Cells photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology

“Scientists need more time to think”. Agree? nature.com/articles/d4158…

A monolayer of beating cardiac myocytes (heart muscle cells) videoed through a DIC microscope.

My swansong. My final bow.

Richard Dawkins's US swan song: I'm privileged to be hosting his event in the Boston area on Sunday, Sept. 15. Tickets available here: ticketsonsale.com/theater/richar…

PUBLICATION ALERT! I am super excited! "THE SECRET LIFE OF THE UNIVERSE" is coming out in the US (August 13, 2024, that's TOMORROW) and in the UK on August 15, 2024. Same editor (Scriber), same book, two different covers. Your go-to book for the search for life in the universe!

The earth as a planet - Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures 1/6 youtu.be/aAxvxIOwnWM?si… via YouTube Royal Institution

Sometimes, writing an acknowledgment section can feel like... 😀

What is a PhD?

Stained Bovine cells. both DNA (blue) and mitochondria (yellow) can be observed.

nature.com/articles/s4155… Woah! "At the deepest phylogenetic levels, ancestral habitat reconstruction analyses suggest that eukaryotes may have first evolved in non-marine habitats and that the two largest known eukaryotic assemblages arose in different habitats."

Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! Today I have a movie of a mouse melanoma cell expressing a fluorescent construct to label actin. The colors reflect the different heights in the cell.

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Excellent chemistry meme. I hope it goes chiral!

Two rings appear to be entangled.

Most of all, it feels crucial to maintain a distinction between what evolution does and what living things do. I have no problem with considering organisms as problem-solving - as goal-directed entities, they *must* be. /2

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Role of nuclear actin scaffold in stabilizing large nuclei. nature.com/articles/ncb28…

Cliff Brangwynne (Princeton & HHMI) 1: Liquid Phase Separation in Living... youtu.be/AP47mIkd-h0?si… via YouTube

Kevin Mitchell I love those graphs. My own favourite I use with students: EAT MORE CHOCOLATE!