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I saw the story that Barney Frank entered hospice. He was my Representative starting when I was 5, and then again when I moved back as faculty. Here is a signed campaign poster I have from the 1970s (pre-Congress). It hung for years in my dad's office, which was a perpetual mess (like mine is now).

New preprint! "A stereotyped glial attachment determines the morphology and function of neuronal cilia" doi.org/10.64898/202... We find that C. elegans neuronal cilia attach to glia, we identify a protein required for cilia-glia attachment, and we show that glial attachments alter cilia signaling.

NYT feature on their website's front page about our local C. elegans colleague Will Mair and NIH funding www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.www.nytimes.com

Theoretician says to experimentalist, "I've got a riddle for you! What's green, hangs on the wall, and whistles?" Experimentalist thinks for a long time and says, "I give up. What's green, hangs on the wall, and whistles?" Theoretician says, "A herring!"

As usual, March has come in like a lion and hopefully it will go out like a lamb. But did you know that's not how it is in other countries? In the Malay peninsula, March comes in like a worm-eating fernbird and goes out like a worm-eating fernbird. Source: amthenfm.wordpress.com/tag/john-bel...

but curly quotes still break SciENcv

and -- correct me if i'm wrong -- all this WITHOUT bothering to get a PhD! just a genuinely curious person who is wired to make connections across fields.

good day for an electric heated birdbath!

#aECM club sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl...

good stuff!

"Before we were born did you already make unfunny jokes, or did you only start when we were born because then they're dad jokes?"