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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I have the print copy!! It's so exciting to see my art on the cover and @henrydebelly.bsky.social's paper in print! Thanks Orion! @oweinerlab.bsky.social!

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The proper response to "my IF antibodies were tested by western blot"

Cell pointing to western blot looking unamused saying "no, not applicable"

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Orange time! This is moving towards being a fruit series

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Had to give the cell buddy the joy of finding an apple #sketchbook #art #acrylicpens

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Lemon cell buddy and fun with acrylic markers and black paper #art #acrylicmarkers #traditionalart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This cell looks like it discovered lemons or just citric acid at the cellular level

Cell looking surprised drawn with ink and a water color brushes to add a watercolor paint effect

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is our classy polarized rac-rho cell's good friend. The noise it makes is "Oblelbebebelbebeb" Draw with acrylic pens #art #sciart #traditionalart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

These growths in @micro-manager.bsky.social cannot really be understated! It has been amazing to seem the improvements implemented so quickly as people need them on our systems!

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micro-manager.bsky.social @micro-manager.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Development of Micro-Manager code has accelerated quite a bit with availability of the new generation of AI coding tools (and the need to provide functionality for microscopes in our core at UCSF). Follow these developments here: nicost.github.io/microscope-t...

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Half a year of progress in Micro-Manager development

Faster progress on Micro-Manager development thanks to new AI coding tools

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm super excited my art is gracing the cover of Nature cell biology! Thanks @henrydebelly.bsky.social for letting me draw the cover for you and congratulations on your paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tanner Fadero @tanner-fadero.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Here's a six-month time-lapse of me building the single objective light sheet fluorescence microscope at the UCSF Center for Advanced Light Microscopy! Also pictured is @nicostuurman.bsky.social and @kahsage.bsky.social. #snouty

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Nico Stuurman @nicostuurman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

One of the difficulties in developing code for microscopes is to get access to the equipment. So, wouldn't it be nice to have emulators? Turns out that AI is really good at converting documentation into an emulator: nicost.github.io/microscope-t...

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Firmware Emulators

title: “Firmware Emulators for Microscope Devices” author: Nico Stuurman date: 2025-12-21 —

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I made teaching tools for training people on the SNOUTY. Here they are for other people! I recommend laminating them so you can draw on them with dry erase markers :)

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

@tanner-fadero.bsky.social told me there was a discussion about the unofficial name for #snouty V3. We have had Mr. Snouty and King Snouty, and there were people suggesting Emperor Snouty. I think it is time for a Lady or EMPRESS snouty. I have created Art to support this.

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This was a quick sketch for the super kind postdoc Lisa Randolf who has kindly been providing me with samples to test on our microscope.

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Congratulations to Takeshi Tsusaka on their recent publication on Reversible histone deacetylase activity www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Also, thank you to Takeshi for acknowledging our core facility, putting in hardware information about the microscope, and telling me about it all!!!!

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Microscopes are Analog to Digital devices! I drew this for teaching purposes. #art #SciArt #artwork

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

The sticky note response to when someone tells you your age means “years more of experience” than them #art #comic

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Anyone in the SF Bay Area? Berkeley public library has a comic on this weekend! www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/bpl-c...

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BPL Comic Con 2024! @Central | Berkeley Public Library

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Osmotic pressure!!! This is a drawing drom a few years ago insprired by @katrinavelle.bsky.social amoeba undergoing seome osmotic pressure! #art #sciart

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🌙NoxuArts - Commission status: OPEN! @notyournyx.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Slow-mo Calcium response! Here is a little neutrophil with a calcium sensor doing its best to respond to a chemoattractant! Work done by Evelyn Strickland inspired this! Check out her paper on self-extinguishing relay waves in neutrophil swarming www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #art #sciart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Decorated pumpkins at work! I had to go with a Vampire microscope because microscopes are light vampires. . . Bonus for anyone who noticed its deadly ultraviolet wings! . #sciart #acrylic #microscope #vampire

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Magnification is not resolution! Resolution is the minimum distance required to distinguish between two objects. You need to take into account how light spreads and refraction. Magnification just makes things bigger. I drew this for a workshop I’m helping to teach! #art #artwork

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

#sciartseptember day 4: cursed There is nothing more cursed in this world then doing lab work on the weekend. #art #artwork #watercolormarkers #ink #cells #sketch #sketchbook #traditionalart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

I’m behind on challenges because I guess it was Smaugust, for some reason I thought there was a Smaugtember with all the dragon images on my feed. Anyway it made me want to draw a dragon and I just like the idea of a giant powerful dragon performing delicate work. #art #sketch #sketchbook

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

PCR machines are the worst! Superstition is abound in the lab, so here is a bit of science humor with another little cartoon I drew on the train. #art #cartoon #sciart #watercolormarker #cells #ink

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Turns out I can’t help but draw microscopes on things. This ended up being an exercise in transposition to draw a microscope on this little marmal toy. I feels like a little puzzle that I will need to work on. #art #artwork #sciart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

I found a new toy that you are supposed to draw on and wash off called a marmal (@lovemarmals) The first order of business was giving it a brain, which led to imagining what its nervous system would look like. It turned out a little bit like a supervillain. #art #artwork

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Clown Fish! From the aquarium, done with acrylic inks! . #art #artwork #acrylicinc #ink #fish #aquarium

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Optogenetics! These little cells will have their proteins translocated by our spinning disk microscope and a blue light optoplate! I drew this to congratulate Kirsten Meyer whom I have had the opportunity to work with over the last few years! Now she is off to start her own lab at Yale! #art

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Live drawings from the commute! Also thanks to the person who sat next to me on the train today and complimented my drawing ☺️ it’s always nice to hear! #art #artwork #livesketch

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

Compu-mancy: Harvesting computer parts from one computer to keep your computer of interest running! It is closely adjacent to scope-romancy, because the microscope is reliant on that computer. . #art #artwork #sciart #scienceart #markers #ink #sketch #sketchbook #microscope ##computer #drawing

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Scope-romancy! The fine art of taking parts from one microscope to revive another microscope to keep it working! . #art #artwork #sciart #scienceart #markers #ink #sketch #sketchbook #microscope #drawing #illustration #traditionalart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

If you were transfected with a protein that could make you glow. How annoying that would be for your sleep schedule? If it was MagLOV and you then discovered a magnet it would be glorious. Inspired by MagLOV protein:https://x.com/andrewgyork/status/1797408565742776348?s=46&t=2S117XXgyNbwHribuq4qcQ

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I’m not touching you! In the objective world, the snouty is definitely the kid that is super close, but isn’t touching you. #art #artwork

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

This little cell can’t dodge ultra-fast volume imaging of the snouty light sheet even when it tries! . #art #artwork #sciart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Citing all the features of your microscope, no matter how small, makes your data more reproducible and makes everyone happy! . #art #artwork #sciart #scienceart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Cells perspective: Snouty single objective light sheet freeze frame! . #art #artwork #sciart

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Kari Herrington @kahsage.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

I have learned if you want to entertain a 7-year-old you just need to draw dragons. Incidentally , this makes you an awesome aunty! . #art #artwork

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