Presented this iconic photo in class today, and convinced my students that the parental pituitary hormone prolactin (they'd never heard of it) is called "kittensulin"....

Just heard that HHMI will start a new Masters Investigator program, for those who are 55 and above. They have done so much for early career scientists, and now supporting the more mature. It is a 10-year non-renewable funding mechanism. The catch? You have to promise to leave science afterwards!

kagi homepage is 1996 today ❤️

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

Incredible. Acevedo has been working consistently in TV and film for over thirty years. What he describes here is a trickle-down effect that happens when film studios are reluctant to make mid-budget films with modest returns on investment.

Data is good but this is so insultingly obvious to every woman in academia who has had a child.

Our paper is out in @science.org describing how epithelial cells retain long-term inflammatory memory www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“He knew more about cartoons than you or I ever will (trust me on this) yet he was incredibly generous with his time and his talent. And my God, could he make you laugh! When it comes to humor, it takes a special kind of genuis to be both dry and warm. Barry was both" deadline.com/2026/03/barr...

my troubles are over

Y’all DORA is the cover star for this weekend’s New York Times Magazine!!!!!!! 😱😱😱🤯🤯🥹🥹🥹

this is insanely cool, one of the best things i've recently encountered online

Congrats to all who were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), including @alexchesler.bsky.social and @dattalab.bsky.social! www.aaas.org/page/2025-fe...

santa cruz, i’m gonna be real with you. you’re better off spending your money rebuilding the. south pacific coast railroad. and extending caltrain service. it’s a ridiculous suggestion yes. but it’s better than podcars. and i’m sure los gatos would appreciate it too

relatedly, finally found the karen o quote about debbie harry that had been on my mind

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

you should have to enter birth year to vote here: opinions on products that one hasn’t used are not valid!

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It’s well known that inflammation increases cancer risk, but how? The answer: the epigenome "remembers" inflammation and primes stem cells for cancer. Here is our paper: nature.com/articles/s41... And a special shoutout to the lead author @snaga13.bsky.social A 🧵

Celebrating script writer and story editor D.C. Fontana. Best known for her work on Star Trek The Original Series, her contributions were extensive and spanned across multiple series, making her one of the most influential writers in the franchise's history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._F...

🤷🏿‍♂️ I mean... "Results demonstrated that Black men, Latino men, and women of all ethnoracial groups reported levels of friendship closeness that were similar to one another after statistically controlling for friendship characteristics, communication patterns, and other respondent demographics"

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The interior of this small rural church is one of Britain’s most remarkable Victorian artistic treasures. In the 1980s, the church was deemed structurally unsafe and this exceptionally rare and beautiful interior was almost lost to demolition. 1/10

1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Every time I’m in Union Square I think about how Tammany Hall, the seat of power for New York for decades, is now a Petco

I said “oh no” out loud when ryan gosling didn’t balance the centrifuge

We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...

20 years ago today.

CARRIE: and while no one was looking, Wavves had released eight studio albums. Meanwhile, in a temple downtown, Samantha was entreating a different King of the Beach. SAMANTHA (plunging dagger into a lamb’s throat): Great Poseidon I beseech thee bring Odysseus home!

Well some of us are. Many top neuro journals straight up desk reject model organism papers nowadays. And if you want to get fast, detailed and precise mechanistic answers - some of these are still the best systems.

oh, he's a tunicate then? because he almost had a spine?

looks like it's 90° in downtown SF, hope no one drowns at ocean beach today.

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

$80,000,000,000

oh my god I cannot stop laughing x.com/om_patel5/st...

I have a frameshift mutation joke, but oy fprdm:y zslr drmdr

Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today! We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

so... Army -> Cesar Chavez -> Dolores Huerta Street, yeah?

Dr. Feigin, Your work on DEEPLY RESONATING truly piques my interest. My background in in vitro nanoparticle fabrication aligns well with your work in DEEP RESONANCE. I eagerly await your response.

so do the kids just say "deeply resonates with me" or "deeply aligns with my values" for real now? or can I ignore all the LLM-generated emails from high school students and undergrads who say they want to work in my lab?

I hereby declare St. Patrick’s day the day to study geography of speciation. The relevant jargon for speciation types: ☘️ alloPatrick ☘️ symPatrick ☘️ paraPatrick (inspired by a class I attended today, where my responsible colleague failed to point out this clear connection)

More from the code craftspeople about the pain they're feeling here: andrewmurphy.io/blog/the-fiv... via @jimbobbennett.dev

I had a blast working on this paper! This was the first mammalian assembly paper using the new CiFi tech, and we combined multiple lines of evidence to verify a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a. All methods will be open source and reproducible, enabling the community to build on them.

Screen testing the new MST3K setup

This is the equivalent of Jesus on a toast for developmental biologists 🧪

Excited so share our newest study using a single-library HiFi-CiFi approach to generate chromosome-scale diploid assemblies of two vole genomes, identifying putative drivers of divergent pair-bonding behavior, namely a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a gene, led by @mabuelanin.bsky.social

Go home microbiology….you’re drunk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

working on my developmental genetic-knockout dr. seuss book Flox On Hox