Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

the coolest

First paper from the lab! We propose a model that separates estimation of odor concentration and presence and map it on olfactory bulb circuits Led by @chenjiang01.bsky.social and @mattyizhenghe.bsky.social joint work with @jzv.bsky.social and with @neurovenki.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

In Kensington, at least one voter was thinking about her daughter's future: hellgatenyc.com/election-day...

🚨Job alert🚨 The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Thanks Barb, I guess many folks haven't heard. We lost Bill on October 7, 2025 to cancer. news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/in-m...

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North). What an absolute masterstroke.

I'm incredibly honored to receive the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award from @sfn.org SFN was the first research conference I ever attended and presented at. I feel truly humbled! Thanks to my fab research team who make me look good!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Steven Spielberg as a clerk in the Cook County Assessors Office. #BluesBrothers

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

feel a kind of sadness every time i see a street called "station road" that's right next to a train line but doesn't have a train station anymore. this is what they took from us.

We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

🧠✨ Genetic Tools Atlas 3.0 is here! The GTA now has an additional 750 datasets, including 80+ mouse whole-brain light sheet microscopy images as well as the first macaque datasets. 🔗 https://portal.brain-map.org/genetic-tools/genetic-tools-atlas #neuroskyence

The winning entry at today’s 27th annual Great PUPkin dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park. 📷 📸 🐶 🫐 🧑‍🍳 🎃 #photography

No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed. You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think. This is a hill I will die on.

so my friend asked me to help him get to the Halloween parade

My last Halloween as a Controller. Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

Original projection footage from The Haunted Mansion’s singing graveyard busts, including Thurl Ravenscroft's lead…

oh my god

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r... (Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)

starting a thread of extremely long island newspaper headlines from @newsday.bsky.social here we go! zohran mamdani couldn't recognize billy joel's iconic NYC anthem

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Byford: let's do all-door boarding Lieber: no Mamdani: let's make the bus free Lieber: how about all-door boarding instead?

the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me

We are hiring for a PhD-level Staff Scientist to join our teams in the Translational Neuroscience Division @lieberinstitute.bsky.social. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of human 🧠 neuroanatomy and molecular neuroscience recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

tame impala show was very good. played for over two hours and was a legit “show”.

Sharing this post-doc opportunity to work with one of my favorite humans, Nick Gilpin at LSU! Besides getting to do amazing neuroscience research, you get to live in New Orleans!!!

Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.

@profharley.bsky.social and I are both quoted in this Guardian article about the science of menstrual blood - the author made sure to point out we are married but not that we are also co-PIs on an R01 studying menstrual blood and endometriosis. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

My favorite #burrito filling is hot dogs 🌯🌭 #japan

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

Genome assembly fresh of the supercomputer, total size = 29,892,519,935 base pairs 🦎🧬

Does anyone have an unlocked copy of Bateson (1907) “Facts limiting the theory of heredity” in Science? Apparently our subscription does not cover fresh papers from 118 years ago. Surely this is public domain by now?

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

She died as she lived. Doing 5 things at once and none of them super well

Absolutely deadly behavior causing another crash on Spruce Street at 5th st early this morning. This is on the busiest bike lane in Philly with over 1,500 riders who use it daily. We deserve so much better than paint and flexposts, we deserve real protection.

you know what we could do it hook these all together and maybe run them in special tracks on a schedule

At 0:53 from CBS ON THE AIR (1978), June Lockhart and Lassie. (Still one of the most astounding gatherings of sheer talent in one place, ever.) When “The Tiffany Network” still shone bright. #RIP

more like a winchester ballroom

More pictures of the brilliance that is (lab manager) Aida de la Cruz with her creation.

TWELVE open PhD positions - what a fantastic opportunity for aspiring ocean scientists! UAF is a fantastic university with really amazing faculty, and Fairbanks is a beautiful place for outdoorsy people.

Opinion: Kong Country Will Never Move Past Its Floating Barrel-Based Transit System if We Don’t Invest in Infrastructure

Genomic signatures associated with convergent funnel-web building behavior in spiders https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.684048v1