I am hiring a popgen postdoc!
Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed.
Job add & details 👇🏽
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Colorful painting of a Tokyo building with cars and bicycles. Impressionist style.
Tokyo 4, 2022 22x28 oil on canvas. One of a series of ten I did aftr seeing Tokyo for the first time. #painting #primitiveart
Time-lapse of scale development and growth of a thyroid hormone mutant zebrafish (hypoTH), compared to a wild-type control. Credit to Dr. Andrew J. Aman & @dparichy.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
I am so excited to share our new findings with you! We provide the structural evidence for a direct protein-to-DNA information pathway, showing how a bacterial enzyme 'reads' its own structure to 'write' DNA. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Black and white photo of me in the distance in back yard with large trees on either side and house in the background. The infrared film makes it look like the shy is black and the trees white.
Infrared self portrait using Ilford SFX 200 with IR720 filter on my Canon AE1. #filmphotography #ilfordsfx200
As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy
Am I the only one who remembers that there were 5 astronauts on Artemis II?! What happened to Col. Greene? I'm calling Professor Quatermass!
In vivo imaging of zebrafish spinal cord neural circuit development, captured with adaptive optical lattice light-sheet microscopy. Credit to Eric Betzig @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating
Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury
New paper out 🚨! Excited to share this collab between my lab and @kerschensteiner.bsky.social's group, expertly led by Ning Shen. We used a genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screen to uncover novel neuroprotective strategies in the P23H mouse retina, with validation in a new human retina culture model.
Black and white photo sky is upper 2/3 of frame with a tiny 19thc wooden house at shaker village with bare trees on the side.
Shot on FPP Dracula 64 at Pleasant Hill Shaker Village. #filmphotography #FPP
Our paper is now out in Science! Super excited to share our discovery that #mitochondria #pearling is the elusive mechanism driving the regular distribution and inheritance of #mtDNA nucleoids 🧬 [1/6]
Large, bare oak tree in neighbors yard. Black and white photo with high contrast. Car driving by on right. Mostly dark sky and white lawns.
Obsessed with this tree in neighbor's yard. I take some sort of picture of it every week. This was taken with Rollei infra, I think. #filmphotography
The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈
Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."
We are big fins of Dr. Coomer! 🤩 Congrats to @anncmorris.bsky.social as well!
In the science of human behaviour, nature & nurture aren't competing accounts that we must choose between. Each individual person is the outcome of the interweaving of genetics, environmental factors & random events, cascading through development.
American TV shows and their British original:
1. Sanford and Son/Steptoe and Son
2. The Office/The Office
3. CHiPs/CRiSps
4. Friends/It's a Wankers World
5. McMillan & Wife/Doctor Who
6. Hogan's Heroes/Ogan's Eroes
I'm so sorry for your loss. Deepest condolences to you and your family.
David Botstein was one of the giants of genetics and genomics, and my mentor, colleague and friend for more than 40 years. I’m sad that he is gone, but his larger-than-life persona comes through here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/s...
OMB has posted the full-year apportionments for NIH.
openomb.org/file/11511545
I believe this means that NIH now has the spending authority to fund grants!
There may be nuances and I will be tracking these as best I can.
Things I forget I've just eaten, then later think the symptoms are the sign of a fatal disease:
1. Beets
2. Cassoulet
3. Protein bar
4. Granola bar w/protein
5. Egg Nog Gelato
6. High Fiber Crunch, Ooops! All Pruneberries!
This is kinda bonkers.
In addition, 20 amino acids were found on Ryugu, along with uracil and vitamin B3. These have been found in other instances, but since the samples from Ryugu were collected directly from the asteroid and delivered in sealed capsules, contamination on Earth could be ruled out.
WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon continues through Sunday! Keep amazing, listener-supported radio cranking out the tunes for another year by pledging here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate. (Shown: the new 2026 WFMU bumper sticker, yours for a pledge of $20 or more.)
Some molecular machines, like ribosomes, can persist for long periods of time in cells.
Could molecular aging of ribosomes shape how proteins are made?
In our new preprint we track ribosomes as they age in cells and uncover unexpected effects on translation (1/10)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The 2026 Visual System Development GRC and GRS are fast approaching. Jeremy Kay, Kristen Kwan, Robert Johnston, and I have built an exciting program that we hope you will enjoy. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting this summer in beautiful Maine. Register and RT!
This is the first time in 12 or 13 years I haven't gone to Jersey for the WFMU marathon and performed a show too. End of an era. But I'll still be live on the air remote on Thursday so tune in.
Like to see a version of Dracula where when they're signing the papers for the castle, Dracula has his own buyer's agent, and there's also someone there from the title company who did the title search. Maybe that's who the three vampire women in the original Bram Stoker book are.
Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!
#science #evolution #microbiology
Love when Nosferatu says, "We are entering a golden age of vampirism and I have have vampired better then anyone ever before...these nasty people with stakes...they have stakes. They call them stakes (sucks air between teeth). It's a beautiful thing though how I suck the blood. Completely undead."
Instead of SOTU, I'm watching Nosferatu (2024) because it has some of the same letters and roughly same vibe.
