Congratulations to Keith and Joshua who recently saw a collaborative project come to fruition in a paper entitled, “The photoprotection mechanism in the black–brown pigment eumelanin” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.22123431). The work led by Jostin Hodgkiss and involving Paul Hume describes the photochemistry of skin pigments and is relevant to human health in a broad sense.