A red sky on Bluesky

Two Graeme Davis UCSF alums publishing in @plosbiology.org in consecutive weeks. Congratulations on this fantastic work, Kira!! 🎉

This is wild – an AI-generated, podcast-style bit about our recent @plosbiology.org paper produced by The Sanz Science Experience. I listened. The clip was conversational, down-to-earth, and accurate. It was easy for me to understand, but the paper is from my lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f--T...

We have an uncorrected proof published for Bhagaban Mallik's study on Mitochondrial Complex I and how it regulates synapse function. You can find it in @plosbiology.org. I am so proud! H/T collaborators: Drs. Sajad Bhat and Xinnan Wang @xinnanwanglab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We have proofs! And you know what that means. Assertive editing. A copy editor has flagged my name on an author line and wants me to spell out Carl Andrew Frank as my name instead of C. Andrew Frank. I am irrationally irritated by this 😆

I think that societal advancement requires nonviolence.

New email signature. I dropped the Associate. Now maybe I can drop the some of the pounds I gained as an Associate Professor😆

Today I learned that you should not wash chicken.

Grant reviewers are triaging Pope Francis’s tomb over font and kerning choices. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

Drosophila neuroscience friends! Please help us to identify deserving Ph.D. students or recent Ph.D. graduates for the Elkins Memorial Lecture competition (CSHL, October 2025). Details below – send nominations by email to Troy Littleton ([email protected]).

Michelle Obama says she did not attend Donald Trump's second inauguration because she did not have anything to wear. Mad respect. www.cbsnews.com/news/michell...

Fenton 2011-2025 Frank family member 2015-2025 Who rescued whom? 💕 🐾

Standing up for Science in Iowa City

Arial 11. Full justify with auto-hyphenation. Figure legends: Arial 9. And brief because nobody wants to read them. White space, yes. Walls of text, no. Four figures because you ran out of time? No. 20 figures because you want to impress with a mountain of data? Also, no.

I wanted to share good news (which in normal times would be neutral). One of my lab's NIH grants was renewed for year 2 (March 1). That means that funding is not completely frozen. And it means there are people in Bethesda who believe in the mission of the NIH and research. And I thank them.

If they cancel study section, can I get another dog? 🐕

Hey Elon fans — your hero and his CEO are now trivializing the Holocaust with puns. Some were curious or unsure about “the context” of his salute. Well…amidst all that talk he is adding his own context.

Don’t dress like a doofus, friends! 🥶

I am so proud of Dr. Bhagaban Mallik and the years of work he compiled to formulate this story. It has taken our group into new directions, and what more could you want out of science? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Folks who celebrated a CEO’s murder — and who now seem to be lionizing the killer as a combo hero/sex symbol — have bizarre moral compasses. You can be dismayed by insurance practices AND oppose vigilante violence. Oh, that anti-corporate hero? Undone by his visits to Starbucks and McDonald’s.

Score Update: NYJ 26 - 32 MIA Final That's Scorigami!! It's the 1089th unique final score in NFL history.

Never confuse good results with good decisions. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

We should all be fine with President Joe Biden's blanket pardon of Hunter Biden. After all, this is what the voters said they wanted in 2020, and a POTUS's pardon power is absolute. That's how this works, right? I, for one, am glad that we can all play by the same rules.

Somewhere in Iowa City, the Cornhusker 🌽 Marching Band is practicing, and the sound echoes to my neighborhood. I would recognize Hail Varsity anywhere 🎶 🎺

Sometimes, my laughter alone is not enough.

Gaetz withdrew from AG consideration. Good. But you will still hear from him. He won his re-election to Congress on November 5. I imagine that in January, he will just reclaim the seat that he resigned from this month (in order to stop his embarrassing ethics report).

Okay, I am trying the SkyBridge App extension. There is a Follow All button, which is nice. Mine found about 20% of the users I followed on Twitter.

We learned in college chemistry that enantiomers are non-superposable isomers, and therefore completely different molecules. #chesspunks

1:53.38. Margalit anchored a freestyle split of 25.01 — I think this result will qualify their relay for state! 🏊🏻‍♀️

Your Context is not Welcome Forty small babies... But you have a new insight? No thanks. You do not. 🇮🇱

58.69 in the 100. Another PR!

Happy 18th birthday, Margalit! And with a 50-yard PR of 26.64!! 💕 🏊🏻‍♀️

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This is my birthday present 💝

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss deserve justice ⚖️

I listened to former Sens. Joe Lieberman (No Labels - Connecticut) and Doug Jones (D - Alabama) debate the idea of a No Labels 2024 candidacy. Jones destroyed Lieberman. It reinforced this: people who elevate themselves simply because they self identify as centrists…have nothing to offer.