When learning a new language I benefit from newspapers and radio stations that offer a “lite” version of the same content as the usual outlets. Is there something similar for scientific articles? Could be useful for undergraduate courses.

F1 >>> Jurassic World > Superman

Congratulations Neil! Wonderful news for the NAS.

In general, academics should allocate a portion of their intelligence and time to understanding how the market works and graduate schools should augment training accordingly. Academia shouldn’t be an academic’s sole source of income. That was the a lesson unemployment taught me.

He also kept the manuscript.

I came across this rejection letter from 1989 when sorting my dad’s belongings. Somehow this utterly trivializes editorial rejections when weighed against the full life he lived and the contributions he made.

What a treat to have that kind of entertainment as part of IWMs! Thank you Morris and Curtis ~

A much needed method! I look forward to trying it out.

Third chick in a week. First two were sparrows but this one is a pigeon. They fall to the street and die from the heat. I harvest some developing feathers for “Developmental Biology a la Søren Kierkegaard” and then lay them to rest.

Santella et al. (Bao lab) had published a nice C. elegans TEM dataset. elifesciences.org/articles/77918
Can someone help me identify the organelle in the crosshairs that seems to have a donut around it. There are 3 orthogonal to each other highlighting what looks like a ring around a vesicle.

Asymmetrical melanocyte activity during the second quarter of feather development.