Microscopy Bat signal! I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n

"Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use of [MED-EL's] Synchrony cochlear implants to children as young as 7 months who have bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss. The implants were previously indicated for 9 months and older." www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/h... #cochlearimplant

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

I'm speechless.

@profanity.accountant i suppose I should be glad this didn’t exist when I was on twitter

I know the US has a long history of not allowing government employees to be extradited and tried for war crimes by international criminal courts, but I believe that needs to end. Now. www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...

BRB - Selling Costco short: www.chowhound.com/2005999/what... @superkash.bsky.social

Saw this 10+ year old article posted elsewhere today, and man....feels more relevant today than in 2014. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Solid C+ effort but mediocre homemade croissants are still pretty damn tasty.

Recognizing that I'm several years behind the curve here, but with Plastics One long gone, what is the go to right now for bipolar stainless steel electrodes, commutators, etc?

Did you call the Code Red on Secretary Hegseth?

ETTD, competitive golf edition:

Update^2: Still still here. #fuck #RaptureWatch2025

Update: Still here. #RaptureWatch2025

Thank you! This is the first for CRISPRa for a neurodevelopmental disorder, as far as I'm aware, but Navneet Matharu (also an author here!) and @nadavahituv.bsky.social used this approach to treat obesity related to Sim1 and and Mc4r: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss. rdcu.be/eGU0W

All I can think of with this article is Trump acting out this GIF: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Is it wrong to wonder what in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping actually happened here??

I have never in my life seen so many agnostics and atheists doing exactly that.

What someone says: “At my job, I use AI for tasks like….” What I hear: “I didn’t want to work so I just used Clippy to…..”

we have a new manuscript out! 🧵Lead by @sarayconley.bsky.social with significant contributions by @sarahsizer.bsky.social @madiganbedard.bsky.social and Sara Faccidomo and Clyde Hodge. We describe a tonic excitatory conductance in the BNST! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

"The shrimp contains Cesium-137" Homer: <blank stare> "That's bad" time.com/7310679/fda-...

2025 me.

Stupid? Sure, but it's still a better idea than increasing coal production. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

I guess she’d aged out. But still seems to fit a certain pattern.

WTAF.

A major NIH grant to study ways to restore hearing was terminated by the Trump administration bc it was awarded through a DEI initiative—to a researcher who qualified bc of his own hearing loss www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/h... @manorlaboratory.bsky.social

I find it absolutely infuriating that this moron is in charge of $$$. That he can get on TV and make outrageously false claims like “NIH funded the gain of function research that caused pandemic” without a hint of pushback???

UNC people know what Friday means..

Dear fellow academics, is there anyone out there pushing ahead fueled by anything besides spite? What would that even look like??

PREPRINT FUN!! Led by our soon-to-be PhinisheD graduate student Reginald Edwards, we looked at the electrophysiological and histological properties of dorsal cochlear nucleus fusiform neurons (principal output neurons) with age, from p15 up to p578 in CBA/CaJ mice (mice with normal hearing). 1/6

I think it’s not a great thing to hear the FDA commissioner describe animal research as “abuse and torture”. www.youtube.com/live/vz1uF42...

Looking to have the most depressing afternoon possible with your family? Spend an afternoon building the house from “Up!!” In addition to the house, you get LEGO figures of: 1) a chronically depressed old man 2) an ignored, needy child 3) an abused dog ON SALE NOW!! www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5JZDKX...

Here’s hoping David Rees still has his red sharpies for season 2 (4? 37?) of “Get your war on”. Most comics are still horrifyingly accurate 24 years later but some details have been changed for freshness.

boy if I had just a fraction of the money they spent to blow up another spaceship. be so cool to be doing something with it other than throwing the money into the fireplace yet again

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

If you are a scientist looking or needing to leave the US and have some experience/interest with NHP electrophysiology, get in touch.

more fuel for @themountaingoats.bsky.social

I will never forgive these motherfuckers for making me defend Harvard and Penn.

Or you can just learn by error like me. It’s an excellent design, but ideal for people who read instruction manuals. #notme

Perfect timing for underrepresented minorities.

HHMI is hiring a science communications manager!! A successful applicant should be able to explain why, at a time when federal support for underrepresented minorities has vanished, HHMI also pulled back all support. Good luck! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

I thought I’d seen it all but 6 equally contributing last authors and 7 equally contributing first authors?

Chicago-born Pope moves to replace communions wafers with Franco mints, communion wine with Malört.

Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what your values are. Broad elimination $$$ for health, the environment, housing for the poor, and education - endless money for defense and homeland security!!! The Sparta-nization of America.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Trump’s ICE is going to pay a company up to $1 million/person to house detainees in a tent city at Ft Bliss? Where’s the Government Efficiency?? www.propublica.org/article/trum...