Preprint alert! I’m publishing my last paper from my postdoc work on archaeal cell biology, with @mullinslab.bsky.social, @archaellum.bsky.social, @samjlord.bsky.social, @marleenvw.bsky.social, @arghya93.bsky.social, and more great folks (thread below with more details)

New actin probe from @veselin-nasufovic.bsky.social et al! SiR-XActin and its variants are more photostable and less perturbative than SiR-actin or FastAct. And it's already available from @spirochrome.com! With some beautiful data from @chillinwithpfn1.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Calling all Bay Area researchers for a paid opportunity: the @asterainstitute.bsky.social Open Science Program’s User Testing Day in Emeryville on Feb 11! 📍 Try cutting-edge research tools 💡 Share feedback 🍷 Network Apply by Feb 5: forms.gle/1qk4PHjbee35... #UXTesting #Biotech #OpenScience

@jjalston.bsky.social congrats on the Hanna Gray!

That time of year…

How can the dose be an order of magnitude lower than they first estimated, but then have zero change in their conclusion? Shouldn’t their concern about black plastic cookware be 10x lower now?? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I still miss the tan M&Ms.

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Advances in microscopy mean we can now do more than just observe biology—we can control it. But how far can we really push this in mammalian cells with all their (beautiful but annoying) heterogeneity? 🧪🔬(🧵)

Speakers, try adjusting gamma on your images (e.g. 0.45) on your slides. Especially for images that are still hard to see after optimizing contrast. #CellBio2024

The #CellBio2024 lanyards:

Sharing my latest preprint as a re-introduction to bsky! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ---- Everyday, cells like this crawl through your body to protect you. While we know that their front 🔴 and back 🔵 polarity programs work together, how exactly do these two processes communicate?

I love SuperPlots! If I can shamelessly share an article I wrote this year about some do's and don'ts of data viz, I also included a reproduction of the same figures of the paper in Python here: pub.ista.ac.at/~mdallave/re...

Q: What's wrong with these plots? A: Pooling cell-level measurements across multiple runs conceals experimental reproducibility. Read more in JCB (with @fritzlaylin.bsky.social @katrinavelle.bsky.social & Dyche Mullins): rupress.org/jcb/article/...

A starter pack of starter packs...

I'm trying to find all the cool people sharing microscopy here. Help me 🤓🔬 go.bsky.app/Aaf8sKT

We're seeking feedback on our white paper on PeerReplication. Arthur, Kristen, Dyche, Anders, and I propose an alternative or augmentation to peer review, where key experiments are reproduced, adding robustness to published findings. zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...

Great episode if you like thinking about sampling, basic stats, and paradoxes.