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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 10h

100% This person created such a disrespectful mess

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that part made me annoyed too.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wish I too was in Iceland, listening to the wind. Congratulations to Anne!

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Researchers from cilia biology and microscopy, as well as primary ciliary dyskinesia clinicians, have written an open letter to Nikon regarding the winning video in their Small World in Motion competition. To read the open letter and find out how to add you name:

focalplane.biologists.com

Please sign and share: open letter to Nikon on the 2026 Small World in Motion winner - FocalPlane

Please sign and share: open letter to Nikon on the 2026 Small World in Motion winner - News

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just say you don't want it. Now I have to worry if I am communicating correctly.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got one recently in less than 24 hrs where they said they didn't understand the clinical significance where we showed by stats and a 7 patient case series for a 1:10,000 disease we can predict the most likely phenotype and clinical outcome for certain variants. Ok then.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mouse retina optical section labeled with a polySia marker (green), calretinin (magenta), and a nuclear label (blue). #MicroscopyMonday

An image of a mouse retina that looks similar to textile art or a tiled image. It is colored green, blue, and magenta, and shows different retinal layers.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations! So happy for you!

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always wanted to participate, but I think I'm good now.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, sad I missed this! So close to home.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yup. Our premier is firmly in trump's pocket.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If anyone wants to know how stupid our provincial government is, the question "Should Alberta hold a referendum on separation from Canada?" is being asked at the same time as the question "Should Alberta elections should require proof of Canadian citizenship to vote?" 💩

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Frustrating. They need to change it to "free-eating". These things still use their yolk.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I may be in the same boat as you soon.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh my god 3 days?! I'm currently in a "fight" because the latest dev biol paper misnomered "free-swimming" as hatching from the vitelline membrane at stage 36 so they want us to track starting then (so also 3 days). No, these things are still laying at the bottom of the tanks and have no mouths...

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just did mine and my new favorite thing is we have to track progeny from matings. I work with frogs. My numbers were: Matings: 12 Progeny: ~90,000

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To help the tech feel better I said I'd come take a look with them. My little chick guy had that crop packed SOLID. Like a golf ball, lol. Yes, he was indeed fine.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I worked with chickens, I got a panicked email from the animal tech that one of our poor chicks OBVIOUSLY had a goiter or some form of highly aggressive throat cancer. They were quite taken aback when I replied, it's fine, it's just being a greedy eater 😂

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, Ill send Mike an email. I missed that transcriptomics workshop they had last week 🥲 I hope they do another one.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can someone please explain like I'm 5 the actual sample prep steps for bulk RNA-seq because published paper methods are like 4 sentences long, and I feel as if I may be greatly overthinking this...🧪🐸

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly they are exactly like that too. Like weird little men in bear suits lol. No wonder they used to be endangered.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My reaction opening the door into a liminal space, lol.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mine are pretty tame. In 2021, they put me in a small library to do my talk over zoom, so I didn't have to mask. That was fine, but then they forgot about me (?!) I opened the door to a darkened empty space and had to find my own way out of the bowels of a closed building I've never been in before 💀

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My new nemesis is officially the University of Calgary medical school reference form.

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BCCHR ResDev (DM) @resdevbcch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ attention Canadian health researchers ‼️ #CIHR has posted the Project Grants Discussion Paper and a related *survey* cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54821.html Please please participate 🙏

photo of the “help shape the future of the project grant program” announcement by CIHR. TEXT is accessible in the hyperlink in this post.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Its crazy how resourceful these critters can be

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Big brain frog. She better not be teaching the rest.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the latest development of #justlablife a rascally frog has figured out how to open the rack lids and escape. They have done this TWICE now (same frog, who we have now named Drainy Houdini). Now we have to shim the lids shut using lily pads. At least its on theme. 🐸 🧪

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two funded MSc positions are available with us thanks to an NSERC-Alliance grant. Working with the McDonald lab, the focus will be on the neurobehavioural effects of chronic exposure to microplastics in rodents. If you or anyone you know are interested, contact us! #neuroskyence #neuroethology

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Depends on the paper, but Nature papers, yes.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oooh, I hate this so much. What a slap in the face to actual microscopists.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a frog/tadpole animal model person this made me laugh out loud.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I would like to see them lose it anyway.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People talk about getting exhausted in academia and then how balls start dropping. I didn't realize that a dropped ball of mine would be accidentally stealing a rental car in Helsinki for 5 days lmaooooooo 💀 It's all good, they just let pay the difference when I dropped it off. I love Finland 💙🤍

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The second blue photo is beautiful!

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Such beautiful chandeliers in this lecture hall.

A chandelier built from 5 glass bowls with a soft orange glow. It is backlit by white skylight windows.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah. I was actually dumbfounded (speechless, confused, dumbstruck) when he was big mad about the difference in Canadian and American dollar and announced they should be same. I just sat there in silence for a few minutes trying to take it all in.

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Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve spent much of my career studying the eye, but having a dear friend diagnosed with an inherited retinal disease has made this work feel much more personal. Please consider helping us reach our VisionWalk goal, every donation big or small counts: give.fightingblindness.org/fundraiser/7...

give.fightingblindness.org

Washington VisionWalk 2026

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Amazing! Huge congratulations!! I am so thrilled for you.

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