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All of my students need to get unstuck and I have chosen lab over emails. I can already feel the consequences looming.

After almost a year of wrestling with a problem, my systems bio collaborator suggested cMonkey. The algorithm that introduced me to Bayesian methods 15 years ago and he had rewritten in 2015 I was too caught up in current tools to see one that already worked.

I also got the R21 Trailblazer so I get to skip 2 NIH cycles as a treat.

Friday night centrifuge panic! Lid not closing in the middle of a protocol! I call it “craft night at the BioProtean lab.” 20 min fix of a spring housing with expanded aluminum mesh.

I wrote a grant but realized my collaborator would do a better job on the project and I should just co-advise students so I made them the PI upon submitting. Based on all the administrative emails received this week, this is insane behavior.

For a small fee I will email your enemy an apology for missing their talk.

I screwed up my graduation forms so bad I had to return to NYU a year later. Joel met me at the admin office and said. “I want you to know you are only the second worst administrative headache we’ve ever had and #1 is now a PI at Columbia.” A truly kind person.

What drives fMRI signals to go up or down? Beyond conventional “neurovascular coupling”, our latest work Nature Communications reveals critical factors in the striatum by controlling and measuring key cell types and circuits across scales, modalities, and species: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Wake up babe, new Hallmarks of Cancer just dropped.

I’m in a Southern CA coffee shop and they are rocking the 90’s LA “young and depressed” playlist. Really takes me back to the pile of records/tapes/CDs that I needed to survive my teens.

the real victims of right wing backlash to academia aren't the people at Yale who get off on saying the most inflammatory thing possible but the guy making $65k to teach first gen students about redlining at a state school who loses his job when state legislature bans sociology

Not having dated earlier in life, I am not emotionally equipped to break up with my supercomputer cluster. Reddit is surprisingly unhelpful with this challenging life event.

I don’t think I should have 1 on 1 meetings in my office until this finishes blooming.

So excited to announce our new method for multiplexed RNA imaging in bacterial cells: bacterial-MERFISH! A huge congratulations to the team of Ari Sarfatis, Yuanyou Wang, and Nana Twumasi-Ankrah! Check out the following thread or our bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) 1/12

Later today I will sneak through a construction site, slip into a server room, and plug in a USB drive that I can boot up remotely… This is the most cyberpunk I will ever be, except for the part where it’s my server and I’m on day 3 of installing Ubuntu.

Feeling energized after reading PLAYING WITH REALITY. @kellybclancy's neuro-basis exploration of our naive optimism in game theory and its influence on AI is an absolute delight and an all-time favorite read.

Kimono (Kosode), mid-19th century, Japan, circa 1840-1860. ©Kyoto Living Craft House Mumeisha. Made from silk with hand-painted skeletal motifs. The kosode features a design inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories.

A "most read" for anyone interested in complex systems and biological information processing. Also add to that Simon's "Architecture of complexity". ps. I highly recommend the series of "Foundational papers in complex systems" from Santa Fe Institute and can't wait for the 4th vol!

Only here to post this: Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tempe! act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-ol…