I'm trying a new coping mechanism where whenever my job upsets me or I get frustrated, I go to go to the gym and lift weights. The way things are going, I fully expect to look like this in about a year #science

This Norfolk pine has been with me since Dec 2020. I just repotted it and sat it next to its original pot for comparison. Hoping for many more years with it 💚🌲

One thing about working with a unique model organism is that most animal ethics guidelines are based on mice or larger. So, now, CCAC wants us to list anticipated number of offspring from each breeding activity as part of research projects. Healthy frogs lay clutches of 10,000+ eggs, soooooo...🫣🐸

Walkies. We're so lucky to live here. 🌲

Finally found some time to make a website of sorts. Better (five years) late than never!

2026 Xenopus Researcher Survey - OPEN NOW - forms.gle/uDUkGCrhpXCc... Your feedback is highly valuable. Help us make Xenbase more helpful to your research! #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

Yup. There's a lot of water in the river valley. There's an outlet/spillway in here somewhere.

Our head laboratory technican has worked at the University for 45+ years! They interviewed her for a local podcast. Take a listen if you want to hear about her long and successful career and all the changes she has witnessed personally over the past 4+ decades. www.spreaker.com/episode/s1e7...

Here is the story of one of the U of Alberta - Department of Cell Biology's major projects for the last few years. Setting up a Stem Cell core laboratory in partnership with the Women and Children's Health Reserach Institute. ar.wchri.org/tiny-models-...

Lovely micrograph of oil red o and toluidine blue staining in the liver, from one of the summer students in my lab.

Plein air watercolor kit is a success! It's fun to see the differences between the reference/outdoors spot and the painting.

Currently at this part of the manuscript discussion writing process.

A quick sketch of some Scottish mountains from a youtube livestream to test my fully assembled plein air kit. I think its ready to go on walks with me. #sketchbook #urbansketching

sorry, here are working links for the 2nd Asian Xenopus Conference: www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... 2026.xenopus-asia.org #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

Set my balcony up all nice today, and then I drew it. I guess this sketchbook page could be called "views from home".

Getting a bug stuck in my ear certainly wasn't how I envisioned ending my first outdoor bike ride of the year 😭😭😭 (I saw a dr, they got it out!)

I’m proud that one of my images placed in #BaltimoreCameraClub digital competition. Called ‘Life Under The Bean,’ taken in Chicago. Look for 6 reflections of me waving ‘hello.’ https://www.baltimorecameraclub.org/ImageZoom2.aspx?ImageSize=2&ImageId=28130103&Id=f1bf57c7-42a9-4978-9914-57bf575beaca

Excited to be giving a presentation to the Neuroscience Department at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville about @brightfocus.bsky.social funding opportunities and how we partner w others. Thanks to @drneurochic.bsky.social & Sandro Da Mesquita for inviting me. Looking forward to seeing you.

I need to do SEM so bad. I still haven't done it yet.

Found an old toy that I inherited from my grandpa. We used to call it a hologram maker. 🧪

How I feel re-writing a manuscript because I'm tired of waiting for all of the others to get it together. First Author? Middle Author(s)? Corresponding Author?

If anyone wants to learn R, I cannot recommend this online book and package enough. I have put this off for so many years and within ~4 hrs I can do statistical analysis and graphing on my own data with 0 prior experience. It is excellent! nathanieldphillips-yarrr.share.connect.posit.cloud

I was interviewed by @snehakhedkar.bsky.social for The Scientist about our work using super-resolution microscopy to map the neuronal architecture, and make nice pictures along the way! Check the article here: www.the-scientist.com/super-resolu...

Kids bridge jumping.

Grad student returned from a visit home and gifted me this truck. A perfect home for the frog.

Super cool that our voter information was obtained and posted publicly online in an illegal and unauthorized manner by the pro-separtist republican party of Alberta. Super duper cool 💩

One of the best free vision science resources out there! I love Webvision ❤️

Tadpole gut contents. I just think it looks neat.

ISER is inviting experienced members to serve as mentors and mentees in the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Mentorship Program. This one‑year program pairs established investigators with ECR trainees for bi‑monthly meetings focused on career development, research pathways, and professional growth.

What a beautiful spring day 🌱 Unfortunately I just missed filming the snow tornado.

Thank you to FocalPlane for featuring my microscopy and Science! 💚🐸🔬

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.

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. 🤔