1973 Volvo 145 - from the year I was born. My mom had another orange one a number of years later. I actually learned to drive in a 1977 Honda Accord...not a hot hatch, but absolutely a hatchback. I inherited this one - drove it until head gasket demise. Grateful to drive the hills in San Francisco.

We are #hiring 2 PhD students at the University of Oslo! 🇳🇴 1️⃣ Systems Neuro: Spatial memory & addiction 2️⃣ Neuro/Cancer: Glioblastoma invasion. Details: vervaeke-lab.org/Hiring Please RT! 🔄 @UiO_LifeSci #Neuroscience #PhD #SystemsNeuro #Glioblastoma

I learned to drive in a red 1980 Ford Thunderbird, very similar to this one 👇

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Proud of this review on centering models and next gen techs to address and prevent acquired resistance in cancer. Cements the work that our working group within @nciartnet.org has done over the last couple years, glad it resonated with people

Making a faculty transition painful is one thing. Making it painful for trainees and lab staff is something else entirely. It is failure. It is not procedural. It is not an accident. It's a choice. You all can do better.

One of many, many favorite moments from the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace yesterday afternoon in DC.

Can we make brains “smarter”? By boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits, we improved memory in flies and mice. Thrilled to see this work out - congrats to @amrapalianjali.bsky.social for spectacular work, and to all lab members for invaluable contributions!

🧠🔋Boosting brain power and memory by increasing mitochondrial calcium ⚡🧪🔬 This was a fun collaboration with Jaime (@jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social) and Anjali (@amrapalianjali.bsky.social). Thank you to Ruolin and Riya (@riyaneuro.bsky.social) in our lab @mpfneuro.bsky.social for driving this project.

post a tree you photographed

post a tree you photographed (cheetah cubs for scale)

Happy to share this new, very intentional chapter. I have left UCLA after 14 years to join the University of Colorado Anschutz as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurosurgery and the inaugural Marsico Chair in Excellence in Functional Precision Medicine/n news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/cu-ansc...

Why do some scientists say "Bluesky is dead. I have no engagement. I have more engagement on X"? My TL is full of cool science, queer art, weird history facts, politics and whimsy. You're just not doing it right, man. Plus the fascism

The #ICAR2026 webpage is now live and registration is open (icar2026.sg). #arabidopsis #plantscience #conference

🍀🔬 Excited to see my friend Vivek's manuscript in preprint! N-terminal phosphorylation inhibits Arabidopsis katanin and affects vegetative and reproductive development in opposite ways @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share that I joined the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris @ipnp.bsky.social as a group leader! Thank you to FRM and BBRF for the support! My team will study how dedicated neural circuits decode seasonal changes, and drive adaptive behaviors. 🧠 ☀️ ❄️

I am looking for examples of a 2-3 hour lab activity for a course that would allow college students to get some experience connected to environmental DNA studies (e.g., e-DNA, rRNA/ITS PCR, metagenomics, etc). Ideally this would have some DNA extraction and some follow up processing / analysis.

Honestly, I've never understood why the Bay does not have more ferries for transportation, not to mention using the shore which has largely been industrial for housing. Affordable housing using barges is something that @benhuh.bsky.social and I talked about years ago.

New paper out : "Synchronization of behavioral and cardiac dynamics in larval zebrafish" Here, we report a pretty striking relationship between behavioral state and heart rate in larval zebrafish, and then explore the mechanisms that lead to this coupling bit.ly/4ciYt3R

I'm hiring 2 software engineers to help build the new software team at iota biosciences! We're developing BCI medical devices to help people with paralysis regain movement. This is early, foundational work across real-time, embedded, ML, cloud, & clinical apps. (1/3) jobs.ashbyhq.com/iota-bio

VERY excited that @harmitmalik.bsky.social will be giving the UNC Biology seminar tomorrow, and is featured in one of Bob Goldstein's gig posters. I missed him the last time he cams through (I was away giving a talk) and thus have never heard him speak

Rutgers Health put together a gorgeous new research video, with lots of shots from our lab throughout. They even lit our holography rig in wildly impractical but very snazzy colors! vimeo.com/1158839664?f... @rutgersupress.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social

No, but is is literally a sin to ignore the hungry, those without clothes, those in prison or the stranger among us. Read the Gospels and reflect on them

13yo: Are they doing a sad version of the national anthem because they are sad about the state of the country? Me: No. But we can choose to remember it that way.

I graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1991. That year, Green Day played a lunch time show in the quad on our campus. Yup, I'm that Gen X dude who happens to have first heard these tracks live when I was 18 years old...on my high school campus 35 years ago, when they were the same age. #greenday

We are hiring a lab manager, for our research group, the Synthetic Neurobiology group (aka Boyden Lab) at MIT/HHMI (on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA)! Please apply if you're qualified and interested, and spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

New preprint out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... One of the most salient lessons I learned in all my adventures with screening and protein engineering is the importance of context. The context in which you test a gene or protein determines what function it has.

What if we could locate, sequence, and identify every protein in a cell? This would unlock a transformative way to study biology and disease. That question shaped my PhD, and I’m excited to share our new preprint on the Principles of In Situ Protein Sequencing, now live on bioRxiv.

For Sunday lunch, I riffed on a version of the ever-so-cozy katsudon, inspired by the version from Kenji López-Alt from his book The Wok and shown in this video. I made pork katsu last night...thoroughly enjoyed it, but was already dreaming of today's katsudon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiPz...

A new preprint introduces aDISCO, a DISCO-based clearing approach that makes whole archival FFPE human tissues transparent and antibody-compatible, enabling true 3D light-sheet histology across brain & multiple organs at cellular resolution. Aguzzi & Helmchen teams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

already blocked Scortt Horton, encourage you to do the same

Really honored, floored honestly, to receive the faculty mentorship award, which is nominated and voted on by the grad students, today at our annual neuroscience graduate program retreat. I feel a little sheepish posting about it but it really means a lot to me!

Any time someone or some organization claims to have the one truth or the one path to health, righteousness, wealth, safety, security, etc… They are conning you. Any time someone claims to be the smartest, or the best, or the most capable… They are conning you. There is a whole universe out there.

My campaign faces its first test: qualifying for the ballot. From my work on gerrymandering, I know that New Jersey politicians play dirty. To beat their games, I need at least 1,000 signatures from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in the 12th District. To help, sign up at SamForNJ.org - or DM me!

My campaign faces its first test: qualifying for the ballot. From my work on gerrymandering, I know that New Jersey politicians play rough. To beat their games, I need at least 1,000 signatures from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in the 12th District. To help, sign up at SamForNJ.org - or DM me!

In spatial omic, using standard 2D sections undersamples 3D tumors and tissues, always. We asked how many slides or cores of a TMA are needed to capture the variations in tissue composition in a single 3D tumor? A lot! Download here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

3. Sleep optimization. This actually has measurable immunologic effects. Studies show sleep deprivation reduces antibody responses to vaccines, while adequate sleep improves immune response and reduces symptom burden.

Can't believe I've been doing this for 12months! For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc February 2026 edition #Anniversary

Tip for those finding Bluesky sparse or empty: Follow more people until your feed feels right. You can fix this. There are a ton of active accounts across a lot of areas. Scientists are waaaaayy more active here than on X, for example. Just hit that follow button.

It’s all about tuning your “radio antenna”.

Absolutely not cringe Cris! Go ahead & inject some fun into it if that's your jam (like when giving a talk) but articles with real solid story telling posts get a lot more traction, both here and engagement with the article. Can't wait to see what's coming out of the Muñoz Pinedo group these days!

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

Someone told me earlier today that doing a tweetorial (or bluetorial) to highlight one’s scientific articles is “cringe”. Is it? I wanted to highlight our last article like this 🙁

The beauty of the kidney arterial tree for this #FluorescenceFriday. Evans Blue dye labels the vasculature. Image courtesy of postdoc Sarah McLarnon.

Do you: 1) Live near/in Buffalo? 2) Like to organize stuff? 3) Hate what the government is doing to science? If you answered yes, help me organize the Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! I need reps from UB, Buff State, Canisius, D’Youville to spread the word. I need general support. DM me!

#fluorescencefriday distribution of microglia in the whole brain

Read this whole 🧵from @merz.bsky.social for that rarest of things: a refresher in textbook cell biology + a historical perspective on the research that yielded that textbook knowledge + state-of-the-art new data that refines the picture. Great science 😊👏👏👇