Of all the different metrics of scientific success, a kind word from a colleague you respect often means the most.

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Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of Theresa Wiesner, focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane actin-spectrin scaffold: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

I'm experimenting with something new... I visited Damascus for the first time in 17 years last month. It was beautiful in many ways, depressing in some, and I'm more hopeful than ever. I gave some talks during my visit and of the most inspiring experiences I found were my interactions with Syrian students and entrepreneurs. They're passionate and hungry and ready to learn and build. Some I met were working on projects that're remarkable even under great circumstances (and theirs were much less than great). I've now caught up to all the follow-up messages (I hope!) since then, but I realized some conversations would be more productive on a call, and there are folks I didn't get a chance to meet who might also be interested in a chat. So I started office hours for Syrian students as an experiment. I block off time on my cal every week and any student can book it. Direct access to someone familiar whose experience might be helpful. All of September booked up within hours. I spent two hours of my sunday this weekend with the first students and both I and the students found it energizing and I'm looking forward to getting to know more :) [nice damascus pics added if you dont feel like reading]