Brin Rosenthal, Ph.D.

Yesterday I decided to stop editing out all the exclamation marks in my emails. I’ve done this for years to seem “more professional.” But what does that really mean???? Less female? Less young? Less excited? Well I’m young and female and IM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get used to it.

I have funding for an additional grad student to start in fall 2023 -- if you, or someone you know, is interested in studying collective animal behavior, please contact me! I'm so excited about what this lab will become in the coming months -- come join us!

New🔥 #DataScience #Bioinformatics resource: 850,000‼️ #scRNAseq cells from 226 samples across 10 cancer types draw a map of the tumor microenvironment, in particular fibroblasts. Let’s see👇what are the main contributions of this work & what this means for #cancer #Genomics🧵

the holy trinity of desk drinks is a big water, a two-hour-old iced coffee and a flavored seltzer.

The rare transportation/mental health mashup sign.

Visit to home is incomplete without a sighting of a giant Malabar squirrel probably the most colourful mammal.

bet they’re filming chocolate week in the bake off tent today

Dogshit - Very poor quality Bullshit - Not true Horseshit - Nonsense Apeshit - Rambunctious Batshit - Insane This is an excellent feature of English that we should continue building upon.

Hepatology: GOALS study of 822 children with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is 2 studies in 1; shows NAFLD risk and histologic severity are associated with genetic polymorphisms. @HEP_Journal @UCSDHealth @radychildrens @ucsdccbb @sbr28 @NIDDKgov doi.org/10.1002/hep.32…

I contacted @Chewy last week to see if I could return an unopened bag of my dog’s food after he died. They 1) gave me a full refund, 2) told me to donate the food to the shelter, and 3) had flowers delivered today with the gift note signed by the person I talked to?? 😭🥹

I am delighted to announce that Princeton University approved a new PhD program in Biophysics today! From molecules to group of animals, we are looking for experimentalists and theorists who want to be at the interface of physics and the life sciences. Applications this fall!

Understandable.

My favorite thing is when I stay up too late and my dog passive aggressively puts herself to bed without me, like “YOU do what you want but SOME us have work in the morning.”

Overheard neighborhood story: First person: my husband goes out and hoots at the owl every night around 8 and it answers. Second person: MY husband goes out at hoots at the owl every night around 8 and it answers.

Today is the big day! The #T2T consortium is claiming victory and announcing that we have finally uncovered every last bit of the human genome! The papers are out today 🥳🧬 science.org/toc/science/37…

This new brain organoid protocol is really working well…

I love that sometimes I’ll write something as a flip joke and the editor will actually leave it in. #goosefacts #birdbook #birdwatching #birds #birding