1. Good day. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, #ACIP, is meeting today to review and vote on whether to recommend Pfizer's #Covid vaccine for children 5-11 yo. The meeting is starting. It's expected to wrap about 5 pm ET today. I'll be live tweeting.

Got my telescope out. First time in a year. Pointed it at what I thought was Jupiter... and it was in a last quarter phase! Hello Venus! Also saw Saturn, the crescent moon, and actual Jupiter with all 4 Galilean moons. Had my daughter draw them to compare with tomorrow night.

Two more for my daughter's preschool. They've been having to eat snack inside due to the cold. I don't know what else to do. At least it's something.

Super excited to see this come out: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Nirosha J. Murugan, @kaplan_lorax, and many others. Key points: 1) Just 24 hour stimulation with our MDT (= drugs + bioreactor) causes >1 year of leg growth. 2) very large, *adult* Xenopus (not just froglets/juveniles) 1/n

slapping “all my best” at the bottom of an email

I just finished Gravity's Rainbow. Help.

In 1959, Eugene Ionesco wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros in which one by one, an entire town of people suddenly transform into rhinos. At first, people are horrified but as the contagion spreads, (almost) everyone comes to accept that turning into a rhinoceros is fine. 1/

The Best Scientists 🧵 I have heard a lot about the Best Scientists 🧑‍🔬 Maybe the best scientists... make impactful discoveries, publish in gilded journals, garner millions in funding, with lots of indirects. And prizes, all the prizes🏆 And everybody respects them. OR…

A total lunar eclipse over the #SouthPole last week. At its peak a giant band of auroras stretched across the sky, as Allen Foster and I watched spellbound from the roof of DSL. Zoom in to see us between the U.S. National Science Foundation South Pole Telescope and BICEP/Keck telescope. An absolutely magical night

A timelapse of the Lunar eclipse at the #SouthPole. Exposures in this video ranged between 1/13-20s to cover the crazy dynamic range of the full moon and the dark night sky, smoothly ramped with Inactive to show how the stars and the Milky Way emerged further into the eclipse

Whenever I see someone ask if we’re expected to continue masking in healthcare settings forever, I immediately think of Semmelweis. The man who discovered that HCWs’ dirty hands were causing fever and death in patients.

Congratulations to @KKatStankova, Associate Professor at our faculty. She’s been granted a #Vidi grant from NWO Nieuws for her inspiring research into #evolutionarygames to #improve metastatic cancer treatment. #tudelft #tbm #metastaticcancertreatment tudelft.nl/en/2022/tbm/ka…

This is absolutely breathtaking.

We're hiring! A two-year postdoctoral position is available on or after September 1, 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Paul Turner in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University (turnerlab.yale.edu). Please direct inquiries to [email protected]

With the lab up and running, I'm looking for Ph.D. & Master's students for '23, and a postdoc or postbac to start anytime. Find more info on my website! 3/3

Stoked to have won best cinematography for a timelapse of the South Pole Telescope at the Winter International Film Festival of Antarctica (WIFFA)! Check out the video at: wiffa.aq/film/868