You know… while it’s commonly thought that scientists have something against furry little animals, I just realized today that most of my friends in lab are actually rodent pet owners. Among my classmates and labmates, we’ve got a guinea pig, a chinchilla, a rabbit, and of course, our amazing super-rats! My theory is that working with rodents each day actually help us labrats (pun intended) appreciate them much more than the average Joe. Anyway, this past weekend’s been one of those random-run-in-with-Asian-postdoc-in-Asian-restaurant weekends. We ran into a Korean post-doc from Melody’s lab at a Korean restaurant, and a Japanese post-doc at, of course, a Japanese restaurant. Amazing, huh? By the way, there is a new press release about our recent article in Science.