sometimes i wonder if it was a good idea to build @rockefeller.edu university all perched out on a few skinny stilts over the highway, but no one asked me

fun fact i never realized until i started working next to the east river. tugboats usually push their barges, instead of "tugging" them. more control that way. close encounter with oncoming vessel? no problem!

engels showed rubin's ∆2-3 transposase transgene could mobilize tons of defective P elements from "Birmingham" strains. more messy than cooley and spradling's approach with a single mutator P, but one advantage was more mutagenesis.🪰 academic.oup.com/genetics/art... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

searching the shelves, it turns we have 3 iliads!

watching nolan's odyssey on big screen brought my wife and i back to college, where we both took gregory nagy's legendary class on Greek Heroes. it had a reputation for light grading (heroes for zeroes), but for me was an eye-opening intro to what teaching, learning, and scholarship could look like.

i challenged our resident english phd to do the recent "hamlet" catalogues, and she threw down the bona fides. boom!!

"don't worry kids, these pond conditions are perfectly normal for us ducks"

bee! bee! bee! 🐝

another amazing human of new york. sounds of his sax in prospect park tunnel are out of this world.

been working on a new song in my head on commutes, finally tried it out IRL! 🎸 @thelovelylab.bsky.social @slewzeus.bsky.social @chrmosimann.bsky.social @burgesslab.bsky.social @benoitbruneau.bsky.social @docdellaire.bsky.social @fish4walking.bsky.social @wbderry.bsky.social @mads100tist.bsky.social

finished 12 hrs zoom study section, and then our neighbor's kid rang our doorbell and gave us cupcakes!! lovely folks, perfect timing. 🧁

i never heard of green ball dianthus until tonight 🦠

project hail mary was fun, a lot more physical comedy than i had any idea about. but this centrifuge scene was just SOOOO galling. i mean, not only the worst arrangement of 2 tubes possible, also they caps randomly arranged. truly psychopathic wtf smh

find of the weekend: shang-chi comic, 50 yrs old, good shape, $1

visit to the wish phone. speak your secretest wish into the receiver. ☎️

yao is very tall!! (i think he had some business meeting in my hotel).

women with hatchets 🪓

its a puzzle

when it's triple digits, pickles stays cool in the sink. #Caturday

walls cannot contain the treasures of BIG BAZAAR. (find it in athens.)

i can recommend a dip in the Aegean!

Crete Fly 2026 is a wrap! brain overflowing with info, and heart full with joy, after a week of stimulating talks, discussions, and catching up with old and new friends spanning 30 years of my life. also rocked the OAC with Cassandra Extavour for the first time, the fly community is the BEST!! 🪰🇬🇷

you are getting sleepy, veerrryy sleeeeppppyyyy

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3000 yr old cretan vessels decorated with psychedelic octopi 🐙

folks, it's happening! the incomparable Cassandra Extavour and I will be making our Greek premiere in Κολυμβάρι Crete, this friday!!! 🪰

ok, greek guitar and i met! i think it will work...

took 8 hr walk around athens in search of graffiti (and kitty cats). nice to see old favorites like art mihus (scuba diver with owl), LOAF (eyes), sonke (wavy haired sad girl), and RTM-One (guy with glasses). and many many more, some i've yet to identify. always look around the city! #ArtEverywhere

i try my best to be a good parent, but honestly i'm mediocre compared to my spouse. i can barely take care of myself. however, occasionally i receive validation! (cooking breakfast for daughter's friends was a hit.) happy father's day to all the other dads out there!