Here’s your yearly spooky szn reminder that the patches on Southern Right Whales, usually mistaken as “Barnacles,” are actually rough patches of skin filled with whale lice called cyamids! Each whale has a unique pattern, allowing researchers to ID individuals over decades 🐳

Savoy, by Richard Yarde, 1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 📸 by Laurence Griffiths

Honetsuki Juju, a man with a chicken leg for a head, who carries a turtle around, is the mascot of Marugane City. Here he is on a boat yesterday.

at some point I will take 5 seconds to learn how to check my spotify wrapped so I can see if "White Noise 3 Hour Long" made my top tracks this year

sparrow in my terminal is doing a performance art by flying 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 of the airport 🎭

She is stealing catalytic converters

In new study, I have analyzed correlation between SARS-CoV-2 & animal genetic material in full set of environmental samples from Huanan Seafood Market. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Analysis clarifies what sequencing these samples can & cannot tell us about early outbreak at market.

Come join our team! The Swinburne lab is looking for someone interested in research on development, organ form and function. We use advanced live imaging and genetic experiments in developing zebrafish. Please spread the word-- bit.ly/3nE3w8d

Child Playing with a Goose, copy of Boethos of Chalcedon, 1st/2nd Century ad

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MCB.berkeley.edu is soliciting applications for an Assistant Professor position studying fundamental aspects of genetics, genomics, evolution, and/or developmental biology. Bring it on! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04110

Maybe by the time I am in a position to have a lawn, mowing will be mostly obsolete. Also, I had no idea the East Coast has a native species of prickly pear that grows as far north as NY and MA. nytimes.com/2023/09/13/rea…

We’re very excited to share the first preprint from my lab along with Harry McNamara, @BillZJia, Adam Cohen, and Alex Schier. We describe a set of methods for exerting spatial control over Nodal signaling in zebrafish development. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

As a dedicated black background presenter, this tool will definitely come in handy.

Excited to share my postdoc work from the Alex Schier. This project was a joint effort with many collaborators Georg Seelig, Sebastián Castillo-Hair,Lucia Du, Yiqun Wang,Adam Carte,Mariona Colomer Rosell, Chris Yin. 1/20 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Lindsey Wasson 📸 Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, by Lambert Lombard, 1558, 📸 by Lindsey Wasson 📸

ants transporting strangely shaped, large pretzel back to the colony

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