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Andrew Weems

@muthrnaturzson.bsky.social
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Stoked about fatherhood/cell bio/the swordsmanship of Johannes Liechtenauer | Asst Professor with Molecular Biosciences @ UT Austin | theWeemsLab.com | he/him

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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Let's learn about James Harrison, the "man with the golden arm". Born 1936 in NSW, Australia, he required a pneumonectomy (lung-removal) at age 14. This involved transfusing 6 liters of donor blood (13 units) & a three month hospital stay. That's when he developed his magical blood.
A balding man in his late 70's with white hair and beard, wearing a patterned blue-green shirt, and leaning against a bridge railing over water.

"James Christopher Harrison OAM (27 December 1936 – 17 February 2025) was an Australian blood donor known as the "Man with the Golden Arm" for his prolific history of donations, 1,173 times between the ages 18 to 81."
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
'Visuals expose batch effects, hidden subpopulations, nonlinear behaviors, and experimental artifacts that often remain invisible to summary statistics alone. These insights directly shape which data can be trusted, which controls are needed, and which experiments should come next.'
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Why Seeing Still Matters in Biology - the Node
or, Why all biologists needs data visualization Biology probes form and function of Life. Form is easy to grasp: cells under a microscope, subcellular
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This MLK Day I'm going to tell a story from May 1968 when a right wing provocateur got the nation talking about how "white conservative Christians" like him were reguularly victimized by Black/leftist mobs while the "liberal elite" looked the other way. The story was a lie, & the "victim" was a Nazi
Bleeding, Battered But Mlot-Mroz Wrong Minority
By Henry J. Taylor
It would be nice if Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy paid a hospital visit to patriot Joseph Mlot-Mroz, mercilessly stabbed, beaten and bludgeoned in Boston outside the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while peacefully demonstrating against its Poor People's March on Washington.
One of Mlot-Mroz's signs read: "For God, Freedom and Country. Fight Com-, munism in Vietnam and Red Stooges at Home." His other proclaimed: "I am fighting poverty. I work! Have you tried it? It works!"
Cut up and bleeding under the wild attack in the first violence of the trek on Washington, Mlot-Mroz looked, in vain, for help.
From Bobby Kennedy's first day as Attorney General he has been probably the nation's No. 1 sponsor of demonstrations. What's the matter with encouraging Mlot-Mroz? Apparently that's quite different.
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Kevin Dean @kevin-dean.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A game changer in our hands... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Universal consensus 3D segmentation of cells from 2D segmented stacks - Nature Methods
u-Segment3D is a universal framework that translates and enhances 2D instance segmentations to a 3D consensus instance segmentation without training data. It performs well across diverse datasets, inc...
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
blebz
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The original circos plot? From the 1947-1948 Carnegie Yearbook, the page prior to McClintock's Mutable Loci in Maize paper.
An old image of a salivary gland chromosome from Drosophila melanogaster, with lines across different segments indicating contact points.
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Jenna @jennaonthenet.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it
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Matt Blackwell @mattblackwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
(whispering into my phone during the job talk) grok is that true?
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Disruptions to the NIH impact more than just science; they will hit all Americans in our wallets. I spoke yesterday with Becky Fogel from @kutnews.bsky.social about the important role NIH-funded research plays in the economy. 🧵 1/n www.kut.org/education/20...
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UT Austin professor says Trump's policies could disrupt scientific research and hurt the economy
The Trump administration directed federal health officials to pause external communications last week, which prompted the National Institutes of Health to cancel meetings used to determine which resea...
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Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Goodsell stained glass window in the office is done! Stoked about how it came out. Shoutout to wallpaperforwindows.com for their excellent printing job, and of course to the man, the legend, David Goodsell
An office window decorated to look like cell biology themed stained glass, featuring the art of David Goodsell
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 28/12/2024
A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt
A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible. Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the  polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.
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Natalie Thiex @thiex.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Trying this out for #fluorescencefriday. 🧪 AktPH through an isosurface mesh of the plasma membrane. From this lattice lightsheet collaboration with @minesbioimaging.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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dave @beesandbombs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/11/2024
"The adult traits I acquired surviving dinosaurs will make me an enthusiastic and passionate member of a college community, whether I brave a Friday night dance or experiment in a new discipline, such as figure drawing."
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The Boy from Jurassic Park’s College Application Essay
Claws scrabbled at the door, each scratch a shock of fear to my heart. Inside the kitchen, my sister and I hid behind a stainless steel table, slic...
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Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The People love amphipathic helices
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Ulrike Boehm @ulrikeboehm.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🔬 Are you eager to dive into the world of light microscopy & learn from top-notch microscopists about its essential techniques for life science applications? If that sounds exciting, don’t miss out on this free, in-depth iBiology series! 👉 www.ibiology.org/online-biolo...
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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Intricate shape of a dendritic cell, guardians of the immune system.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/10/2024
Writers are human and their work is worth waiting for. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...
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Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared.
Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.
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Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
- Vibe - Vibe with revisions - Revibe and resubmit - Did not vibe
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/10/2024
We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed
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We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed
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Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Advertise your account with just one image
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Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
I'm digging Bluesky so far... but the "Discover" algorithm seems SO resolutely confident that I'm here to consume sapphic furry anime content... any advice on training this thing? Can I get a "thanks but no thanks" button??
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27/08/2024
Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977
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