Small club rock’n’roll (or rather post-punk) is my happy place. In DC for the last show of NYC’s Snowmen inaugural tour with Glom at DC9. #NeverTooOldForThis #MyNewestFavoriteBand

🧠🎉 Our new preprint uncovers how a decline in autophagy drives neuronal decay in brain ageing via microtubule cytoskeleton modifications. Thanks to my team @livuni-ismib.bsky.social Funded by BBSRC. #Neuroscience #BrainAgeing #Autophagy #cytoskeleton biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728680v1

Sick!

Heads I move, tails I stay. A stop-motion video by the talented Kajal Singh (voice, vid), based on a paper with Jashaswi Basu and @schaefferlab.bsky.social member Anita #kinesin #tail. Hope you enjoy watching it, as much as we enjoyed making it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY8L...

Sephin?!? Like seipins, serpins, and spectrins were not enough for confusing my septins...

Guitar riffs that make you run through a wall. This is it.

One of the two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing acoustic (1967) - allegedly, the video was made after a photoshoot where the photographer brought him a special 12-string guitar, strung upside down to adapt to Jimi's left-handed playing.

Our paper is out in Developmental Biology! It's part of a special issue on Forebrain Development. Mouse KO of Togaram1, a Joubert Syndrome gene, has defects in forebrain morphogenesis and neurogenesis. 🐭🧠🧪 #cilia #devbio #cellbio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Saishree S. Iyer and Anna Akhmanova @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social review the mechanisms controlling plus-end elongation of centriolar and ciliary #microtubules, revealing shared principles. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Centrioles #Cilia #Cytoskeleton

Basta, L. P., Joyce, B. W., Posfai, E., & Devenport, D. (2025). Epithelial polarization by the planar cell polarity complex is exclusively non–cell autonomous. Science, #EpithelialMechanics doi.org/10.1126/scie...

I'm very pleased to read such a thoughtful review of my book 'Rebel Grrrls- the Real Story of Women and Punk' via @louderthanwar.bsky.social ❤️ And in 1 week, I'll be at Rough Trade in London for a Q&A/launch event and there's still some tix left! louderthanwar.com/rebel-grrrls...

From Toronto 🇨🇦 spinning the new BOARDS OF CANADA, beautiful 🎶 #boardsofcanada #vinyl #nowplaying #nowspinning

Operation Ivy was huge in the bay area of that time, and hugely influential on Green Day. You can hear a lot of Green Day and even Beastie Boys's early punk rap here... and such a preamble to the early 90s ska revival.

One of the few remaining legends of Jazz. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

Happy 40th bday to this song. Most played music video in the history of MTV! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJ...

Spotlight: New work by Zheng et al. (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) elucidates how #adhesion proteins are rapidly moved along the cell edge to vertices in response to mechanical forces. Jiarui Jiang and @krothphd.bsky.social discuss the findings: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Mechanobiology

A class action lawsuit will be nice if not an isolated incident. Begs the question of how trustworthy are the blots in many vendor websites. Abs - priced like engagement rings - is such a scam. Tax payer and valuable research money wasted. Congress should regulate. Subpoena for hearings.

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

CCDC66 couples actin-microtubule crosslinking to KANK1-associated microtubule targeting and focal adhesion turnover https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.19.723697v1

Mouhahaha ! Another cytoskeleton war won by microtubules !

“We’re very close to full automation of the entire 1990s”... “The 2000s are next.” Roberts... noted that modern experiments were “messier” and “kept changing,” whereas the older protocols were “very well documented, because people wrote things down back then." Hint: The (good) notebook is dead!

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀? If so, I recommend diving into this FREE microscopy course 👉 www.ibiology.org/online-biology-courses/microscopy-series/

'90s anthems! And electric guitarists playing on chairs... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdhD...

Amazon's a good source for powerpoint graphics on... BDNF! www.amazon.com/Nootropic-Br...

One thing that AI has YET to master - in terms of written or presentation material - is how to NOT BE RECOGNIZED as such BY any HUMAN BRAIN who has used it enough to see through it immediately.

Welcome to my world! #NtermSEPT9

📣 New preprint from our lab! How does the cell place septins to actin or microtubules (MTs) with septins being ~10-100 times less than actin/tubulin? We found a phosphorylation switch controlled by GSK3 that makes that call 🧫🔬🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.06.723191v1 1/7

I dont know what's more astonishing: David Byrne doing a 30 minute interview with Nardwuar or Nardwuar having nearly 4 million subscribers on youtube! Long live Nardwuar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLBX...

Wikipedia: This song was #1 in Belgium in 1983. Inspired by the Falklands War between UK and Argentina made the BBC Radio 1 playlist, but was quickly removed for the content of lyrics. The single was banned from release in South Africa because What Fun! had both black and white members. Great tune!

The X-linked Septin6 strikes in the immune system!

44 years of receipts... finally paid. New York's next.

MDCKs = beautiful 😍 cell biology

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

Yes, Virginia. And yes, 76ers!

Two manuscripts from the lab to catch up upon exploring aspects kinesin-1 regulation. First, our examining the role of cargo-adaptor binding in controlling kinesin-1 conformational dynamics and association with MAP7 is now a VOR @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/109...

Second, a new preprint examining how binding of cargo adaptors is integrated with direct association of the motor complex with membranes is available on bioRxiv. We identify the kinase NEK10 as a Kinesin-1/KLC2-selective negative regulator of lysosome transport www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out our new release on BioRxiv co-lead by @pm-mueller.bsky.social 👉 rb.gy/lnrizk special🙏 to Severine Kunz #MDC @leventallab.bsky.social @andimicroscopy.bsky.social @ewerslab.bsky.social and Kedar Narayan @NCI CCR VolumeEM Are the days of discovering new cellular structures over?? /1

Mythos!?! @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

☕ @mathilda95.bsky.social @nadlerlab.bsky.social & co introduce a correlative light and electron #microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native #lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively analyses lipids in membrane nanodomains. bit.ly/4moYLJH

Bruh!

Fugazi released last month the scrapped 1992 recording sessions with Albini to raise funds for Letters to Santa - a Chicago-based charity that the late Albini started in the 90s. Good cause to support by purchasing on bandcamp - and the tunes are 🔥🔥🔥 fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

The gamma-Tubulin Ring Complex promotes mitotic spindle integrity and acts as a microtubule minus-end cap during mitosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717779v1

A book chapter we wrote awhile ago: Peering into the Septin Cytoskeleton – New Insights Unlocked by Microscopy Advances Andrew W. Schaefer and Elias T. Spiliotis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Out now in the new Royal Microscopy Society book "Live Biological Imaging Across Scales"

#ThingsWeDoWhenThePrezIsInTown Pinkish @ Rivanna Area Queer Center

New online: Microtubules in the axon are GDP bound but adopt a stable GTP-like expanded state

New preprint out! 🚀 biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We mapped how septins organise infection in the rice blast fungus—and found they are far more dynamic than previously thought. Thread 👇 #FungalPathogenesis #CellBiology #septins

Septins don’t just form structures - they reorganise over time. Their interaction networks are dynamically rewired across infection stages, linking septins to diverse cellular processes not previously connected to septin function.

Truth!

Yes!