Is a lifelong Creighton fan who is a professor at Iowa allowed to cheer for Nebraska without losing everyone’s respect? Asking for a friend who is caught up with #Nebrasketball 🏀
C. Andrew Frank
@candrewfrank.bsky.social
Husband, dad to 3, son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew. Fruit fly neuroscientist, geneticist. Professor, University of Iowa. He/him.
Specific Heat. c = q/m(delta T). Today, it will be 66°F in Iowa City. Midwesterners, do you have your own examples of the high specific heat of water?
Happy end-of-Thanksgiving weekend to everyone, except whoever vandalized nearly all the road signs in Eastern Iowa (I-80 W) with black spray paint. I made it home fine, but I bet those Yoo-hoos laughed all the way from Bettendorf to West Branch 🌽
Two Graeme Davis UCSF alums publishing in @plosbiology.org in consecutive weeks. Congratulations on this fantastic work, Kira!! 🎉
Kira Poskanzer@kiraposkanzer.bsky.social · 12mo agoCongrats to Charlotte Taylor and team for dissecting how astrocyte networks integrate histamine to modulate adenosine over sleep and wake in unexpected ways: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @vincenttse.bsky.social @maxine.science @trishavv.bsky.social
This is wild – an AI-generated, podcast-style bit about our recent @plosbiology.org paper produced by The Sanz Science Experience. I listened. The clip was conversational, down-to-earth, and accurate. It was easy for me to understand, but the paper is from my lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f--T...
Mitochondrial Complex I, ROS and Homeostasis at the Synapse
YouTube video by The Sanz Science Experience
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We have an uncorrected proof published for Bhagaban Mallik's study on Mitochondrial Complex I and how it regulates synapse function. You can find it in @plosbiology.org. I am so proud! H/T collaborators: Drs. Sajad Bhat and Xinnan Wang @xinnanwanglab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Mitochondrial Complex I and ROS control neuromuscular function through opposing pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms
How do neurons adapt to mitochondrial dysfunction in different tissues? This study shows that Mitochondrial Complex I depletion triggers ROS-driven compensatory signaling in motor neurons that preserv...
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We have proofs! And you know what that means. Assertive editing. A copy editor has flagged my name on an author line and wants me to spell out Carl Andrew Frank as my name instead of C. Andrew Frank. I am irrationally irritated by this 😆
I think that societal advancement requires nonviolence.
New email signature. I dropped the Associate. Now maybe I can drop the some of the pounds I gained as an Associate Professor😆
Today I learned that you should not wash chicken.
Grant reviewers are triaging Pope Francis’s tomb over font and kerning choices. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis’ Tombstone
Irregularly spaced letters spelling “F R A NCISC VS” have caused a stir among typography nerds who specialize in spacing and fonts. One called them “an abomination unto design.”
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Drosophila neuroscience friends! Please help us to identify deserving Ph.D. students or recent Ph.D. graduates for the Elkins Memorial Lecture competition (CSHL, October 2025). Details below – send nominations by email to Troy Littleton (troy@mit.edu).
Michelle Obama says she did not attend Donald Trump's second inauguration because she did not have anything to wear. Mad respect. www.cbsnews.com/news/michell...
Michelle Obama addresses not attending Trump's inauguration, the importance of saying "no"
Former first lady Michelle Obama told actor Taraji P. Henson on her podcast, "IMO," about her choice to skip President Trump's inauguration.
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Fenton 2011-2025 Frank family member 2015-2025 Who rescued whom? 💕 🐾
Arial 11. Full justify with auto-hyphenation. Figure legends: Arial 9. And brief because nobody wants to read them. White space, yes. Walls of text, no. Four figures because you ran out of time? No. 20 figures because you want to impress with a mountain of data? Also, no.
I wanted to share good news (which in normal times would be neutral). One of my lab's NIH grants was renewed for year 2 (March 1). That means that funding is not completely frozen. And it means there are people in Bethesda who believe in the mission of the NIH and research. And I thank them.
If they cancel study section, can I get another dog? 🐕
Hey Elon fans — your hero and his CEO are now trivializing the Holocaust with puns. Some were curious or unsure about “the context” of his salute. Well…amidst all that talk he is adding his own context.
I am so proud of Dr. Bhagaban Mallik and the years of work he compiled to formulate this story. It has taken our group into new directions, and what more could you want out of science? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mitochondrial Complex I and ROS control synapse function through opposing pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms
Neurons require high amounts energy, and mitochondria help to fulfill this requirement. Dysfunctional mitochondria trigger problems in various neuronal tasks. Using the Drosophila neuromuscular juncti...
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Folks who celebrated a CEO’s murder — and who now seem to be lionizing the killer as a combo hero/sex symbol — have bizarre moral compasses. You can be dismayed by insurance practices AND oppose vigilante violence. Oh, that anti-corporate hero? Undone by his visits to Starbucks and McDonald’s.
Score Update: NYJ 26 - 32 MIA Final That's Scorigami!! It's the 1089th unique final score in NFL history.