BWJones
@bwjones.bsky.social
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
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Looking over the city as the lights begin to illuminate the neighborhoods. The evening transitioning to dinners, conversations, nightly routines, and new worries. Each dot of light their own story; unaware of how similar and how different their stories are from one another. Be kind to each other.
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Looking over the city as the lights begin to illuminate the neighborhoods. The evening transitioning to dinners, conversations, nightly routines, and new worries. Each dot of light their own story; unaware of how similar and how different their stories are from one another. Be kind to each other.
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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it's both gratifying to witness this defense of pluralism and traumatic to know how late the hour is
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
it's both gratifying to witness this defense of pluralism and traumatic to know how late the hour is
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Here is a Tui to wish you a wonderful day.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here is a Tui to wish you a wonderful day.
It’s so nice to see @fim.bsky.social and visit museums today.
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
It’s so nice to see @fim.bsky.social and visit museums today.
All the details matter.
Everything matters.
This just shows how sloppy these people are.
Everything matters.
This just shows how sloppy these people are.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
All the details matter.
Everything matters.
This just shows how sloppy these people are.
Everything matters.
This just shows how sloppy these people are.
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Even with the gov't open, study sections won't be able to instantly restart. Apart from rescheduling, sections scheduled to meet in the next week or two would have been paralyzed by the shutdown with reviews not yet assigned, reviews not yet come in, discussion order not set, etc. 🧪
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Even with the gov't open, study sections won't be able to instantly restart. Apart from rescheduling, sections scheduled to meet in the next week or two would have been paralyzed by the shutdown with reviews not yet assigned, reviews not yet come in, discussion order not set, etc. 🧪
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While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
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Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle pragmatism, always looking for patterns in how inventions change us. Beyond his writing, he is an avid traveler, photographer, and collector of stories from the edges of the world. His work reminds people that the future is not something that happens to us. It is something we build, choice by choice, imagination by imagination.
explorers.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
Kevin Kelly has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future. He has written books that blend curiosity with a kind of gentle…
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Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
The twisted secret behind a chameleon’s oddball eyes
Coiled nerves allow the reptiles to move their peepers in multiple directions at once without moving their heads
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏
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Covered from Reditt to ABC News, 8 years back
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Covered from Reditt to ABC News, 8 years back
Note: this was uncovered as part of the investigation and the House GOP Committee sat on it.
They knew about it all along.
They knew about it all along.
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Note: this was uncovered as part of the investigation and the House GOP Committee sat on it.
They knew about it all along.
They knew about it all along.
Not inaccurate tho…
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Not inaccurate tho…
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No Senate involvement. Normal process is NIH Director recommends to HHS Secretary who makes the appointment.
Yes, the scope and process has the potential to be a real shit show.
Yes, the scope and process has the potential to be a real shit show.
a man in a tie is standing in front of a group of people and saying nope not good .
ALT: a man in a tie is standing in front of a group of people and saying nope not good .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
No Senate involvement. Normal process is NIH Director recommends to HHS Secretary who makes the appointment.
Yes, the scope and process has the potential to be a real shit show.
Yes, the scope and process has the potential to be a real shit show.
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FOURTEEN institute and center directorships are to be filled and not one has a proper search committee or reasonable submission deadline relative to posting date. That’s half of the NIH org chart!
Are the positions subject to Senate confirmation, or do Jay & Bobby get the final say?
Are the positions subject to Senate confirmation, or do Jay & Bobby get the final say?
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
FOURTEEN institute and center directorships are to be filled and not one has a proper search committee or reasonable submission deadline relative to posting date. That’s half of the NIH org chart!
Are the positions subject to Senate confirmation, or do Jay & Bobby get the final say?
Are the positions subject to Senate confirmation, or do Jay & Bobby get the final say?
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Pittsburgh forecast showing that the sky -might- be less cloudy later this evening or after midnight. We can hope I guess
server1.cleardarksky.com/c/Pittsburgh...
server1.cleardarksky.com/c/Pittsburgh...
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pittsburgh forecast showing that the sky -might- be less cloudy later this evening or after midnight. We can hope I guess
server1.cleardarksky.com/c/Pittsburgh...
server1.cleardarksky.com/c/Pittsburgh...
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
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UNC-9 gap junctions have stomatin caps (oh-so stylish!).
I jaw-dropped at "rectification could be imposed in a dynamic fashion, thus enabling acute plasticity in electrical synapses"
and these images ....
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I jaw-dropped at "rectification could be imposed in a dynamic fashion, thus enabling acute plasticity in electrical synapses"
and these images ....
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In situ structure of a gap junction–stomatin complex
An in situ gap junction structure was solved, assembled with a previously unknown cytosolic ring of stomatin proteins.
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
UNC-9 gap junctions have stomatin caps (oh-so stylish!).
I jaw-dropped at "rectification could be imposed in a dynamic fashion, thus enabling acute plasticity in electrical synapses"
and these images ....
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I jaw-dropped at "rectification could be imposed in a dynamic fashion, thus enabling acute plasticity in electrical synapses"
and these images ....
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
OK, this thread is amazing.
Check out the replies and go listen to that good stuff.
Check out the replies and go listen to that good stuff.
Hot take: Most covers of songs are not good.
Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare.
What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?
Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare.
What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
OK, this thread is amazing.
Check out the replies and go listen to that good stuff.
Check out the replies and go listen to that good stuff.
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The GeneTex GTX13970 works well for me, on glutaraldehyde fixed tissue as well. For TdTomato: Origene AB8181. Both used postembedding, Lowicryl HM20
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The GeneTex GTX13970 works well for me, on glutaraldehyde fixed tissue as well. For TdTomato: Origene AB8181. Both used postembedding, Lowicryl HM20
Hot take: Most covers of songs are not good.
Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare.
What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?
Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare.
What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hot take: Most covers of songs are not good.
Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare.
What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?
Some covers are better than the originals, but this is rare.
What are your fave covers that are better than the originals?
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November 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Can't find anything on the 2025 Sexiest Collard Farmer contest. 🤔
I hope last year's winner, Mr. Patrick Brown, and his family are thriving. 🥬 🙌🏾👑
I hope last year's winner, Mr. Patrick Brown, and his family are thriving. 🥬 🙌🏾👑
Everyone knows about North Carolina's annual Sexiest Collard Farmer Contest?
The 2024 winner is Patrick Brown of Brown Family Farms.
There's a calendar too, apparently. www.collardsonly.com
gardenandgun.com/articles/mee...
The 2024 winner is Patrick Brown of Brown Family Farms.
There's a calendar too, apparently. www.collardsonly.com
gardenandgun.com/articles/mee...
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Can't find anything on the 2025 Sexiest Collard Farmer contest. 🤔
I hope last year's winner, Mr. Patrick Brown, and his family are thriving. 🥬 🙌🏾👑
I hope last year's winner, Mr. Patrick Brown, and his family are thriving. 🥬 🙌🏾👑