"I worked in the restaurant business for a few years, starting as a busboy and expeditor, then eventually as a waiter and bartender, working 12-hour double-shifts six days a week" - Uri Manor 💔's journey in #Science today.ucsd.edu/story/the-long…

many jobs of a PI...

Quite insane squid axon experiments Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) defined most of what we call neurophysiology: youtube.com/watch?v=g2hysr…

Rula ke gaya sapna mera (Jewel Thief, 1967) on #melodica #keyboards & Hiphop beats: youtu.be/MBmm0ZALocA?si… via YouTube

"The world reveals itself through our engagement with it. It is the fundamental truth of human experience. All cynicism is a denial of it. All hope a tribute." - is there a better argument for doing #science? No one can deny our engagement with the world! themarginalian.org/2022/10/16/nic…

"DO epigenetics/CRISPR on his butterflies" ! 5th grader👀👀

"But with the bicycle, for the first time in history, humans could traverse land faster than on foot, beholden to no other creature and relying only on their own metabolism, propelled only by where they wanted to go and how hard they were willing to push" themarginalian.org/2020/04/08/bic…

Well that Saturday breakfast with Madhusree⚕️ Singh, MD did not go quite as planned...

Exciting News! Starting in January 2025, I will be opening my own lab at the University of South Carolina, Department of Biological Sciences.

Does finding something different with better technology warrant a retraction? If that's the benchmark, many papers will need to be retracted... cell.com/current-biolog…

I am an immigrant. My wife has been a physician for American Veterans for over 15 years, my son is in boot camp U.S. Coast Guard right now, and heck even I worked at the VA for many years. I want to ask the America First flag waving crowd - What have they done for their country?

"If truth is the goal, one must make himself an enemy of all that he reads and attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself, to avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency" - Alhazen on critical thinking, 500 yrs before Renaissance: themarginalian.org/2023/11/14/alh…

I've never heard of an international postdoc getting paid less. This wouldn't even be possible at UCSD.

Yes we can do it but there are so many naysayers...I'm tired.

"[He Jiankui's] new interest was a gene called APP. It’s known people who possess a very rare version almost never develop Alzheimer’s. In our video call, He said APP gene is main focus of his research now" - likely germline HDR Icelandic mutation, yikes. technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/109…