Dr. Ali Barry

4x the search traffic for the species after being included in MMM than when it was covered in the NYT, CBS, NPR, etc.

But can we talk about that "Bone Collector Caterpillar" March Mammal Madness bump? #GoogleSearchTrends #DustsShouldersOff #2026MMM

Okay but my March Madness comes with multiple corpse capes #2026MMM

Stylized "wild card" cards of both insects wearing their corpse suits (described in coming battle).

FIRST & ONLY UP TONIGHT: Bone Collector Caterpillar (Hyposmocoma) vs. Assassin Bug (Acanthaspis petax) #2026MMM

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"

@thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

omg, nailed

kallisto sped up RNA-seq quantification by 50x. Now another 50x speedup... quantify hundreds of millions of reads in a few seconds.

This seems too good to be true. But it's true!
Incredible accomplishment by @pmelsted.bsky.social.

Forever dreaming of an AI winter

i think this is an important point - not just the way ai coding tools can affect an individual programmer, but the way it interrupts a social practice / a community of people making software

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain.

Karolinska Institutet
HHMI

#Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026

Seconded by every bioinformatician ever

The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 - Nature PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.

Very excited to share our new manuscript – published today!

Why are PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to transduce different types of mechanical force? I was lucky to work with some extraordinary colleagues to begin to figure out why.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An overview of the results below ⬇️ ⬇️

Carney reaffirms Canada’s support for strikes on Iran ‘with regret’ - National | Globalnews.ca Carney said in Australia that the growing Middle East conflict 'is another example of the failure of the international order' and that Canada's support 'is not a blank cheque.'

"Prima facia, it appears that these actions are inconsistent with international law." - PM Mark Carney

Unsurprising to see this 360, but I don't understand how it took so long & how a Foreign Minister - & former law prof - didn't recognize this from day one globalnews.ca/news/1171502... #Iran

I love caves, inflatables and science communication. This month is #colorectal cancer awareness month - the disease that has been ruining me the last 20 months. Get a colonoscopy folks. It’s not as fun as what I’m doing here but it ain’t that bad either.

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What if academia had an index to reflect the number of times someone had been thanked in a publication for sharing reagents?

every time

Maple Syrup Time
Maud Lewis
c. 1960

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

You don’t need to pretend the Iranian regime is good. You can condemn an illegal war without doing any of that.

Monocyte-derived IL-10 drives sex differences in pain duration Peripheral monocytes and IL-10 are associated with shorter pain duration in males in both mice and humans.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

fyi, bombing schoolchildren means you are on the wrong side.

I hope everyone is ready for me to complain about the weather for the foreseeable future. it's february. it should not be 30°

been trying to only use one screen at a time to be slightly less _chronically online_ and this is concerningly difficult

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives

If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

Calling wheelchair users who work in wet labs (including in NHS settings) to user-test a new lab coat. Contact UCLEast.labcoats@ucl.ac.uk. Split photo shows a woman in a powered wheelchair with a long royal blue buttoned-up labcoat which stretches down the tops of her feet. It totally covers her lap and her hands are tucked into the pockets.

UCL are looking for UK-based wheelchair-using lab users to test out their design.

Is it easy to take on/off? Comfortable? How're those pockets & fastenings? Any safety concerns? etc.

Contact ucleast.labcoats@ucl.ac.uk for more info.

#AccessForAll #DEI #EDI #AcademicSky

10/10, would recommend

This looks like such a good #PainResearch postdoc position in Oxford. Fun science, great city, even better mentors.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Trans people in Kansas are having IDs stripped. IDs they need to function in the modern world. To vote.

When politicians and pundits tell you trans rights are a distraction, that we're not worth fighting for, they're telling the folks to go fuck themselves

Trans folks have kitchen tables too

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.