Such an icon. I had the pleasure of attending her lecture once- it was beyond inspiring.

Even the dog was excited! #fishing #bass

RIP, Robert Redford.

Raising a pair of turkeys has been fun this summer. This is Sundance, my male Black Spanish heritage 🦃

Reproductive #aging is associated with declining #fertility and increasing #inflammation. @spangas.bsky.social &co explore a @plosbiology.org study that uses cutting-edge tech to characterize the role of multinucleated giant cells in #ovarian aging 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3T84WE0 Primer: plos.io/3HXKN1b

Science + babysitting

Something new at the house! 🐝🐝🍯

feed one crow suddenly it’s a murder #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku

Lovely end to to a successful Section I @mblscience.bsky.social Frontiers in Reproduction Course, Woods Hole. Good luck section 2 Director @schindlerlab.bsky.social

Sometimes you find the weirdest things on your doorbell camera. This was mine last night.

Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig

The cutest jumping spider came to say hi today in the garden ❤️

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The pipevine swallowtail tail cats are also here!

30th Anniversary of the Texas Forum for Reproductive Sciences, Houston TX, April 10-11 hosted by Baylor College of Medicine. Keynote speakers, Drs Mariana Giasetti (Baylor Univ) and Rama Kommagani, )Baylor College of Medicine)

First monarch cats this spring #monarch #texas #zone9

ASMR timeline cleanse. Ginger eating celery.

NIH termination notices arrived today for our Postbaccalaurate Education (PREP) and Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) grants. Students trained from these grants for over 26 years and have gone on to outstanding careers in biomedical science. So many future careers in jeopardy.

Carnage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Baylor College of Medicine's uncertainty over health research funding is prompting the school to scale back research and reduce its incoming class size. trib.al/0iKhLwa

Mugging for her favorite treat #horses

Seems like summer, corn on the cob and all #chickens

When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

Chicken and yogurt

For those near the Texas Medical Center, Stand Up for Science will have 2 rally locations - one at Baylor College of Medicine at the NRI building and one at Rice Univ. Noon Friday March 7 standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

Six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others https://go.nature.com/43n0J5R

A reporting page from @seandavis for affected US Government Biomedical Data resources. Sunday not a good day. stats.uptimerobot.com/Zrqh8AhvKn

It’s been a stressful week and it’s not looking like it’s getting better for the near future (🤞) so I decided to double my garden space.

While I love all creatures, I’m thinking my rooster did me a favor in the garden and took care of this.

Reminder that Europepmc.org exists. In case anyone should need it for any reason.

If all their previous actions don't destroy scientific research in the U.S., this one, which seeks to modify or terminate grants and contracts, including those to educational institutions, will certainly do so. It's so sad that those who have benefited from the system now seek to destroy it.

Intramural scientists at NIH are under attack and a technical mechanism of their employment means they may be more easily fired. This is not good. NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: Person dies of measles in West Texas, Lubbock’s health department says, the first death from an outbreak that has infected at least 124 people in the state. nbcnews.to/4hRa9Ld

"Under the Trump administration, the system that boosted the United States to scientific dominance is being recklessly dismantled." chroni.cl/4kdFV6G

I miss Pete.

We’re partnering w/ a number of groups participating in an #economicblackout THIS Friday, 2/28. Do not spend, if possible. No Starbucks on your way to work. No drinks w/ the coworkers after work. No dining out. No Walmart run. No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit. Hurt their wallets!

*Tenured full Professorship in Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology* at the University Of Cologne, Germany It's an opportunity to rebuild the place that used to be home to luminaries including Benno Müller-Hill, Max Delbruck, Campos-Ortega, Diethard Tautz Maria Leptin, Thomas Langer

Pretty happy with the hen crosses last year to get these colors! #chickens

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

Check out our latest paper in Science Advances, in which we built a constriction-based microfluidic device to measure the deformability of oocytes to assess their mechanical properties with minimal impact. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let me know if you think this calculation is accurate. If Texas receives $2.5B from NIH, NSF, USDA, and DOE annually and the ave IDC goes from 50% to 15%, they lose ~$507 million/yr. So, if $1 in R&D research funding generates $2 dollars, that’s about a $1B hit to the Texas economy. 🧪

View from Canada: the IDC rate for research intensive unis is about 20%, and it's killing us. International student fees subsidize research, our deferred maintenance burden is out of control and buildings are substandard (some are dangerous), support for common equipment / cores is pratically nil.

Cool paper using LLM to discover a protein sequence code for subcellular localization 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In a state that makes vaccine exemptions easy to obtain, Gaines County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Texas - far below the vaccination rate needed to prevent outbreaks. 17.6% of kindergartners in the County have a vaccine exemption on file, as well as nearly 14% of 7th graders.