Lasers were a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to play with cats. Computers were also a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to look at pictures of cats. In other words, science was made for cats.
A confocal microscopy image showing early tau accumulation in the brain with Alzheimer's Disease. Everything in blue (all nuclei) and green (neurons) is healthy. All the other colors are composed of a combination of different markers for pathological tau. The key question is: how do we avoid this tau spreading from cell to cell via neuronal connections? If we can avoid this, we can avoid memory loss.
Guess you can use a timeline cleanser? Can I show you some microscopy? My job is to see beauty even in sad things (so we can learn how to prevent them!). This is a brain with early Alzheimer's. This image was acquired in 3D and took 72 hours to get ready!
#Microscopy #Neuroscience
Arizona softball takes a 8-0 run-rule win over Southern Utah in game one of the Candrea Classic on Thursday afternoon.
I’m agnostic. I don’t know what the universe’s energy is…but whatever it is, it has to be infinitely more intelligent than the collective mind of humanity.
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
Some days I feel like somebody is out there playing the game of life with the dice from Jumanji
A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death
"Postdoc in the job market"
abstract image that looks like a section of brain
Scientists have revealed a neural mechanism that could lead to better pain relief.
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Confocal microscopy photo of the brain showing pyramidal neurons in the frontal cortex
This is who you REALLY are. You are not a reflection in a mirror. There are no liposuction or fillers to prevent your neurons from showing your actual age.
Support basic scientific research so that one day we may learn how to grow new neurons in the brain.
#FluorescenceFriday
"Collecting virgins" became such a normal thing for me to say that I sometime forget that it sounds absolutely weird for every non-Drosophilist 😅
#drosophila
What do you mean the cracks are just beginning to show?? He’s the fricken San Andreas fault by now
Adorable GSP dog named Lucy showing her teefies to the camera.
@lori805.bsky.social Showin off her teefies 😬🤓🤣 #dogsofbluesky
Miss you both already!
Enormous relief—but why was the WHI ever on the chopping block?
“The initiative is uniquely positioned to produce important new insights into many chronic diseases, including Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.”
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
My wife asked me to stop acting like a flamingo.
I had to put my foot down.
Turns out my inner child isn't wounded - she’s just a little jerk.
Nikki @neuronikki.bsky.social is a brilliant scientist I had the chance to collaborate with, as she coordinated a multidisciplinary team and just published a high-impact study offering a potential mechanism to treat neurodegeneration. The reward for her hard work in science? Removing her funding.
Neanderthals
Next will be nuke access….this is like some alternative timeline filled with waking nightmares that I accidentally slipped into, right? There’s a way back, right???
Confocal microscopy photo showing neurons in the cerebral cortex
Stars in the sky or neurons in the brain? Happy Sunday!
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Happy International Women’s Day! 💪 🧠
Lady GABA is here to support you in feeling calm, cool and collected so you can tackle whatever life throws at you!
#internationalwomensday
#girlpower
#gaba
#brain
Having System of a Down providing the soundtrack for a standing up for science was not on my 2025 bingo card but I LIKE IT! 🤘🎸
The brain is bigger in the inside than on the outside.
Human fetal heart at 9 post-conceptional weeks, immunostained for blood vessels in pink (PECAM1) and developing autonomic nerves in yellow (PRPH). Acquired on a Miltenyi Blaze light-sheet microscope. Movies online much prettier than this lossy GIF.
For a #FluorescenceFriday that took our team 17 people & over 5 years to complete, we wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day with a deep dive into the developing human heart (before it grows heavy or breaks), available at @dev-journal.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Sooo….stomach flu?
Bunsen is holding a rose in his mouth.
Beaker is wearing a headband with plush hearts on it and a pink t-shirt.
Bernoulli is sitting in a kissing booth.
Ginger is sitting on a heart tablecloth.
Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!!
Love from Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli, and Ginger!!!
Turned out if you only have Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with your desktop PC, it's a mistake to accidentally turn off bluetooth in settings.
Yesica Mercado-Ayon in the Butler lab won the People's Choice award in the @uclastemcell.bsky.social microscopy contest! Here's her image for #fluorescentfriday #fluorescencefriday: "A tree made of neurons".