BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️
NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️
I could use a picture of your cat companions today, 🙁.
(No dogjackers please)
Josie not Jack 😜
My daughter has a capstone project (for 8th grade) on mocktails and how they have impacted drinking culture. She put together a survey for this project, if you are so inclined to take it, feel free:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
no worries - i figured it when i opened your FB x-post. big hugs to you and the lab.
can you share a non pay-walled version? <hugs>
Hero principal Kirk Moore, who tackled a school shooter at Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma last week, has been crowned prom king.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Human claustrum neurons encode uncertainty and prediction errors during aversive learning
@jfguassimoreira.bsky.social presents a longitudinal study on how daily experiences sculpt mental and neural representations of others
@lapate.bsky.social shares work on how emotions influences temporal memory of autobiographical events in the life of memories (LiMe) studies
Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1
The complete morphology of a single LC-NE neuron.
First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5
❗️Viktor Orbán congratulated Magyar on his victory in the 🇭🇺Hungarian elections.
46% of the ballots have been counted. In Tisza, 136 out of 199 seats.
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Look at the women at NASA.
They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.
And they are doing it all with joy.👇
The Dude Abides!
Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.
Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺
Who else is still feeling the joy this morning? 🙋♀️🚀🧑🚀 THIS is what science can do!!
Long ago, a cat died from being fed four minutes past feeding time. Cats have told their children of this for 3,000 generations.
I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II.
She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet.
Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.
So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.
Now that my standard funding curves are updated weekly automatically on grant-witness.us (grant-witness.us/funding_curv...), I have been working on some other important items to track.
One is the amount of funding committed to multi-year grants.
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If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply.
I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.
NIAAA's P60 Alcohol Research Center mechanism is not being renewed.
I’ve had the chance of being part of one for the last 20 years.
Ditto scalability
But, yes, it's also hyper competition for limited slots and, in some cases, an effort to reduce college debt
To Julia's point, it's not all bad. HS seniors can knock out a year of college level coursework via AP and community college....instead of being bored
