BWJones
@bwjones.bsky.social
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
For sale: Toyota’s dignity and soul.
There’s a lot to unpack here. He probably would have better luck bribing him with gold, though.
Still, a lot to unpack.
www.autonews.com/toyota/an-to...
Still, a lot to unpack.
www.autonews.com/toyota/an-to...
Akio Toyoda goes MAGA in star-spangled, BBQ-slathered, F-150-truckin’, NASCAR-styled charm offensive
Akio Toyoda hosts a NASCAR showcase at Fuji Speedway highlighting American car culture.
www.autonews.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For sale: Toyota’s dignity and soul.
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I feel the need to type this out loud for those in the back: Unless someone explicitly says they are romantically/sexually interested in you, out loud, with actual words- just take it for granted that they are not.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I feel the need to type this out loud for those in the back: Unless someone explicitly says they are romantically/sexually interested in you, out loud, with actual words- just take it for granted that they are not.
Universities across the country have their business models being completely destroyed by this administration on multiple fronts.
1) Loss of foreign students.
2) Killing of NIH/NSF funding for research grants.
3) Revocation of tax exempt status.
They are trying to eliminate universities.
1) Loss of foreign students.
2) Killing of NIH/NSF funding for research grants.
3) Revocation of tax exempt status.
They are trying to eliminate universities.
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Universities across the country have their business models being completely destroyed by this administration on multiple fronts.
1) Loss of foreign students.
2) Killing of NIH/NSF funding for research grants.
3) Revocation of tax exempt status.
They are trying to eliminate universities.
1) Loss of foreign students.
2) Killing of NIH/NSF funding for research grants.
3) Revocation of tax exempt status.
They are trying to eliminate universities.
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Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
This is a big, big deal.
Huge.
Also: this is why we need to be aggressively funding science.
Huge.
Also: this is why we need to be aggressively funding science.
"Remarkably, the bacterium that makes methylenomycin A and pre-methylenomycin C lactone -- Streptomyces coelicolor -- is a model antibiotic-producing species that's been studied extensively since the 1950s. Finding a new antibiotic in such a familiar organism was a real surprise." 🧪
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is a big, big deal.
Huge.
Also: this is why we need to be aggressively funding science.
Huge.
Also: this is why we need to be aggressively funding science.
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In this #TopicalReview, Victor Calbiague-Garcia of sorbonne-universite.fr et al. review current knowledge of #amacrine cells & discuss how emerging approaches are advancing our understanding of their function 👁️ 🐁
🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In this #TopicalReview, Victor Calbiague-Garcia of sorbonne-universite.fr et al. review current knowledge of #amacrine cells & discuss how emerging approaches are advancing our understanding of their function 👁️ 🐁
🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
When my wife died this year, I found out that a 3 mile ambulance ride in America will cost you $5,886.
Healthcare in America: My father-in-law recently died at a hospital and they mailed him a $123,000 bill
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
When my wife died this year, I found out that a 3 mile ambulance ride in America will cost you $5,886.
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"Remarkably, the bacterium that makes methylenomycin A and pre-methylenomycin C lactone -- Streptomyces coelicolor -- is a model antibiotic-producing species that's been studied extensively since the 1950s. Finding a new antibiotic in such a familiar organism was a real surprise." 🧪
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Remarkably, the bacterium that makes methylenomycin A and pre-methylenomycin C lactone -- Streptomyces coelicolor -- is a model antibiotic-producing species that's been studied extensively since the 1950s. Finding a new antibiotic in such a familiar organism was a real surprise." 🧪
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Best thing about flying through SFO: the Maple Leaf Lounge has an outdoor patio so you can watch the big jets come in to land over the water. Comes complete with Instagram trap 🤳
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Best thing about flying through SFO: the Maple Leaf Lounge has an outdoor patio so you can watch the big jets come in to land over the water. Comes complete with Instagram trap 🤳
Fully one fifth of America’s Navy surface ships are in the Caribbean right now.
Why?
Why are we saber rattling in front of Venezuela?
Why?
Why?
Why are we saber rattling in front of Venezuela?
Why?
Update: The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
USS Gerald Ford enters Caribbean Sea as threat of U.S. action against Venezuela rises
The country's largest aircraft carrier joined thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Fully one fifth of America’s Navy surface ships are in the Caribbean right now.
Why?
Why are we saber rattling in front of Venezuela?
Why?
Why?
Why are we saber rattling in front of Venezuela?
