Also interested in playing with:
* Syncrotrons—provided we can stick a 2cm fish inside. (Whole-body scan NOT required!)
* Large CNCs and metal 3D printers
* Granite Rapids Xeons with 1TB+ of MRDIMMs
* Unreleased Blackwell workstation cards
* Anybody with live Rockhead Poachers
Related: does anybody have a Sigray Eclipse? Because I'd REALLLLLLLLLLY like to stick a fish in it. Pseudo monochromatic non geometric magnified goodness. ♥️🐟🖥️♥️
Incidentally, here's my beloved Rockhead...
And his brain.
And his CNS up to SN4.
And his semicircular canals.
And the supporting vasculature.
#RockheadPoacher #FishBothering #NanoCT #ScanAllFishes
When I'm not #Fishbothering, I like fish scanning.
Typical fishy CT projects revolve around mass-scanning of phylogenies to make some sort of PCA... I just try to scan one animal at progressively more ludicrous detail.
#NanoCT #ScanAllFishes
I finally have an @ethankocak.com avatar! Check out that adorable Bothragonus. Holey-head-fish-friend!
Thanks so much, Prosanta ♥️
Hahahahaha I have such incredible bedhead in this picture! The caricature is adorable though. Little googly eyed poacher!
A few of my #FishBothering exploits. Wonderful creatures, all!
Thanks so much @ethankocak.com for these wonderful avatars of my lab. They all love them.
Folks Ethan is the best - send him some projects, his prices are very reasonable, and he is the nicest person too.
@thegarfather.bsky.social @ichthyangela.bsky.social @danielgeldof.bsky.social
Really proud of @danielgeldof.bsky.social who did a really nice for his entrance seminar telling us all about his poachers and their weird anatomy (which he has been relentlessly CT scanning to the nanoscale) #LSU_fish #ichthyology
Rockhead poacher (Bothragonus swanii) embedded in agarose for a super high resolution scanning adventure. As you can see, he's pumped to be imaged. #FishSci #ScanAllFishes #HoleyHeadFishFriend #Overt
Here are some extremely quick snaps of a 3.8 micron Rockhead cranial pit in Avizo and 3D slicer. These are photos of my monitor after ~5 minutes of examining them—suffice to say there will be better things coming.
Initial conclusions: Fishy is dope
It took me three years (and a $1.3m Thermo NanoCT) but I think I've finally dethroned Diego Vaz's magnificent 7.8 micron Rockhead Poacher scan as the best Cottoid scan I've ever seen. Naturally, my scan is also a Rockhead Poacher.
With luck, I'll have some first images later this week!
They are indeed extremely weird
