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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They have sweet ultrastructure in 2D, the reconstructed serial sections would be uh-may-zing.

Transmission electron micrograph of a mouse retina with a red blood cell insides of an endothelial cell inside of a pericyte

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone have any seen red autofluorescence in the agarose pad while imaging c. elegans

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've seen this with epifluorescence where it's like the mounting media is getting "the bends" in real time, worse with shorter wavelengths. For a long time after I first saw this we started storing mounting medium in a vacuum jar, but I think it was a bad lot of mounting medium (we use AquaMount)

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Frank Grimes, or "Grimey" as he liked to be called...

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thanks for your careful work in cataloging this indefensible and despicable practice. Commercial Abs are always kind of a crap shoot even before this all came to light. I wonder if it's not time to do some combination of true blue @DSHB-antibodies.bsky.social and going back to making our own PCAbs.

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

... it turns out I thought my department had sent in the nomination but I had forgotten to give them a Title of the grant so I missed the window and my application wouldn't be considered. I did help perform the reviews though.

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Once while I was literally typing away on a foundation grant I got an email from said foundation asking if I'd be a reviewer for their upcoming cycle. I thought that's pretty weird, I can't review applications where I have one and the same mechanism. Well I guess I'm off the hook...

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks for your terrific contribution and also to my amazing co-organizer @bmolins.bsky.social !

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What a fantastic idea! ISER is ”bottom up” instead of a “top down” meeting with members contributing the session ideas. Something along these lines sounds wonderful for the next biennial meeting!

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Awesome to see the location where Cassian Andor blastered Mon Mothma’s treacherous hover car driver in Valencia! #ISER2026

Outside of the science museum of the City of Arts and Science building València Spain, stand in for the Galactic Senate building in Andor

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Looking forward to seeing all my vision science friends and also the Galactic Senate!

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think I must have spent a lot of that time in Narnia or something

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Renewing my @arvoinfo.bsky.social membership and realizing I have now been at it for 25 years, not counting the previous decade of training, and, I mean, how did this happen?😬

A screenshot of a webpage with a pulldown menu and "Late career 25+ years" highlighted

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"To a degree guaranteed to blow your mind..."

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've got a new chapter out, Insights Into Retinal Remodeling In Retinal Degenerative Disease: bryanwjones.com/2026/07/insi...

A cartoon figure showing a vertical section through retina with the red, green, and blue cone pathways, the rod pathway and the Müller glia illustrated.

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At least the scouring of Ithaca was included

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thanks for sharing! I wish the title of the paper was a little more specific ("... in Malattia Leventinese" vs. "...in iPSC derived RPE cells from Malattia Leventinese patients")

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is the reviewer jealous that you probably have more time still on this planet than they do and are taking it out on your grant?

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Fortunately, this kind of thing always improves service and quality!

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Remembering the great Jerry Lutty, fantastic mentor to so many of us, pioneer in the study of the choroid, and warm and wonderful human being.

A photo of the great Jerry Lutty and three boxes of donuts to celebrate his birthday

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have this Mandela effect memory from when I was in middle school that Geddy was a guest on an episode of SCTV, in addition to this breakaway hit single!

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I celebrated by blasting RUSH in my office all day

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Wishing yours better luck than mine! I check a lot, I like to see it before I get the email that there's a result. Feels like I'm in the driver's seat. Similarly I like to quit the zoom call before I see "The host has ended the meeting" pop up. Not sure what all that says about me.

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For some prestige award applications from scientific associations, linking the Scholar page is a requirement. Also if there's a guest speaker and I want to see what their "deal" is, that's where I look. It makes sense to keep it buffed.

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Study sections (NIH) are now officially forbidden from discussing any positives about the PI but otherwise this makes sense

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Wait isn't it mostly flash frozen on the boat? 🤢

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

For years I thought the line was "chippies are comin' and I just can't pretend"

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If I told them once, I told them 100 times. "Put Spinal Tap first, puppet show last!"

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I still remember my surprise in high school French class that "guy" in French is "type" (pronounced teep)

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Does anybody ever go on a web site and click "Oh yeah, give me ALL the cookies!"

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

While it's not "random", different study sections see and weigh different perceived strengths and weaknesses differently (>50% of reviewers are ad hoc). I'd say address the criticisms in good faith and go for it!

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Update: I tipped the driver, they did not seem offended.

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Tipping etiquette/ golden rule question. I’m invited to give a talk and the sponsoring department pays a driver to lug me from airport to hotel. It’s usually like 20 minutes or something. Assume the department has it covered or tip (which probably has to be cash). If tip, how much?

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I wish I had a dollar for every time I corrected "stained" to "labeled"

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Rob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Retina folks, I had this baked potato and... I don't know... it reminds me of something

Baked potato split into quarters and suspiciously resembling a dissected eyeball

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Trying to find some protocols for cone isolation from frogs that don't involve transgenics or freezing. There is a surprising dearth of information out there for cone isolation? Seems to be mostly rods. Is anyone familiar with any simple-ish protocols? 🧪 👀 #xenopus

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