Lab conversation of the day: How to convince our PI to raise chickens, so I can get a cat.

In the anime Dragon Ball Z there exists a hyperbolic time chamber, where time is skewed so a year in the chamber would be equivalent to a day spent outside the chamber. I think I’ll need a hyperbolic time chamber to finish all the experiments and writing I need to finish by the end of the year…

Testing out new toys we got from SfN. Thanks @proteintech.bsky.social and Echo!

If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!

Wow, when they said it was raining they meant it was RAINing

I don’t know why I thought a morning flight was a good idea 🫩

Our resident artist hard-at-work drawing dinosaurs for @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social

My cousin is about to start the nyc marathon, I guess it’s time to get out of bed…

Thanks @mpfneuro.bsky.social for inviting me out! Had a blast spending the day talking about neuronal cilia!

Mr. Bumblebee doing the hard work so I don’t have to

RIP, you served the culture rig honorable

6 months later, just like riding a bike.

Legos for adults

Totally worth getting up at 5 to avoid the crowds

Eduroam at the airport is wild

I fixed the Koehler illumination of the teaching scope at the musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva. Nice to know my skills can be applicable outside the lab.

This view never gets old!

You best believe a 6 hr time difference wasn’t going to stop me from watching the Knicks punch their ticket to the eastern conference finals! 😱😱😱

Finally, an emoji for academics 🫩🫩🫩

Do y’all remember when Trumps immigration policy was just a wall? Yeah, good times.

I keep getting asked whether I would consider leaving the states and my answer is no. It took four generations of hardship for my family to make it into this country. I can’t just run from the fight now.

Thrilled to share work from my PhD is now online as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We show prey capture learning requires V1, enhances V1b tuning to behavior, and induces persistent plasticity in firing rates and spines, gated by homeostatic, rather than Hebbian processes. Read more:

I finally figured out what I should use my Thor labs snack box for!

Hulk’d straight through my gloves

I’m not sure why anyone buys an industrial pump when a fish pump does just as well. Just as powerful at a fraction of the price.

Our lab’s squash team is ready to take on any other lab who dares to challenge us!

If only we could use optogenetics for mind control

If only Americans could agree on more than just tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minorrrrrrrrrrr

Graduate students and postdocs who don’t even know what an indirect is while their PI is screaming about the 15% cap

On today’s episode of songs my labmates insist get stuck in my head, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan

The fabric of this country may be crumbling before our very eyes, but we managed to get a paper out… I guess that’s something 🫠 #neuroskyence

When one of your lab mates starts singing espresso and it gets stuck in your head, “I’m working late, cause I’m a postdoc” 🎶

Im not sure how many positive pep talks I have left in me 🫠

It’s only day 2, but it looks like I’m going to need more dark chocolate to keep morale up…

It’s moments like this that will get me through the next 4 years

Is Trump sure this is the right move? He wouldn’t want to seem less manly than President William Henry Harrison. That dude didn’t even wear a coat at his inauguration!

Silly geese, shouldn’t y’all be south by now?

Nothing like a winning mahjong hand to cap the night 🀄️🀄️🀄️

My 2024 neuroscience wrapped is finally here! #neuroskyence

Fresh off the presses! Read all about it! The synapses of auditory nerve fiber subtypes aren’t all that different!

She ready! @andreag.bsky.social

I fried my vocal chords with a combination of Christmas music and the Wicked movie soundtrack 😔

Pretty sure my PI summoned me through pure thought yesterday. Is that a testament to our mentorship bond… or my susceptibility as the mentee….?

Self restraint means not singing at your rig because you don’t want to disturb your PI down the hall

My grandparents are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary this year. 🤯 I don’t think I’d have any chance of hitting a 70 year wedding anniversary, even if I were married tomorrow, which I’m not.

Patching today and it’s been a minute. Praying to the patch gods to be kind and for the rig to have minimal noise 🙏🏻

As a woman scientist, there’s nothing more empowering than doing mundane lab chores by yourself. Need someone to change the CO2 tank, you got it. Oh, the drierite in the pipette puller needs changing? Already done. The milliQ is making a funny noise. I can fix that!

I just learned that lemons are hybrids of a bitter orange and a citron, so life didn’t give us lemons. That’s such an apt analogy to what’s going on right. If we want lemonade, we’re going to have to cultivate and grow them, because it’s obvious life isn’t just going to give us the lemons. 🍋

My 18 year old brother was excited to vote in his first election. He’s studying abroad so he requested his absentee ballot, three times, and they just never sent it. We live in a deeply blue county, so his one vote wouldn’t have made a difference, but I do wonder if his experience is unique.

Usually I go to sleep and my headache goes away. Now I’ve woken up and realized I’ll probably have this headache for the next four years.