Donovan Anderson

Circa (c. or ca.)
scRNAseq c. 2010

or pop song

scRNAseq Tik Tok Ke$ha…

Two ink and water color sketches of performers dressed in Moka Pot costumes. One purple, and one dark pink. Lids as hats, base as skirt, and coffee chamber as body.

Still just fascinated with these Moka Pots from the games. Have a feeling I’ll be sketching more.

Pro tip: Socks first, then pants.

Yes, saw this and it’s on my list. Surprisingly hard to find a good ventral view of adult zebrafish anatomy online. I gather the heart is asymmetrical along the long axis, is the digestive tract asymmetrical as well?
I keep thnkng of flat fish & their rotation diversity btw species. Why not w/guts?

Thanks for the reply and thought. It’s informative to hear how/if these things score in a “wins above replacement” frame.
My reaction to most of what I see is, “Yeah, given the internet as input, that’s what you would hope the minimum bar of performance would be.”

The gel that makes the paper; the 99 that don’t.

A large cake in the shape of an armadillo laying down on its stomach. Grey icing covering red velvet cake. The Groom’s Cake from Steel Magnolias.

Meet you in the middle.

NFL primer: Kickoff returns rise after rule tweaks. Concussions, too. The kickoff format, modified each of the past two seasons, has boosted returns but has not reduced concussions to a rate comparable to that of a run or pass play.

After the NFL's latest rules tweaks, the number of kickoff returns surged this season. But so did the number of concussions suffered on those plays.

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

Generally interested in these use cases. Are the recommendations a surprise to you given your experience? Would this have been something you would miss, if you sat down and looked at your pers data?
I recognized you can’t A/B test, but how would you judge success over what you normally have done?

snow & stairs, Berlin

cc: @mads100tist.bsky.social
Zebrafish strain/line or adjacent species example?

A guide I have found useful this last year. @harmitmalik.bsky.social FYI.

Plus, normalize z-axis cake slicing.

Photo of a suspended sculpture high inside a grand building, the artwork resembles a blue plump female figure in colourful costume with golden wings

'L’ange protecteur (Guardian Angel)' by Niki de Saint Phalle, at Zurich Main Station #WomensArt

the best of the muppet script YouTube video by Riley Routh

In case you need a bit of joy to fill the tank, please gather round:

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Black and white illustration of a skeleton of a herring with already some inclinations of the internal organs. The views are dorsal, lateral and ventral.

Not finished yet and this isn’t a pen and ink illustration, but a black and white rendition of a 3d model, but I love to share this herring. Except for some bones in the pectoral fins the skeleton is all but complete

Dr. Jean Spear Campbell Obituary | 1959 - 2026 | Seattle Times View Dr. Jean Spear Campbell's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 9 tribute posts from the community.

This is heartbreaking…
Jean was truly a fabulous person and mentor. Just can not put her influence into words.

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Agreed! Plus I got tired of buying new iPads when I would crumple up bad papers and yeet them into the recycle bin.

Deja Vu, I’ll always remember you…
❤️

Dear @support.bsky.team & @bsky.app, a quality of life ask. When scrolling thru a list, if you click on and open an image from a post, when you swipe right or down to exit you are automatically put back to the top of the list. A bit annoying when you are trying to catch-up on the list.
Possible fix?

Federal funding cuts are having real consequences for biomedical research — including at PNRI. Long-term studies can’t simply be paused. Through Dec. 31, every gift is matched dollar-for-dollar. 👉https://bit.ly/4j1GTma
#raredisease #T1D #supportscience #genetics

About a year ago I toyed around with the idea of testing LLM “tautological” knowledge. AI says it’s true because AI reports it true.

I gave up when I realized that it was already close to that situation and would likely cross that threshold soon.

The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Ten: Swimming to Cambodia It’s difficult to explain Swimming to Cambodia to anyone who hasn’t seen it. More accurately, it’s actually very easy to explain Swimming to Cambodia to someone who hasn’t s…

In today's installment of The December Comfort Watches: Swimming to Cambodia. One man, one stage, one desk, one story, and the one other film this film is most like might be one of the greatest concert films ever made, directed by the same person.

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/10/t...

A favorite line from this: Grey says someone passes him a basketball, “… got my name written across it.” Which, for some reason, has stuck with me for 40 years.

A green Praying Mantis villian cartoon with yellow gloves, blue top, and black belt. Zorak, from Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

The Zorak Zone.

American kestrel at #YoloBypass #Birds

This past month marked the end of an era at the @schierlab.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch. It was a meaningful, intense, often challenging, but also incredibly rewarding chapter of my scientific journey. Thank you all in the Schier Lab for the unconditional support and the Schierleading!

We will miss you Madalena and follow your exciting research at MPIDresden@mpi-cbg.de‬

This thought crossed my mind as well.

Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of a row of Black subjects standing one behind the other in a tight row in descending height so as to resemble a harp from the side view, a squating figure is at the front, the sculpture is sited in an outdoor location on grass by buildings

'The Harp' by Augusta Savage, US sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her sculpture was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City #womensart

Do you ask to sign other people’s books? Seems like that would be a nice treat.