Happy to have attended the Fighting Blindness Canada Inherited Retinal Degeneration (IRD) Coffee Chat. Here, we engaged with patients with IRD, and I got to connect with them and speak about the basic science research processes, and what types of basic science are exciting for this field 🧪👀

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, any head shot will do. Here is a chinstrap penguin from Antarctica.

ISER will have a booth at the @arvoinfo.bsky.social 2026 Mtg in Denver and would love to have volunteers to represent ISER there. This is a great opportunity to support ISER, reconnect w/colleagues, and engage with the vision research community. Sign up here: aao-wihgh.formstack.com/forms/iser_v...

Lovely 😍

It's funky axons time 🔬 🧪

Edmonton residients really need to understand that off leash doesn't mean "not under control". Had to block a huge dog from going after my friend and her SEEING EYE DOG while out for a walk. The other dog's owner did nothing, just stood and watched. I'm so angry and over it 🤬 Do better Edmonton #yeg

Think if I finished the plumbing for my frog room RO & rack system myself, I can charge the University for my time? 🐸🧪 /s

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight Some swallows from a trip to Panama.

Sustainable lifestyle choices means that I can eat the Easter chocolate and sour patch bunnies that someone left out at the hospital gym 😤

I like this image. That is all. 🐸🧪🔬 Muller glia (green) and their cytoskeleton (purple). And a couple of red blood cells have made an appearance.

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdoftheDay theme is snacks. Here is a heron enjoying a giant fish. Maybe more of a meal than a snack.

Students from the MBL's Embryology course cleared this turtle embryo last year using LifeCanvas Technologies Inc.'s SmartBatch+, labeled with acetylated tubulin to visualize the nervous system, and imaged with the #MegaSPIM light-sheet microscope. #microscopy

New publication: Inner-Retinal Changes In AMD: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Future Perspectives. A fun project with Matt Trinh, Michael Kalloniatis, myself, Glenn Yiu, Enrico Borrelli, and Lisa Nivison-Smith bryanwjones.com/2026/03/inne...

In the spirit 👻 of Freaky Friday 🎃, here is a beautiful yet eery video of zebrafish retina development showing horizontal cells (🔵) finding their way out of the crowded amacrine (🟠) layer to settle beneath the photoreceptors. Happy #Halloween! 🎥: PhD student Rae Wong from the @nordenlab.bsky.social

Thanks to the Node for featuring me!

Checked a bucket list item off today! I've always wanted to swim in the pirate ship pool at the West Edmonton Mall and today I did it. There are all sprts of cool things down there to see, including a wreck of the old submarines from the 80s-90s. 🤿

In today's episode of we accidentally broke biology, an eye in one of our tadpoles grew inverted, normally the blue/yellow bits point outwards/downwards. It was just one eye in a cohort, so its most likely just a random occurrence, but it will be neat to see if we can replicate it. 🧪🐸

This might be the best guess about what's going on with the bluetooth. Maybe it's not "seasonal" per se, but associated with me turning off the car heater?

Random person: posting pictures of Vancouver cherry blossoms on reddit saying "It's spring now right?!" Me: looking out the window at it snowing...AGAIN 😭

Interesting tech mystery! If it's not temperature, my next suspect would be interference in the 2.4GHz range. Are you in a densely populated area? Could also be communication equipment used by construction crews. 🤔

I have a 2015 Forester and the bluetooth cuts out SEASONALLY. Winter: runs perfectly, rarely drops. Summer: Constantly disconnects. We're talking Nov-March, GOOD. April-Oct, the worst. Wtf?! 🧪 I found one other person reporting seasonal issues by searching forums. Thoughts? I'm just curious.

Today's #MicroscopyMonday: a whole-mount image of a larval zebrafish. Imaged by high school students from New Bedford Whaling Museum Internship Program in the CRISPR course with Zeiss 780 confocal. Special thanks to Billy Shogren from the Echeverri Lab for helping the students.

The amount of inner peace I feel when it is rainy and slightly chilly outside is unmatched. 🌧️🤌

Thank you!

Looking through old photos and found this beauty. Frog rods, labelled with GFP under a XOP promoter (inner segment, orange) and wheat germ agglutinin (outer segments, cyan). I love how you can see the holes where the mitochondria are packed near the top of the inner segment (the ellipsoid zone). 🧪🐸

Our recent paper picked up by The Ophthalmologist! www.theophthalmologist.com/issues/2026/...

Fish nails! 💅🎣

I mean of course our spare water source for animals would break the day they disconnect and fullt remove the main one for replacement (hopefully) in a week and we have 100s of frogs in temporary static bins requiring manual changes. Why wouldnt it? 🤦‍♀️ 🐸 🧪

Our lab wrote a "preview" of a new paper by Wang et al. on the role of peroxisomes in gut develoment (and COVID response). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I made this to demonstrate that for data visualization it's not only the color scheme, but the colors chosen for each channel, that matter. Here is the same image of rods and cones represented in RGB and simulated color blindness, showing how small changes can make a huge difference in what you see.

Art class (and boy today I needed it). Not sure if I'll end up firing them, but I probably should. The sloth is my favorite, though stub leg llama is also cute. I hope they dry well because I'm kinda more attached to them than I thought I'd be 🤞

I don't know how to get people to understand that animals are living things, and so won't eat the exact same amount of food at all times, during all periods of the year. I am tired, ya'll. 🐸🧪 Any zookeepers I can have contact our animal facility to also tell them this?! /s (but kinda not really...)

Happy #FluorescenceFriday Here is a whole mount frog retina. Every once in a while (also in sagittal sections) I see some very thin rods groups together (in this image I pseudocolored them green). I haven't verified it, but frogs have red and green rods, and I'm wondering if that's what they are.

Truly annoying how much work it is to be mediocre at lifting weights.

Closing the 82 open tabs after submitting a grant application. It's no longer in my hands.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borb. I think this is a Bewick's wren, ushering in spring.

Thank you for your hard work and advocacy!

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RuffledFeathers, birds with feathers out of place. Here's an American robin, who is certainly NOT enjoying the windy day. The wind was so cold this day too, even though the sky looks so nice.

@alan678.bsky.social bird of the day theme is #BirdsInTheirElement , birds in their natural environment. Here's an adorable little gosling on the beach. ##BirdOfTheDay

@robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WaterDroplets so here's a coot chick

Happy #FluorescenceFriday Here's a collage of some of my favorite images from my postdoc. See alt for descriptions. 🧪 🐸 #retina

I thought marking exams was going to take me an hour, two, tops 🫠

I feel like this is a metaphor for something.

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...