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

Good lab news! Very proud of resident postdoc Prith Roychowdhury, who won a Michael Paparella Resident Research Award for his presentation at the WashU Med ENT 2025 Ogura Lectureship and Resident Research Day 😄🎉 His research uses zebrafish to model excitotoxic injury of auditory nerves 🐟👂

Say cool, STL peeps 🥵🧵

Public service announcement with useful link 💙🧡💜💚

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Fish have ears 🐟👂

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yep 👇

Gratutude to the peeps with the fortitude to watch and summarize the hearing today 😑

stay awesome, @cpsc.gov

I always wanted both scientists and non-scientists to better understand how science policy/funding works, but, Boy Howdy, not like this.

Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now theonion.com/fish-at...

Sharing some good lab news! Very proud of WashU ENT resident postdoc Prith Roychowdhury, whose project in my lab just received a grant from the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Foundation 🎉😆👂🐟

in these times of stress & uncertainty, we need to find cheer & comfort where we can ✨ today, mine is a martini with a twist made with Mr. Pickles🍸