Good morning and happy Friday, from our new spirit animal!

Unfortunately not a serious city

Neighborism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I have to say that I've enjoyed seeing people walking, playing, chatting right in the middle of snowy streets; a bit of levity & togetherness, for once not interrupted by an angry, unending, unyielding stream of cars slicing through our otherwise quiet neighborhoods

I hate this sport

I saw the post from Pretti's local bike shop and decided to support them by buying some merch. It appears many in the cycling community had the same idea.

Watching an Arsenal match from my home for the first time in... well, maybe ever? COYG

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here. I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.

Just a reminder that Border Patrol was created in 1924 when the Klan was at the height of its political influence.

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

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Happy to share the latest from our lab published @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, where we delineated the synaptic maturation trajectory for vCA1 and iCA1 projections to mPFC, and pathway-specific effects of vCA1- and iCA1-mPFC juvenile inhibition on cognitive flexibility www.cell.com/cell-reports...

If you're ever wondering what's going on in my never-quiet brain, a lot of the time it's this

ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though

Dreamy skies this morning at the @univofmaryland.bsky.social, following another sensational sunrise

Check out the map of Lime trips utilizing the 28th Street separated bike lane. A slightly different reality than opponents' contention it only serves Remington.

In case this is useful to anyone, my F32's status just changed to "Competitive - Not Discussed", a few days after it was originally updated to simply "Not Discussed". I wasn't sure if this emergency 1/3 discussed thing applied to fellowships too, & wouldn't have thought it might appear days later

Cracking up at this bike parking situation. 10/10 no notes

Really love this for Martinelli

29th %ile to ND on resubmission happy Friday

It truly is incredible to hear the mayor of a major city centering the safety, convenience, and even enjoyment of bicyclists like this. I love the way he talked about the descent off the bridge.

I’ve seen Béla Fleck & The Flecktones @ Merlefest a ton. They are superb every time. For this reason, I’m happy 2 report he is canceling his Kennedy Center show. Fleck will instead be taking his banjo to Baltimore, Glasgow, Prague & all sorts of places in between. Tour: www.belafleck.com/home/#tour

Arsenal fans everywhere checking the score rn

What trips can you replace by walking or biking? Can you order less online, reduce your consumption, reuse what you have? Small changes can have big impacts.

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reposting for your niche Baltimore-adjacent frustration needs

From the Charm City Gooners Board to our fellow Gooners in Baltimore and around the world: Merry Christmas! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! #charmcitygooners #coyg🔴⚪ #myplmorning

If Gabi is injured I'm going to wander out into the woods and live with the woodland creatures.

Especially loved the tall bikes in today's Mayor's Christmas Parade!

Frankly this is bad for my health COYG

A favorite recent image of some busy microglia, lovingly named the Rat King (yellow CD68, pink Iba1, blue DAPI) for my first #FluorescenceFriday

“It wasn't too long ago that such streets as Eutaw place, Park place and Broadway had charming parks... Because the automobile once again seemed to have taken precedence over everything else, and because of the rush to the suburbs, the city was sadly neglected.” 1966

JMU into the CFP you know what I'm back on board with sports after all (even if it comes with a likely walloping in Eugene) go dukes!!!!

I'm not having fun

Always hated sports

Manuscript accepted and a little bit of snow -- my spirits are HIGH today happy Friday ❄️❄️❄️

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

I totally forgot to order a Jamvent calendar. December really snuck up on me here, very rude

What an amazing day for Arsenal and for Eberechi Eze. Incredible for him in any context, but with his history, his journey, it's just really, really special. Also a massive win, and a statement/fuck off win in this title race after the results yesterday Huge day, lots of fun to be had after this!

Greatly looking forward to #SfN2025 to ✨debut✨ the new rat task I've been developing this past year since starting my postdoc. Also, check out my trainees' posters: lab tech Anthony (who's applying to grad school this cycle!) and stellar undergrad Ben. It's their first SfN so please say hi!

Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)! To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.

Big big thanks to all the program officers and scientific review officers coming back online and managing to instill positivity and we-can-do-this attitudes in emails out to applicants & reviewers who might have wondered: What will happen to all of this good work? Answer: let's do this.

Greatly looking forward to #SfN2025 to ✨debut✨ the new rat task I've been developing this past year since starting my postdoc. Also, check out my trainees' posters: lab tech Anthony (who's applying to grad school this cycle!) and stellar undergrad Ben. It's their first SfN so please say hi!

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

If Musk maxes out that contract, a person making $150,000/year -- a really good salary! -- would have to work 585,333 years to match his average annual take-home

I am selfish I am wrong I am right, I swear I'm right I swear I knew it all along

Obviously not the worst thing going on right now, but I am feeling sad about my F32 that was supposed to go to study section today. On the other hand, I got the mythical bike car this morning, for the first time in my >year of daily train commuting. Lifted my spirits a bit. It's really nice.