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1/ Right after this article dropped, Grossman and Bar-Sagi emailed us to double down on their decision, in which they danced around "the circumstances regarding Dr. Sabatini’s departure from MIT".

The decision by Robert Grossman and Dafna Bar-Sagi to rehabilitate a serial predator has already destroyed hundreds of person-hours of research, as large numbers of bio research staff at NYU have had to spend the day drawing up plans to stop them. science.org/content/articl…

Imagine being a trainee scientist at NYU following this hire. How could you possibly take seriously any purported efforts by NYU promote diversity, equity, and inclusion if they proceed with this hire? 13/

This week The Lancet's cover

Me, an ophthalmologist, asking an Aetna customer service representative for permission to do cataract surgery on a 90 year old patient who can no longer read, just as Hippocrates intended.

De novo assembly and annotation of the singing mouse genome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

THIS ONE IS FOR THE DINOSAURS

"The rats don't run this city, we do"

"privileged access to the Boat Race" is redundant, but otherwise what a stunning lack of scruples ft.com/content/31cb17…

rapid unscheduled disassembly

Single-cell analysis of the nervous system at small and large scales with instant partitions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

The court took a break after another plaintiff, Samantha Casiano, vomited while describing what she went through when she was denied an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with anencephaly. She said she had to watch her baby die after giving birth.

New journal club alert! paulie_sci & I discuss the recent work by Chierzi et al. on the integration of transplanted astrocytes in the mouse cortex SfN Journals.✨ We also highlight some of the compelling questions it raises for future research. #JNeurosci jneurosci.org/content/43/36/…

My first PhD paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! Thanks to all collaborators and co-authors, and to Shane Liddelow 🍊 for excellent mentorship and guidance during our sojourn into neurodevelopment/gliodevelopment

stem cells: their job is avoiding commitment

"Facebook is the Louis Pasteur of B.F. Skinners, in that they think they can get you to do anything" - Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK at a book signing

Microinjection practice with Calibre Scientific #CalibreScientific and Sutter Instruments Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) #FIRBees

Always bittersweet when someone leaves the lab... but two in a month! Excited to see what paulie_sci does as a postdoc at Princeton University. And Annie Marchildon is off to grad school at UVA. Excited for you both, and happy to have been a small part of your journey. Don't forget us.