BWJones
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Bryan William Jones Neuroscientist Vision Neuroscientist Connectomics / VolumeEM Photographer / #Leica Professing at Pitt In the data bryanwjones.com ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Eating with others is a hugely wonderful experience. Cooking with others is even better. It is incredibly intimate. But sometimes I just want to hang out with good peeps over an excellent meal and don’t wanna do the dishes afterwards.
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3h ago“these are people who never learned to cook” i know how to cook i also enjoy trying other peoples cooking i also enjoy going out to eat i do not see the weird privilege here
Alice and I hanging out, watching and listening to the rain and waiting for the fireflies to emerge.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
I am here for this kind of CNN reporting again. Lean back into this, CNN.
CNN@cnn.com · 3h agoWhen Tahira Reid Smith was in third grade, she drew a picture of something she wished she could have. 40 years later, Smith — who is now an engineer — turned her illustration of an automated Double Dutch machine into a rope-spinning reality.
I love, love, loooove Sugarcube by Yo La Tengo. Upbeat waves of guitar driven sound are my jam.
Art Of Coop@artofcoop.bsky.social · 4h agoa perfect memroy: driving across the border and into Mexico as dawn beaks, listening to this song - it starts raining right as the drums kick in youtu.be/qEAPTsiqNtw?...
Yo La Tengo - Detouring America with Horns
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That long thing in the image you show is the spinous process of the fish vertebra. It is fused to the underlying vertebral body. The spinous process does not have an articulation/joint/etc. This bone is a jointed bone. AI sometimes makes a mistake. 
i don't trust Google for anything anymore. this thread forked, but i think @mosasaurologist.bsky.social 's suggestion that it could be an *anal fin* spine might be correct especially given where it was found. Freshwater drum are common in the Great Lakes & they can get pretty big
As per @paoloviscardi.bsky.social's sage reply, it's a fish dorsal fin supporting bone, or pterygiophore.
Brilliant Disguise: Goldfish with Shark Fin
ALT: Brilliant Disguise: Goldfish with Shark Fin
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You have it - it is indeed a fish pteryiophore. Species is hard to nail down without more images and data.
The 'ole, "I confessed and said I was sorry, so get over it already" defense that abusers love so well.
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 7h agoLDS Church praises the decision in this high-profile case, investigated by the reporter of "Spotlight" fame, but an advocate worries that predators could use a “confessional loophole to escape justice.”
Modular grant level was set nearly 30 years ago, in 1998. A single modular R01 cannot support a research lab with mammal models, the LARC expenses alone will deplete the budget.
BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 9h agoI don't think anyone has any idea of how thin the margins are in science. To have funding agencies or private foundations come back on a proposal and ask you to cut 10-20%, or more from a project simply means the work cannot be done. Modular grants have not been adjusted for inflation in >20yrs.
Amen to that...and #VolumeEM is beautifully complimentary/adjacent to #ExpansionMicroscopy. I hesitated to hit the grandiosity button & name that this has "become" that, even though the parallel construction was enticing prose. An amazing time to see the #connectomics work feedback loops all around.
"You see that weird box up there?" "Where?" "Right up there on the cliff." "Where?" "I CAN'T POINT, DAVE, JUST LOOK WHERE I'M NODDING." "Okay, okay, what about it?" "There are 176 people all over the world watching us right now through that." "...man, get the heck out of here." "IT'S TRUE."
Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9h agoOrcas are swimming and vocalizing right now on the livestream! orcalab.org/live-streams/
The U.S. is undergoing one of the biggest changes to its social safety net in recent history, with huge numbers of people getting dropped from the government’s food assistance program. Nowhere has this been more dramatic than in Arizona. Listen as we explain why and its implications on "The Daily."
Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.
The number of people who receive nutrition assistance in Arizona has dropped significantly in a matter of months.
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While on the topic of cabinet members who lie, Congressional Dems are going after Chris Wright for lying during testimony, as confirmed by something the DOE had to admit in court later.
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I don't think anyone has any idea of how thin the margins are in science. To have funding agencies or private foundations come back on a proposal and ask you to cut 10-20%, or more from a project simply means the work cannot be done. Modular grants have not been adjusted for inflation in >20yrs.
Great to see this out in the world!
Ian Hutchins@bihutchins.bsky.social · last wk.How cost-effective are NIH Extramural vs Intramural mechanisms? We did internal analysis at NIH but never published results. Happy to share some answers: Extramural is better for measures like publications and citations; Intramural is better at basic -> clinical translation doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
It has been fun watching the field of connectomics which we built tools to understand how neurons are connected to one another, influence other fields in science like oncology (cancer), and development, and... #Connectomics has become #VolumeEM as a field.
Rockefeller University Press@rupress.org · 10h agoIn @jcb.org, Bharathan, Kowalczyk et al. provide the first comprehensive description of the 3D desmosome in A431 epidermoid carcinoma, human mammary epithelial cells, and airway epithelia in volume electron microscopy datasets. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Adhesion #StructuralBiology
The new Iranian "deal". This is such an incredible self own by America. There was no tariff system that sent money to Iran or Oman prior to Trump launching a war against Iran. There was very little leverage that Iran had outside of the Middle East with proxy conflicts, until Trump waded into this.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
Congratulations Abdul!!!! I can’t believe I know a Democratic nominee for Senate! Or that this picture was 11 years ago. The idea of Abdul being in the Senate advocating for public health and access to health care, especially at a time when RFKJ is in charge at HHS, is incredible to contemplate.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · last mo.I don’t exactly have the power of an AOC endorsement, but I’ve known Abdul for quite some time and I would be thrilled to see him represent public health in the Senate. He was our class speaker when I graduated from undergrad (Go Blue!) and then I got to know him better when were both at Columbia.
Pluto's cold heart is leaking, apparently. (It's nitrogen, not water.) From NASA: New Horizons Finds Evidence of Recent Liquid on Pluto’s Surface science.nasa.gov/blogs/scienc...
Oh that's fun! I'll be teaching parietal eyes (and other weird & wonderful senses) this semester so I'll have to set the class a mission to spot some out in the wild/museum.
This is all true. Michael Flynn spent years inside the Army making sure he got ahead upon the backs of junior officers and enlisted personnel, profiting off of every interaction. If Flynn was talking to you he was trying to figure out how to capitalize on your back. Then he went to work for Trump.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h agoMichael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.
Would love to know how in the clouds you have to be to create this. This took TIME. Absolute cinema.
One of my favorite things at museums is finding the pineal eye in the skulls of fossils. Once you start looking for them, they are everywhere.
Kelsey Jenkins, PhD@reptiliferous.bsky.social · 14h agoNew research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
My quote of the day Dawn showed faintly in the east. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped rubble and steam: Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is... Ray Bradbury
They are learning how to ride a bike as adults. It's never to late to learn if physically able. They even have 80 years giving it a try. The same goes for swimming and reading.
A bicycle class for adults who never learned how to ride
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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...
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