Incredible

My kiddo felted the best Mother’s Day gift ever 🥰

5th percentile R01 score feelz right now 🎉🥲

Gen Xers tonight on Bsky

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

them: bro why aren't you posting on linkedin me:

"I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange."

Fig. 1 Gen Z selfie ☺️ Fig. 2 Gen X attempt at Gen Z selfie 😭 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026 🇵🇷

Macrophages and neurons respond to excitotoxic injury in a dynamic way! Want to see how? Go see poster T207 this afternoon to find out #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026

Cisplatin at sub-lethal doses—hair cells survive, but at what cost? 🤔 Turns out, it triggers permanent changes in mitochondrial morphology and dynamics. Stop by Elayna’s poster SU146 and scan the QR codes to watch mitochondrial dynamics shift in real-time - the movies are 🤯 #ARO2026 #AROMWM2026

"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers." This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...

More about heightened burden of chronic stress and its associations with inflammation, which may drive the elevated mortality risk among Black Americans, compared to white counterparts. source.washu.edu/2026/01/raci... #PsychSky #NeuroSky #MedSky 🩺 From lab of @ryanbogdan.bsky.social

A beloved STL community institution is rebuilding, which makes me feel happy & hopeful ❤️🎶 #SupportLoveofcrstl www.radiostlouis.org

A super interesting historical review in Genetics, chosen completely at random: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Celebrating another year of amazing research with this great team 🎄 ❄️

Your auditory nerves are super resilient! They survive damaging noise exposures and repair synaptic connections (until they don’t) 💥 Does calcium signaling play a role in their survival and repair? Check out Poster 120.02 (Board K4) today and find out more! 🐟 1-5 pm #SfN2025

Your brain sends inhibitory signals to your ears to optimize sound detection and protect against loud sounds 👂💥 What happens to sensory cells and behavior when one of the receptors for that signal is absent? Check out Poster 120.01 (Board K3) to find out 🐟 1-5 pm #Sfn2025

sunny autumn #caturday

Copy/paste to a doc before logging back in saved my 🍑 during my last round of reviews Also saved those docs as back ups in case something glitches before study section (hopefully) reschedules 😬

Best fishes this Halloween 👻

Nobody: Me: here's my playlist for the CID research group's spooky social tomorrow 🎃👻 open.spotify.com/playlist/7vQ...

tfw you see exciting preliminary data on a Friday

The Auditory System Gordon Research Conference preliminary program is now online! www.grc.org/auditory-sys... Mark your calendars, and bring your trainees & fresh data - it's gonna be 🔥

Sign of how stressed med school departments are: to figure out when and where I'm giving an invited seminar in another department tomorrow, I had to hunt down the talk announcement 👀

The @hollywoodtheatre.org in Portland is screening Deafula this weekend, a ground-breaking feature film in ASL (which was also shot in Portland). There are screenings this Sat & Sun: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/deafula/ #a11y #accessibility #ASL #Portland #PDX #Halloween

Seeing some upsetting pics of downtown Chicago this evening 🙁 I was just there yesterday after college visits with my kiddo—crowds of people enjoying the beautiful weather in Millennium Park during the day and vibing on the waterfront at night ✨

my hometown 💚

Looks like the solicitation finally posted! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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This one hits—this one hits real hard 😔

Also Danionella! Be sure to also check out the Supplementary Material 😍

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

Very sad news for the auditory research community - my condolences to his trainees, colleagues, and friends

current mood

I would say happy belated, but every day is caturday 😺

Godspeed, Tom Lehrer 🕊️

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So long, and thanks for all the fish 🐟 (and cheese 🧀) #IZFC2025

Permanent hearing loss and tinnitus are frequent side effects of cisplatin chemotherapy 👂 Strategies to prevent hearing loss focus on protecting sensory hair cells from cisplatin induced death. ☠️ But are surviving hair cells really ok? Spoiler- no, they’re not! 🤕 Come see Poster #55 #IZFC2025

Ever wonder why lateral line neuromasts without mechanotransduction have fewer hair cells? 🧐 Curious about how larval fish swim in a tiny infinity pool without a functional lateral line? 🌊 Come to poster 36 and find out! #IZFC2025

Want to learn about the development of the zebrafish lateral line ganglia & see some spectacularly beautiful images? Come to Poster #55 now! #IZFC2025