A big thank you to The Transmitter and @callimcflurry.bsky.social for the spotlight on our preprint! You can check out her article below, or the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Thank you to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (@bbrfoundation.bsky.social) for selecting me for a Young Investigator Award! I'm so excited to explore astrocyte networks in a new context.

Now on bioRxiv! Astrocytes in one brain region (cyan) communicate in expansive networks (magenta). Through tool development, tissue clearing, and many hours on our @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Z1, we now know these networks are repeatable across mice, plastic, and specific. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@lsfm-na.bsky.social Is this heaven, or am I just currently surrounded by ELEVEN DIFFERENT LIGHT SHEET MICROSCOPES? So thrilled to be out here in Acadia chatting about microscopy!

Hippocampal vasculature is so pretty 😍 (mouse hippocampus perfused with Tomato Lectin and cleared) #Neuroscience #Microscopy

An old favorite of mine - this retinal astrocyte (GFAP) looks like it’s dancing among blood vessels. #science #glia #microscopy

Imaging these astrocytes on the surface of cleared brains was a blast!

Excited to share our latest paper! We argue that in MS, the primary immune attack isn’t on myelin or myelinated axons — but on the ion & water homeostasis machinery in astrocyte endfeet. A short thread on this new perspective 1/11

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Thank you to the authors of a lovely commentary on our recent PNAS paper! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Does anyone know which SPINES (or similar) seminar series would still be open for applications next year?

I enrolled in a vaccine clinical trial recently, and I’m so glad I did. Going in for ~30 min to get a blood draw and chat with people who are hopeful about curing diseases has felt like a lovely little act of resistance. Highly recommend checking with your local hospital if you feel the same way ❤️

Fresh off the press! We found that degeneration in one retina causes astrocytes to respond retinotopically across *both* hemispheres of the brain. Perhaps astrocytes across the CNS are able to coordinate their responses more than we anticipated... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our new work on astrocyte responses in glaucoma is out today! A tour de force of tissue clearing and analysis by @melcooperphd.bsky.social. It's one of those stories that leads to even more great questions, so stay tuned!

Hello, everyone! Please enjoy one of my favorite micrographs while I finally get set up over here. Vasculature (magenta, perfused lectin), GFAP (cyan), and cx43 (green) in a conditional astrocyte cx43 knockout mouse, demonstrating that cx43 is lost from astrocytes but not pericytes after tamoxifen.