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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 22h

I was going to work on a manuscript revisions (thank you four reviewers) - but honestly it is legit too hot to think.

Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am wondering if there is a legit internet available (not pirated) version of this PKD story called "Pay for the Printer" If you aware - kindly share the link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_for...

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Pay for the Printer - Wikipedia

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This week I have been on campus from 7 am to 7 pm every day of the week so far ... 😵‍💫😝 Not great - hopefully the semester will chill out abit soon !

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Well hello there knee pain and major joint discomfort. What age is this?" He said while reexamining his own DOB numbers with a dash of morbid curiosity - joint pain musings; hopeful for the promise of cartiledge tissue engineering 😅🩻

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I kno everyone is really busy with their AI tools for transforming education But Can I has a "better" Canvas instead... no AI needed either (thank you though) and maybe a design without "modules".

Classic can has cheeseburger meme.

Happy looking cat middle of a meow.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026

😻😻😻

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

should this be called a poorly drawn cat if there is not a cat in this image? only two soccer balls, nothing else….

doodle of two soccer balls, one of them is a little too fluffy

a black and white cat is curled up asleep on a red blanket, its round body and black spots making it resemble a soccer ball. a plush soccer ball sits beside the cat, highlighting the resemblance between the two

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Ya’el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

HHMI released the official 2027 Gilliam Fellowship details, and a lot changed. Deadline's earlier this cycle: Oct 27. Int'l & MD-PhD students now eligible. Stipend up to 50K. New postdoc pathway adds up to 7 yrs of support. No Journal names!!!! www.yaelcourtney.com/resources-an...

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2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship: New Deadline, Eligibility, and Award Changes — Ya'el Courtney

HHMI's 2027 Gilliam Fellowship guide is out. What changed: an earlier October 27 deadline, expanded eligibility, a higher stipend, and a new postdoc pathway.

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I believe that we will win!!! 🦅⚽️ (But dislike the hydration breaks!)

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 03/06/2026

Came work with me at the emerging UC Merced Earth Institute. We have two open positions for a: 1) Grant Writer aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02181 2) Communications and Outreach Coordinator aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02180 Please share with your networks, and reach out if u have questions I can answer.

image of the beginings statue at UC Merced.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Who assigned: a group report, a group presentation, 3 exams, 5 quizzes, 4 in class practice quizzes (checked on completion), and a team eval essay to evaluate this one course... It was me. The past version of me did it. Thank you for the gift Prior Siavash 🥲

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I am curious how much Canvas cost for schools. A quick search suggests 5-30 per student per year. I wish for better alternatives. I find the use of modules unintuitive (and even poor). The majority of the features are bad or unhelpful IMO. I like Gradescope in contrast.

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 01/04/2026

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Nothing is more rewarding than lab members' success. First medschool (USC) acceptance for the (now former) lab members. Proud and thankful PI! (still feel a lot like the cat here these days)

Meme of a cat on grass background stating
"I do my best" in response to "what do you do for living?"

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Whenever I start a new project/proposal, I relearn that writting is hard 😅📝👨🏻‍💻🖍️ + happy belated spring and Nowruz (I have been writting --- poorly).

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

No but this is entirely correct

the-unflappablewolf
Who would you trust more?
total stranger in a star trek shirt?
94.5%
total stranger in a star wars shirt?
5.5%
99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden
thebaconsandwichofregret
No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 19/02/2026

One last shot taken while packing up the exhibition.

Decals on a wall at Oregon Contemporary read:

Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
THE CREATION OF ÉA

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Baby Bao ate his very first shrimp and absolutely crushed it. 🦐 Watching him figure it out is even cuter! 💙 📹: Animal care staff Katie

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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 114 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Best bday card any PI can wish for - folks in my lab are amazing! Tabby cats doing science is the best!!

Birthday card of tabby cats doing science !!

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨 NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu 🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026 ⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP! #Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy holidays from our lab to yours (Missing 3 folks in the photo). It has been... well a year for research. But proud and thankful for all we got done. Two submitted GRFP proposals is the big highlight imho.

Six people in ugly sweaters.

Background includes trees and the Walter pyramid.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it. PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Good view (+ ok macchiato) after a long day (week) of exams / ongoing grading. Happy end of the semester to all the educators.

Almost sunset photo of the sky - trees and cars, beach beyond the parking lot.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Our dispatch: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… on the recent Hydra volume EM paper by Zhang, Rafa Yuste and colleagues: #connectomics, without synapses www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… #neuroscience

Two nerve nets are formed in Hydra vulgaris: the endodermal (cyan) and the ectodermal (purple) net. (B) Intraepithelial neurons are randomly scattered between the epithelial cells of the two germ layers. (C) Two types of connections have been found between Hydra’s neurons. (D) Endodermal neurons are in physical touch with each other by forming neural handshakes by digiform endings, which get intertwined. (E) In other places, clusters of vesicles of different types can be released to mediate volume transmission between neurons and between neurons and other cells.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our week of finals go from Friday to Thursday this Fall. I have an exam on Friday (10AM) and another on Monday (8 AM!) and then the last one on Thursday (not in the AM thankfully) 😬 Final gods were not happy with me this Fall. Well the last class has no final thankfully.

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

From thanksgiving day. Sunset at Dana Point.

Sunset over the beach. Shoreline and small waves. Mostly clear sky with sun setting.

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

From earlier this semester at CSULB upper campus.

Sunset (or dusk) - water tower and trees in the distance.

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

$135 gradschool application fee per application is honestly too much.

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Fudge Lab @fudgelab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost! Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5

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Linnymother 🐙 @linnybobinny.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

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Pet Help Finder

Welcome to Pet Help Finder! A place to find services, events, and online or traveling resources for pet services. We ensure that all organizations found here are financially friendly so that your main...

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Dan Starr @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

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Siavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Is it already the season for the GRFP recletters ? Congrats to all the students applying - independent of the outcome! 👨🏻‍💻📧📝

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/10/2025

not now, highly aggressive infected monkeys

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Call for papers: In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery Deadline approaching: Monday 3 November 2025 journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/in... #Biology #Research #Disease #Discovery #Organoids #Tumours #Gastruloids #Assembloids

Promotional graphic for a special issue of Disease Models & Mechanisms titled "In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery." The left side of the image contains text announcing the call for papers, edited by Vivian Li, Austin Smith, and Joseph Wu, with a submission deadline of 3 November 2025. The right side features a vibrant, microscopic image of biological tissue or cell structures in vivid pink, blue, and yellow hues, representing the complexity of in vitro disease models. The design combines scientific detail with visual appeal to attract submissions for the issue.

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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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