafish genome is on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Past presidental perfumes ranked: 1. NiXoN! 2. NiXoN! Intense 3. Obama Hope Extreme 4. Jimmy Carter Says YES 5. Bush Encore 6. Truman's Fleur de Feu 7. Calvin Coolidge's Cul lege 8. La Nuit de Johnson

Please join us on Thursday, November 13 in THM 116 at 2:00PM for our seminar featuring Dr. Afshin Beheshti of University of Pittsburgh.

Are you a postdoc or Asst. Prof on the job market? Check out our listing and consider applying! The search is very broad and it’s in a great department, location, university! Even with the crazy schedule that comes with being a PI- I love my job @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social!

📣 Paper alert! I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

If you're in the Lexington, KY, area at precisely the right time, please consider wandering in!

Yesterday we hosted Vincent Stanley, the chief storyteller and executive leader at Patagonia for the last 50 years, at UKY. It was a major collab among a bunch of folks, particularly the Office of Sustainability and my unit, the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment.

Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask? rdcu.be/eN1jm

We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers

My show reached its WFMU hellraiser goal! Thank you all so much. Let's keep the light burning!

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Our latest paper is out! While the circadian photoentrainment circuit has been extensively studied, the mechanisms regulating its development remain poorly understood. Here we show that retinal Müller glia play a key role in this process. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are looking for an enthusiastic postdoc to investigate cellular dormancy and ribosome hibernation across plants, fungi, and mammals using #cryoET. If you are interested, apply here: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/66....

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

The 11 Oct 2025 evening performance/showing of The Map by @heartywhite.bsky.social and friends, presented at @wfmu.bsky.social 's venue, Monty Hall. Full set of photos at Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/... #HeartyWhite #MontyHall #WFMU #multimedia #monologist #TheMap

'The device helped 81 per cent of trial participants suffering from advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to achieve clinically meaningful improvements in their vision, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday.' www.ft.com/content/c2e8...

Today for #FluorescenceFriday I’m sharing a 👻Halloween-themed🎃 neural crest explant “web of cells” from Julia Godinez, a 4th year @ucdavis.bsky.social graduate student in the lab. She is studying mechanisms driving conserved and divergent cranial neural crest migration and differentiation. #DevBio

For almost 14 years Ive been doing a show described as southern inspirational dada. And it's on again tonight. Fightin the good fight for years. Join me now wont you?

👇 Article w/ my PhD student Danae Mitchell @danaenm.bsky.social on 🤩 work in @nature.com by @arimolofskylab.bsky.social & Tom Arnold led by Nathan Ewing-Crystal @nathanec.bsky.social on the complex response of 🧠 fibroblasts to injury. 🧠 fibroblasts form scars but are not 'scary'...they help out! 👻

We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read on below! 1/12 🧵

Come be our colleague -- review of applications starts tomorrow!

This #microscopymonday is a cleaning day. Watch how a #microglia cell mops up and phagozytoses debris and junk in a very messy neuronal co-culture. BTW, it was a proper cleaning job → the neurons made it and formed nice networks Phase contrast imaging started at DIV1. One frame per 20 min.