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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Solidarity to everyone else submitting S10 proposals!

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/05/2026

Up close, these tiny organisms in cow stomachs are surprisingly beautiful and evocative. Known as rumen ciliates, these microbes could be playing a more significant role in climate change than previously understood, according to new research. wapo.st/422MqS5

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Carolina Microscopy @carolinamicroscopy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Welcome to Carolina Microscopy, the unified microscopy core facilities at UNC Chapel Hill!

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Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Alumni of the Marine Biological Laboratory include all who have contributed to our rich legacy of discovery and education—not only students, but also our dedicated staff. Join us in supporting the next generation of scientists at the MBL: mbl.edu/give

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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course @aqlm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🚨 Don't forget! Applications are due Friday 1/30 for AQLM 2026. Please remember to submit on time and remind your recommenders to get their letters in too! Photos are from AQLM 2023, 2024, and 2025. Will you be in the 2026 class photo? buff.ly/0XCAKm4

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Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This painting suck in my head since the beginning of January, I sat and watched the Moon rise through the window. She went between two trees yet managed to find the one gap between them to still shine bright. Sending you all lots of love and the clearest of skies!💜💫 🖌🎨🔭🐡🧪📷

My hand holding up a canvas against the sky. The canvas is painted with a blue and pink sky, the Moon is in the middle framed by tree branches.

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Some joy for the darkness: Almost-8yo doesn't care that there's only 3/4in of sleet+snow and it's 20F, she's sledding on the almost flat driveway, dammit! And a good lesson in seeing the possibilities when things aren't perfect.

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Spoke with a friend who is an ER doc and he said last time there was an ice storm there were hundreds of cases of carbon monoxide poisoning... Be safe be smart folks

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Kin Keeper @kinkeeper.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sorry to tangentialize this subject. An unvaccinated family with measles traveled from SC to WA state over the holidays. They went to a huge church, SeaTac ✈️, rode ferries, went to restaurants & an indoor trampoline park. As of yesterday, we now have an outbreak in my community because of it.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

this is superb

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Alexa Mattheyses @mattheyseslab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Did you RESOLVE to FOCUS on microscopy in 2026? Join us at the Marine Biological Lab @mblscience.bsky.social this spring for Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy. Application Deadline Jan 30 Apply Here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy | Marine Biological Laboratory

A comprehensive and intensive course in light microscopy for researchers in biology, medicine, and material sciences.

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Triangle NC folks, come today to see art and science showcase, including the largest microtubule in the world! Screen print sculpture by Bob Goldstein. UNC Genome Sciences building. Reception 4-6pm. Parking opens at 5pm. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=162...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Years ago, an organizing crew I was part of worked to help an unhoused woman in our neighborhood get services. She was dying and qualified for a number of programs. It took a team of seven working for almost two months to secure her a warm bed to die in. Her name was Jennifer.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Always use the mic at a conference even if you’re loud. People who can’t hear you *can’t hear you * when you ask if you can hear them in the back. Some of us went to one too many hardcore shows in our youth without ear plugs and our hearing ain’t what it used to be 🥺 #SICB2026

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Label the stuff you might leave in random places. The people who find then will usually contact you!

Email screenshot "Hi Wendy. I'm a student using Bondurant G021 today all morning and afternoon. I found your charger in the room this morning. I've placed it on the table in the room right nextdoor! Best, name cut off

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/12/2025

Thoughts and prayers with Nuno Loureiro's family after he was killed in his home last night. It is shocking to lose any physicist of my generation because we are still relatively young, much less in this terribly violent way. Beat the guns into plowshares.

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Dr. Roberta Dollinger @robertadolling1.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Shot in the dark, but has anyone tried transfecting EOL-1 cells (using lentiviruses, electroporation, or otherwise) and succeeded? We’re having some issues with these cells but it seems to be very vector-specific. Would appreciate any insight/reposts.

