This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

1st single-cell #SpatialTranscriptomics map of human coronary #Atherosclerosis published in peer-reviewed format🤠 CosMx 1k + GeoMx @brukerspatial Immune cell-focused analysis Use CosMx data to deconvolve GeoMx cell composition...😆 #EmboMolMed 2025 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today. Available as book, on kindle and as audio. I would be really grateful for reposts. www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So... www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

“A.L.S. is such an isolating disease, constantly stripping away pieces of you that make you you,” Ms. Brous said. “You’re always having to ask someone else to be your arms and legs and your driver, and it’s easier to say, ‘It’s easier if I stay home.’ But that isolation will eat you alive.”

How does foxg1 impact pineal gland development? What are the implications for FOXG1 syndrome? Lewis Hill, masters student, investigates this in #zebrafish. His image shows in-situ HCR + immuno in foxg1,Gal4;UAS,GFP zebrafish at 24hpf revealing foxg1 mRNA/protein with pineal markers aanat2 & exorh.

Talking about impostor syndrome..... I'll be a teacher in the EMBO "Hack your Microscope" together with some of the very best researchers in the field. 5.5 days of hacking and microscope/fluidics shenanigans in Portugal. You can apply here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... #EMBOmicroscope

Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

With much gratitude to everyone who supported the wonderful #STAMPS summer course at the MBL, I share that STAMPS will not be offered in 2026. 💔😿

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

(bonus) thanks to the amazing @droligo.bsky.social and @amygleichman.bsky.social the social aspects of glial biology will be strongly represented. (thanks also to @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social & Avantor for supporting our community!)

@sfn.org #SfN25 #SanDiego starts this Saturday. The lab is going to be there in full force - see our presentations below. Represented this year by @borderbiologist.bsky.social, Nick Kathman, @mrodea.bsky.social, @melcooperphd.bsky.social, @pryprk.bsky.social, @kerrylimberg.bsky.social. (1/2)

Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

Looking forward to presenting our work on oligodendrocyte dysfunction in a rare neurodegenerative movement disorder X-linked Dystonia Parkinsonism. Come say hi if you're around on Tuesday, Nov 18 between 1-5 pm! @sfn.org #SfN2025 #SfN25

We're very excited to welcome Dr. @sumrubayin.bsky.social from the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉 Her lab studies the mouse #cerebellum to better understand the regulation of #neural stem cell behavior. 🧠

🌍Open call: Junior Group Leader positions! Join a world-class biomedical research institute at the heart of the Vienna BioCenter, where curiosity drives discovery. Lead your own lab, pursue bold ideas, and shape the future of science at the IMP: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Modelling human adult V-SVZ niche assembly and ependymal cell generation in brain organoids | EMBO reports www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Discover CellSNVReg: a vast resource of SNVs affecting gene regulation in single-cell and spatial omics. Explore at CellSNVReg online! PMID:41171131, Nucleic Acids Res 2025, @NAR_Open https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1076 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

📣 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/...

One of my science heroes, Joan Brugge, talks about how science funding cuts are slowing their work on breast cancer prevention--share this widely www.facebook.com/60minutes/vi...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort. Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Congratulations to @ksusztak.bsky.social (@pennmedicine.bsky.social/ @penngenetics.bsky.social/ @chopresearch.bsky.social) on her election to the National Academy of Medicine! Learn more about Dr. Susztak & her research here➡️ www.med.upenn.edu/susztaklab/ #PSOMatNAM @nam.edu

Super-proud of my amazing wife @ksusztak.bsky.social, a real trailblazer scientist, a newly-elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and the recipient of the Homer W Smith award from the American Society of Nephrology. It was great celebrating with you in Houston at #KidneyWk.

Not to take away from the work I've put in, but paths are complicated, and people who don't have role models to focus the road ahead face a much larger set of barriers than those who have that support. We need to be that support for those in our wake. 3/3

I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA! In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.

Sometimes people comment that they’ve never called a member of Congress and they are nervous about it. I completely understand. My suggestion is to write down your thoughts first. Then call and give them your name and zipcode, and immediately begin reading your statement all the way through.

I don't think Americans w/ employer-subsidized health insurance realize how much the ratfuckery with the ACA & the economy is affecting them, too. My health insurance costs are rising by 35% in 2026, b/c of combination of rising premiums (16%) & employer shifting greater share of cost to employees.

What's happening in Sudan is horrific and deserves more of our attention.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Many of Begley's articles were suffused with ethical fury and a cry for… fairness. Her writing on sickle disease changed how I think about medical education. Her obituary of Watson is a masterpiece.

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵 From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1

Find a food bank near you if you're in need. If you're not in need and can donate that would be amazing. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

Genetic Drivers for Cerebrovascular and Alzheimer’s Diseases are Distinct www.alzforum.org/news/researc... #Alzheimers #dementia #genetics #epigenomics #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

Just received my BrainedGlass action potential (www.brainedglass.com) and it's even better than I hoped!! Science==art! Thanks so much @laurenatlas.bsky.social!

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

Proud to receive this grant and develop it at IGS! www.medschool.umaryland.edu/news/2025/ni...

I really love this: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before #WomenInStem www.science.org/content/arti...

The Erosion of Harm Reduction | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....