Have you ever wondered if fish yawn? (and if they do, what that tells us about yawning?) The first preprint from the lab and a serendipitous observation ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

NINDS is signed on to the K01 NOFO for Sept/Oct receipt dates. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

@fluketc.bsky.social and @dudman.bsky.social have hit it out the park again. In my (perhaps biased) opinion this - along with their previous papers - is field-defining work. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The MOSAIC swiss army knife microscope (its previous name) has been published in @natmethods.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Miss posting a #FluorescenceFriday, so here it goes one with my favorite neuronal markers: SMI32 🟡 and NeuN 🔵🧠 🔬 Location: Prefrontal cortex - adult brain, rhesus macaque

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Actin disassembly triggers CNS myelin compaction and wrapping https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.722739v1

Highlighting researchers working to better understand how the brain recovers after stroke. In the @dgsomucla.bsky.social Carmichael lab, trainee Elle Rathbun studies how neural circuits adapt after injury informing future therapies & rehab strategies. #Neuroscience #BrainHealth #StrokeAwarenessMonth

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

Excited to work on these exciting and timely collaborative projects! So grateful to @kavlifoundation.org and @rescorp.org for funding support 🙏

Long-term editing of brain circuits with engineered electrical synapses! I still remember years ago when Kafui Dzirasa from @dukeuni.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social called me beaming with excitement about this new technology. Here it is today in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41... .

!“Cancer progress”! 🛟🧪

Inspired by a colleague's story last year on feel-good science stories of 2025, I had some fun collecting even more positive science stories for @nature.com 🧪🧬🦎🌴

James Vines, Jason King @jasonkinglab.bsky.social and colleagues find that PIKfyve facilitates phagocyte fusion with macropinosomes during maturation. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Microtubules=eye of Mordor???

I can’t stop watching this.

Ever notice how some moments feel heavier than they should? It may be because your brain is connecting them to older memories. New research from Andre F. de Sousa at @dgsomucla.bsky.social suggests fear grows when experiences get linked together over time: t.co/59xHHyJ8AT

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Check out that clathrin! 🤩

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

oooh #cytoskeleton! New paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social using cryo-expansion microscopy (cryo-ExM) to visualize the 3D architecture of human T cell synapses and cytotoxic organelles. 😍https://lnkd.in/eU9u8vN

New work from @acovarrubias.bsky.social at @dgsomucla.bsky.social highlights how “zombie” immune cells in the liver build up w/ age & drive chronic inflammation. Powerful example of training, discovery & collaboration advancing our understanding of aging. nature.com/articles/s43587-026-01101-6

For #FluorescenceFriday, an E10 embryo showing Pax2 localization. #DevelopmentalBiology

I'll be recruiting grad students and postdocs, so please reach out if interested! More details here: sites.google.com/view/marcust... @uclaneurotheme.bsky.social @dgsomucla.bsky.social

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

There is color out there on the moon. Check out a simple linear stretch of the OG image showing the different composition of the lunar surface, particularly in the maria. Holy smokes this is exciting.

Welcome to UCLA!!! 🔬✨

So breathtaking...

🚨📜Our new paper out in @AdvSciNews: ER shape matters for neuronal health - disrupting ER continuity halts neuro-firing as it slows Ca2+ store refill, explaining selective neuronal vulnerability to ER problems in neurodegeneration 🧠 a thread to follow advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

All data in this work are beautiful – look at this 3-day timelapse of in vivo myelination along a zebrafish axon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm so pleased to see this work on neural crest development out in Nature today! This was a truly fantastic collaboration with @gleesonlab.bsky.social, Keng loi (Harry) Vong and @xiaoxuyang.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone involved 👏 🧪🐣 #devbio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a confocal 🔬 series of a developing 🐭 spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and cellular membrane stains colored in 🌈 Microscopy by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪

#neuroscience #trainees One month left to nominate an outstanding mentor for the NINDS Landis Award! Nomination form here: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

If you can't make the UCLA Brain Health Summit in person, the meeting will be live-streamed on Youtube here: teams.semel.ucla.edu/longevity/ev... (click on the hyperlink in the top right corner of the program).

Extremely timely science led by the Hong Lab @UCLA!

Dear Devoted Users of SeqSeek, I’m sorry, but NIH has decided that we can no longer maintain the website. All of the data is still available at the links provided, and the new platform even has added functionality. Happy gene expression hunting! seqseek.ninds.nih.gov

Using vDISCO tissue clearing, and a new ultrabright chemical labeling strategy. This work introduces LINCS for rapid, scalable 3D connectivity mapping from single neurons to whole brains, advances for high-throughput circuit mapping. Great work by Rui Lin lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Been under the weather fro a few days. It is wonderful to be able to see hummingbirds like this Anna's Hummingbird just by going out in my yard in #DavisCA. #birds

Timeline Cleanse 🐙

Check out the newest work from our, from Fabricio Nicola @fabricionicola.bsky.social on mouse jumping and spinal cell types. Excellent collab with @vulcnethologist.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is so exciting!! congratulations @droligo.bsky.social 🎉🎉

Happy Fluorescence Friday :-)

New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.

As Fran was nice enough to highlight this, I thought I'd put up a brief thread. 3 in 10 proteins that our cells make are either embedded in membranes (ion channels, adhesion molecules, etc.) or secreted (insulin, antibodies). They move through the secretory pathway. 1/

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

your second moment of calm

We are hiring new faculty!! Come join our amazing community in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine! The deadline for applications is 2/21, but applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta...