So cool, I will keep an eye out on all the exciting findings coming from your lab

Intrusive thought:

Start another project

Happy Earth Day 🌎

Born OTD, one of the most badass scientists ever born. Neuroscientist and developmental biologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini discovered growth factors and studied how the nervous system develops. The poem she chose for her autobiography "In Praise of Imperfection" is still one of my faves 🧪

I didnt know he was going 👀 such a cool line up!

Looking forward to meeting you in person at Hopkins, too - i have a few ciliated things to chat about and would love to pick your brain

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

What beautiful hcr and thought provoking paper - i need to read more in depth tho. What do you think set the differences in initiation? Environmental signal/ developmental drift, enhancer divergence? Kudos to the team

New Pre-Print Alert!

Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity

with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social

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

See the intricate worlds of parasites and algae — March’s best science images The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

Our ExM Atlas of eukaryotes is moving along with more and more images coming in - some featured in nature last month!
Culture we’re provided by @ccapoban.bsky.social & Julius Lukeš during visits last year

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This unusual looking sea slug has an unusual name–Bullock's Hypselodoris. hese vibrant creatures are nudibranchs, a type of shell-less marine gastropod mollusk often referred to as sea slugs.

THIS COULD BE US

Time Is Finite In this narrative medicine essay, a psychiatrist and residency program director discusses how her lung cancer diagnosis caused her to shift her priorities regarding work and home life.

Time is finite, & we should prioritize and value things accordingly.

Quotes from a recent editorial at JAMA:

"The meaning of my work is profound. The meaning of my presence at home is irreplaceable."

"The people who love us need us as ourselves. And that is the role no one else can fill"

Wow

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 🧪

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong.

Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

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A juvenile Tasselled Leatherjacket (Chaetodermis penicilligerus)

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/...

And there is a version of special kind of anger towards regimes that dismantle forest protection

Living the dream i guess

Drone footage from the Great Barrier Reef Foundation captures 64,000 green sea turtles near Raine Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Science is a container ship carrying 200,000 tons of observations. The weight comes from years of hard work mining and refining these observations.

The ship can’t turn on a dime, so scientific knowledge often changes slowly.

And I think the public’s expectations don’t always match this truth.

HAHA SUCK A DICK CENTRAL DOGMA 🧪

Curious tuna crabs in the Pacific show their inquisitive side as they investigate a diver. Nature’s wonders never cease to amaze us.

Gorgeous!

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

Except in GCs

theonion.com/biologists-c...

Thats an amazing initiative!

A Monterey Marvel: Metridium Mountain | California Diving News At-A-Glance Skill Level: Beginner or better Location: Offshore of Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove at 36° 37.327’ N, 121°...

Photo source: 'A Monterey Marvel: Metridium Mountain' | California Diving News share.google/nHaJ2gaiKqck...

Very cool work on Metridium tentacle adaptations from the Babonis lab!

One of my must-do-next-dives is going to be at the Metridium fields, this otherworldly colony of giant sea anemones just a few miles away from Hopkins Marine Station

Such a cool paper - saving for JC!

Finally published at long last (at least in the pre-view version). Explore the wild and woolly world of archaeal histones! Interactive archaeal histone graph incluced rdcu.be/fdFjv. Congratulations to first author Shawn Laursen