So THIS is my kind of place of worship: the Cathedral of Learning, U Pittsburgh. Come and think, be awed and inspired, not indoctrinated.

I’ll be working from Brazil for the next three months, writing science in my mezzanine between mountains and sea away from the insanity of the dismantling of US science. Vaccines here are plentiful, I’ll make sure to take every booster I can before going back 😖🙄

Do yourself a favor, IGNORE the trailer and go see Sinners. I almost didn’t go because of the trailer, but… glad I did. You will be too.

Also found a few of these at the secondhand store, and raided the net for 15 more. I’ll be using this instead of a regular textbook and have the students spot the important questions they’d like to ask about animal behavior and evolution. Like I said: I’m having fun teaching 🤗

Found this game at a second hand store. You, “natural selection”, can choose what’s best for the critters in the game and “evolve” them. Right or wrong, my Animal Behavior students will be playing this game in the classroom next year. I’m gonna have some fun teaching 🤗

I love that I can do a lot of my job with very simple equipment, and old equipment is often best. Young ‘uns, what is this below that I just scavenged and am using right now in my lab? 🧪 🤗

Ah the freedom to get the information, have the benefits of a free market available to you, and do what you want with your own body. Not everybody has that…

Things I learned today: that larger dogs, like my Dane, really DO have shorter life expectancy, because of the high IGF1 levels - and the same is true for taller humans, apparently for the same reason! What to do? Stay lean and exercise body and mind. Has been working for my dog, now 7…

What does this liquid nitrogen burn to remove a wart have to do with developmental biology, you ask? Notice the crisp borders, despite the spread of the freezing jet that caused the burn. Below a certain threshold, the cells recover; above it, the cells die - and so a gradient becomes a sharp border

We celebrated Jon Kaas with a whole days of talks by his former students and collaborators followed by dinner with an open mike at Vanderbilt yesterday. How wonderful to celebrate people WITH them while they live. This man changed my life so many times in so many ways. I’m forever grateful.

A map is a flat side-by-side representation of what is side-by-side in the world; an atlas is a stack of maps; and DHARANI is a set of atlases of the fetal human brain released by IIT Madras in India. I’m in Bangalore today to support and explain the importance of this massive feat. Go India! 🇮🇳 🧠 🧪

Thrilled to be in Chennai, India, for the launch of DHARANI, the digital atlas of fetal human brain development generated (during COVID!) by the amazing team at the Subha Gopalakrishnan Brain Center under Richa Verna’s guidance. What a gift to the world. Honored to be part of the press conference!