Benoit Bruneau
@benoitbruneau.bsky.social
Cardiac developmental biologist. Oakland and San Francisco. Hi friends! 🇨🇦
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This is how we first teach chirality to our undergrads !
Loved this from @simonmaechling.bsky.social - chemistry FTW…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This is how we first teach chirality to our undergrads !
Oh so damn good. Needed levity this morning
One of the few things bringing me some joys these days are the owl impressions people are posting. In case you, too, could use some levity, here are a few. 1/
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Oh so damn good. Needed levity this morning
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A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.
nyti.ms
January 19, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
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Today is National Thesaurus Day.
Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.
Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.
January 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Today is National Thesaurus Day.
Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.
Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.
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Paying reviewers won’t fix everything, but it signals which journals take rigor seriously. Publishers should serve science, not extract value from it.
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Paying reviewers won’t fix everything, but it signals which journals take rigor seriously. Publishers should serve science, not extract value from it.
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Also: Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social is published by the nonprofit Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social No shareholders. No growth-at-all-costs incentives.
January 19, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Also: Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social is published by the nonprofit Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social No shareholders. No growth-at-all-costs incentives.
Guitar selection of the day. Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin P90. Canadian wild cherry archtop hollowbody. D’Addario E12 Jazz wound G set.
@wbderry.bsky.social
@chrmosimann.bsky.social
@thelovelylab.bsky.social
@lucksmith.bsky.social
@wbderry.bsky.social
@chrmosimann.bsky.social
@thelovelylab.bsky.social
@lucksmith.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Guitar selection of the day. Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin P90. Canadian wild cherry archtop hollowbody. D’Addario E12 Jazz wound G set.
@wbderry.bsky.social
@chrmosimann.bsky.social
@thelovelylab.bsky.social
@lucksmith.bsky.social
@wbderry.bsky.social
@chrmosimann.bsky.social
@thelovelylab.bsky.social
@lucksmith.bsky.social
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Top of the charts at my house today
January 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Top of the charts at my house today
OK I'm only posting nice stuff. Today a coyote swam from SF to Alcatraz Island (1.25 miles!!!). "coyotes on Angel Island likely formed their pack after one of the animals swam over and called until a mate arrived." Let's hope the little buddyfella gets a friend soon! www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever
"This was the first time our park biologists observed anything like this."
www.sfgate.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
OK I'm only posting nice stuff. Today a coyote swam from SF to Alcatraz Island (1.25 miles!!!). "coyotes on Angel Island likely formed their pack after one of the animals swam over and called until a mate arrived." Let's hope the little buddyfella gets a friend soon! www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
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The Branch Manager thrives in the snow
January 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The Branch Manager thrives in the snow
The best
January 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The best
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The Chicago History Museum apparently doesn't do Blue Sky, so I'll share their Bears vs Rams poster. @chicagomuseum.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The Chicago History Museum apparently doesn't do Blue Sky, so I'll share their Bears vs Rams poster. @chicagomuseum.bsky.social
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Activation of developmental transcription factors using RNA technology promotes heart repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.16.700013v1
January 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Activation of developmental transcription factors using RNA technology promotes heart repair https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.16.700013v1
can anyone ID this critter?
January 18, 2026 at 4:46 AM
can anyone ID this critter?
Piece on why Nature became so influential and “important”. This quote: “history shows that much of its success has been circumstantial and opportunistic rather than meritorious…we should not mistake the system that emerged for one that reliably surfaces the best work.” www.asimov.press/p/nature
How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last?
www.asimov.press
January 18, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Piece on why Nature became so influential and “important”. This quote: “history shows that much of its success has been circumstantial and opportunistic rather than meritorious…we should not mistake the system that emerged for one that reliably surfaces the best work.” www.asimov.press/p/nature
I thought I’d clear my mind watching 9ers Seahawks but more crap. I get it @mikefeigin.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I thought I’d clear my mind watching 9ers Seahawks but more crap. I get it @mikefeigin.bsky.social
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1. Overall, there’s never been a better time to be a biologist. Technology, international collaboration, myriad areas for translation
2. If you are fortunate to be able to be a scientist today, double down so you can truly fly when tailwinds return
2. If you are fortunate to be able to be a scientist today, double down so you can truly fly when tailwinds return
January 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
1. Overall, there’s never been a better time to be a biologist. Technology, international collaboration, myriad areas for translation
2. If you are fortunate to be able to be a scientist today, double down so you can truly fly when tailwinds return
2. If you are fortunate to be able to be a scientist today, double down so you can truly fly when tailwinds return
“Because of your accent” says the masked man with an equally heavy accent. They don’t even see the idiocy.
January 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM
“Because of your accent” says the masked man with an equally heavy accent. They don’t even see the idiocy.
Uncle Al setting the mood
January 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Uncle Al setting the mood
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If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
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A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. n.pr/3NnYj0O
The near death -- and last-minute reprieve -- of a trial for an HIV vaccine
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started.
n.pr
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
A trial was about to launch for a vaccine that would ward off the HIV virus. It would be an incredible breakthrough. Then it looked as if it would be over before it started. n.pr/3NnYj0O