🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

Introducing CellBouncer, a unified demultiplexing toolkit built by nkschaefer.bsky.social to check IDs and keep the riff raff out of single cell genomics datasets, including by using genetic variation as an external ground-truth for ambient RNA removal: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Picture this: you are running a single cell sequencing experiment and want to incorporate cells from different species, individuals, and maybe even perturbations. You process everything together to save time while reducing batch artifacts. You collect data. What do you do now?

Privileged to preview these excellent studies with @brainevodevo.bsky.social!

Excited to be here for a new start at social media and to share news about my recent paper!

I'm thrilled to announce that the review I wrote with @brainevodevo.bsky.social is now online @Nature Review Neuroscience: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We cover mechanisms of prolonged human neuronal maturation, integrating lessons from model organisms with studies on species differences.