I am excited to share that I will be opening my lab as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, beginning in March 2027. @stonybrooku @StonyBrookMed prakash-lab.org/

today is #nationalblackdogday — a day to bring awareness to “black dog syndrome”. black dogs are often overlooked in shelters, wait longer to be adopted, and sadly face a higher risk of euthanasia here’s my sweet Lily, a rescue from the south who found her way into my life 🐾

There’s a new face in the Himalayan Highlands! A female snow leopard cub was born this summer to mother Dariga and father Moutig. The female cub is doing well and has now reached the age she can venture with her mother into the Himalayan Highlands exhibit. (1/6)

Twenty years ago, on this day in 2006, Allen Institute for Brain Science announced the completion of our inaugural project: a web-based, 3D map of gene expression in the mouse brain providing scientists with a level of data previously not available. #openscience

insane skies this evening as we gear up for the nor’easter 🌆 #nycsky #nofilter

Learn more about our 2026 cohort here: bit.ly/4xytdVr

Meet the 2026 cohort of Next Generation Leaders. This program recognizes emerging early career researchers in bioscience and is designed to foster community, exchange of ideas, innovation, and collaboration to make a broad, transformational impact on the future of science.

Incredibly honored to be named an Allen Institute Next Generation Leader. Grateful that my research vision has been recognized through this program, and I look forward to connecting with and learning alongside an outstanding community of scientists! alleninstitute.org/news/alle…

Today is #WorldAlzheimersDay. 💜 A day to raise awareness, honor those impacted and advance progress toward ending Alzheimer's and all other dementias. Take action: alz.org/WorldAlzheimersDay. #ENDALZ

extremely honored to receive the 2026 outstanding postdoc award from @nyugrossman @nyulh_postdocs. i’m incredibly grateful to @liddelowsa for his support and advocacy, and to all the wonderful people I’ve had the privilege of working with over the past 5 years! ❤

I had a fun visit to @stonybrooku last year as one of the BRITE symposium speakers. Highly encourage late-stage postdocs to apply!

Can dietary interventions change how fast genomes accumulate mutations with age? We studied how caloric restriction (CR)—one of the most robust lifespan-extending interventions—affects somatic mutations across the genome in different tissues and cell types in mice.

surreal to be getting responses to job applications i submitted a year ago… #solong 👋

just discovered la fermiere yogurt and i fear i’ll never look at yogurt the same way again… life changing 🤌🥄

i’m old enough to admit it and not ashamed: crocs are super comfortable!

Applications for our BRITE Postdoctoral Seminar Series are open! Apply here: bit.ly/4gYrxQw Applications are due October 2, 2026.

This story out of MIT is really, really crazy. Some background on this is dimethylmercury is one of the most dangerous chemicals to ever be used in the field of chem full stop. A famously tragic tale happened at Dartmouth in the 90s when someone spilled a few drops on their gloves under a fume hood and died not even a year later with blood mercury levels thousands of times above normal. All lab PPE training/safety courses talk about this case. The Dartmouth case changed lab safety practices all over the world, and this chemical isn’t really allowed anymore as normal PPE doesn’t work and you need special silver shield gloves. People used to use to use it for something called NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) which means using a big magnet to “listen” to atoms in a molecule to chemists can learn what they look like. Mercury has a special isotope that can be heard this way, but to report results so everyone can interpret them, scientists need a zero on the scale, and that zero is called the chemical shift reference. Dimethylmercury is pure liquid packed with mercury atoms so putting a tiny amount on the NMR machine made 2 things happen: finding the Mercury signal (machine has a huge frequency range that can be searched) and calibrating the exact radio wave pulse. You see the fruits of MNR all the time IRL. MRI is basically just MNR applied to the human body (looks at hydrogen atoms in water in your tissues), drug companies use it to confirm the structure of new meds, it’s how people check if olive oil is fake. RIP to this student, awful.

The new ACS logo absolutely stinks! How much $$$ from our membership dues went into designing this turd? The A looks like it is from a starfleet uniform! Restore the historic American Chemical Society logo c.org/zhrmv99Y8J via @Change

This is absolutely dumb and ridiculous. The K99/R00 Pathways to Independence award is a major mechanism to retain the very best international trainees in biomedical research in US institutes. As a reviewer of this award I know the awardees are absolute stars in each of their subfields. We are talking about the most creative and most productive people here. Now they are closing the door on these young stars who are already highly sought after by other countries. It's saddening and disappointing to watch the "land of opportunity" getting diminished like this step-by-step.

Online now: Aggregation and propagation of TAF15 trigger neurodegeneration dlvr.it/TTtqyM

amazing!