Lucidus
@awesomepossumsg.bsky.social
Lover of biological sciences, genomics, synthetic biology, protein design, and AI. Expert enthusiast of pet sugar gliders. BernieBro still, well after it was cool. Chatter with me 💖 I’m bored.
Anyone on BlueSky? Does this app have engagement?
October 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Anyone on BlueSky? Does this app have engagement?
An adorable cow 🐄
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
May 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
An adorable cow 🐄
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
A sweet memorial for a beloved sugar glider 💖
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
May 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
A sweet memorial for a beloved sugar glider 💖
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
Made by Ever-Changing Crafts
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congrats to the oxford botanic garden scientists who captured the moment when the infamous mediterranean squirting cucumber (ecballium elaterium) shoots its seeds up to 40 feet by exploding off the stem with the pressure of an inflated bike tire 🥒🧪
November 29, 2024 at 7:15 PM
congrats to the oxford botanic garden scientists who captured the moment when the infamous mediterranean squirting cucumber (ecballium elaterium) shoots its seeds up to 40 feet by exploding off the stem with the pressure of an inflated bike tire 🥒🧪
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November 29, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Great 🧵 on a really nice study.
1/ Keen to share the story of my postdoc research out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social! We built a massive resource characterizing the spatial landscape of the gut—and yes, we dug deep into the biology too. If you’ve got a minute, let me walk you through the story. 🧵👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut - Nature
Intestinal regionalization is characterized by robust and resilient structural cell states and the intestine can adapt to environmental stress in a spatially controlled manner through crosstalk betwee...
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Great 🧵 on a really nice study.
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Wild & weird. Defs stashing away for my #CellBio course next semester!
Crazy stuff in PNAS
dental plaque bacterium 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘪 can divide into an unprecedented 14 daughter cells at once—then each daughter cell starts growing immediately in a rare process called multiple fission, achieving 0.5 mm per day of expansion
www.snexplores.org/article/bact...
dental plaque bacterium 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘪 can divide into an unprecedented 14 daughter cells at once—then each daughter cell starts growing immediately in a rare process called multiple fission, achieving 0.5 mm per day of expansion
www.snexplores.org/article/bact...
These mouth bacteria use a new type of cell division to make 14 cells at once
The newfound strategy seen in C. matruchotii might help oral bacteria recover lost territory after each eviction by toothbrushing.
www.snexplores.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Wild & weird. Defs stashing away for my #CellBio course next semester!
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There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
November 21, 2024 at 10:35 AM
There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
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Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
November 21, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
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Pretty excited by the recent uptick of science twitter migrating to blue sky. I haven’t been active here recently, but looking to change that!
November 22, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Pretty excited by the recent uptick of science twitter migrating to blue sky. I haven’t been active here recently, but looking to change that!
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1/ Our review on sequencing-based #microbiome analysis is in the Dec 24 issue of Nature Reviews Genetics. We explore DNA/RNA-sequencing approaches for studying microbiome structure and function, highlighting the biological insights sequencing-based microbiome research offers.
go.nature.com/3XFqonu
go.nature.com/3XFqonu
Sequencing-based analysis of microbiomes - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, Pinto and Bhatt provide an overview of DNA-sequencing and RNA-sequencing approaches that can be used to study the composition, structure, and function of microbiomes and discuss the bi...
go.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
1/ Our review on sequencing-based #microbiome analysis is in the Dec 24 issue of Nature Reviews Genetics. We explore DNA/RNA-sequencing approaches for studying microbiome structure and function, highlighting the biological insights sequencing-based microbiome research offers.
go.nature.com/3XFqonu
go.nature.com/3XFqonu
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Here it’s the brain affecting the gut microbiota- via the Brunner’s gland, which nerves stimulate to produce mucus, home for the Lactobacilli. Links physiological state to immunity. Amazing work by Ivan de Araujo and Hao Chang. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
🦠🧫@maxplanckcampus.bsky.social
🦠🧫@maxplanckcampus.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Here it’s the brain affecting the gut microbiota- via the Brunner’s gland, which nerves stimulate to produce mucus, home for the Lactobacilli. Links physiological state to immunity. Amazing work by Ivan de Araujo and Hao Chang. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
🦠🧫@maxplanckcampus.bsky.social
🦠🧫@maxplanckcampus.bsky.social
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In two weeks, with a great lineup and diverse microbiome topics!
Fully virtual and free, as usual!
Please share with your network, we are a nonprofit with no money for professional advertising 😂😅
Fully virtual and free, as usual!
Please share with your network, we are a nonprofit with no money for professional advertising 😂😅
It's Wednesday!
...and #MVIF 34 program is out! 🤩
⭐️MicroTalks:
🇹🇼 Ha T. Doan
🇦🇺 Vedanth Ramji
⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Sean Gibbons @gibbological.bsky.social
⭐️Selected talks:
🇯🇵 Yuya Kiguchi
🇦🇺 Kurtis Budden
🇨🇭 Amit Halkhoree (#Roche)
Registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-34
...and #MVIF 34 program is out! 🤩
⭐️MicroTalks:
🇹🇼 Ha T. Doan
🇦🇺 Vedanth Ramji
⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Sean Gibbons @gibbological.bsky.social
⭐️Selected talks:
🇯🇵 Yuya Kiguchi
🇦🇺 Kurtis Budden
🇨🇭 Amit Halkhoree (#Roche)
Registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-34
November 20, 2024 at 6:26 PM
In two weeks, with a great lineup and diverse microbiome topics!
Fully virtual and free, as usual!
Please share with your network, we are a nonprofit with no money for professional advertising 😂😅
Fully virtual and free, as usual!
Please share with your network, we are a nonprofit with no money for professional advertising 😂😅
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What a treat to be interviewed on NPR about our lab’s newest paper! We share our findings on how bottom-up signaling from muscles during exercise helps motor neurons grow 💪🏽 #myoblue
Links to interview + paper:
www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Links to interview + paper:
www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 20, 2024 at 1:50 PM
What a treat to be interviewed on NPR about our lab’s newest paper! We share our findings on how bottom-up signaling from muscles during exercise helps motor neurons grow 💪🏽 #myoblue
Links to interview + paper:
www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Links to interview + paper:
www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Chillin laid back. This is how we do.
November 21, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Chillin laid back. This is how we do.