Before you sit down for turkey, register your team name at HCWvsHunger.org & rally your troops because #HCWvsHunger 2025 starts tonight! Currently missing #BladesNBougies, #ComfortFood, #UrineItToWinIt, #EatOurWords, #KetaMeals, #DocsOfAllTrades #RxHunger, #CureRNHunger #NourishtoFlourish & more!

Snowy Start. This morning, Chicago's Millennium Park gets hit with lake effect snow while the autumn colors are in their final days.

Wednesday's WOW! This morning's spectacular panorama sunrise over Chicago.

Morning Millennium Magnificence. Autumn in full color at the Bean on this day seven years ago.

Saturday's Start. This morning with the autumn colors scattered over Chicago's Lincoln Park.

Fantastic Friday Finish. This evening in Chicago.

I just registered for #FlowICCS25, the Annual ICCS Meeting and so should you—today is the early registration deadline with a discount! I hope to see you in-person Sept 26-30, but if you can't, this is a hybrid meeting with a virtual option. Register now! www.cytometry.org/2025/registr... #hemepath

Wow, my Perseid meteor picture & narrative was published in a @space.com article on the #Perseid #meteor shower! Check out the article here: www.space.com/stargazing/m... #astrophotography @davidbflower.bsky.social

A brilliant green-red Perseid #meteor and the Milky Way! This meteor left a visible "smoke" trail that lingered for a few seconds. It was an amazing scene in the skies of rural Illinois with the high clouds adding to the drama! Canon R6, Rokinon 14mm #Astrophotography @davidbflower.bsky.social

Sunset Spray, Thursday evening in Chicago. The CFD fireboat provides a salute to the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse fundraiser event aboard Wendella yesterday. SaveTheLighhouse.org

Last night's Moon. 2153UT 7 August 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Silos, stars, summer triangle, and the Milky Way! Add to it meteors and howling coyotes—all making for an incredible sensory experience & a memorable night in the Illinois countryside!😇 Canon R6, Rokinon RF14mm, 60 frames stacked in Sequator #Astrophotography #MilkyWay @davidbflower.bsky.social

Starting your training or just curious about flow cytometry? The latest ICCS YouTube video "Introduction to Flow Cytometry" from Sindhu Cherian is *exactly* what you are looking for! Please like & *subscribe* so that you don't miss new videos!

Our latest video is out and this time it's back to basics! Sindhu Cherian's video "What is flow cytometry?" gets you started! This video is available for free but for more, sign up for ICCS membership: cytometry.org/web/membersh... Check out the video here! 👇 youtu.be/n7UULWuPSsg?... #pathsky

Turning on the light to Tuesday. Today's sunrise in Chicago.

60-mile sunset. Day's end this weekend in Chicago in 2016.

12:01am on Friday morning. Lightning hitting both Sears Tower and the Hancock Building in Chicago.

Register now for the 2025 ICCS Virtual Course to be held August 21 and 28! The topic is "Validation Boot Camp and Quality Improvement in a Flow Lab". Early registration deadline (with discount) is August 1st! Register here: www.cytometry.org/2025-Virtual... #FlowCytometry #HemePath #PathSky

🚀New Video Alert! Don't Miss It! 🚀 The ICCS Outreach Committee has released a new video on tandem dyes in flow cytometry. More videos coming soon, so please *subscribe* to our YouTube channel so you don't miss any! Watch it now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cV7... #PathSky #Flowcytometry #Hemepath

Don't miss our upcoming webinar on "Flow Cytometry Profiling of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasms/Proliferations" on Monday, May 19th! Registration is free: www.cytometry.org/web/calendar... #hemepath #pathsky #flowcytometry #flowedu

Check out the latest module from the ICCS Q&S committee on automated sample preparation systems for flow cytometry labs! This module provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to select & validate these systems. Link: www.cytometry.org/web/modules/... #PathSky #FlowCytometry #HemePath

Northern Cardinal, Busey Woods, Urbana, IL Canon R6, RF100-500 at 400mm, f/6.3, ISO 125, 1/500s #northerncardinal #birdphotography #canonphotography

Just received a nice surprise. My picture of the Moon occulting the Pleiades is in the latest May issue of Astronomy Now magazine. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography #photography

Hello Thursday! This morning's start in Chicago.

Waxing Crescent Moon approaching the Pleiades. 2000UT 1 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Waxing Crescent Moon in the Pleiades. 2116UT 1 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The annual St. Baldrick's event at @uihealth.bsky.social has raised more than $270,000, and shaved about 410 heads. The #PediatricOncology team at the Children’s Hospital University of Illinois, part of UI Health, hosted the head-shaving event on March 21. bit.ly/42cvmse #CanSky #RockTheBald

On March 3rd TPM launched its annual March membership drive with an absurdly high goal of adding 2,500 new members this month. We are now 37 sign ups short of that goal. If you value our team and the importance of independent media we hope you'll join us! talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships?...

hugely important and this will be massively felt across the country

Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

I remember the cystic fibrosis patients I took care of 20 years ago. I also remember the dedicated HIV wards in the hospitals, and that Princess Diana made headlines for shaking hands with AIDS patients. Progress has been incredible. Miracles are where you choose to see them.

A 35 yo woman and her 5 yo son both depended on USAID: “Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well” Their deaths, and all the others, are at the hands of Musk and Trump.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Wow, what an amazing lunar eclipse! Conditions were great and I could capture my best lunar eclipse photos ever. Look closely and you can see some faint stars! Canon R6, Canon RF100-500 with Ex RF 1.4x at 700mm #LunarEclipse #LunarEclipse2025 #TotalLunarEclipse

Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.

Did you miss our webinar on the impact of the FDA's LDT Final Rule on flow labs? ICCS members can access it on our website (cytometry.org). Just log in and click on "Webinars" Interested in ICCS membership? It's a great value—see this link: www.cytometry.org/web/membersh... #PathSky #FlowCytometry

NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.

Day's End on Sunday in Chicago.

RFK Jr. and his movement do not simply ignore the need for vaccination. They also have a habit of dismissing child death and disability. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

Just some general guidance here. We don't know all the details. But this presages taking a real hatchet to the whole social security system. Whether it's 20% of the staff or 50% who knows. But basically unsustainable cuts for a program anyway we've known it.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

NEW: Backstory on VA's decision to cancel roughly 1000 contracts worth $2B. DOGE apparently made no effort to find out what they were for and didn't both to find out they were putting of of business numerous service-disabled vet businesses with their decision. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-...

You've simply got to read this. beyond belief You Must Read This: Uproar Over Malicious and Disastrous Cuts at VA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-m...

DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show
Records show the 875 contracts included support for medical and burial services, cancer programs and efforts to recruit doctors for critical vacancies www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Happy b’day to “Songs From the Big Chair” — released 40 years ago today. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was originally called “Everybody Wants To Go To War” — which “I knew didn’t work,” said Roland Orzabal. “I came up with ‘rule the world’, which is when I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s good.’”

Just a reminder that the HPV vaccine literally PREVENTS CANCER and the series can be started as early as 9 years of age.