Happening today! #research #seminar on participatory science and wild birds by Dr Kelly Langhans from the Dept of Fish, and Wildlife Conservation! Join us at 2 pm!

The ‘crazy rule-defying’ genes that determine sex A gripping account reveals the workings of the remarkable chromosomes that specify male or female development.

Sharing my review of "Sex, Genes and Chromosomes," a great new book by geneticist Jennifer A. M. Graves. Molecular biology, function and evolution of sex chromosomes, sex determination, and X-chromosome inactivation, controversial issues in sex and gender. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cover to draw stronger held up in front of screen where Kriota is demonstrating a wrist/hand stretch

A special treat for my advanced making comics Ss - virtual visit w/the great @kriotaw.bsky.social in regards to her book Draw Stronger on self-care for cartoonists! I want them to be able to make comics their whole lives! Highly recommend the book from @unciv.bsky.social uncivilizedbooks.com/draw/

A big success! We loved welcoming everyone into the lab for a hands-on exploration of biology. So much curiosity, energy, and excitement in one room. Thank you to all who came and made it such a memorable event.

#STEM #Biology #ScienceOutreach #HandsOnLearning

View of classroom with many rectangular tables and many people seated around tables. All individuals are watching the front podium on the left as two students introduce seminar speaker Dr Lisa Whitw

Introductory slide for Dr Lisa White’s seminar. Title: Integrating paleontology collections, seagoing expeditions, and interactive web-based tools to enhance STEM instruction for undergraduate students

Enthralled with #DrLisaDWhite sharing her history and science at #SFSU @sfstatebio.bsky.social seminar. @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social Director of Education & Outreach #SF_ROCKS #geologist. Who knew the @tarpits.org #direwolves had been stored at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #SatherTower??

Meiosis faces a fundamental problem:

It must repair hundreds of DNA double-strand breaks while executing a transcriptional programme essential for gamete development.

But many of these breaks occur in genes.

So how are these two processes reconciled?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Awesome to hear that #ProfessorMagdalenaBezanilla #DartmouthCollege is a #2025AAAS_Fellow!!! #PlantCellGrowth #moss #Physcomitrella_patens #Congratulations sites.dartmouth.edu/bezanillalab/

It’s that time of the year for building bigger kiddo’s popup card! I embarrassingly couldn’t pull hers off last spring, so doubly determined to get it done on time and pull out all the stops. A look back at some past ones…

My niece is one of the chefs at this new restaurant in SF that is getting great reviews if you’re interested in a date night idea and in San Francisco

www.mariaisabelsf.com

Imagine standing at a cliff with an ocean view. The ocean is colored orange/yellow hues, and the scruffy grass on the cliff is white. Over the ocean is black text about the Yeast Genetics Meeting June 13-17, 2026 in Pacific Grove CA with #Yeast26. And below the black text is green text yelling "I'm Attending!"

Happy to share about #Spombe and #Soctosporus at the #Yeast26 conference in June!!

📣 Calling all yeast scientists!
Dive into #Yeast26 and hear from our organizers on what makes this conference so special.
📅 June 13-17, 2026
📍 Pacific Grove, CA
👉 Read the blog: buff.ly/6SBTbaY

PS. Abstracts due in 4 days on March 5!

@caitismuheil.bsky.social @schacherer.bsky.social

Friend of the Picnic Heide Solbrig is teaching a Comics Journalism class that starts THIS TUESDAY!

It runs until 5 May 2026 and meets on Tuesdays from 6:30-9:30pm!

There's still time to sign up! -kjc

pce.massart.edu/section/comi...

Genes enter the garden of good and evil A geneticist confronts how we think about free will, character, and wrongdoing

#Genetics & #Justice - Genes enter the garden of good and evil | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Echoing the mantra of #PersonalizedMedicine decades ago, #RanjanSinha #DigbiHealth states that for obesity & diabetes, the solution is “not one size fits all.” This misalignment of food with your biology requires data on genetics, the gut microbiome, & glucose control to convert food to a cure #PMWC

How do you respond to this statement shared by #SherryZhang @buckinstitute.org? “Women live longer than men but live longer in poor health…” A compelling motivation to make healthspan (extended lifespan with health!) computable so that biomarkers are actionable #PMWC #HealthspanHorizons

#PMWC2026 “AI Systems for Personalized #Longevity: How Biomarkers Translate Into Actionable Interventions” with #SherryZhang @buckinstitute.org, #ZeeniaFramroze #Alethios, #RanjanSinha #DigbiHealth, & chaired by #NathanPrice @buckinstitute.org on role of AI & data to move to preventative healthcare.

