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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excellent cocktails, dumplings and chat with internet buddy, now irl buddy, @bwjones.bsky.social

Dumplings!!! Omg so many delicious dumplings at nanxiangsoupdumplings.com
Menu with pictures of many kinds of tasty dumplings.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pittsburgh urban deer in Squirrel Hill

Two dappled fawns nomming the fenced in yard of a large brick house.

Urban residential street with grassy lawns in front of large-ish brick houses. Two fawns are nibbling one lawn behind an iron fence.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I answered this using my native accent (not the strange trans-Atlantic mash-up I have after 16 years in t England). Bang on Western PA. When I take the similar test in the UK, it thinks I'm from Gloucestershire! mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

Heat map of the USA with dark red over Western PA (Buffalo to Baltimore) and dark blue over the Deep South and Upper Midwest.

My PA tells: sneakers, saying "spicket" but writing "spigot", crayfish, and hoagie.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Saw these roiling masses over Pittsburgh this morning. (Sinuses still feeling.)

Swirly clouds in many shades of gray looming over houses and power lines

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Greetings from Bergen, Norway! Is there a word (maybe in German or Arabic or Farsi?) for when your eyes have been starved of green? After six weeks of drought I am drinking in the lush verdant mountains and fjords. And would love to spend a weekend in a bothy only accessible by rugged hike.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yesterday I learned that radish flowers are 1) beautiful, 2) edible, and 3) delicious .

Radish flowers: light pink with darker pink veins, four petals, many growing from the top of the stem.

Very big tasty radish with hand for scale

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fun morning session with the keenest high school biosciences students looking at flowers, insects, pond water, and plates streaked from phones, floor, etc. under microscopes. And I got to wear my disco lab coat.

Back of a lab coat with a mitotic cell (metaphase) done in sequins if various colours.

Front of a lab coat with sequined cells on and coming out of the pocket. One is in mitosis and one is doing polarised migration with a prominent leading lamellipodium.

Front of a lab coat with sequined F-actin and crosslinking proteins on it.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Everything is terrible, but also everything is beautiful - Paddington station roof is held up by dragonfly wings.

Rows of curved steel ribs holding up the roof. Glass above, rust coloured sides and cream struts with dark gray filigree designs

Close up of ribs with iron designs that look like dragonfly wings

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#TubulinTuesday Reposting an old favourite - breast cancer cell grown in a low dose of taxes for a long time. It's swirling peripheral actin is winding microtubules like yarn on a spindle, pulling its DNA along into the maelstrom.

A huge cell with a ring of yellow microtubules and purple actin around the edge. In amongst the ri g are small circles of blue DNA. The center has a large irregular blob of blue DNA and a clear area where there are a few wiggle microtubules going from the center to the outer ring.

Close up of a section of the huge cell, with a ring of parallel yellow microtubules with embedded cyan DNA spots in it. The misshapen cyan nucleus is in the bottom. A long yellow thread connects the nucleus to the other ring, and there is a blob of DNA at the point where they meet, also training a long thread back to the nuclear DNA.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Everything is terrible, but also: sunrise.

A peachy blush sunrise with pastel clouds over terrace houses

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Good morning from flamboyant poppy

Tall red poppy with serrated edges, black shading on lower part of petals, fuzzy white anthers and large yellow stigma in the center. The leaves are pale almost bluish green with jagged edges. Two more coy buds still have their heads bent.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My home office plant is maybe getting a little bit feral? I love it but starting to fear it. It's really manoeuvring itself to take full advantage of the skylight. Hand for scale.

Messy bookcase and thin cupboard surrounded and convered by giant leaves

Impressively long pointed-heart shaped leaf, about twice as long and wide as a person's hand (size S in lab gloves)

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Where are the calls for white British BBC presenters to condemn acts of violence committed by their ethnic or racial group? What a thing to say.

Geissler then concluded the exchange by saying “that is your opinion”.

“I asked for your opinion, you've made it absolutely crystal clear. In the interest of balance, I should say there are other political parties out there who would argue that a lot of these people were out there last night just articulating what they would think are legitimate views that are opposed to yours,” he added.

“But listen, let's move on.”

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Does anyone else have or know about flint glass eye baths? I have this little guy, at one time 25 cents from Schiller's Pharmacy in Pittsburgh. Can be repeatedly sterilized because it is flint glass. Fill it with water if you have something in your eye - just hold it over your eye socket and blink.

A small, old torn cardboard box that says WOLTRA FLINT EYE BATH Dist. By The Woltra Co. INC., N.Y. on one side and FLINT GLASS CAN BE STERILIZED REPEATEDLY No. 45 B Made in Japan on the other. There is a a black etching style picture of the eye bath, like a very small egg cup.

A perfect bijou glass cup on a stem, grooved, with a concave rim.

Top view of the eye cup showing the flower-like ridges and fluted rim

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Oh hey, cute cat, looks like you are sleeping comfortably there ... be a shame if someone came over and started poking you and meowing in your face, as someone did to me at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30 this morning.

