A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety. This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

I’m so excited to share that I’ve accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Colorado Anschutz, BMG department and Barbara Davis Diabetes center! I’m so grateful to many who have helped me get here, especially mentors at Joslin, @hmsbpa.bsky.social @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social

If you’re age 70½ or older, you can give directly from your IRA to the DMRF. It's a simple, tax-smart way to help the DMRF and meet your required minimum distribution. Check with a financial advisor to make your impact count this year. https://bit.ly/49IZwc4 #dystonia #dmrf #dystoniafoundation

I am very excited to share the first Accorsi lab publication: a collection of detailed protocols to maintain an apple snail 🐌 colony and generate stable mutant lines. The video is coming soon @ JoVE! We hope this will be a valuable resource for the community. app.jove.com/t/69267/the-...

Why do babies kick in the womb? Today I'm delighted to share our latest paper, led with great creativity by postdoc @cpane94.bsky.social, in wonderful collaboration with Niamh Nowlan at UCD Dublin. "Maternal exercise rescues fetal akinesia-impaired joint and bone development" A paper thread:

If you have used 23AndMe, you are advised by California’s AG to delete your DNA right now from the company’s database as it has declared bankruptcy

Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

I wanted tech to give me: - a journal submission portal working at 1st try - a reference manager working across computers, platforms, authors, and versions - printers / projectors that connect when you want to Tech gave me: - here’s how family’s Christmas card would look if you were all muppets

2 papers (re)submitted 3 trainee fellowships submitted 1 travel fellowship awarded 6 GS interview invites 12 classes aced All this month 😅 We’re ready for a well-deserved holiday break.

Happy to share part I of Renesa Tarannum's thesis (my first grad student!) looking at how neuropil localized RNAs are spatially organized in the hippocampus. #Skeetorial #Neuroskyence 🧪 www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

Some days I am so stinking proud of my team. Seeing their growth and accomplishments, and their joy in celebrating each other’s successes, is 100/100 what makes this the single best job in the world.

Excited to share our new GLP-1 receptor agonist study! Chronic semaglutide potentiates motivation for small food rewards and associated cues, but reduces intake when food is freely available—surprising twist! #GLP-1, #behavior #neuroscience #pharmacology 1/ 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Not using Times New Roman is considered “woke” now.

Not a Spotify listener myself, but every year I’m baffled by the year wrapped summaries a full month before the year is over. Does music not count in December?

An important write up from the NYT on the funding changes at the NIH. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Neuroscientist and “do you know this podcast by Andrew Huberman?”

Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!

A 9 am proposal deadline on the Monday after Thanksgiving for a FOA announced only three weeks ago. Is this peak academic evil?

Same same but different A mole, a cat, a dog, a turkey, a swallow, a sparrow, a barn owl, a very large duck, and a dormouse. -- This isn't a children's book but a short essay I wrote about my view on the cerebellum. vanderheijdenlab.com/resources/

Happy 1 year anniversary to this viewpoint and receiving weekly emails addressed to Dr. Dooley asking for a contribution to Journals of Surgery, Transportation, and Integrative Neuroscience (among others). There is no other publication I can link as directly to the amount of spam email. Worth it?

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

And here is the story after peer review. This work highlights our current approach, which is to use Piezo channels to uncover new areas of biology that are shaped by mechanical forces: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice cerebellum development paper 👀 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our 18 mo daughter pointed out this morning that I have many pairs of shoes. All I have to say is… rude.

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

Exciting to see this work published. Katie Hsiao and her team found cerebellar circuit deficits in a mouse model for Down syndrome, likely contributing to motor incoordination in the mice and individuals with Down syndrome. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great meeting. Honored to be part of it and represent team preclinical models. Learned a lot from my clinical colleagues and got many good ideas on where to steer the lab’s projects in the near future.

This is just a tired academic once again pleading with the scientific community to use only sans-serif fonts in their papers, grants, and seminars. This is how Times New Roman looks to me; on screens, the words actually dance.

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

Link to study:

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

Someone booked me a 6 am outbound flight tomorrow only to fly back the next day at 11 pm. I seriously question this someone’s sanity. This someone, of course, was me.

Being a leading edge fellow has been the single best thing for my scientific career. Zara’s voice and vision was no small part in that. Apply. Apply. Apply.

MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program May 31-Aug 7, 2026 This is a paid 10-wk research experience for undergrad students matched with select Penn faculty in mind sciences. Open to both Penn students & non-Penn US students through our REU. Apply by Jan 11: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/research/sum...

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing. She was truly one of the best.

Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc. elifesciences.org/articles/996...

Absolutely. If a pregnant person or a mom with a child on the back can’t ride safely on the “bike lane” then it’s trash

📣 Deadline extended to 29 Oct 2025! The ALBA–Elsevier Award Lecture honours neuroscientists from underrepresented regions (based on Elsevier authorship metrics & journal market share, & past conference speakers). 🏆 Special Lecture at #FENS2026 ✅ Must have led own lab ≥5 years 👉🏽 loom.ly/FEG7E-w

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic (...)," Kupperman wrote. “Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

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... 🧵

I think it’s very rude to live in a town that doesn’t sell a single kolache.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

This made me very unflattering snort laugh.

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Got jobs Made IRL friends Read a lot of good papers Saw some good jokes. Got a lot more comfortable talking about my work in public. There’s a reason I want to rescue this