Latest hyperfixation: model kit

We would be lost without Xenbase! It's an incredible resource🧪🐸💚

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's been a rough start to 2026, but my office plants somehow survived not being watered since Dec 15, and that's pretty neat. 🌱

Sliding into work after 3 weeks of (probably) the flu be like

Portrait: Brittany Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social in Tvärminne bryanwjones.com/2025/10/port... #Scientist #VisionScientist

Our latest paper is out! It's led by my first MSc graduate, Andrew Rideout, who did a terrific job with this project. We report some fun and confusing results about mGluR6 trafficking. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Final sketch. Happy Holidays everyone!

I bought an ink adventer calendar and to justify it, I've been doing a sketch a day with the new inks. Here are a couple of my favorites. #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #Sketch

Drs. Halley-Stott, Hörmanseder, Jullien, and Pasque wrote a perspective on Sir John Gurdon about his mentorship and impact. Published in Nature Communications. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Frog eye, frog eye. Can I have a confocal microscope to play on for 12 hrs a day again please? 👉👈🥺 🐸

Trying to find some protocols for cone isolation from frogs that don't involve transgenics or freezing. There is a surprising dearth of information out there for cone isolation? Seems to be mostly rods. Is anyone familiar with any simple-ish protocols? 🧪 👀 #xenopus

Tis the season for me to run face first into all the hanging holiday decorations everywhere 🥲 #duck&dodge

Sketch weekend. The goal is to finish the sketchbook by the end of the year, but that might be a little ambitious for me (34 pages left).

I donated to a chonky cat rescue raffle and won a sweater. Thank you, I love it 😂 Courtesy of The Big House Sanctuary in Ontario. They're on instagram 😻

Art class today. The theme was underwater, so I couldnt resist painting my model organism #Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog). This is done in encaustics, which is a mixture of beeswax and resin 🐸 #Art #SciArt 🧪

Update: I did not know that "Google Drive for Desktop" was a thing. So I downloaded that and am now moving everything over. Easy peasy 😊 (only about 600 GB to transfer 🫠). Thanks all!

OK bsky. I need to back up a shared Google drive. If you download a folder, it zips it according to size, and changes the location of files. E.g., it will download 6 zips, and "Summer Research" will have X number of files in 6 duplicate folders across zips. Is there a way to put things back easily?

Sent hubby a pic of my desk at work and he asked why I had a framed picture of a man. Babe, how much time you got because we're going to get into some LORE 😂 It's a semi-silly but uplifting way to remind myself of how far I've come. Mega props if you know the source. 🧪💅

I haven't read a good book in a long time. Any recommendations? I read multiple genres: horror, science, fiction, non-fiction, nature, etc...The last books I read were the immortal life of henrietta lacks, braiding sweetgrass, and into the planet. 🧪 📖

Had a hyperfixation moment today and decided to organize all of my nail polish by color, effect, and brand in excel. Oooh yeah. That's nice. #WomenInSTEM

Happy Halloween! Here is a spoooooky cell 👻 #FluorescenceFriday #Retina

I feel like I need to purchase this file on the basis of the name alone.

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

2026 Whitman Center Fellowship Applications are Open! Every year, we bring together biologists to push the frontiers of knowledge. Scientists are invited to spend 4 to 10 wks at the MBL, with support available throughout the year. Deadline Nov. 1. https://go.mbl.edu/whitman

We are hiring an Imaging Scientis. Apply here: go.mbl.edu/AS1887

Thanks Bryan! Nice pic of me. I don't even remember you taking it. Eagerly awaiting the Visionarium pics 😊

What a day. I need to touch some grass.

Proud to be a part of the 50 States, 50 Stories initiative organized by @arvoinfo.bsky.social Read more about National Eye Institute funded work in my lab on Fuchs Dystrophy here - www.arvo.org/news/arvo-bl...

Great opportunity for prospective grad students in integrative pathobiology. Info on how to register for virtual open house on October 30 below.

Xenopus embryo growth cones move at 100-120 µm/hour 🏎️ doi.org/10.1083/jcb.... Scale bar below if 10 µm and total time is 11 minutes.That's about 2 times the speed of the fastest cell in the 2013 Cell Race! (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course - Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease, April 7 - 21, 2026. Application Deadline: January 16, 2026 xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

Growing up wildlife aware is wild. Ran into some elk 4/5 through a 5 km loop, so I didn't want to turn around. Made it around them safely. Ran into a lady a little further along and tried warned her, but she was wearing earbuds. When she finally caught on, she went, "OH WOW! That's so exciting!"

This beaver swam so close to me as I was sitting on the boardwalk, I was almost worried I was going to have to back away. What a nice encounter though.

I dont even remember when, 1 year ago? 2? These people put this abomination on their balcony near a well-used city walking and biking trail. I thought it was for Halloween, but it's still just there. Existing.

Sooo cool! Congratulations!

Ahh yes, that important part of the scientific method where you "make the proof"

So we just get sent AI spam summaries of our own preprints now? Wtf is BGPT?

Assistant or Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Kentucky: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/601... #academic jobs #edusky

It’s @drbjcarr.bsky.social talking about Prom1 as a highly conserved protein responsible for photoreceptor outer segment morphogenesis at #Visionarium2025

Webvision Has A New Home! www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...

So proud for @brightfocus.bsky.social to be supporting Dr. Carr and her students. Looking forward to witnessing many discoveries from this lab.

That's a wrap! My first RD conference as a PI *and* with two graduate students in attendance. Featuring @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social and generous funding from @brightfocus.bsky.social The BrightFocus Foundation was invaluable in launching my career, and I could not be more grateful!

Gorgeous 😍

We are pleased to announce that Webvision has been fully migrated to our new home at the University of Pittsburgh. www.webvision.pitt.edu All traffic should not automatically be redirected from the old URLs, but please update your links. Heads up: @pittophthalmology.bsky.social

Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11

New paper! Kudos to first author Jaeeun Lee, who is a fantastic and hard working student. We showed that at photoreceptor presynapses, ELFN1 enrichment depends on postsynaptic mGluR6. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Oh look at this!! Beautiful, and it will be out just in time for your Xmas shopping. Great gift idea for kids, a coloring book about vision!!! 🤩

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is not on Bsky yet, but they have a new website. If you are interested in vision research, RPB is a source of funding for your work. I owe my career to RPB in many ways. www.rpbusa.org