I wish I was this creative!

The image was awesome, so I'm going to submit it to the Nikon Small World competition. BUT, now I need to come up with a title other than "tick sex." Suggestions?

Story time! Last fall, I pulled 5 ticks off the dog, threw them in a bag in the freezer. I brought them to work, and when I opened the bag, I only found 4 ticks. Decided I must have remembered wrong. Mounted them on the slide only to discover that two of them were "attached." 🤭

A meme that says at the top "Quantification without pilots", and at the bottom "not even once". In the middle is a circle with 4 wedges, one each for sample preparation, image acquisition, image analysis, and data interpretation. Arrows indicate the workflow should go in both directions, not just one!

Decided today at QI was for making dumb microscopy memes. Make sure to do your pilots before you do your final experiment!

mScarlet-I3 at FPbase mScarlet-I3 is a basic (constitutively fluorescent) red fluorescent protein published in 2023, derived from synthetic construct. It is reported to be a very rapidly-maturing monomer with low acid sens...

@joachimgoedhart.bsky.social & #microscopy friends, we're using ymScarlet-i3. It's the best general purpose red FP we've tried in budding yeast. But in our hands it photobleaches really fast when exposed relatively low-intensity *488 nm* laser light (~20 W/cm^2). Have you seen this? Thoughts?

We have been having interviews for a Cryo-EM specialist and my co-workers have been letting me pick lunch places. Excited to have Harvard pay for a delicious Thai place today 😃

Nikon small world poster that takes up half the bulletin board and hangs several inches over the bottom

The poster that Nikon sent us to put on our bulletin board is a bit oversized 😂

TIL I'm supposed to put notes on slides not for my use, but for others to read if they are not there. I haven't used notes in years because as an academic my slides are just there to keep me on track 😝

Print out of a red angry bird

Time to go vandalize a sign 😂

Loaf of bread with paper that says "Greek Easter Bread from Kalliopi. Please help yourselves? (Not GF)"

It's like they don't trust me to read labels 😂

I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining Purdue University as a tenured professor this August! Purdue holds a special place in my heart: its undergraduate program prepared this Indiana farm girl…... I'm thrilled to announce I'm joining Purdue University as a tenured professor this August! Purdue holds a special place in my heart: its undergraduate program prepared this Indiana farm girl remarkab...

I'm moving to Purdue University as a tenured professor this summer! Excited to hire postdocs there and get a lab up and running with @runxishen.bsky.social as co-lead.

More details: www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...

Hawk on top of a coniferous tree

Said problem bird

Sign that reads: Warning: Aggressive birds ahead. Hawk activity reported. Proceed with caution

I have to admit, I needed a good laugh today. Apparently a hawk has been attacking people outside Northwest building at Harvard this week. 😂

We are hiring a Software Engineer who can help us turn our methods into easily usable tools for:

* Explainable AI
* Cell Tracking
* Interactive Learning

...and some more: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Research...

Feel free to reach out directly if you are interested and/or have questions!

What are you doing other than post online? We don't want war crimes being committed in our name

So don't sit idly by and do something

What are you going to do if he doesn't? Let war crimes continue to happen?

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨

The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team:

1) Bioimage Analyst
2) Research Software Engineer (RSE)

Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

What are you doing Boston?

Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm just imagining the gentle click of the filter wheel, the zoom of the AxioZoom, and then bam! Galvo on an LSM 😂

He likes that and thinks we could have an added fee for them to remote in to blast something with the 2p 3W laser 😉

My co-worker and I are brainstorming ways to diversify the facility's revenue. His idea-- streaming microscope sessions like gamers do 😆

I'm thinking about doing High Content Imaging/ Analysis for my summer lunch and learn.

What is something that you wish someone had told you when you first started out?

Lots of stickers left from the poster session. So if you see me ask me for a BINA sticker! I'll be handing some off to @michelleitano.bsky.social, so she can be your sticker dealer as well 😉

Me standing in front of a BINA poster

At #ABRF2026? Come visit me at poster 45 to talk about @bioimagingna.bsky.social or microscopy in general so I'm not lonely. I got stickers!

Authorship and Acknowledgement Guidelines Authorship: "Payment for research services or staff assistance does not discharge investigators from their responsibility to consider core staff for authorship when producing a scholarly work..." Acknowledgment: "At a minimum, core facilities should be acknowledged whenever their equipment is used, services are provided, or staff contribute to the work..."

Penn State Huck core facilities has the office of research published acknowledgement guidelines so individuals core directors don't have to be the "bad guy" in requesting it. #ABRF2026

Congratulations to @marianadeniz.bsky.social on her well deserved DEIB award!

Kelly Vere is talking about the career progression framework due to the technician commitment. #ABRF2026