Ye Olde Christlet

Hi! This is the archive of my tweets on Twitter/X from 2009 to 2024. I still post on X from time to time but only for announcements about lab news with no engagement. Sadly, this archive only contains my own posts, so the immense wisdom of others that made the value of conversations is gone.

Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoes

I'm in this and I don't like it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/nov/15/leaving-twitter-here-are-some-alternatives-to-checking-an-online-nazi-bot-sewer-every-20-minutes?CMP=share_btn_url

Tired: power plant of the cell
Wired: Berghain of the cell https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1854494541966921809

Transition to PI

Momentarily retreating to the safe space of academic reading

Squinting at old EM masterpieces hoping for actin rings… From Conradi & Ronnevi, 1977 https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01261505

Thinking about all our US friends and colleagues today... with food 🍔🇺🇲 You got this

Les Nuits

https://youtu.be/Q0FdXIYxLbE?si=xVqA9clASOcPJvcr
Has been sampled to death by everyone (https://www.whosampled.com/Quincy-Jones/Summer-in-the-City/sampled/) - Let's have Nightmare's on Wax "Les Nuits"

Quincy Jones - Summer In The City (1973) - HQ

RIP Quincy 🙏🏼 https://youtu.be/0tlPh61PVLo?si=TJJRP9Q7kXcxV-ZL

New collaboration out! We were happy to host Yuhao Han from @MarinaMikhaylo8 's lab for a couple of months and look at dendrite-born axon initial segments. Great multicolor SMLM from our @abbelight setup thanks to the work of postdoc Christopher Parperis https://t.co/OjQtQnglZO

Reorganizing the manuscript

Back at it up North this morning

Riding solo along the Calanques

Norman K. Wessells, pioneering Stanford biologist, has died Wessells’ research helped explain the biological building blocks of life itself and he served as dean of Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. &n

I just discovered that cytoskeleton pioneer Norman K Wessels passed away last April https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/norman-k-wessells-pioneering-stanford-biologist-has-died

Motivated live-cell imaging and a pareidolic EM image of growth cones from 1973, Ludueña & Wessells https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-1606(73)90100-0

Back to the classics: actin in presynapses by LeBeux & Willemot, 1975 (https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00219841), drawing by Odette Lambert

Wrapping neurites with small light-controlled polymer patches 😮 https://nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01335-8

I Hope You Find Your Way Home

The new Tyler the Creator's album slaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUA3_lX6g-s

Finally celebrating @Biosdfp @ManuelTHERY

Bringing the fam to @KodawariRamen

"And this is when I decided to send it to Nature without the last Figure" https://twitter.com/BrotmanBaty/status/1850945634138014171

had to keep an eye on the seal who loves german junk food too much

Made new friends at the Berlin zoo

More Berlin

Day in Berlin

A message from a Berliner alpaca @FelipeOpaz_o

Had a great time at the "Rethinking Synapses" students and postdoc seminar in Berlin! Thank you Bas von Bommel and Julia Bär for hosting me, great to chat with Andrew Plested, @EickholtL and @MarinaMikhaylo8

Frog! @jbwallingford