NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
But Joao, aren’t you afraid of being scooped?
No.
It’s an ultra-rare childhood epilepsy. If you scoop me and the kids get help from it, I will help you scoop me and then move on.
If you learn how teach me
"Japanese curry, Officer's mess, Battleship Mikasa, c. 1906. | Old Tokyo" A group of men in white uniforms of Japanese traditional design sit on the floor around a tablecloth spread with rice dishes and curries.
Thiamine (vitamin B1) is essential to metabolism & deficiencies produce a condition called beriberi.
I want to tell the story of why the Japanese Army suffered from it until 1926, while the Japanese Navy did NOT after 1884.
A cautionary tale about science denialism & the resulting policy choices.
An image of a whole frog eye that has been labelled with a photoreceptor marker (cyan) and a nuclear marker (orange). The retinal is the striped tissue and the lens is the large round tissue with the orange interior. You can also see the optic nerve at the top middle of the picture (12:00).
Frog eye, frog eye. Can I have a confocal microscope to play on for 12 hrs a day again please? 👉👈🥺 🐸
As basic science advances I’d argue that model organisms (and new model species) will become even MORE important - my lab works on free-living marine nematodes, but we’re increasingly trawling the C.elegans literature to make sense of our unexpected bacterial microbiome results!
$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
Sad but sterile
Guilty
Nuclear ID by vibe checks only
A microscope image showing a developing eye in a quail embryo. Actin is labelled in orange and nuclei are in cyan.
Bird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬
A patterning/morph only conference would be bliss
Methylation haters unite
🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio
✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday #DevBio
The amount of bots in this place is out of control. "Postdoc" in bio. That's a fake job.
It happened to me this week 🙈
Does anyone know of a beta-gal/lacZ antibody that works for IF in mouse tissues? The one we previously used that worked beautifully is discontinued 😩🧪
i AM an artist and my studio is
R STUDIO
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
Beautiful! 🤩
A confocal image of an E18.5 mouse lung showing Shh-expressing cells in green and non-expressing cells in magenta. Image was acquired on a Nikon A1R.
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is another gorgeous lung image from a Shh lineage tracing survey by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with magenta showing non Shh-expressing cell types and membrane GFP marking Shh-expressing cells. 🤩 🧪 🔬 👩🔬
Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research.
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Check out our work using 3D whole gut spatial genomics, where we found spatially-distinct gene expression patterns along the zebrafish enteric nervous system across 4 to 7 days in development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Disappointing to see a dear colleague’s grant terminated because of anti-DEI ideology. @lisyvila.bsky.social has spearheaded understanding lung endothelial cell heterogeneity, discovering a novel lung endothelial cell, and has groundbreaking unpublished work directly impacted by this decision.
A picture of myself (left) and my postdoc mentor (right) in PhD regalia.
A gif of my postdoc mentor and I hugging after I was hooded for my PhD on the graduation stage.
A picture of my sister (left), myself in PhD regalia and diploma (middle), and my brother in law (right).
A picture of me in PhD regalia with my diploma (left) with my fiancé (right).
I had the privilege to attend my PhD graduation this week. It took a village to get here, but I made it . #firstgen
🧬 #FluorescenceFriday
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.
#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy
Losses like these are, for an old man like me, the most devastating of all losses. Programs like these started my career in 1980 and to deny entry portals to the future scientists of America is to deny our future as a nation 🧪
End of Keynote speech where Dr. Joshua Hall received a gift
I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹
But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