Congrats to Utah gymnastics for getting to the NCAA final!! (Nice win for our “date night” with Tanya Halliday, PhD, RD!).

Nice paper from Harmit S. Malik and colleagues that delves deeply into the evolution of domesticated LTR retrotransposons in mammals that have Gag capsid domains (~24 of them!), including Arc and the PNMAs. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…

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We are excited to put on another awesome public symposium NHMU May 7 by graduate students University of Utah! This is part of a science communications workshop I run for our Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sponsored DASL group.

I think these changes to NIH fellowship reviews are good! Criterion scores now only include these 3:
1. Candidate’s Goals, Preparedness and Potential
2. Research Training Plan
3. Commitment to Candidate

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The best words in the English language ...'Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that your recent application was approved for funding'

Love seeing my trainees get what they deserve! Now bring on that NOA.

CROWDED HOUSE in my backyard?! 🙌🎉🇳🇿

This is a reminder that international scientists face various hurdles and citizenship in some countries is worse than others. I had 2 students miss 4-6 weeks this year JUST to renew their visas (India and China).

(have to admit that global south was confusing, coming from NZ)

Great line up and excited to participate in this virtual workshop organized by Cian O'Donnell TTchumatchenko!

A PI retired and didn’t send in his annual reports to the NIH and now ALL UCSD PIs will have their NOAs delayed 🤦🏻🫠

Was great to catch up with Xin Duan today, who’s doing amazing work on how the retina wires up to the brain!

Nature is so cool! But I guess..sometimes structure doesn't equal function 🤔

Only 57...such a sad loss!

All the eclipse images are giving me serious FOMO! So here’s the view I had in 2017, one of the most epic experiences of my life.

GOOD question....