This is your regular reminder to always always put scale bars on your figures & always always make sure you use properly scaled axis on your graphs

It's Friday it's summer, let's have some fun. Drop in the comments the meanest things a reviewer has ever said to you (bonus if it's on a manuscript you think is good & that you ended up publishing in a different journal). I'll start with the masterpiece below.

I love that when RNA splicing was discovered the title of the paper was "An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5′ ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA". I think every scientist should get one paper in their career where they get to call their discovery something like "amazing" in the title.

It's always a thrill to get an email from one of your all time science heroes.

1. On this #HolocaustMemorialDay I remember my great grandfather Jacob Klein (here in his Austro-Hungarian army veterinarian uniform in 1914). He, my great grandmother & 6 of their 8 children perished in the death camps, his daughter, my great aunt Aranka Klein, survived Auschwitz.

Spectacular sunset in Vancouver last night as seen from the campus of the University of British Columbia

Stunning day in the Pacific Northwest. It’s a great place to study and work!

Happy, peaceful, & safe Hanukkah from all of us