Nc zoo day

This is what an RSVP for a protest is, btw

finally made it up to brumley preserve for a walk with the kiddos this morning. nice little spot.

Bright morning. Very bright.

Rad the chicken really has some fancy head plumage.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Humble case report from prior Ross lab member Katie Kuk, who is now a psych intern, on the PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD OF improvement in cognitive function in a patient with a rare developmental disorder after starting a med to treat obesity. www.frontiersin.org/journals/end...

From MBoC: Wallace F. Marshall (UCSF) and team profile the giant ciliate Stentor pyriformis—symbiotic algae in microtubule baskets, symbiont-dependent phototaxis, and a standard genetic code. Paper: www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/... #CellBiology

As our graduate program deadline approaches, we are recruiting motivated students to join our team. See details below:

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Happy to present data from a postdoc project @liu.se on regulation of punishment-resistant alcohol seeking by the central amygdala @eurbehavpharm.bsky.social #EBPS2025

Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

Really proud of huge collaborative efforts from several teams in Translational Neuroscience Division @lieberinstitute.bsky.social w/ labs of @stephaniehicks.bsky.social and @alexisbattle.bsky.social to provide this resource on cell types and spatial organization in nucleus accumbens of human 🧠

My painting NORTHWOODS SUNSET Sale ends tonight! See link in comments!

Erwin getting hay.

Our latest manuscript is out, and this one tackles the problem of cellular aging in the retina, using comparative multiomic analysis of zebrafish, mouse, and humans. What led us to work on aging after studying development and regeneration? Explainer follows./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Certain readers apparently do not understand that “no visible means of monetization“ means they don’t have a print edition and I cannot find a way to subscribe.

I was working in the lab at NYP and I went to get coffee with an attending anesthesiologist downstairs..we saw the news. it first said it was a small plane. we went back upstairs.... we saw the smoke and read about second plane... he hopped on a fire truck to go help.

I look to fluffster for guidance.

This clerk is a good and kind neighbor, and the people running these machines - and these scams - are true villains

unrelated to the horrors of the world, G learned about all the body's systems yesterday. roughly a minute for each (it is was a broad overview). 1 minute for the nervous system. :(

PSA: You can get an updated 2025-26 Covid vaccine with a prescription in North Carolina. If you are a UNC student, visit/message your Campus Health provider and they can prescribe you the vaccine. It is not available on campus yet, but you can get the prescription sent to the Target CVS on Franklin.

Another bcas retreat complete. Great day. Exciting work and all of our speakers stayed on time!

Here ye, here ye!!! #WCBR2026 #WinterConfrenceonBrainResearch will be extending the panel deadline one week for submission (new deadline 9/18/2025)! Official announcement coming soon so check your emails! please reskeet!

Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... @psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS

9 people subscribed to the YT channel because of the seacowboys video. Hope they can make it through the next couple weeks of depressing farm labor content. Because if they do, the next "can you farm it" is TITANOTYLOPUS: ENORMOUS EXTINCT CAMEL

@superkash.bsky.social The KASH UNC protein? I'll be on the lookout for the SCHREINER Duke protein

Wrote about back home for @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Good morning everyone! So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory* www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

Yes, I've been out of grad school a long time, but I owe a lot to my PhD supervisor, Dale Ramsden. Big congrats to Dale on this well-deserved award (and I was pleasantly surprised my own ATM/V(D)J recombination research was mentioned in this article!). unclineberger.org/news/ramsden...

Lake has been replenished

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Morning critter

Now, everything we do comes with risk. But the data are what they are: alcohol consumption, even at small amounts, increases the risk of adverse health experiences. Is there temporary stress relief? Yes. Is there some indication of reduced risk of diabetes in some women? Yes. But…

Hi! Hello! This is fascism! And bc I’m writing my dissertation on alcohol use, I figured I’d give a high level overview for interested parties… A thread 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...

By burying these findings, they are creating a false narrative that will endanger people. That’s what happened in Soviet Russia in Lysekoism. Obviously, this is a much smaller degree of harm, but, the point stands. Doing this with many issues will add up in death. #standupforscience

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

The idea is to click through and purchase them and display them on your walls 😊

Morning hike with r

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

aaaaaaaaand just had an R13 withdrawn (funding for a scientific conference) because there is a European co-vice-chair and we and the conference staff that submitted the grant did not provide a foreign justification. FML 🤦🏽‍♀️

💫NEW: Gasnier et al. identify NOX1 and NPY1R as markers of colon #StemCells within the mouse caecum and the middle and distal colorectum, respectively. These stem cells contribute to the initiation of invasive colon #tumors in mice. bit.ly/4m2ZSwC

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

There is a metaphor here.

Doodlehound doodling

The Seven Cities of Gold (Amiga, 1985)