Happy to share my lab’s latest publication led by Jade Harkin, developing a New Approach Methodology platform to explore the combinatorial effects of inflammatory microglia and astrocytes upon retinal ganglion cells, relevant for glaucoma and other optic neuropathies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A human pluripotent stem cell triculture platform to elucidate microglial regulation of retinal ganglion cells in neuroinflammation | PNAS

Optic neuropathies, including glaucoma, are characterized by the progressive degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), ultimately leading to i...

pnas.org

Retina. Oil on canvas. I did this for my scientist wife's office. Representational art at a small enough scale is abstract art. #oilpainting #painting #art #retina #scienceart

How do adult tissues stay organized as they continually renew? Our new preprint shows that Eph-ephrin signaling maintains sensory neuron location and number in planarians. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ephrin Signaling Patterns Sensory Neurons During Tissue Homeostasis in Planarians

Eph and ephrin genes encode receptor-ligand pairs that mediate contact-dependent cell signaling and are essential for nervous system development. However, less is known about the role of Ephrin signal...

biorxiv.org

Home alone. Ink and color pencil on paper. #art #heartyart

Good fortune girl. (I don't have a smoke machine so I had to start a small fire with paper bags. Art life, man) #filmphotography #film #japanesemasks

Re: developmental biology 🧪

The only things I can say in Japanese so far: My daughter lives in Fukushima City. She is an English teacher. My wife is a biology professor. What is that building? I like natto. Where is the toilet? I like to shoot film camera photography. I ate an apple.

I am sincerely honored and excited to be named the Vice Chair for Vision Research at the @moraneyecenter.bsky.social at @utah.edu. I am thrilled to work with everyone to build upon the Moran's rich history in vision research. Stay tuned for much more to come - we will be growing!

Moran Eye Center Names Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research

The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah has named Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research. In this leadership role, she will help guide the strategic direction of the Moran...

healthcare.utah.edu

Sazaedo temple in Aizu. Originally (1796) a buddhist temple with 33 statues of Kannon, in the Meiji it was stripped of those and made a shinto shrine. No photos do it justice. Go there. #aizu #photography

It rules how much bowling green tries to claim JC and he’s always calling it the most evil place on earth

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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Thrilled to share that our ENCODE enhancer–gene mapping paper is now out in Nature! An encyclopedia of human enhancer–gene regulatory interactions: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread 👇 1/

An encyclopedia of human enhancer–gene regulatory interactions - Nature

An encyclopedia of more than 92 million enhancer–gene regulatory interactions created as part of the ENCODE4 project provides a valuable resource for future studies of gene regulation and human geneti...

nature.com

Eden Park, Cincinnati. Shot on 110 film Kodak Tele-Instamatic 608 #filmphotography #Cincinnati

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

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"Despite years of failure...doubts about what I was doing with my life...years of lackluster results...my PhD research is not a complete waste" Max's story of how we got checkpoint inhibitors should inspire any PhD worried their work's going nowhere theimmunebeyond.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...

A Brief History of Checkpoint Blockade

A major medical breakthrough, interrupted

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It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0

The Yoder Lab is building the TARDIS, with new support from NSF

Chaparral whitethorn, Ceanothus leucodermis, bearing flowers and fruits near the Red Box Picnic Area along the Angeles Crest Highway in early May, 2026. (Flickr, jby) Why do Joshua trees grow only …

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A lot of incredible people who know what they're doing and also me.

Avant Radio Festival

WAVE FARM and WFMU and ARTxFM are teaming up to bring you a weekend focused on the creative and experimental nature of radio.

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"Taking this job is a bet, or maybe a hope, that the best science will drive the conversation over the long run." Incoming NAS President @neilshubin.bsky.social spoke with @nytimes.com about the state of American science and his hopes for his 5-year term as president: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...

Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’

nytimes.com

I first met Neil Shubin 30 years ago when he was digging for fossils of our fishy ancestors in Pennsylvania road cuts. Now he's becoming president of the National Academy of Sciences. We talked about taking the helm of the 163-year-old organization at this fraught moment. Gift link: nyti.ms/4giD3FX

Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... I have some thoughts...

Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm

The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that it will spur a rush to commercialize the approach.

nature.com

Tonight! The final epsiode of Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White! My last message to my awesome radio friends at 6pm EDT on @wfmu.bsky.social . A celebration of life...except I'm not dead! Let's get more listeners than the final epsiode of "Hello, Larry!" Shemp Jive, kids!

Mercer County down by the river. #filmphotography

⬣INFERNO⬣ @boardsofcanada.bsky.social @warprecords.bsky.social

All my early radio work in the 80s and 90s was recorded on a 1/2 inch Otari 8 track and all my scripts handwritten on legal pads. Thank you, Lord, for that experience. Thank you for film. Thank you for live theater. Bless the young going forward and give them my contact info if they need it.

Very happy to see our study on the development of an in vivo single-cell ribosome profiling strategy for the epidermis now online at @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Fantastic work by @claradure.bsky.social and all co-authors involved. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

In vivo single-cell ribosome profiling reveals cell-type-specific translational programs during aging

In vivo single-cell ribosome profiling reveals cell-type-specific translational landscapes across the epidermis and uncovers selective reprogramming of AP-1 subunit translation in aged stem cells, lin...

cell.com

Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

As part of my Month of May farewell tour, I'm getting listeners to record messages I'll play on the air. If you're intersted, let me know!

The average NYTimes Connections puzzle: Monkey Polenta Alfred E. Newman Jazz WORDS THAT END IN A LETTER THAT COULD BEGIN ANOTHER WORD

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...

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 🧪