Are Dortmund losing points this weekend ?

At the entire CSU system 🥲

Looking forward to it and already pre-ordered.

NASA Artemis II Science | AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) investigation — launching on Artemis II — will use organ-on-a-chip devices, or organ-chips, to study the effects of increased radiation and micr...

Super cool - looked it up here: AVATAR (a virtual astronaut tissue analog response) to study increased radiation and microgravity science.nasa.gov/biological-p...

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."

@aklotz.bsky.social when you are back we got to try this on different microscopes!

Meme of a cat on grass background stating "I do my best" in response to "what do you do for living?"

Nothing is more rewarding than lab members' success. First medschool (USC) acceptance for the (now former) lab members. Proud and thankful PI!

(still feel a lot like the cat here these days)

Whenever I start a new project/proposal, I relearn that writting is hard 😅📝👨🏻‍💻🖍️

+ happy belated spring and Nowruz (I have been writting --- poorly).

I have opinions ... some conflicting.

Respecting your audience to me means treating them as folks who can process complexity and nuance to make better decisions. My current concern is the over-emphasis on "engaging" which has come to mean "entertaining". (Postman's book comes to mind).

Beautiful !

Same thing happened to us.

A brief paragraph human sounding with typos incomplete sentences +
1.5 pager attached with refrences that are not relevant to the work, but sound about right!

It did not

How are the cats?

Best use of bluesky this week! 💯

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

Decals on a wall at Oregon Contemporary read: Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. THE CREATION OF ÉA

One last shot taken while packing up the exhibition.

Baby Bao ate his very first shrimp and absolutely crushed it. 🦐 Watching him figure it out is even cuter! 💙

📹: Animal care staff Katie

😸 beautiful tabby !!!
Thank you for the post.

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 114 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList

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Birthday card of tabby cats doing science !!

Best bday card any PI can wish for - folks in my lab are amazing!

Tabby cats doing science is the best!!

It has been one of those seasons

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🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

Six people in ugly sweaters. Background includes trees and the Walter pyramid.

Happy holidays from our lab to yours
(Missing 3 folks in the photo).

It has been... well a year for research.

But proud and thankful for all we got done.

Two submitted GRFP proposals is the big highlight imho.

To you, family, and the lab as well !!

"Doesn't look like anything to me."

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it.
PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

Almost sunset photo of the sky - trees and cars, beach beyond the parking lot.

Good view (+ ok macchiato) after a long day (week) of exams / ongoing grading.

Happy end of the semester to all the educators.

Two nerve nets are formed in Hydra vulgaris: the endodermal (cyan) and the ectodermal (purple) net. (B) Intraepithelial neurons are randomly scattered between the epithelial cells of the two germ layers. (C) Two types of connections have been found between Hydra’s neurons. (D) Endodermal neurons are in physical touch with each other by forming neural handshakes by digiform endings, which get intertwined. (E) In other places, clusters of vesicles of different types can be released to mediate volume transmission between neurons and between neurons and other cells.

Our dispatch:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096...

on the recent Hydra volume EM paper by Zhang, Rafa Yuste and colleagues:

#connectomics, without synapses

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096...

#neuroscience

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot