MacLean Lab representing strong! Come visit posters B320 and B325 in Ligand-Gated Channels poster session to learn some awesome work by these two on ASICS! Tyler Couch Kyle Berger

Yeah, cats can be okay

Experiments by @MowgliDM in the @Sars_Centre Universitetet i Bergen unite mollusk and annelid FMRFamide, FVRIamide, and MIP/Wamide neuropeptide-gated channels into a broader FaNaC family and identify residues determining neuropeptide sensitivity! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I really don’t think that this school could spend any less money/time planning “graduate student appreciation week” events.

I really wish reimbursement wasn’t a thing in academia 😒

I present: The hippocampal cloud formation

NIH just announced an update to the NRSA stipend levels, taken as gospel by most institutions. With increase of less than 2% and inflation hitting 8.5% in United States last month, postdocs are effectively taking a 6.5% pay cut. Truly upsetting!

Love that that URochester SMD urmceducation solution to students not being able to afford rent/food is to have them go to a food pantry. But not pay a livable wage… in fact, the PhD stipend only increases 2% for the next cycle, in a year where we experienced 8.5% inflation🤡

The one day we finally prep dinner in our slow cooker, the power goes out? It’s like there is a higher power telling me to get takeout tonight.

How about they do this study again using data from 2022 and see if we even fall in the top 10.

baklava, if made correctly, is probably the single greatest dessert in the history of humanity

if I’m reading recent SCOTUS abortion decisions right, I can force conservative justices and Republican legislators to rear botfly larvae under their skin for me and hold them liable if they don’t mature properly

For PhD students it's a good idea to gamble on new PIs, on average they are more into it. I often see that the first graduate students that join a lab end up being really successful.

Pro tip - keep up on your plasmid inventory or you’ll end up miserable in your last days in lab, like me.

Well, all packed and ready to move to Boston tomorrow. Anyone have recommendations on food in Cambridge?

Gonna have to throw on the trilogy now

Opening the latest version of the document I'm currently writing

#OnThisDay in 1914 English physiologist, Sir Alan Hodgkin was born. Hodgkin won the The Nobel Prize for #Physiology or #Medicine in 1963, alongside Sir Andrew Huxley & Sir John Eccles for their analysis & mathematical description of the basis of the nerve impulse and its propagation.

As a manual patch clamper, I’d say this is spot on