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course @aqlm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

On Day 6 of AQLM 2026 we will hear from #TIRF expert Dr. Justin Taraska (NIH), @taraska.bsky.social. Learn all about the critical angle and evanescent field, image some endocytosis, and play with lasers all within one evening! If that sounds fun, apply now! bit.ly/49YQl7q

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15/12/2025

the last 24 hours have been nightmarish in their violence, and I just am so angry this is the world we are in and god damn it

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

If you don't believe this can happen, women didn't have the legal right to have their own credit cards without needing a male co-signer until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed, a landmark law that made it illegal to discriminate in lending based on sex or marital status.

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Always a treat when I can make it to the PhD defense of a HIC user. Looking forward to great science and images from Andrew Kennedy. #GlimmersOfJoy

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Microscopy Bat signal! I want to compile a list of biological samples that demonstrate microscope capabilities, including the reagents to generate them. Please send me anything you know of!! Beads are great for QC, but there's a different teaching benefit with biology. 1/n

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455 #Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Grace Hopper’s visualization of a nanosecond: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyF... Inspired by her, I do time of flight in a spinning disk in a microscopy lecture.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Anyone on here have a GEHC INCell Analyzer 2200 and want to connect in how to keep them running? Know of any 3rd party service options? Please share widely! If you're at #CellBio2025, reach out and we can connect in person.

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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#ProudBlue #Pinks #Resistance Good Sunday morning, beautiful friends. I’ve always loved these lessons from the Christmas tree! 🎄#Jaye’sMorningLight

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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Main principles she taught students: * Know your heart * Look for the positive or the blessing in everything * Embrace who you are and bring it to the table * Show gratitude/finish well #CellBio2025

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Curious what happens at @aqlm.bsky.social ? Follow them and get a play by play of the schedule.

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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course @aqlm.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Day 3 begins our dive into #fluorscence #microscopy with a lab and lecture from none other than Dr. Wendy Salmon, @fishcscells.bsky.social, director of the Hooker Imaging Core @UNC. She teaches us about the fluorescence #light path, filters, and #fluorophores! Apply here- bit.ly/49YQl7q

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

#CellBio2025 provisions for me and @stephgupton.bsky.social to try to avoid feeling like total trash by the end and not spend a million $ on bleh conference center food. There's a Trader Joe's across from the convention center!!

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

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How to quit Spotify

This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

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Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Up early and already in Philly for #CellBio2025! Looking forward to this afternoon's pre-meeting working group with other @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social STED folks.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

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Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!

YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero

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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course @aqlm.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

First up is AQLM Director, Dr. Alexa Mattheyses. @mattheyseslab.bsky.social She kicks off the course with an introduction to #optics, where you build a #Kohler #microscope using nothing but #lenses and #physics. If this sounds like your jam, apply now to join! bit.ly/49YQl7q #microscopy

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Kristen Funk, PhD @kristenefunk.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

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Assistant Professor

Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Know the difference.

A microscope on the left, an identical one on the right except that it's glowing green. The left is captioned "Fluoresence Microscope", the right "Flueorescent microcscope"

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I can't (yes I can) believe I am sending out another email to archaeologists asking them to do a few more Skype a Scientist sessions for LEGO league. But here we are. Putting our scientific network to the test. Really learning the limits here this semester, whew.

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Also - if anyone has a simple alternative to Gene Frames for live cell timelapse of bacteria (preferably compatible with strictly aerobic bacteria) - I would love to hear about it

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Fame Lab @labfame.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Will you be at @sfn.org #SfN25? Yes? Us too! Come see the Fame lab!

Blake Zhou
Sunday, 11/16, 8am-12pm.
Presentation Number: PSTR053.24/ A22
Location/Room: A22 SDCC Halls B-H

Arjun Rajan
Sunday, 11/16, 1pm-5pm.
Presentation Number: PSTR102.04/A40
Location/Room: A40 SDCC Halls B-H

Luke Liu + Ryann Fame
Tuesday 11/18, 1pm-3:45pm.
Session Number: Nanosymposium NANO040
Session Title: Choroid Plexus and CSF Biology
Location/Room: SDCC Rm 24A Nano040.04; Nano040

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10/11/2025

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Applications close tomorrow - hope to see you in January! If not, stay tuned for future editions :)

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BioVoxxel (Jan Brocher) @biovoxxel.de · 10/11/2025

Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis

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