Very rare artwork at my DC hotel…still can’t believe these aren’t made anymore

Blink and you'll miss it - literally! I managed to capture the moment this Brandt's cormorant (Urile penicillatus) blinked with its nictating membrane, aka third eyelid - while it maintained eye contact with me. More comorant photos below! La Jolla, CA. #birding #wildlifephotography

🚨Next DevBioConnect is live now @devbiol.bsky.social Dr. Emil Kriukov is presenting scRNAseq atlas of human developing retina from week 8 to week 27 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Join us on Zoom😆 utsouthwestern-edu.zoom.us/j/2815736063

UTSW’s Kim Orth receiving the 2026 Earl and Thressa Stadtman Distinguished Scientist Award from Margaret Phillips and Joan Conaway. She gave a great lecture! @asbmb.bsky.social #ASBMB26

Attending #ASBMB26? Stop by the UT Southwestern booth (#225)! Our team would love to meet you, share opportunities from summer programs to postdoctoral positions, and hear about your interests and goals. @asbmb.bsky.social

Yay! @akcasey.bsky.social joined BlueSky. She’s a Research Assistant Professor at UTSW, looking into how cells and tissues respond to repetitive stressors, particularly in diabetes. Amazing colleague, amazing science, and currently on the job market for tenure-track positions! Please share

Great turnout for our interest group session on BMB of Rare Disease: Insights into Conserved Biological Pathways for Human Health at #ASBMB2026

🌍 It’s #RareDiseaseDay 2026! 💜 Today we stand with the 300 million people living with a rare disease. Together, we’re showing our colours, raising awareness, and inspiring change by talking about what equity means to us. 👉 Read more: https://go.rarediseaseday.org/NEWS

I'm excited to share our PNAS paper from 1st author Kasia Hussey. We study how the foveola, the high acuity region of the retina, is patterned by RA and TH. We were surprised to find that cone subtypes appear to convert fates. Our studies are important for AMD sufferers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Extending previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, a study in Nature Communications shows that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnancy effects and distinct changes in other networks. #Neuroskyence #medsky 🧪

Beautiful Torino evening during #SNS2026

Some lunch on the autopsy tables during the #SNS2026 conference

At a conference, and I’ve been wondering why I haven’t had many work emails come through today….yeah, it’s 9:30pm here and I finally realized it’s a Saturday 😂

Thanks for the shout out, AWS at UTSW! www.instagram.com/p/DUkEqKfDH1...

The #SNS2026 conference is excellent so far!

Winter in Texas

Beautiful sunset from the lab windows tonight

I am grateful for UTSW providing an environment to discuss such important topics like imposter syndrome. What a great panel discussion with AWS! www.instagram.com/p/DUVs0YcEct...

SEAHAWKS SUPERBOWL BOUND!! (Throwback pic to a Seahawks v. Patriots game where Seahawks won!)

I have a postdoc that started mid-November, and she just won best poster presentation on her project for the Brain Institute Gene Therapy Symposium (with a mug award). Way to go, Siqi!

Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.

Diamonds? Something precious? Intriguing…bring it on, 2026!

Having a great and supportive past postdoc mentor helps a lot, I learned so much to launch my independent career mahajanlab.stanford.edu/news/mahajan...

A bifunctional optical reporter for tracking estrogen response dynamics in neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.14.694224v1

Happy Holidays from the Wert Lab!

Want to hear about amazing research in ophthalmology? Register for the first inaugural Southwestern Vision Science Summit coming March 28, 2026! events.utsouthwestern.edu/event/southw...

Hmmm…Frosty seems in need of a good ophthalmologist

You gave such an amazing talk and I keep hearing lab members and faculty talk about ideas it sparked for them! So glad you were able to visit

Excellent lecture by @bwjones.bsky.social for the UTSW Vision Science Seminar series

Dallas driving with @wertlaboratory.bsky.social. “Stay in the left six lanes”, yo.

Nola wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving Holiday weekend!

An animal study in Nature Neuroscience shows that high estrogen levels can enhance learning capabilities. #Neuroskyence 🧪

Getting in the Christmas spirit early in Dallas 🎄☃️

This is a big, big deal. Huge. Also: this is why we need to be aggressively funding science.

At #SfN2025? Come check out the Photoreceptors & Retinal Circuits nanosymposium at 1! I’ve heard all the cool kids will be there and the chair is an absolute rockstar.

No recent breakthrough seizures, a good bloodwork panel and a good neurological exam means this sweet boy gets to start going off of one anticonvulsant entirely, and if that goes well, seeing if we can also reduce his other anticonvulsant 🥰❤️ such great news today!

Thrilled to be moderating our second large event for the Women’s Health Research Initiative at UTSW! Excited for the day and the seminar series that will follow each month

New in @nature.com, @labnowakowski.bsky.social uses barcoded lineage tracing to reveal how different cell types in the human brain form, identifying a transition during development when some progenitors shift from making excitatory to inhibitory neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #studyBRAIN 🧠🟦

I don’t know how my cats will feel about my hotel decor while visiting @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social at MCW 😂

This World Series is crazy 🤯

Great talk by @emilyrnett.bsky.social to kick off the GDD program annual retreat! @ondinecleaver.bsky.social

These two 🥰 cutest unrelated siblings

The Mariners were doing so well…I used to love when the division series went to the final games but they’re soooo close to their first ever World Series!! Eek!

Colliding ribosomes are potent signals of cellular stress. But do cells use ‘programmed’ ribosome collisions to regulate gene expression? I’m excited to present a new story from my lab led by Frederick Rehfeld(@fred-rehfeld.bsky.social) which revealed that the answer is YES! Read on to find out how👇

Missing Tiffany, but fun new lab pic! @emilyrnett.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Dallas skyline views while out with UTSW faculty, love the collegiality and community at UTSW!

A nice blog post from Vinu Mahajan about our time at the #RD2025 meeting. It was fun catching up with him during the conference! mahajanlab.stanford.edu/news/scienti...