So do you guys know that The University of Alabama, is trying to get a general education core approved that eliminates the need for students to take a single history course, a single literature course, and also eliminates foreign languages. Madness.

Time to play Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe)" while handing out candy! youtube.com/watch?v=y7htAl…

Wowzers: "Mirror-image T7 transcription of chirally inverted ribosomal and functional RNAs" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Great opportunity for undergraduate students enrolled at a U.S. college or university to spend Summer 2023 doing research in evolutionary science with a University of Iowa faculty member! $6000 stipend, housing, food & travel allowance, & more! Details & apply at biology.uiowa.edu/reu

Comparing cell sorter models: swordscomic.com/comic/CCLXV/

PSA: If you stocked up on Pop Rocks at the beginning of the pandemic, they're about to expire. So get popping!

#PeerReview from Review Commons of 👉🏿 Impact of cell size on morphogen gradient precision biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #bioRxiv #reviewedpreprint

The Tootle Lab is looking for a research intern. This is a 1-2 year postbac research experience for individuals interested in pursuing graduate or professional degrees. Please retweet. jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/rese…

New Twitter game? Auto-captioning of Oded Rechavi memes by coincidental bioRxiv titles: 😄

Practicing for my show tonight in Iowa City Mission Creek at the Riverside Theater!! I played this way too slow but please like it anyway.

Darrin Schultz I would also like to congratulate Albert Erives 🧬 and Bernd Fritzsch for their excellent paralogy analysis from a few years ago, again vindicated yesterday. doi.org/10.1534/g3.119… Targeted analyses might be better than catch-all phylogenomics if a good synapomorphy is selected.

Simple decadent dinner: Korean-style smoked pork belly

Join researchers in collecting, observing, & recording biodiversity at the 3rd Annual BioBlitz on Saturday, July 8 from 9am-Noon. Free event, no experience required, all ages/families welcome. Registration is required: uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bd… Event details:events.uiowa.edu/78945

How many pepperoni slices do u want?

The Biology Dept at the University of Iowa (uiowabiology) has two tenure-track assistant professor searches this year - one in cell biology (#74891) and one in neuroscience (#74892). To apply: jobs.uiowa.edu/content/facult…. Reach out if you have questions. Please Retweet.

Does your work give evolutionary insight into cell biological processes found across the tree of life? Submit an abstract to our ‘Evolutionary Cell Biology’ subgroup at ASCB/EMBO’s 2023 meeting! Deadline: Aug. 1 #cellbio2023 Holly V. Goodson Pavan Vedula MichaelMcMurraylab OnishiLab_Duke @mcmomany

Application review begins soon. Get your applications in, who knows -- your lab could be down the hall from DSHB

Stand-in perhaps for wing imaginal discs and clear wing pouch region, and a little cross-section of disc proper epithelium with peripodial membrane (Paul Klee, 1927)

Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.

"Dinner at the Devonian" Table for Techers Iowa edition was a blast! Thanks all for attending! #CaltechAlumni Caltech Alumni Association