Sunsets at MBL are my favorite!

As cephalopods, longfin inshore squid have three hearts: two to pump blood through the gills & a third to circulate oxygenated blood around the body. @gertjanveenstra.bsky.social shows how each heart forms from a shared embryonic origin, in close concert with the gills.

#2025ICDB #2025SDB #ICDB2025

Fine-grained mapping of #EndothelialCell Zonation at single-cell resolution in developing mouse Kidney😍
#SciArt

👉Nephrogenic zone ESM1
👉Sub-nephrogenic zone Ccdc3
👉Glomeruli Sgk1
AVR DVR...

ESM1-CreERT2 lineage tracing😎

@ondinecleaver.bsky.social bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The irony about IDC cuts targeting elite institutions is that they can weather this storm through their endowments and donors. Those of us at most publics and smaller universities will be most hurt. Our institutions will not be able to make up the gap, ending their ability to support research.

As scientists going through difficult times, I think it’s important to remember the things that bind us together:

1) Our love of free food.
2) Our inability to explain what we do to our families.
3) Our hatred for Reviewer #3.

Now please go do fun things this weekend and hang out with nice people.

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

I came across a quote in an article, which I will paraphrase: the ultimate goal of neuroscience is to model the brain and derive laws that define the brain’s computational abilities. Statements like this are common and presented as self-evident, but I think they are wrong.