I highly recommend reading Yogi Jaeger 💙 @[email protected]'s book-in-progress "Beyond the Age of Machines." Many of his points and arguments converge with Adam Frank Marcelo Gleiser and mine in The Blind Spot. expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-bo…

Most PI's are unhappy. So, I've spent 20 hours studying Dmitri Mendeleev's life and works over 3 months. What I found? Mendeleev's Happiness Formula for PI's Living In the Hellscape of 19th Century Russia:

We'll miss y'all. Keep on fixin them breaks in Texas!

“The basic texture of research consists of dreams into which the threads of reasoning, measurement, and calculation are woven.” ― Albert Szent-Györgyi - Introduction to a Submolecular Biology (1960) Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

Today in Science Magazine we report how lipids specialize for life under the crushing pressures of the deep sea and what this means more broadly for the composition of cell membranes (1/n) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Super to hear Hope Johnson Cal State Fullerton presenting the Roger Milkman Endowed Lecture in Microbial Diversity Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) today. Roger was my colleague uiowabiology & he was the first to identify genes for potassium channels in bacteria.

The great Manu PrakashLab giving this morning's lecture in #MBLPhysiology Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) describing recent expedition off CA coast and amazing mechanisms of buoyancy control in single celled organisms. Tremendous and inspirational creativity

I am delighted that my paper with Zahra Aminzare digging into and extending the pump-leak model, has being published in JGenPhysiol where the model was first proposed by Tosteson & Hoffman in 1960. rupress.org/jgp/article/15…

New: Zahra Aminzare and Alan R. Kay University of Iowa calculate how cells prevent themselves from bursting. They upgraded pump-leak equations that are used to characterize cell volume regulation to include more cell parts and energy details. hubs.la/Q02GyF6y0 #ComputationalBiology

Electrophysiological Mechanisms and Validation of Ferritin-Based Magnetogenetics for Remote Control of Neurons jneurosci.org/content/44/30/…

Impossible to express in a tweet how incredible of an experience the 131st #MBLphysiology 2024 was, and how privileged I feel to have met these amazing people in such a mind-blowingly inspiring place 🔬🧫🦠🦑 (cont')

Image showing the effect of turning off leak conductances on cellular stability, from a study by Aminzare and Alan R. Kay demonstrating mathematical modeling of intracellular osmolarity and cell volume stabilization. hubs.la/Q02GyKsB0 #Biophysics #ComputationalBiology

I'd like to think that Musk is merely incapable of identifying fake news on his own platform (although "like" is hardly the right word). But it seems more likely that he is now invested in intentionally propagating it.

My admiration for Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi , which was huge, has jumped up a notch after she recommended Richard Holmes' magnificent Age of Wonder on the Ezra Klein show nytimes.com/2024/08/09/opi…

Oscar Wilde once described the English country gentleman galloping after a fox as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable”. Elon Musk interviewing Donald Trump surely qualifies as the incoherent in full pursuit of the unendurable. - from a Guardian piece.

Thrilled to share successful PhD defense for Dr. Pranav Vyas Pranav Vyas . An amazing set of science stories woven together. It's been a true joy to go on an exploration with this budding naturalists (biophysicist). For preview of science, see: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Intriguing podcast - it's worth noting that others have suggested that "... life is computation at a very deep level" Blaise Aguera , to name a few, Dennis Bray, Neil Gershenfeld, Manu Prakash PrakashLab ...