Paintbrush drainage creek.

Mount Moran.

Leigh Lake, Tetons.

Paintbrush Canyon.

Paintbrush Canyon, Tetons.

String Lake, Tetons.

Lupine Meadows at dusk. Tetons.

My favorite place in the world to eat a bagel. Wilson, WY.

Also Jackson.

Jackson too.

Jackson, WY

Backside of Snow King. Jackson, WY.

Only single cell sequencing of the all these post docs will reveal why

Happy Jack trailhead, Laramie WY.

We in Minnesota have not shrugged and moved on. And we in Minneapolis are still reeling from the school shooting at Annunciation, which I assume is already long gone from the news cycle. America.

"We added the requested experiments and thank the reviewers for their helpful suggestions"

Among other things, makes a fantastic case for fundamental research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...

JUST MY ANNUAL RANT TO NOT PUBLISH IN OR DO ANY WORK FOR FOR-PROFIT SCIENCE PUBLISHERS! THESE JOURNALS ARE OVERRATED AND A RIP OFF THAT WASTE VALUABLE AMERICAN TAX $$$! SOME SCIENTISTS MISTAKENLY THINK THEY NEED TO DO THIS FOR THEIR CAREERS! THEY DON’T! LOTS OF TREMENDOUS NON-PROFIT JOURNALS!

One of the unexpected pleasures of raising children comes not only from watching them grow up and become their full adult selves but also watching their close friends do the same. It’s fascinating and gratifying, but also a much needed source of hope for the future.

Damn.

This one pretty much nails life at the moment. Atrocities Keep Getting In Frame Of D.C. Tourist’s Shot — theonion.com/atrocities-k...

💯this. The window for stopping the total destruction of US science is short - ask a scientist in Hungary. This is a time for bravery, resolve and action, not for putting your head down and “focusing on the science”. We need all hands on deck.

Insisting on expertise over ideology is not “politicizing” science. The ideologues installing scientific and governmental policy that is contradicted by evidence and data are. By emphasizing ideology over expertise, THEY have made arguing for expertise and evidence-based decision making partisan.

Pretty much no one in any position of authority comes out looking good. Best line was about one of the statisticians who was an (ignored) whistle blower. "Baggerly, usually mild-mannered, cursed out loud. “You’ve got to be kidding me!” he said. Apparently that’s how statisticians swear.

“Bespoke” appears to be the trendy science adjective these days.

California poppies with chard leaf.

Parkway xeroscape

From Senator @murray.senate.gov: the Senate's proposed NIH budget would reject 40% cuts, increase funding by $400M. "We're not going to give up the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's or rare diseases." Message to scientists: "we support you. We need you to stay here & keep this research going."

New journal: reLife Crappy findings and what you would do differently if you were to do it again.

Hell yeah, keep the pressure on. If you live in one of these states, call your Senators, thank them, and remind them that there are related issues where their states and the nation needs their support and willingness to stand up.

It’s the end of an era! 🙁 Announcing the Final Release of WormBase blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...

Among other concerns, why would you given anyone 5 years worth of funding at once instead of waiting to see what they do with the first year, and the one after that…?

I’m starting a new margarine brand called: I Can’t Believe It’s Not I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not Butter. It will be made from 100% recycled plastics. Looking for investors.

Science finally retracts the Arsenic life paper www.science.org/content/arti...

Same op-ed, different paper. Special thanks to Brian Martin at the Wyoming Tribune Eagle (wyomingnews.com), John Wolfson at wyofile.com, and the 1st Amendment of United States Constitution! 🇺🇸

The article refers to NIH institute council members, not study sections. 😑 I would have thought this type of thing impossible a year ago. I was naive.

These should be way more popular.

Pole Creek Trail.

Thanks to @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and the McClintock Letters Initiative who motivated me to submit this.

Starting Fall2025 there will be a new virtual seminar series to highlight work on #aECM across different organisms. 🪱🪰🐟🐁👳‍♀️🌱🦠 If you are interested, sign up here: 👉https://forms.gle/Y6UjbnXPH1pDHAE97

Sometimes you just need to chill out. open.spotify.com/track/0qLJdy...

What the world needs most right now is greater dissemination of easy hacks to make my skin look younger that my dermatologist doesn’t want me to know about.

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators. Write to them if you are in PA -McCormick WV - Moore Capito ME - Collins AL - Britt LA - Cassidy

Good article. An additional point is that smaller insitutions produce many well-trained graduates who move on to bigger (more elite) institutions for further training. It's a useful pipeline. Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity | Science | AAAS

Please check your emails and spread the word! #aECMclub @nehaghosh.bsky.social @cmhammell.bsky.social @cswormlab.bsky.social @mucusman.bsky.social @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social @seyeonchung.bsky.social @jovinelab.org @ondinecleaver.bsky.social

View from Schoolhouse rock.

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

While our whole field has been experiencing undeserved turmoil, a few of us have been fortunate enough to receive positive news on funding. This link describes positions that are now open in the Fay Lab. Perhaps some who’ve been displaced can find a home with us. 1/2 drive.google.com/file/d/1XuDO...

I’ve hiked more interesting and scenic trails than what we have close to home. But for accessibility and lack of crowds, these are pretty hard to beat.