#BraveNewWorld? At the #PMWC2026 panel on “AI-Driven #Biomarkers to Quantify #Aging” with #SteveHorvath #AltosLabs, #MahdiMoqri @harvard.edu, #HussainAhamed #Ultrahuman & chaired by @elonverse.bsky.social #InsilicoMedicine. Learning about a future with #wearables & “Dr. Agentic AI” #AgenticAI

Wow! #RyanYuanchengLu @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social presented #PMWC Luminary award to mentor @davidsinclairphd.bsky.social @harvard.edu who then gave Ryan the patent plaque on cellular reprogramming to reverse aging because gene therapy they developed 5 years ago is in the clinic this very day!

I’m on board! #NathanPrice @buckinstitute.org presented #PMWC Luminary award to #NirBarzilai @einsteinmededu.bsky.social who shared a vision of a future meeting on #PrecisionHEALTH instead of #PrecisionMedicine

From today’s #PMWC2026 Precision #Aging & #Longevity Track, CONGRATULATIONS to #PMWC Luminary award honoree #SteveHorvath #AltosLabs presented by @davidsinclairphd.bsky.social @harvard.edu

Photo shows one book on left called Asian American and Pacific Islander history, with many folks representing different Asian/Pacific Islander cultures posing together wearing colorful clothing, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance behind them. On the right is a second book called Crown City by Naomi Hirahara. The cove has a blue background, and a tree branch with yellow leaves frames the top of the book cover. Behind and below the tree branch and occupying over half of the book cover is a red tinged inset image of the front of an old building with a grand entrance, perhaps a hotel, with a fronds of a palm tree sitting slightly below the yellow leaves of the tree branch. Below the two books is a flat colorful paper cut out of a cherry blossom with purple, pink, and white, set on a dark green square.

An honor to meet author #Naomi_Hirahara at #BookShop_West_Portal tonight. Two books signed, learned about cherry blossom #kirigami (Thank you, Komo!), and enthralled with the research journey for this 3rd #Japantown_Mystery. Thanks for shining a light on this history!!

“AI in Teaching, Learning, & Human Communication” with #JenniferTrainor #English, #ShahRukhHumayoun #ComputerScience, #AnastasiaSmirnova english.sfsu.edu/ecole-lab & #AnoshuaChaudhuri #CEETL #Economics. What is student writing process with GenAI? How has comp sci curriculum integrated ethical GenAI?

"AI Tools & Workflows for Research" with #CanLi library.sfsu.edu/people/can-li, #NielShahrasbi www.linkedin.com/in/nassersha..., #NasrinMohabbati www.nasrin-mohabbati.com, & @sameerverma.bsky.social. Many AI tools available to support research! Tip: ask AI to report back its work in a table format.

Image shows ethics panel presenting at symposium. There is one man at the podium on the right side of the image, speaking into the microphone. There are two people seated at the table, one man and one woman. There is one woman participating online/Zoom whose image is behind the seated panelists on the wall.

Wow! Intriguing issue about whether consent to upload previously collected data for LLM analysis was obtained brought up at the #Ethics Panel with @mainomenous.bsky.social, #ChrisKoenig faculty.sfsu.edu/~cjkoenig, # SepidahModrek faculty.sfsu.edu/~smodrek, and #ZainabAgha cs.sfsu.edu/people/zaina...

Man on right stands at podium in front of audience of several adults seated at tables. In the background is a floor to ceiling windows with scene of SFSU quad with many tall trees.

Thanks to Keynote Speaker #Guarav_Suri Twitter's @ProfGRS www.suriradlab.com at today’s "Research in the Age of #AI Symposium" at #SFSU for giving me an improved understanding of #ArtificialIntelligence and Large Language Models (#LLMs) with talk on The Emergence of Intelligence in Machines

Leafcutter ant holds up a large piece of leaf that says "Call for Scientists."

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Nonesuch Records

Suggesting Laurie Anderson’s O Superman, though not a song about superheroes…. youtu.be/Vkfpi2H8tOE?...

Censorship Arrives on Campus In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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The image shows a round protoplast filled with green, evenly distributed ovoid-shaped chloroplasts. In the center of the cell is the spherical nucleus in magenta.

Happy New Year, everyone. For this #microscopymonday, here is a moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplast (wall-less cell) transformed with a nuclear marker (in magenta). The much brighter area is the nucleolus. The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in green.
#moss #plantcells