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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 8h

It's primary data.

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 10h

As a county bird recorder I can honestly say that the best and easiest way for you to make your birding count, is to upload them to either eBird or BirdTrack. Doing so contributes directly to #ornithology and bird #conservation at both local and national levels.

#birdingScotland #birdingWales

The remarkable rise of eBird – the world’s biggest citizen science project

In 2002, an online database was set up allowing birdwatchers to record their species observations. It is now a vast resource, shaping scientific research.

theconversation.com

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 13h

Same! It never takes a bad picture 🤩

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✨🌊S e a 🐙 W i t c h✨ @infiniteishq.bsky.social · 14h

This is so beautiful. I was mesmerized. Science is art too. 🤩

Sometimes we need a reminder… ✨

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 14h

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

Rainbow shading of a confocal micrograph of a developing mouse neural tube. The protein actin is stained and colored in rainbow to indicate depth in the section.

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 15h

Watching birds watch a total eclipse--this week on the @science.org podcast w/ @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 14h

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 14h

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 16h

I love it! 🎃

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 16h

The perfect October #FluorescenceFriday! 🎃 🧪

Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 16h

🎃💀Boys & girls of every age. Wouldn't you like to see something strange?💀🎃
🖌️🎨I painted Jack Skellington with E. coli expressing the small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (smURFP).🧬🦠🧫
#TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #JackSkellington #SciArt #AgarArt #SciComm

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow-crowned night heron

Memphis, TN 🪶

#MemphisBirding

Yellow crowned night heron standing in a swampy area

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 1d

Little known @stjuderesearch.bsky.social secret: Rubbing the nose on the sculpture of St. Jude founder Danny Thomas brings good luck for your experiments! 🧪 🍀 Postdoc Rojalin Pradhan is giving it a try 😉

Postdoc Rojalin Pradhan touching the nose on a sculpture of St Jude founder Danny Thomas.

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Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social · 1d

...or is it?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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UMass Chan Medical School @umasschan.bsky.social · 3d

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, in Cell explains how cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input to remodel synapses: direc.to/nJHH

Alzheimer’s and ALS patients have synaptic damage.

@travisfaust.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social

UMass Chan scientists show how the non-neuronal brain cells communicate to coordinate rewiring of brain

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, explains how two different cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input.

direc.to

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 3d

To the Full Professors out there who actually lift people up, advocate for those with less power and voice, and who care about colleagues and trainees doing well over arbitrary gatekeeping... I see you and am grateful for you.

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Miguel Ramalho-Santos @mrsantos.bsky.social · 3d

John Gurdon was a true giant:
- founder of cell reprogramming;
- founder of molecular embryology;
- unabashed advocate for basic research;
- advisor to numerous successful trainees/PIs;
- gentle human that touched so many.
In dark times with science under attack, let his vision be a guiding light.

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 3d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 3d

Totally - also the way most news outlets grab one short sound bite from his pressers to make him sound semi-coherent is infuriating. If you listen to the entire rambling thought, it's so clear he is completely incoherent.

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 3d

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College

Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.

www.magd.cam.ac.uk

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 3d

He was a champion of developmental biology and a truly inspirational scientist. 🧪

Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · 3d

So sad to hear the news - John truly was an inspiration to so many, and one of a kind.

www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 3d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 4d

New addition to my thoughts on 🧪 mentoring. Give trainees a seat at the table. Are you going to a conference where you will speak about their work? Encourage them to attend. Are you going to a meeting to discuss their project with a collaborator or editor? Invite them and ask for their input.

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Nov 18

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 4d

More evidence for distinct classes of cellular protrusions that facilitate intercellular communication 🧪

Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dend...

www.science.org

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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 4d

🪰 A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system—a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the millions of connections between them.
🔗 https://hhmi.news/4o3EJnk

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Sarah Lempriere @sarahlempriere.bsky.social · 6d

I love these new layers of complexity that people are discovering in the brain! Dendrites of different neurons can connect via nanotubes, which transport calcium and cargo such as amyloid-beta www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hidden networks in the brain

Dendritic nanotubes extend brain connectivity beyond synapses

www.science.org

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