Poem for a snowy Boston. Winter Psalm by Richard Hoffman. #poetry

A cut onion left covered in the fridge for a few days and the core now wants to be a plant. Living things, I tell you...

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!

Wow, what a goal by Zubimendi!! #Arsenal

Routines, by Sunnylynn Thibodeax @nolapoet.bsky.social in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue of Poetry Magazine. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I ♥ Science Returns to the Harvard Museum of Natural History THIS SATURDAY 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardmuseums.bsky.social @boschildmuseum.bsky.social @museumofscience.bsky.social @harvard.edu

I asked this to the dean of the Harvard FAS at the faculty meeting yesterday. I didn’t expect or receive a straight answer; nonetheless, I wanted to speak it into the archive.

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

Excited to use my @propublica.org bag that just arrived! We need more independent journalism - please consider supporting them!

New preprint from our group (collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social) showing that discriminating odor components within a complex mixture is constrained by neural sensitivity rather than background interference - likely due to sparse representations at the front end.

On a January morning— "I want to lie down with the snow. I want the wild lilies to break their silence." (by Daniel Simko, from THE ARRIVAL)

Snow geometry on the Tozzer anthropology building at Harvard.

How do past sensory experiences prepare us for new ones? Our new paper tackles this long-standing question, revealing a role for activity sequences in the olfactory bulb. Excited to share our work led by @jonvgill.bsky.social with Mursel Karadas & Shy Shoham www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Returning from a hectic trip to India, and wonderful to see the #Arsenal score in #UCL. Whether we win anything or not at season's end (I really hope we do), it's an amazing feeling to be winning so consistently!

Why do we stop smelling odors that linger? In our new @prxlife.bsky.social paper with @pfrancois.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social, and Massimo Vergassola, we develop a manifold learning theory of this olfactory habituation process in fluctuating environments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1103/q62z... 🧵🔽

January Poem, by Suzanne Matson @suzannematson.bsky.social in the Jan/Feb2026 issue of Poetry magazine. #poetry

My warning about Trump was in a book review that no one much read, but which stands up well, I think www.theguardian.com/books/2016/j...

A new paper from my lab. I will have a full description soon. rdcu.be/eX1Ld

"Jack and Dad," a father and his LEGO-loving son, are making beautiful music together for this troubled world boingboing.net/2026/01/06/j...

OEB is thrilled to announce that Carrie Albertin has officially joined as Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Assistant Curator in Malacology at @mczharvard.bsky.social Please join us in welcoming Professor Albertin!

Terrific thread about Bibha Chowdhuri, an Indian particle physicist and experimental discoverer of mesons! Thank you for this delightful and informative thread, @minouette.bsky.social!

Granit Xhaka still helping #Arsenal even after the utterly undeserverd stick he got from some Gunner fans around the time he left! #Sunderland are a revelation.

There are actually many more things you can point to as examples of recent scientific breakthroughs www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br... than 'curing Alzheimer's in mice', which people have been claiming to have done for decades and has a tenuous connection to what happens in humans.

Extreme views within half a day on Tenerife - a visit to a snow-covered volcano (Mount Teide) mid-day and back for a comfortable sunset at a beach near our hotel. Hope you are all finding a bit of quiet, or at least enjoyable, time.

"News" by Dāshaun Washington (@dashaundub.bsky.social) in the January/February 2026 issue of Poetry Magazine (wish they would get on BlueSky). Simple and heartbreaking. #poetry

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

These drugs were not stumbled upon or borrowed from traditional remedies. They were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab, writes @alexkwan.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

Theon Cross, tuba virtuoso, core Sons of Kemet member, prolific London jazz scene collaborator, playing up a storm on his American live debut: theoncross.bandcamp.com/album/affirm...

Dust of Snow, by Robert Frost The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

In London for a couple of days, staying near the touristy, but rather historic Trafalgar Square. A fitting poem, apparently on display in the (quintessentially London) Underground. #poetry

Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social @ampoetryreview.bsky.social

I am thrilled to share our latest work led by @zurisullivan.bsky.social in collaboration with @moffittlab.bsky.social ! We find that the brain encodes distinct, pathogen-specific sickness states across behavior, physiology, neural activity, and gene expression 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you donate $40 to @propublica.org for Giving Tuesday, you can get this awesome Tips Tote: ‘Someone reading this tote has the next big story. Is it you?’ give.propublica.org/campaign/749...

Sigh, #Arsenal really not looking very good, leave alone a league-winning team.

In the blue, by Robin Walter from her collection Littler Mercy, winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award 2024 (published in April 2025 by @graywolfpress.bsky.social). #poetry

Ich hoffe auf einen Sieg für #Arsenal!

This is a nicely detailed explanation! But when people express frustration with low-D dynamics, I think it is exactly what you say this paper disproves: the notion that variance explained is a proxy for the important parts of neural computation

Izumi Shikibu, late 10th century poet. From the collection "The Ink Dark Moon", translated by Jane Hirschfield with Mariko Aratani - which mostly has love poems, but here are a couple about her dead daughter.

Naoshige Uchida Named Jeff C.Tarr Professor; Launches New Simons-Funded Autism Research Collaboration 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

Ein Team unter der Leitung von David Keays untersucht Gehirne von Tauben, die Magnetfeldern ausgesetzt sind. Dank modernster Mikroskopie identifizieren sie einen neuronalen Signalweg, der für die Verarbeitung magnetischer Informationen aus dem Innenohr zuständig ist. @mpiforbi.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the young stars recognized, but a special shout out to my new colleague, the amazing @sueyeonchung.bsky.social!

Eze hattrick! What a match in which to come alive. Go #Arsenal!!

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜 🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

Chaco Canyon is one of the most important living cultural landscapes on the planet and we have long called for its permanent protection. It's not about the past–it’s about the generations to come. I’ll continue to fight for it because it is a place worth protecting.

Frontiers of Science, one of @tifr.res.in's flagship school outreach events starts now! Catch all the action at the Mumbai campus, LIVE from the Homi Bhabha Auditorium, here: www.youtube.com/live/CpY7o32...

Pochettino warns the #USMNT to "suffer against Bielsa". And boy how they are suffering 🤣!

Does this Uruguay team want to play at all? Is watercooler-squatting Bielsa overrated? Anyway, this is amazing from and for the #USMNT!

Aaronson should be used as a demonstration in physics lab courses on unstable equilibrium - he is on the verge of falling over on every freaking run he makes #USMNT

"though in all this reddened heaven and earth, desire reduces to reversal". From V.V. Ganeshananthan's @sugi.bsky.social. poem "the faithful scholar dreams of being exact" My version from the 2023 collection "Out of Sri Lanka" edited by Ravinthiran, Seneviratne and Trevett. #poetry