🚨 Don't forget! Applications are due Friday 1/30 for AQLM 2026. Please remember to submit on time and remind your recommenders to get their letters in too! Photos are from AQLM 2023, 2024, and 2025. Will you be in the 2026 class photo? buff.ly/0XCAKm4

This painting suck in my head since the beginning of January, I sat and watched the Moon rise through the window. She went between two trees yet managed to find the one gap between them to still shine bright. Sending you all lots of love and the clearest of skies!💜💫 🖌🎨🔭🐡🧪📷

Some joy for the darkness: Almost-8yo doesn't care that there's only 3/4in of sleet+snow and it's 20F, she's sledding on the almost flat driveway, dammit! And a good lesson in seeing the possibilities when things aren't perfect.

Spoke with a friend who is an ER doc and he said last time there was an ice storm there were hundreds of cases of carbon monoxide poisoning... Be safe be smart folks

Sorry to tangentialize this subject. An unvaccinated family with measles traveled from SC to WA state over the holidays. They went to a huge church, SeaTac ✈️, rode ferries, went to restaurants & an indoor trampoline park. As of yesterday, we now have an outbreak in my community because of it.

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Did you RESOLVE to FOCUS on microscopy in 2026? Join us at the Marine Biological Lab @mblscience.bsky.social this spring for Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy. Application Deadline Jan 30 Apply Here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Triangle NC folks, come today to see art and science showcase, including the largest microtubule in the world! Screen print sculpture by Bob Goldstein. UNC Genome Sciences building. Reception 4-6pm. Parking opens at 5pm. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=162...

Years ago, an organizing crew I was part of worked to help an unhoused woman in our neighborhood get services. She was dying and qualified for a number of programs. It took a team of seven working for almost two months to secure her a warm bed to die in. Her name was Jennifer.

Always use the mic at a conference even if you’re loud. People who can’t hear you *can’t hear you * when you ask if you can hear them in the back. Some of us went to one too many hardcore shows in our youth without ear plugs and our hearing ain’t what it used to be 🥺 #SICB2026

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

Label the stuff you might leave in random places. The people who find then will usually contact you!

Thoughts and prayers with Nuno Loureiro's family after he was killed in his home last night. It is shocking to lose any physicist of my generation because we are still relatively young, much less in this terribly violent way. Beat the guns into plowshares.

Shot in the dark, but has anyone tried transfecting EOL-1 cells (using lentiviruses, electroporation, or otherwise) and succeeded? We’re having some issues with these cells but it seems to be very vector-specific. Would appreciate any insight/reposts.

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

On Day 6 of AQLM 2026 we will hear from #TIRF expert Dr. Justin Taraska (NIH), @taraska.bsky.social. Learn all about the critical angle and evanescent field, image some endocytosis, and play with lasers all within one evening! If that sounds fun, apply now! bit.ly/49YQl7q

the last 24 hours have been nightmarish in their violence, and I just am so angry this is the world we are in and god damn it

If you don't believe this can happen, women didn't have the legal right to have their own credit cards without needing a male co-signer until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed, a landmark law that made it illegal to discriminate in lending based on sex or marital status.

Always a treat when I can make it to the PhD defense of a HIC user. Looking forward to great science and images from Andrew Kennedy. #GlimmersOfJoy

Microscopy Bat signal! I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗​​https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

Grace Hopper’s visualization of a nanosecond: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyF... Inspired by her, I do time of flight in a spinning disk in a microscopy lecture.

As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).

Microscopy Bat signal! I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n

Anyone on here have a GEHC INCell Analyzer 2200 and want to connect in how to keep them running? Know of any 3rd party service options? Please share widely! If you're at #CellBio2025, reach out and we can connect in person.

#ProudBlue #Pinks #Resistance Good Sunday morning, beautiful friends. I’ve always loved these lessons from the Christmas tree! 🎄#Jaye’sMorningLight

Main principles she taught students: * Know your heart * Look for the positive or the blessing in everything * Embrace who you are and bring it to the table * Show gratitude/finish well #CellBio2025

Curious what happens at @aqlm.bsky.social ? Follow them and get a play by play of the schedule.

Day 3 begins our dive into #fluorscence #microscopy with a lab and lecture from none other than Dr. Wendy Salmon, @fishcscells.bsky.social, director of the Hooker Imaging Core @UNC. She teaches us about the fluorescence #light path, filters, and #fluorophores! Apply here- bit.ly/49YQl7q

#CellBio2025 provisions for me and @stephgupton.bsky.social to try to avoid feeling like total trash by the end and not spend a million $ on bleh conference center food. There's a Trader Joe's across from the convention center!!

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Up early and already in Philly for #CellBio2025! Looking forward to this afternoon's pre-meeting working group with other @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social STED folks.

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

First up is AQLM Director, Dr. Alexa Mattheyses. @mattheyseslab.bsky.social She kicks off the course with an introduction to #optics, where you build a #Kohler #microscope using nothing but #lenses and #physics. If this sounds like your jam, apply now to join! bit.ly/49YQl7q #microscopy

Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

Know the difference.

I can't (yes I can) believe I am sending out another email to archaeologists asking them to do a few more Skype a Scientist sessions for LEGO league. But here we are. Putting our scientific network to the test. Really learning the limits here this semester, whew.

Also - if anyone has a simple alternative to Gene Frames for live cell timelapse of bacteria (preferably compatible with strictly aerobic bacteria) - I would love to hear about it

Will you be at @sfn.org #SfN25? Yes? Us too! Come see the Fame lab!

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Applications close tomorrow - hope to see you in January! If not, stay tuned for future editions :)

Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis

physicists get on it!

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor. The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2. www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

Yes you're allowed to get a tutor for classes in your major Tutoring >> chatgpt and cheating

Regardless of what you've been up to as a student, chatgpt/cheating/busting ass or no, your life is bigger and more important than a grade and if you are feeling like the pressure is getting to you, seek support. Live!