Sam Connell

This infographic from The White House, titled "U.S. STEEL PRODUCTION INCREASES," uses a bar chart to compare total production in 2024 versus 2025, but it employs a heavily truncated y-axis to exaggerate the appearance of growth. The vertical axis begins at 80.2 million tonnes (Mt) rather than zero, which makes the 2025 green bar (representing approximately 81.8 Mt) appear roughly five times taller than the 2024 red bar (representing approximately 80.9 Mt). In reality, this indicates a modest increase of approximately 1.1%, though the visual presentation suggests a massive, multi-fold surge in production.

I'd like to report a y-axis crime…

Black coaches shut out of NFL hiring cycle says it all about team owners - Andscape SAN JOSE, Calif. — When NFL commissioner Roger Goodell faces the media on Monday, he will be bombarded with questions about the league’s integrity and commitment to fair play. Last week, the NFL’s wor...

I wish that Andscape & William C. Rhoden were here on Bluesky & not over yonder, but #sportsky is growing slowly but surely. A powerful article describing the reality of zero African American head coaches hired in this cycle. Robert Saleh as the singular minority hire. andscape.com/features/bla...

I have a 3-year postdoc position available at University of Manchester for a mass spec expert in proteomics. The person will be involved in exciting projects in single cell proteomics, drug discovery and innate immunity - on timsTOF Ultra AIP & HF & Astral Zoom.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ093/r...

YouTube video by Ask Erin, Dear Beth Thresholding in CellProfiler Part 1: Adaptive Thresholding - AskErinDearBeth Episode 24

We answered our first viewer-submitted question in our "advice column" podcast! Thresholding when some areas are bright and some are dark is easy in CellProfiler with just one setting!
Part 1/3 of a series on thresholding so keep an eye out for more w/ @bethcimini.bsky.social
youtu.be/ynrPqsOZVYE

This just in. So honored and grateful...

Congratulations Karolin. Well deserved!

Congrats to @aaronsalisbury.bsky.social and @mictott.bsky.social on this exciting project initially designed to mechanistically investigate a molecular association with PTSD that we observed in postmortem human brain tissue. Fun🧵below explaining the scientific rational and findings from Michael!

SciSky: Has anyone experienced Prism graphs embedded in TIFFs randomizing graph labels when converted to PDF? This has happened to us a couple of times. Software is up to date. Any idea why this happens and how to prevent it? Mac/PC issue? Is flattening the TIFF the only solution? Thanks! 🧪

Today I'd like to honor the memory of my mentor and friend, Roger Tsien, born 1952 February 1. Today would have been Roger's 74th birthday.

Most know Roger for his 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Shimomura and Chalfie. Roger made GFP into the versatile imaging method it is now.

In 2018, we had a meeting of current and former federal workers to discuss functioning in a Trump administration.

Tempers flared and people discussed serving in government vs resigning.

We lost a bunch of folks then and even more now.

The United States government is being hollowed out.

I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders.

@jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.

Dear Director Bhattacharya: I learned that Max Kozlov from Nature and Jocelyn Kaiser from Science (and perhaps others) were denied admission to today's "Reclaiming Science" MAHA Institute event. I call on you to issue a public statement condemning this outrageous act of suppression of fully credentialed members of the press. I would hope that you would feel compelled to do this as someone who claims to believe in freedom of expression and as a senior official of the United States government who swore an oath to our Constitution. Sincerely yours, Jeremy M. Berg United States citizen

@maxkozlov.bsky.social @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

I just sent this to Director Bhattacharya.

Let me know if you think of anything else I can do to help.

#FluorescenceFriday with a transgenic zebrafish labeling descendant lineages of the lateral plate mesoderm.

(Ventral view, tmem88a:EGFP, pic cred Marycruz Flores Flores @cudevbio.bsky.social). ❤️🫀🐟🧬
#devbio #cardiacdevbio #zebrafish #MakeMoreTransgenics

I had a really nice ride on my horse today, and it was absolutely restorative to something deep within me that was feeling bruised. I hope everyone who reads this has something similarly nice happen for them this weekend.

Notice of Temporary Extension of Eligibility for the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00):
for Individuals whose final due date was September-November 2025 and January-March 2026. As always, reach out to your PO/IC contact to discuss.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

5 jobs I've had (many more):

- Paperboy for the @pressdemo.bsky.social
- Camp Counselor at La Jolla YMCA
- Busboy at The El Rancho Tropicana in Santa Rosa
- Part Time Teacher @ucsandiego.bsky.social Early Childhood Education Center
- Director of Light Microscopy @stjuderesearch.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position - Synthetic Biology / Bacterial Immunity - Research The Bikard lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris is seeking to hire postdoctoral researchers. We are investigating bacteria / bacteriophages interactions, and the genetic innovation that happens at this in...

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Excited to be speaking at this year’s Biophysical Society Presidential Symposium on the importance of communicating science to the public 👩🏾‍🔬🧫🧬🔬🥼🧪👩🏾‍🔬

5 jobs I've had (that had nothing to do with maps):

-Bookstore stock boy
-Camp counselor
-Water quality testing technician
-After school science teacher
-Urban canoe guide

5 jobs I've had (many more):

- Paperboy for the @pressdemo.bsky.social
- Camp Counselor at La Jolla YMCA
- Busboy at The El Rancho Tropicana in Santa Rosa
- Part Time Teacher @ucsandiego.bsky.social Early Childhood Education Center
- Director of Light Microscopy @stjuderesearch.bsky.social

As a dyslexic, this is super interesting to me.

That was super fun! Loved the lock-in red letter, the jazzy grooves and the words all presented in one place. Could soften the gaze and let it flow. Oddly, my experience reminded me of the mindset I learned in martial arts when one is unattached to outcome and following a fast-changing Reality.

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

I got a "graded" version of the National Defense Strategy from a DoD friend who did some poking around. Their opinion is that AI was heavily leveraged in the crafting of this document.

Their comment: "It reads like a 15 year old sat down with AI after reading The Fountainhead".

A protein complex in the extreme distal tip of vertebrate motile cilia controls their organization, length, and function - Nature Communications Here they combine in vivo imaging with proteomics to characterize a protein complex comprised of Ccdc78 and Ccdc33 that acts at the extreme distal tip of 9 + 2 motile cilia to control tip architecture...

Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com.
Check it out!
#cilia

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

Looking forward to sharing our lab's latest, exciting results on how the brain is powered 🧠 🔋 🪫 🔬 🧪
#Sunposium2026 @mpfneuro.bsky.social

Cell Bio 2023-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting Network, learn, and collaborate with top cell biologists from around the globe.

The call for session proposals for Cell Bio 2026 is open. ASCB gives priority to organizers who haven't run a session in the last two years, and they encourage trainees to submit with an experienced co-chair. Deadline: Feb 22. @ascbiology.bsky.social www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/...

New paper from the lab, stemming from @anahvsb.bsky.social's thesis work, captures a weird trait that totally 🤯 my brain

When Oxalis stricta plants are exposed to a sublethal dose of the herbicide dicamba, they produce MOAR flowers than controls.

Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity Harris, Dutta, et al. find that experience-dependent plasticity in the activation threshold of the AFD thermosensory neurons is mediated by modulating warm and cold thermoreceptor levels at the sensor...

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social!
👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta.

Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity
www.cell.com/current-biol...