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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Does anyone else pretend that they’re signing autographs when they’re labeling tubes? Oh, only me… cool, cool, cool…

Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Before tonight I had never see a championship. Last time the Knicks won one was 1973. My grandfather let my dad stay up late to watch them win on a 19’ black and white tv. This win has been a long time coming. LETS GO KNICKS! 💙🧡💙🧡

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🧡💙🧡💙🧡😭😭😭💙🧡💙🧡💙

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m amazed that Taylor swift healed MSG after Trump stank it all up. Is there anything she can’t do?

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The way I just screamed at my TV LETS GO KNICKS! 💙🧡

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Taking circadian rhythm into consideration really means researchers screw up their own circadian rhythm, eh? 🫩

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Wow, my h-index moved from 3 to 4! Really moving up in the world 😂

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New year, more of the same 😭😭😭

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Lab conversation of the day: How to convince our PI to raise chickens, so I can get a cat.

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

In the anime Dragon Ball Z there exists a hyperbolic time chamber, where time is skewed so a year in the chamber would be equivalent to a day spent outside the chamber. I think I’ll need a hyperbolic time chamber to finish all the experiments and writing I need to finish by the end of the year…

media.tenor.com

a cartoon character with a blue shirt and orange pants is standing in front of rocks

Alt: Goku from dragon ball z, powering up

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Testing out new toys we got from SfN. Thanks @proteintech.bsky.social and Echo!

Graduate student Masha demonstrating the power of protein tech’s mighty handheld microscope next to Echo’s mini wooden microscope

A petal of a Christmas cactus taken under echo’s wooden microscope

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Wow, when they said it was raining they meant it was RAINing

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I don’t know why I thought a morning flight was a good idea 🫩

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Our resident artist hard-at-work drawing dinosaurs for @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social

Grad student Rommy Sierra showing off her “lab-o-saurus” comics. First panel: dinosaur dressed in proper PPEs, holding a beaker with mysterious liquids, with a thought bubble that says “gee, I hope this doesn’t cause an explosion that leads us to extinction…” panel 2: dinosaur with short arms at a laptop with a thought bubble that says “I can’t actually reach my computer. Panel 3: dinosaur presenting research on “why we should care about comets” with two dinosaurs in the audience saying “I don’t think this benefits us financially”. Panel 4: dinosaur claws ripped through gloves, following panel shows a dinosaur wearing ripped gloves that says “I hate when this happens… PPE is important”

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My cousin is about to start the nyc marathon, I guess it’s time to get out of bed…

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Thanks @mpfneuro.bsky.social for inviting me out! Had a blast spending the day talking about neuronal cilia!

Title screen “ Homeostatic maintenance of neocortical excitation-inhibition balance by ciliary neuropeptidergic signaling”

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Mr. Bumblebee doing the hard work so I don’t have to

Eastern Bumblebee pollenating a lime tree flower.

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

RIP, you served the culture rig honorable

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

6 months later, just like riding a bike.

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Totally worth getting up at 5 to avoid the crowds

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I fixed the Koehler illumination of the teaching scope at the musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva. Nice to know my skills can be applicable outside the lab.

Teaching microscope at musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

You best believe a 6 hr time difference wasn’t going to stop me from watching the Knicks punch their ticket to the eastern conference finals! 😱😱😱

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Finally, an emoji for academics 🫩🫩🫩

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Do y’all remember when Trumps immigration policy was just a wall? Yeah, good times.

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I keep getting asked whether I would consider leaving the states and my answer is no. It took four generations of hardship for my family to make it into this country. I can’t just run from the fight now.

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Dan Leman @dpleman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thrilled to share work from my PhD is now online as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We show prey capture learning requires V1, enhances V1b tuning to behavior, and induces persistent plasticity in firing rates and spines, gated by homeostatic, rather than Hebbian processes. Read more:

biorxiv.org

Rapid prey capture learning drives a slow resetting of network activity in rodent binocular visual cortex

Neocortical neurons possess stable firing rate set points to which they faithfully return when perturbed. These set points are established early and are stable through adulthood, suggesting they are i...

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I finally figured out what I should use my Thor labs snack box for!

Thor Labs snack box that says “I reused this lab snacks box for Nicole’s hopes + dreams”

An empty lab snacks box, absent of any hopes or dreams.

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hulk’d straight through my gloves

Hand wearing blue glove with a giant gash through the back of hand

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m not sure why anyone buys an industrial pump when a fish pump does just as well. Just as powerful at a fraction of the price.

A fish pump attached to a collection canister

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Our lab’s squash team is ready to take on any other lab who dares to challenge us!

Two postdocs with our best intimidating looks, and a third just standing there holding a squash racket.

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If only we could use optogenetics for mind control

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If only Americans could agree on more than just tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minorrrrrrrrrrr

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

On today’s episode of songs my labmates insist get stuck in my head, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

When one of your lab mates starts singing espresso and it gets stuck in your head, “I’m working late, cause I’m a postdoc” 🎶

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Im not sure how many positive pep talks I have left in me 🫠

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It’s only day 2, but it looks like I’m going to need more dark chocolate to keep morale up…

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It’s moments like this that will get me through the next 4 years

Tweet from Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan)

Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female.

All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation.

From THE WHITE HOUSE website:

(d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) "Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
COURIER

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Is Trump sure this is the right move? He wouldn’t want to seem less manly than President William Henry Harrison. That dude didn’t even wear a coat at his inauguration!

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Nicole F. Wong @strontiumpup.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Silly geese, shouldn’t y’all be south by now?