Reposted by Andrew Weemsc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Let'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. 213149
Reposted by Andrew WeemsThiago 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.'thenode.biologists.comWhy Seeing Still Matters in Biology - the Nodeor, Why all biologists needs data visualization Biology probes form and function of Life. Form is easy to grasp: cells under a microscope, subcellular 0107
Reposted by Andrew WeemsProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/20261/ 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. 🧵 203115197373
Reposted by Andrew WeemsJohn Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Wake 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 7569431410
Reposted by Andrew WeemsAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A 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. 10054689718037
Reposted by Andrew WeemsDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex 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. 13856006118633
Reposted by Andrew WeemsSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026This 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 12748278
Reposted by Andrew WeemsKevin Dean @kevin-dean.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A game changer in our hands... www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comUniversal consensus 3D segmentation of cells from 2D segmented stacks - Nature Methodsu-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... 12917
Reposted by Andrew WeemsJustin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The original circos plot? From the 1947-1948 Carnegie Yearbook, the page prior to McClintock's Mutable Loci in Maize paper. 48735
Reposted by Andrew WeemsJenna @jennaonthenet.bsky.social · 02/08/2025David 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 279106032105
Reposted by Andrew WeemsMatt Blackwell @mattblackwell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025(whispering into my phone during the job talk) grok is that true? 0101
Reposted by Andrew WeemsJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Disruptions 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...kut.orgUT Austin professor says Trump's policies could disrupt scientific research and hurt the economyThe 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... 17443
Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Goodsell 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 080
Reposted by Andrew WeemsD. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 28/12/2024A 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 641862418
Reposted by Andrew WeemsNatalie Thiex @thiex.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Trying 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... 1338
Reposted by Andrew WeemsMcSweeney'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."buff.lyThe Boy from Jurassic Park’s College Application EssayClaws 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... 1639
Reposted by Andrew WeemsUlrike 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... 1626798
Reposted by Andrew WeemsReto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Intricate shape of a dendritic cell, guardians of the immune system. 25518
Reposted by Andrew WeemsJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/10/2024Writers are human and their work is worth waiting for. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...nytimes.comSusanna 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. 591179279
Reposted by Andrew WeemsAndrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 24/10/2024- Vibe - Vibe with revisions - Revibe and resubmit - Did not vibe 0174
Reposted by Andrew WeemsThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/10/2024We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killedtheonion.comWe Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed 122783619
Andrew Weems @muthrnaturzson.bsky.social · 18/10/2024I'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?? 230
Reposted by Andrew WeemsRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27/08/2024Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977 343802654