The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

We have posted a Research Assistant (LSRP1) position to work on aging and 'rejuvenation' using mouse models!! 🐭 careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc... Apply and join our awesome lab!! (please share) 😎

"Got any ideas for that Beech-Nut Gum ad?" "I was thinking a circus clown and strong man sharing a couple sticks backstage." "And they're in love, right?" "Of course they're in love."

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

i’m chair of a worm thesis committee now, so i get to say “what about in males” for once.

RIP Bud Court—Harold and Maude was extremely important to me as an insufferable goth child.

Minute-scale coupling of chromatin marks and transcriptional bursts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.08.704500v1

only 5 miles away from CSHL.

robins arrived yesterday and ate all of last summer's red chokeberries. so early! but it's going to thaw a bit today. how do they know????

New York JFK, Terminal 9, lobby (opened 1959, renovated 1990s, demolished 2008), lobby by Silvester Tafuro Design Inc. 📷 Peter Paige/Corporate Interiors, 1997, via Internet Archive. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/DUlC-mvEUt...

Apply!!! @embl.org rocks!

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Anyway how's your day going

We are starting Bay Area Chromatin Club up again in 2026! Fist event March 5th at UCSF Mission Bay! Details and registration HERE: If you like to nominate a person for a talk- DM me. It's been a great experience in the past. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

DEPower: approximate power analysis with DESeq2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪

vocal turn-taking with the sirens @arkarupbanerjee.bsky.social

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work! I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

somehow had "i wanna sex you up" stuck in my head so i showed 11yo the video so he could understand the "dick in a box" origin story. played motownphilly, iesha, feels good (tony toni toné) as palette cleansers.

Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704447v1

WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD

academics when they order a shiny new laptop

Not many ads in general for things that people use in daily life. Remember when *gum* used to buy advertising on the major networks? Now its sports gambling, financial scams, and expensive pharmaceuticals for chronic illness. A gigantic upward money funnel.

Lindsey Vonn didn't crash because of her ACL. She crashed because she took a hard line and her arm and ski pole caught a gate. She crashed because she was competing to win. If she were in her early 20s and hadn't torn her ACL, the same damn thing would have happened.

I love this portrait of a scientist so much. Portrait of Dr Bouchard, by Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

✅ @rockefeller.edu has been verified by @bsky.app.

GRANT EXTENSION! BSN's #ICN2026 travel grant deadline has been extended to 10 February 2026 to match ICN's abstract submission extension. Our grant covers: 💷 Registration fee 💷 Abstract submission fee 💷 Up to £1k for travel to Japan Apply by 10 Feb: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

A much-needed major weather pattern change is finally coming for the continental U.S.! The "Warm West/Cool East" temperature dipole, which has been associated with record Western warmth and extreme Eastern cold/ice/snow, will finally fade in the coming days.

It’s that one sneaky methyl-C taking a sperm uber for a few generations with destination of dentate gyrus neuron

Reminder there are still 2000 active goons destroying our city and kidnapping civilians to such an extreme extent that kids cant even go to school normally

ON THE CHEMOTACTIC PROPERTIES OF LACTOSE-BASED FROZEN CONFECTIONS IN ATTRACTING MALE ADOLESCENTS TO RESIDENTIAL GREEN SPACES K. Rogers P. Williams C. Hugo​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Journal of Dairy Science, 2003

My outstanding postdoc is looking for a research job in Albany, NY. Please forward all leads and RT!

Embargo over @cp-neuron.bsky.social High hippocampal estrogen levels promote #plasticity but also maladaptive They allow stress-induced memory loss in both sexes changing chromatin state www.cell.com/neuron/fullt.... c awesome @eahellerphd.bsky.social @neurohoke.bsky.social @tollkuhn.bsky.social

The mind-blowing concept behind the revival of "The Muppet Show" is: "We're reviving 'The Muppet Show.'" Turns out to be a pretty good idea. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/a...

Here is the official announcement. Now more than ever, acknowledging the contributions of immigrants is so important. Thank you @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social, and congrats to my fellow awardees. Can't wait to meet you all.

14yo had some fun in our library’s new maker space. #LowerDecks

So psyched for this year's Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC) GRC! Come join us in May, and please RT!

Time for a thread on our Christmas preprint “Origin and evolution of acrocentric chromosomes in human and great apes”. I had so much fun with this project and paper. It will be hard to summarize in a thread, but I’ll try www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/21]

sexy gelfling

Steven Spielberg has achieved coveted #EGOT status after winning his first-ever Grammy for his work as a producer on 'Music By John Williams,' the documentary that won the Best Music Film category. #GRAMMYs 🏆 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

1 minute of vagus nerve stimulation per day was recently FDA approved as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. A new Ground Truths podcast with Kevin J. Tracey who pioneered this field erictopol.substack.com/p/vagus-nerv...

For those just realizing how right I was about creeps like Lawrence Krauss & Richard Dawkins, you should know that I’m also right about good guys like Robin.

I inherited a mid-century modern nightstand and this 1941 copy of The San Francisco News was shoved in the back of a drawer in perfect condition. Such a time capsule.