Why?
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if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
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Behold the "Dawn Chorus", a citizen-science project where people record birdsong in their local neighborhood and upload it
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Behold the "Dawn Chorus", a citizen-science project where people record birdsong in their local neighborhood and upload it
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
you can listen to birds from around the world by drilling down on the map
item #4 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
We don’t have enough money to give schoolchildren lunches or seniors prescriptions. But we do have 2 billion to give dude bro Pete Hegseth a more edgy calling card.
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This is the Catholic Church in Gaza City ⛪️ You can still see the burn scars from the bomb that hit in July. Father Gabriel’s parish takes care of thousands of Gazan families around here, so we have been delivering fresh vegetables, milk, and tarps to fix tents.
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is the Catholic Church in Gaza City ⛪️ You can still see the burn scars from the bomb that hit in July. Father Gabriel’s parish takes care of thousands of Gazan families around here, so we have been delivering fresh vegetables, milk, and tarps to fix tents.
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I said goodbye to my little girl Penny on Sunday. I shared a lot of her online over the years and so I’d like to share a few thoughts about her now that she is gone.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I said goodbye to my little girl Penny on Sunday. I shared a lot of her online over the years and so I’d like to share a few thoughts about her now that she is gone.
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The older I get, the more tired I become of the uncurious.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The older I get, the more tired I become of the uncurious.
I have an idea.
Hear me out: Tell him “no” for the first time in his life. Like: “Mr President, Sir… in a lifetime of dumb ideas, this one is the most powerfully stupid idea you’ve ever had and we will absolutely not endorse it, nor will we carry it out.”
Hear me out: Tell him “no” for the first time in his life. Like: “Mr President, Sir… in a lifetime of dumb ideas, this one is the most powerfully stupid idea you’ve ever had and we will absolutely not endorse it, nor will we carry it out.”
Top energy and nuclear officials in the Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s nuclear weapons, sources told CNN. https://cnn.it/3LEdbaq
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have an idea.
Hear me out: Tell him “no” for the first time in his life. Like: “Mr President, Sir… in a lifetime of dumb ideas, this one is the most powerfully stupid idea you’ve ever had and we will absolutely not endorse it, nor will we carry it out.”
Hear me out: Tell him “no” for the first time in his life. Like: “Mr President, Sir… in a lifetime of dumb ideas, this one is the most powerfully stupid idea you’ve ever had and we will absolutely not endorse it, nor will we carry it out.”
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Ending my #FluorescenceFriday with this beautiful avian retina image depicting the beautiful stratification in the avian eyes.
This is where complexity meets art.
#retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer
This is where complexity meets art.
#retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ending my #FluorescenceFriday with this beautiful avian retina image depicting the beautiful stratification in the avian eyes.
This is where complexity meets art.
#retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer
This is where complexity meets art.
#retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer
It is good to have brains that can perform thought experiments without giving voice or action to them. It is also good to have frontal lobes that can put brakes on verbalizing violent speech.
For those without those cognitive controls, we sometimes have to have policies on social medial platforms.
For those without those cognitive controls, we sometimes have to have policies on social medial platforms.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It is good to have brains that can perform thought experiments without giving voice or action to them. It is also good to have frontal lobes that can put brakes on verbalizing violent speech.
For those without those cognitive controls, we sometimes have to have policies on social medial platforms.
For those without those cognitive controls, we sometimes have to have policies on social medial platforms.
<Future Narrator Voice>: "The Speaker of the House in the 119th Congress repeated lies on the Republican led administrations preferred propaganda outlet, leading many low information American voters to falsely believe that the 47 President of the United States had accomplished more than he did."
Mike Johnson: "The president has ended 8 wars around the globe. All that in 9 months!"
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
<Future Narrator Voice>: "The Speaker of the House in the 119th Congress repeated lies on the Republican led administrations preferred propaganda outlet, leading many low information American voters to falsely believe that the 47 President of the United States had accomplished more than he did."
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Looking over the city as the lights begin to illuminate the neighborhoods. The evening transitioning to dinners, conversations, nightly routines, and new worries. Each dot of light their own story; unaware of how similar and how different their stories are from one another. Be kind to each other.
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Looking over the city as the lights begin to illuminate the neighborhoods. The evening transitioning to dinners, conversations, nightly routines, and new worries. Each dot of light their own story; unaware of how similar and how different their stories are from one another. Be kind to each other.
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