Pro tip. When working with AI troubleshooting label printing on a project it doesn’t start with the obvious question. Are they plugged in, it might take hours of diving into rabbit holes before you realize they are unplugged because the software update you ran said to make sure they were unplugged.
Picture of a bottle of Vikre Boreal spruce gin and a glass.
Finishing the night with a glass of Vikre’s Boreal spruce gin on the rocks. I first enjoyed this gin camping on Wilson Lake west of Tofte, Mn on a cold fall night standing in a drizzle under the pines with other campers.
I moved from Minnesota to Texas less than two years ago, but my heart was in Minnesota this weekend. I’m saddened and enraged by the actions of ICE and the federal government but proud of the people of my former state where I spent more than half of my life. 💜
Golden doodle laying down, bit looking up at viewer seated in a chair off camera.
This guy, Beau, is happy I am back home for his morning routine. I think it’s time for that walk now.
Just spent the week attending the Transgenic Animal Research Conference TARC XV. Lots of great research. I also got to connect or reconnect with some wonderful scientists. Plus Granlibakken is always a great venue and Lake Tahoe is beautiful.
Thanks for all your efforts, but i can only imagine how big a volunteer job this became. Glad the Slack will continue.
Happy to have my zebrafish system installed in newly renovated install @tamu.bsky.social today. Thanks to Kevin and Matt from Iwaki for the install. Zebrafish on the horizon.
Has anyone successfully tried to submit Form ITA-338P to request a tariff exemption for scientific instruments for nonprofit use? www.trade.gov/sites/defaul...
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Grabbing lunch at Rock and Brews before a UT-San Antonio tour with my daughter.
Lost our black poodle Leila in December due to kidney failure and Abby today with Lymphoma. Great family experiences with these two. I picture the two of you running and playing together.
Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism"
"That theory has been debunked"
"One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"
🚨 Exciting news! @uottawa.bsky.social researchers discovered secretoneurin, a hormone that stimulates ovulation in zebrafish. This could impact fertility research and conservation! 🐟💡 #Zebrafish #FertilityResearch
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#zebrafish Our Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource is online!! zebrafishccr.org
Check out what's available, imaging and information, and make a request.
We're so very grateful to the NIH ORIP for supporting this work!
Huge thanks to Parnal Joshi from Iddo Friedberg lab for creating the website!
Zebrafish Community Cre/lox Resource website (ZebrafishCCR) will be online soon!
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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"Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference."
#academicsky
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...
A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.
This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/
To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Apparently I have developed a pet peeve for CRISPR-Cas9 figures that a) don’t label the 5’-3’ ends of the DNA and b) ignore the convention of having the top strand go 5’ to 3’ from left to right.
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
