Thanks to the Node for featuring me!

Sailboat and sunrise/set for me. Aurora is classic and a beautiful image, but not such an uncommon shot.

On Becoming an Associate Professor (And Telling the Truth About How I Got Here) February 13, 2026By: Destenie NockWhen people found out I was promoted to Associate Professor, the response was generous and kind. A lot of people said some version of: “Of course. You publish so much...

I was recently promoted to Associate Professor. I’m so grateful and I also wanted to tell the truth behind what people call “effortless” success.
I wrote about infertility, fostering, work as coping, and choosing differently in this next chapter
Full story: destenienock5.wixsite.com/destenienock...

Isaac Bashevis Singer being interviewed about the Super Bowl

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

Dr Glaucemflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social has some great advice about what to do and not to do if you get pepper sprayed in your eyes.

Like when you're watching TV at home or going to work and you know, any usual time this can happen to the average American citizen.

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Intro to Sculpture
Symbolic Logic
18th Century European History
Marx and Matriarchy
Physical Chemistry I

5 years of MITOtalks!

Feels like it was yesterday when @wanrooij20.bsky.social
and @nunoraimundo.bsky.social
opened the first MITOtalk to introduce
@frezzalab.bsky.social.

But it turns out FIVE YEARS have passed. That's 57 MITOtalks, 44 MITOchats, 6000+ followers.

Onwards and upwards!

The power of positive thinking

Two very different show cats in adjacent cages. One is diffuse and fluffy, and the other is tall and sleek.

I've seen this chromatogram before (OP: deleted user on Reddit) #chemchat

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".

"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is absolutely wild, and super important.

There are zillions of studies claiming that fMRI signals indicate increased brain activity, and it looks like that's often just wrong.

If confirmed, this means we've misinterpreted a lot of research.

We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Organelles harbour pH gradients www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

In vivo mitochondrial base editing restores genotype and visual function in a mouse model of LHON - Nature Communications Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is caused by mtDNA mutations. Here, authors generated a mouse model with the common LHON mutation and showed that optimized TALE-like deaminases restored both ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One review. Many journals. Less redundancy. Check out this conversation with our head Dr. Thomas Lemberger on the vision behind @reviewcommons.org and what it means for authors and journals alike @embopress.org @embo.org
www.embo.org/people/revie...

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.

A rare sea slug who dares to make food from sunlight found in waters near a beach not too far from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Really interesting adaptation. If only we could do this trick…

This is actually covfefe

After you send the question in, please consider posting the answer!

Very tempted to go back to Seattle!

Applications are open for the #LakeConference on Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues – co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel!

📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🧠 All career stages welcomed.

Apply to attend by December 12: https://alleninstitute.org/events/aics-lake-2026/

If all this is true, biochemists must be ignored by both biologists and chemists!

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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision

I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Looks like there are plenty of good options already, but if you don't mind a little philosophy and other fun stuff on your motorcycle trips, you could also try "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"

I think the wrong paper was linked here!

The Myo2 adaptor Ldm1 and its receptor Ldo16 mediate actin-dependent lipid droplet motility Zhao et al. identify the molecular machinery for lipid droplet motility, consisting of the type V myosin Myo2, the Myo2 adaptor protein Ldm1, and its surface receptor Ldo16. They uncover a molecular l...

Proud to share our study on #LipidDroplet #Motility #Mitochondria #MembraneContactSite now in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Big thanks to @rwedlichsoldner.bsky.social, @flofroehlich.bsky.social, @ruferbus.bsky.social, Daniel Kümmel lab, Thomas Becker lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

📢 FeMS Q4 2025 Empowerment Award applications are now open!
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