We're hosting an Ask Me Anything with two scientists from the Early Careers Committee! Submit your questions to be answered by Dylan Girodat and Shirley Ahn to EYosebashvili@biophysics.org

Hearing loss is becoming more common. So why is there still stigma? One in four Australians is expected to have hearing loss by 2050. Here’s how advocates – and engineers – are seeking to reduce the shame around this common condition.

“When I make these requests, I feel perceived as difficult, or I have to explain that I’m hard of hearing. Because I don’t have my aids in, and I’m youngish, I feel like it’s seen as a strange request." www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/li... #keeplistening

Students from Barnstable High School joined us last week for the High School Discovery Program at the MBL.

During their CRISPR genome editing course, they used SyGlass virtual reality headsets to explore and visualize confocal microscopy data.

Mechanosensory Hair Cells in a Mouse Cochlea We seek to understand how hearing works at a molecular level; that is, how a sound wave is transduced into an electrical signal by hair cells of the inner ear. The cover image of the March 17 issue of...

Read about the cover art for the newly released issue of Biophysical Journal on the BPS Blog: www.biophysics.org/blog/mechano...

Chapter 1 – Why do we feel dizzy when turning?

This comes from how the inner ear’s rotation sensors (the semi-circular canals) work mechanically. The short videos below (and the next one) explain why.

(And yes, that video is low-quality, but it's actually me on the chair 😅)

À papier mâché model showing the inner ear structures with the temporal bone cut to reveal them.

A different angle of the precious.

A papier-mâché model showing the anatomy of the ear massively enlarged. These structures are involved for hearing and balance, and include the smallest bones in the body.

Beautiful! One of the vertical semicircular canals?

Biology of Hearing and Balance: Experimental and Analytical Approaches | Marine Biological Laboratory The Biology of Hearing and Balance course (BHB), formerly Biology of the Inner Ear (BIE), teaches advanced research approaches to the development, function, and pathology of the inner ear and downstre...

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Ventral hippocampal pyramidal cells transduced with rabies (cyan), helper proteins (magenta), or both. Part of a monosynaptic circuit tracing experiment

Are we still doing #FluorescenceFriday? #NeuroSkyence

Why hearing in noisy places gets harder with age, even with “normal” hearing

This study links hidden damage in the ear's neural wiring to speech-in-noise difficulties and increased listening effort in middle-aged adults.
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Needs a bit of work, but not bad for our first attempt on the new lightsheet microscope... #FluorescenceFriday (again on a Saturday 🙃)

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Beautiful work! Incredible to see the scale/scope of different cells.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! #Haircells at the basal turn of the #cochlea.

Celebrated the 15th #BenchtoBedside last night!! So inspired by all the participation and teamwork to advance medicine and health!! #B2B

Happy lunar halo!🌕

Checking out the spacesuits at #kennedyspacecenter !👩🏻‍🚀