If you’ve ever wanted to learn about flow cytometry, here is your chance! Both in person and remote options available Aug. 27. events.cornell.edu/event/introd...
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If you’ve ever wanted to learn about flow cytometry, here is your chance! Both in person and remote options available Aug. 27. events.cornell.edu/event/introd...
Would not put it past him to be a fan of red socks and quirky spelling
Heh the teen describes our current car as “the average of all cars”. It is *impossible* to find in a lot. I miss the eggplant car whose color I hated.
A sealed US mail box (full of snake penises) sitting on a desk in a lab. A flammable solvent cabinet is visible in the background.
Doesn’t everyone start their day by saying “hooray, my snake penises have arrived!”?
For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !
🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social
@lsfm-na.bsky.social
A screenshot of a single grayscale CT slice of a tomato with a few scattered pixels highlighted in red. A lower-density region around the stem looks a lot like a realistic eye, and there are two other air spaces around seeds in the approximate location of two eyebrows.
Pareidolia fun at work: The researcher and I saw two different faces in this slice of tomato. Either it’s a cyclops with two eyebrows, or it has a funny shaped nose.
We love a goofy, bucktoothed, and smiling parrotfish in Coral City 😁🏳️⚧️🦜🐟 #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #bucktooth #goofy #smile #protogynoushermaphrodite #supermale #terminalphase #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
Have CT scanned anesthetized snakes and can confirm that putting them under (with injectable anesthetic) was way more of a rigamarole than I was expecting. Their heart was higher up than I was expecting—their whole bottom 85% is just a stretched out intestine.
We all deserve the results of projects that were gearing up or in full swing, which you’d paid for. When projects like this get cancelled, you lose out on way more than that last year of money, and you also can’t start it up again quickly. We all lose.
The Cornell Chronicle has been absolutely killing it lately sharing stories of research funding that has been rescinded without notice. Pediatric heart pumps, tick borne disease tests, military nutrition, and cybersecurity projects. What is next?
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My department is hosting a seminar on "Advancing multiomics for biomarker discovery: From cell-free RNA transcriptomics to spatial profiling" on Wednesday. In Ithaca and want to learn more? Sign up here: takarabio.com/register-3
Day to day at work, I’m busy with scans and emails and worrying about funding and all the small practical bits that come with helping people learn more about the world. I do forget that I’m breathing rarefied air, how lucky I am to be a working class kid, breathing it.
I’m remembering it today.
A sign that reads “Dale R. Corson Hall”
I’m sitting outside, eating my lunch and listening to American Prometheus, which is chock full of little anecdotes about people whose names are attached to units or equations I’ve used. To wit, a very peripheral name got mentioned and I’m literally facing a building with that name on it.
Exactly—I phrased that poorly but we have gotten caught by that a couple of times.
Related: if it is smart enough to sense a passenger, it should be smart enough to let that passenger connect to Bluetooth.
~40 different shaped predatory snails in a case with 3 tiered shelves
~40 different shaped non-predatory snails in a case with 3 tiered shelves
If National snail day is not sufficient for your snail curiosity, don't worry we will have many more snails in our mollusk exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth, opening next week #NationalSnailDay 🐌🦑
Teaser for the Marine snail diversity case, arranged by feeding ecology. 1 side is all predators
This has always been my explanation of why I’m not a professor. If I want 3 full time jobs, y’all better pay me for three full time jobs.
A normal mouse brain sits next to a chemically cleared mouse brain.
Several studies in our lab involve chemically cleared brains. Finally took the time to have a photo shoot, so I can show in presentations. The cleared brain shines brightly ✨ under natural light.
Please, dogs ass.
If I don’t close all my tabs at the end of the day I have failed.
a 2D slice through a CT scan that looks like a smiley face.
Happy Monday!
Ventral view of a two-headed zebrafish stained with a dye that marks collagen. You can see the developed structure of the jaw and head.
Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
On the topic of “tactile representations of CT scans”, this makes me think LOTS of thoughts:
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The Non-Clinical Tomography Users Research Network standing all together in the dinosaur hall at the American Museum of Natural History
And that's a wrap on our NoCTURN 2025 meeting at the @amnh.org 🎉🎉 I'm brimming with pride at all the things we've been able to achieve! Just the most marvelous community (who knows how to have a good time). Look at all the things we did (much more still to come 😉): nocturnetwork.org
All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.
A 3D printed, articulated, rainbow-hued raccoon fidget toy.
It’s time for the @nocturnetwork.bsky.social meeting! Thanks to @palaeonomad.bsky.social for distributing these adorable mementos of our unofficial mascot.
Ha I had a bean soup with pickled cabbage tonight (at a conference all week) and feel way more human.
A classroom full of people learning about how to take geometric morphometrics measurements using Slicer.
A great workshop with @jaimiagray.bsky.social on using Slicer. I’ve been hoping to start supporting this software for our users, and this was a good kick to get me going!
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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A single stalk of asparagus.
Several years ago, I planted asparagus, to uninspiring results. Gave up on the vegetable garden. Yesterday, this. You never know what effort will someday bear fruit.
