iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 10h

Nothing like even a short walk/run in gorgeous fall weather (with Korn, The Hu, and Garbage on repeat) for a mental reset.

070

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So great to have been able to work with the now Dr. Sam Bates (PhD #21 from the lab). Here he is showing off his graduation present from the lab which he is threatening to wear every day.

0170

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

1423224852

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

241076516

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wowie. This is the same son who won the Reykjavik half? What do you feed him????!!!

120

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Monika Scholz @monikakscholz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come be our colleague @mpinb.mpg.de ! jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/4... Bonn has a great community of neuroscientists and it's been a great place to start a group! #neuroethology @neuroethology.org

jobs.b-ite.com

Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2) in Neuroethology (m/f/div)

limited contract

01721

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

13336118

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

3152142

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just have to really rein in my desire and tendency to go off on tangents and mention random facts (that probably only I care about) and instead stick to the script. Good advice - I try to follow it but fail.

120

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I already speak at 3X speed given that a constant comment in my teaching evals is 'slow down!'

020

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hah - we both picked the exact same quote at the same time. So true though.

120

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IKR? ALL my slides are fabulous.

020

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is a fact of academic life that preparing a 15 min talk takes 20X as long as preparing an hour talk.

91179

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same with me. HIgh fever, pain. Had almost no reaction with the Novavax.

020

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Matt Lovett-Barron @mlovettbarron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our lab's latest paper on the neurobiology of collective behavior is now published www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is the work of a great team in the lab - led by Jo-Hsien Yu, with Geoff Meyerhof, Jimjohn Milan, and Julia Napoli @nature.com @danionella.bsky.social

1011962

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.

boltsmag.org

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts

A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

6520031027

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Garbage plate!! Don’t see white hots on the plate though

020

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

21434715

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 11/09/2026

We have a tenure-track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology in Columbia's E3B Department. Application deadline is October 15. Come be our colleague. Please RT! apply.interfolio.com/193016

apply.interfolio.com

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

082105

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great ideas. A way to keep senior scientists engaged and share their expertise (ahem) while not occupying that expensive FTE. Would be fun to be a 'traveling PI'. Hang out in various labs, talk science, learn new things (w/o getting paid of course). Might be a bother for the host labs though.

140

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Meg Younger @megyounger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Excited to share this work from @darbly.bsky.social's lab and my lab with @davidhildebrand.bsky.social @briandepasquale.bsky.social and many others! It turns out that the sensory neurons that detect CO2 in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have lots of recurrent connections! 🦟👃🌟

03710

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bring veggies from my garden to the lab and they seem to like them!

011

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

maybe a collage on my (currently undecorated) office wall?

120

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cleaning my office after probably 15 years. And finally and sadly decided to recycle all those reprints (some of my students had never heard of them). Some lovely ones - with the paper printed on glossy stock and with the cover of the journal. PDFs are so not the same.

1180

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The red tailed hawk that swoops by my office window periodically posed for me today as I was walking to my car.

0100

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

mareikejordan.bsky.social @mareikejordan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Check out our preprint on the structural mechanisms of how LEM2 and ESCRTs seal the nuclear envelope. Awesome collaboration with @karenpalacior.bsky.social who brought my structures to life 💃🔬❄️🌀 @hummerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

212951

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nothing like hits from a forward genetic screen to send you down multiple rabbit holes from which you may never emerge. But the absolute bestest fun ever!

1384

Reposted by Piali Sengupta

Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

3150129

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pencil and paper for exams (I used to do open book but no more). And I am going to try out one-on-one oral exams in lieu of the final paper for the class! Might be a huge mistake - we shall see.

130

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

omg no! Lab knows to not come anywhere near me for at least 30 min after as I sit and ponder my life choices 😅

120

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah - sometimes it is definitely that. But I think other times it's just being on in a way that is different from when giving seminars. Not sure I understand it myself.

030

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me too. I find turning that persona on exhausting. Same at meetings - I enjoy it but need serious downtime after with no talking to anyone.

140

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

so true. (couldn't find a good Brazil gif)

100

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

wonder why though. usually energized after seminars. so it's not just the standing and speaking.

130

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My favorite movie of all time. No competition.

120

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Been teaching for 30+ years. But I am still totally wiped out after every 1.5h lecture. Need to sit and stare out the window and decompress. Just me?

11321

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

To stare at each other uncomfortably

140

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Time of the year when I wonder yet again what the people who designed Workday were on when they released it.

250

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fed up with those stupid lagomorphs in our/your town. We have chicken wire around all our plants since they keep eating everything green. Makes for lovely visuals. Not. Have been told that we should get a dog and make it pee all around the yard. Considering it.

310