Mark Griswold

Pair of green herons in a pine tree

A close up of a green heron in a pine tree

A green heron at the top of a tree

A close up of a green heron by our neighbor’s house

For the 2nd year in a row a family of green herons has had babies in our front tree. It’s been so cool watching the little ones grow up! We probably have less than a week before they leave. They are hard to see but all come out to watch the sun set every night. They climb high up to see. So amazing!

Pitbull doggie with red toy

Edison the bestest boi

NIH funding under the new bill (just passed): "Funding for brain research will be consolidated into one institute with a budget of 2.445B. Currently, brain research is funded by several institutes and adds up to over 5B. So it looks like brain research is getting slashed by over 50%."

yes? 🧠📈 🧪

Fantastic industry panel on sustainability in MRI at #ismrm

Huge thanks to Julie Love, Anindita Banerjee and Joseba Alonso for the fantastic session on quantum computing! #ismrm

The 3rd Gold Medal award winner is Larry Wald. #ismrm

The second Gold Medal award winner is Miki Lustig! #ismrm

First ISMRM Gold Medal recipient John Detre #ismrm

Which one is the outgoing past president of the ISMRM and which one is the incoming? Huge thanks for everything you’ve done @deekayjay.bsky.social !

Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right Pour-over coffee is made by flowing a strong, laminar water jet through a bed of ground coffee beans.

We are going to need this research to get through the next few years 🧪:

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I know things aren’t easy right now but the SNL concert from Friday night is so good it’s almost overwhelming. So much amazing music and memories! Highly recommend!

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

That was such a great night!!

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

Absolutely! They’re still amazing to see live!

Here’s my Beatles moment with Shonen Knife:

One of the best! From Wikipedia:

Cobain praised Shonen Knife's performances during the tour, stating, "When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert."

So great!

Just a reminder that 69% of white women could not bring themselves to vote for the brown woman. And here we are. All women get covered in brown paper. The irony.

Talk to your department chairs and research offices! 🧪

I keep trying AI models to solve this problem and it’s amazing how bad they all are!

2025 is already better! 😁

Sorry Brandy. Sending huge positive energy in your direction.

Unbelievably difficult study that will help us understand neonatal brain development. 🧪

Somehow my post about the Picasso exhibit is getting flagged as sexually suggestive… I’m working on an appeal.

I had never seen this combination of cut out paper and photographic printing