My two NIH cancer research grants were terminated today. One involving breast cancer prevention is an “outstanding investigator award” and had received a perfect score by reviewers. How does ending lifesaving cancer research make Americans healthier? Harvard Medical School @aacr

A statement from Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT

too bad that Stephen Jay Gould was never awarded a (much-deserved) Pulitzer prize. three of us, Pulitzer jurors in non-fiction for that year, had chosen "Wonderful Life" to win; but the board overruled us. see online: "Stephen Jay Gould was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize

(some) academics have hated him for political & personal reasons but-- frankly--I have not followed that debate. sneering opinions about a Harvard professor by a professor elsewhere should be examined closely. my neuroscientist husband was on one side or another of this debate,

I'm prototyping a little tool for interactively visualizing the near-nearest neighbor network in single-cell RNA-seq. Clicking a cell triggers a wave, revealing its nearest neighbors, then their neighbors, and so forth. Data: 10k PBMCs from a Healthy Donor (v3), 10x Genomics

Dictyostelium on the cover! Pattern formation along signaling gradients driven by active droplet behavior of cell swarms | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out.

BREAKING: At the Harvard Graduation Ceremony moments ago, Harvard President Alan M. Garber just got a standing ovation after taking a subtle shot at President Trump. "To the class of 2025, from down the street, across the country and around the world. AROUND THE WORLD! JUST AS

Procrastination with two pending grant deadlines 🤭

Remember to adjust for multiple comparisons when searching for memory-encoding neuronal regulation! nature.com/articles/s4158…

JIP4 deficiency causes a novel lysosome storage disease arising from impaired cystine efflux biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_cellbio

My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.

Joe Tyler joe, Anthony Davidson, Vassilis Koronakis & team find that inhibition of PAK activity leads to the production of PI(3,4,5)P3 at the plasma membrane & a dysregulation of the actin cytoskeleton. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13… Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13… #OpenAccess

A live-cell biosensor of in vivo receptor tyrosine kinase activity reveals feedback regulation of a developmental gradient dlvr.it/TLfp6Q

Realized this morning that my submission got selected Yale School of Medicine Beauty in Science 2025 exhibition! Seeing the live-assembly of filopodia projections by formin mDia3 in mast cells got me really stoked back then! #FluorescenceFriday

(not to complain about Bluesky where you are made uneasy hearing your own voice echo in the sepulchral quiet of an upscale suburban mall that closes early.)

fascinating

Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner, and Sam Altman have all funded anti-aging research. …the C.E.O. of …, a startup … aims to reverse cellular age, told me, “We don’t work in mice. We work in billionaires.”

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.

We are deeply saddened to share that our friend and colleague Jim Hudspeth passed away on Saturday. We will remember and continue to be inspired by Jim’s integrity, his humility, and his unwavering commitment to discovery. rockefeller.edu/news/38152-a-j…