Just got home from a trip and received this book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social!

I found Jimmy Carter's Environmental Program (fittingly?) in the dumpster in the alley behind my house. "The sight of earthrise was awesome. It was also sobering. From that moment we could no longer avoid understanding that all life must share this one small planet and its limited resources."

It's funny that ChatGPT does this shit too

I thought of your posts today when trying to look up a fairly simple fact on Google.

Working on a new gaming system for mice over the holidays

I took this photo of Jupiter + moons from inside my house in St Louis, aiming the telescope at the bright spot in the sky and using my phone pointed down the eyepiece to capture it. Technology is amazing, this is not a fancy scope. I turned the lights off in the room but otherwise here's the setup!

Congrats to Dr. Alex Legaria, the first PhD student to graduate from my lab! Lots of feelings as his PI, but mostly I'm grateful that I didn't eff it up 😄😅😁

The elusive D1/D2 co-expressor!

In this way, we held the nutritional content and diet composition constant, while very lightly manipulating how hard it was to obtain. Mice gained weight when the diet was free (Blue bars), but not when they had to nose-poke *just one time* (Red bars, FR1)!

We were inspired by a recent paper (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) to perform a crowd sourced analysis of rodent in-cage housing temperature across 12 different colonies. We analyzed 220,000 temperature measurements and found a ~4°C range among the different colonies.