A brown and black mackerel tabby curled up on the floor, front paw stretched over back feet. His head is raised slightly but his eyes are closed.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Cat maximising surface area in the heat.

Gorgeous brown and black tabby sprawled full length on a beige sofa, tail extended

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

One hundred thirty-three [thousand] hand-written exam scripts ...

A tall stack of papers and yellow booklets held together with large rubber bands. Also a Schmigadoon (Schmicago) coffee mug.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The small gaps in my blind are making pinhile cameras. The moving shadows are the clouds going across the sky!

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Absolute bumper crop of my blousey fragrant yellow roses this year.

A half-opened pale yellow rose against a brick wall

Looking up at a dozen or more roses in various stages of opening. The buds are reddish a and the blooms are buttery yellow.

A tall rosebush, flat against a red brick and wooden garden wall. There are dozens of blossoms all over it.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Happy JCS weekend to all who celebrate.

Cassette tape case for the movie version Superstar soundtrack and a hand-labelled cassette that says Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Happy JCS weekend to all who celebrate.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Who is the most huggable bear-dog? Drake, the Akita/German Shepherd Cross.

A big ole pup with tall fuzzy black ears and long black muzzle, and salt-and-pepper coat on his body, looks up at you with soulful eyes.

Oh hai there, says the big gray/black/white mottled coat pooch with the curly fox tail on a big fuzzy bed.

Close-up of a black dog face with tall triangle ears enjoying some neck rubs.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tricot variant in my garden?! @atinygreencell.bsky.social (And some regular dicots for comparison.)

Three small oval shaped leaves coming out of one seedling stem.

Three small avoid leaves on on stem, fingertip for scale, which is a bit smaller in diameter than two leaves.

Two small avoid leaves on stem against soil

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

See a flower, share a flower (if you want to!)

A row of tulips in a planter, two vibrant orange and one ruby red.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I did not mean "bustard". Bustards are great and need our support. greatbustard.org

A very jaunty bird with a fan tail, rust and brown stripes, very long legs, and neck bent backwards so its head is over its mid back, strutting in a field.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Timeline cleanser - everything is awful.but look at this adorable tiny little milk jug!

A tumbler of iced coffee for scale, next to a sweet wee white milk jug with a jaunty little spout and a dainty handle. On a grainy wood table in front of blurred jug of seasonal blossoms.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Cover of the album "Living in Clip" by Ani Difranco

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This Sultan? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

JE "Sultan wants to replace bionic dick with new Swiss version. Wants new surgeon."
Harry Fish (Fisch) "You're joking I hope."
JE "Nope. goyim."
HF "Pizza and grape soda tomorrow for lunch? We can also buy tefillin for Woody."

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yes! We do not have to accept the terms of bad faith arguments. It's not an ad hominem attack to address the meta text of the argument.

Here are some examples from my running thread.

Frame: DOGE was a govt efficiency project to save money
Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost money
Kirby: DOGE WAS A PROJECT TO BREAK AND PRIVATIZE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
Frame: This public service costs too much, it isn’t making money
Negation: It’s actually very efficient and it could make more money
Kirby: THEY ARE ATTACKING THE VERY IDEA OF PUBLIC SERVICES
Frame: Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts is here illegally
Negation: actually his paperwork is in order
Kirby: THIS IS A RACIST ATTACK BY FASCISTS because a Black man is leading a school district. The better he’s doing the more they hate him
Frame: ICE is targeting criminals
Negation: No, they’re targeting ordinary people!
Kirby: THEY’RE WHITE SUPREMACISTS DOING ETHNIC CLEANSING which is why they’re saying everybody who isn’t white is a criminal

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

WTAF is wrong with people? Wealth hoarding and denial; it's a sickness.

I wonder whether the full assessment might also have named some other pressing security threats. One is the way in which fossil fuel, meat and livestock producers have been funding far-right movements, to stifle environmental protection measures that would reduce their profits. Such funding is a major driver of the fascistic politics that we now witness in the US.

It’s not hard to see how inconvenient this report is for Starmer’s government, which has repeatedly sought to invent a conflict between prosperity and environmental protection. Its war on the living world (a world it reduces, according to the “cauldron principle”, to bats, newts, spiders and snails) is a major element of its appeal to the “hero voters” on which it believes its success depends. Never mind that these voters might not actually exist: we’ll bring our ghost army back from Reform UK by attacking wildlife, which everyone in Britain famously hates. That’s bound to work. So when the security services say that environmental protection is in fact essential to prosperity, their report must be suppressed.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Labour should worry more about winning the young people who back the Greens (for good reason!) than courting the mythical Labour-->Reform voter who won't vote for them anyway. And, y'know, DO SOMETHING about climate catastrophe.

It echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists. It tells us that “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” This presents a threat to “UK national security and prosperity”. It says “the world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse.” The results will include geopolitical and economic instability, increased conflict and competition for resources. “It is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.” It also warns that “conflict and military escalation will become more likely, both within and between states, as groups compete for arable land and food and water resources”.

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