“Students weren’t just annotating - they were thinking critically about what they observed.” In this course, students used WEBKNOSSOS to explore real EM data, segment organelles, analyze cellular asymmetry, and develop biological hypotheses from their own observations. Read more: buff.ly/MckCdVY

Is Gemini inventing new terminology? It started off by suggestion "homozygizing" as a correct spelling, then doubled down when I searched if that word actually exists.

We spoke with @inperience.bsky.social from Miami University about using WEBKNOSSOS in a cell biology course built around real C. elegans vEM data. 48 students annotated cells, generated AI training data, and even contributed to a biological discovery. Read the interview: buff.ly/MckCdVY

An interview with WEBKNOSSOS about using the platform with undergraduates at Miami University. @webknossos.org @miamiuniversity.bsky.social

The 3D Ultrastructure of C. elegans Gut Granules doi.org/10.17912/mic...

Work done with undergraduates in Introduction to Cell Biology (BIO203). ~

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I'm looking for a new member to our dream team. We study how experience turns in to inheritance using the nematode C. elegans as a model. This position is ideal for someone with significant research experience and applying for Ph.D. programs. tinyurl.com/2xdu4w9v

When learning a new language I benefit from newspapers and radio stations that offer a “lite” version of the same content as the usual outlets. Is there something similar for scientific articles? Could be useful for undergraduate courses.

F1 >>> Jurassic World > Superman

In general, academics should allocate a portion of their intelligence and time to understanding how the market works and graduate schools should augment training accordingly. Academia shouldn’t be an academic’s sole source of income. That was the a lesson unemployment taught me.

I came across this rejection letter from 1989 when sorting my dad’s belongings. Somehow this utterly trivializes editorial rejections when weighed against the full life he lived and the contributions he made.

Third chick in a week. First two were sparrows but this one is a pigeon. They fall to the street and die from the heat. I harvest some developing feathers for “Developmental Biology a la Søren Kierkegaard” and then lay them to rest.

Santella et al. (Bao lab) had published a nice C. elegans TEM dataset. elifesciences.org/articles/77918 Can someone help me identify the organelle in the crosshairs that seems to have a donut around it. There are 3 orthogonal to each other highlighting what looks like a ring around a vesicle.

Asymmetrical melanocyte activity during the second quarter of feather development.