Bassem Al-Sady

@NogalesLab @berkeleyMCB Congratulations!!

Congrats to Ana Galic and Kevin Li, who just graduated with honors in MCB, and to the brand new Dr. Trinity Cookis @trincookis 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓🤩. Very best wishes for your next endeavors 💝.

We also introduced a new award for broader evaluation: 🏆 Generalist Prize: Team @altos_labs ranked highest across 7 metrics. They showed the most reliable generalization—robust performance across diverse criteria vs. optimization for a single score.

Thanksgiving tradition with the our oldest CA friends in Humboldt

Fun Half. Esp the kids yelling at Mile 6.5 “yeah you made it to Mile SIIIX SEEEVEN!”

@mbeisen As a kid in Nürnberg we were paid by the kilo (50 cents) by the forest service to collect them. Made some decent money as a 12 yr old though 50 kilos is … heavy

When I was a kid I collected acorns cuz it was fun. Now I collect acorns for science and it’s still fun.

Läuft nicht so toll für den Klub im Augenblick…

Excited to share our first preprint from the lab! We developed an image-based pooled screen to uncover regulators of HP1 condensates and discovered a link with intronic RNA and RNA processing. shttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.676939v1

👏 Congrats to all authors, especially Matthew, Shaopu & Chris! and a huge thanks to @genophoria for the collaboration

@acher_2 @mbeisen Well no- that’s not the point. I have lived here 25 yrs and use Clipper (which also does have issues...). But if you want to make it easier for business travelers and tourists- it’s got to be NY style or why are you doing it.

@Bazzoid @mbeisen It’s because BART fares are charged per distance travelled, so you need to be able to “tap out” at your destination. The post was silly because this is not a serious problem that needs to be pointed out, families can just still use normal clipper cards as before or just…

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we can’t have nice things.

Back home traveling after a month to Bay Area realities. $600 3hr/day class for 11 yr old F1 that he was super excited about it for a big project. Arrived first day: oh class is canceled. Did you email me? We emailed the student, maybe in spam. Did you refund ? No. Nice moves.

@mbeisen In spectacular fashion! Thx Gary.

Football is a simple game; 21 women chase a ball for 120 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Last leg home on RTW ticket with @UnitedAirlines @Lufthansa_DE. Not one leg on time. Two intercontinental flights with maintenance issue or plane swap for maintenance issues. Not good. Delays up to 12hrs but let’s see what with last leg delays ends up. Hoping to get home soon.

Bayern. You couldn’t do it with 2 players up. Come on.

@lufthansa With United Airlines by this point issues are resolved via DM, email, or voice.

@lufthansa What will you offer to make this right? No email or app notifications (we use both UA and LH apps- but email should be straightforward) In the complaint form I can’t comment on this flight with our booking reference by as it’s Roundtheworld ticket (it choses flight 1). Please DM

@lufthansa flight 717 from HND to FRA delayed 11.5 hrs and all you got is 20EUR voucher? Why didn’t you send out a message? Now stuck at HND for no reason. Why not hotel voucher? LH 716 left FRA 8 hrs late, should have emailed all customers. The crane is not what it once was.

@lufthansa PS already went to first cafe that didn’t take our LH vouchers … probably HND issue but that’s not fun either.

@lufthansa Thank you, I will do that. The point is : why didn’t you prepare your customers since you had the lead time ? And help them out more once they are stuck (United 1K /Star Alliance Gold). You can DM.

@MoKhalilLab Sorry to hear that Mo. they are such loving creatures.

💔 We said goodbye to a beloved family member, our sweet dog Eloise. For 16+ years(!), she has been a source of joy, comfort, friendship, & humor. She was there for gradschool/postdoc, first jobs, wedding, 4 kids. She was my #1 companion. I will miss her dearly😭 Pics/vids below