Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

This is a huge deal. “Indirect costs”, as they’re called, from NIH still pay for direct science — eg, funding science labs, lab upkeep — but also university administration. Cutting this line item by billions of dollars is going to threaten university jobs but also potentially cut into science lab funding. There are absolutely controversies/concerns about wasteful indirect cost allocation. But it’s hard to imagine a cut this deep not affecting science labs directly. This is just not where I’d start cutting billions. Universities (including those that don’t have $10b endowments) are gonna scream, and I’d guess we’re gonna hear about extremely worthy programs relying on labs being endangered.

Excited to announce I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in July 2024! @cwru

Absolutely honored to receive my K99/R00 award from @NatEyeInstitute today. Feeling very excited for the next step and the opportunity to transition to an independent faculty position in the near future! Lots of cool science to come! #K99Award #Gratitude #NextChapter

We are looking for a research assistant to participate in using, adapting, and developing genetic and imaging tools in different insects. If you are interested, please apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UM… Else if you need more information, please DM or email me. Else please retweet!

Bunnies located, thanks ya'll!

Great work on enhancer mutations from @EKFarley's lab, led by @granton_jindal. Great use of model organisms! cell.com/developmental-cell/…

As Google Shared Drive is going away and Google Education accounts are facing (possible) quotas, what are academic labs doing?

Could use some quality control on these mailers from the local power company. I know it’s San Diego and great weather, but pretty sure this is completely wrong. @SDGE

At the Mike Land Symposium at ICIV. Backaskog, Sweden. Love this conference!

we have 2 open positions in our newly established NeuroEngineering team. These positions could be perfect for grad students who love working on technical projects for lab science, but not so sure about moving on to a postdoc. Please consider this exciting alternative! (1/2)

🧵a thread from @lings_ll @Hanliconius; We are thrilled to share the Martin Lab’s latest on the development of wing pattern in butterflies! Long story short, we present evidence that the wing patterning morphogen WntA is received by the receptor frizzled2. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

#VosshallLab fresh content @eLife version of record. Enjoy!!

Our new #butterfly🦋 #evolution paper is finally out in @ScienceAdvances. "Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy": science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… #Butterflies🦋 #Color #AncientPolymorphisms #introgression #CRISPR🧵🧵🧵

What a great collection!

Thanks to Taylor @optics_focus for building us a reasonably priced custom rotational stage! This will be used to look at spectral tuning in butterfly eyes.

Coast Aster is in bloom and ~12 White Lined Sphinx moth caterpillars are chowing down on the fuschia in a butterfly-filled Bonner Butterfly Garden. Don’t forget the Cloudless Sulphur pupae!

Excited to share the latest version of our modular LED displays (years in the making) engineered from the ground up to power all sorts of challenging vision experiments. A high-speed, modular display system for diverse neuroscience applications biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…