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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 24m

Barreleye fish with a transparent head that resembles this postal van.

Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 28m

Omg nature is so weird and amazing

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 4h

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1h

Hi Torsten! In your set-up, would it be possible to stretch or compress cells while imaging them?

Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 11h

When you have more than 99 browser tabs open on my Samsung Galaxy, Chrome just gives you a smiley face instead of a number.

Closeup of the top of the phone browser window, where there is a little box that goes from 1 to 99 to :D

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 11h

Ha, I got them all wrong. They were all pretty mid though, to be fair. Most human-written fiction isn't Nabokov.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 14h

Cnn edited out this part but fortunately, we've got Dave.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 15h

Pictures of mushrooms is BY FAR my most popular skeet ever. Like orders of magnitude. You people love yourselves some fungi.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17h

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

inews.co.uk

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, the niche skills of expressing thoughts and arguments in writing; critically reading texts; researching history and meta-context; slogging through abstruse theory; telling stories and creating art ... what could an English degree possibly be useful for?!

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Wokey42 @wokey42.bsky.social · 1d

Some leading UK politician needs to have the balls to say that education is a public good, and like almost every other European state, it should be funded by the state, tuition fees scrapped, and the money recouped from the benefits conferred on the economy and culture.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf is wrong with some people? Fuck you Trevor.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

You are crafty as hell, though; can confirm an inspired aesthetic sense and deft hand with the fancy dress.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, babes! It's awful when a teacher has a beef with you - dreadful position and abuse of power, honestly. I had a ballet teacher who told my mom that I reminded her of her brother who she didn't like. I was also not that great at ballet, so you can imagine how fun her class was. Totally sucks!

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 1d

2026 PhD recruitment is now open.

As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website:

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

www.crick.ac.uk

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 1d

What would happen if cells would express more molecular motors ?
They would break all microtubules 😱
As shown by recent great work from @kjverhey1.bsky.social

rupress.org/jcb/article-...

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

I just can't even imagine how awful I would feel after sending that note! What callous cruelty. No wonder Certain Parties are light on empathy if that's what they've been brought up to think is acceptable behaviour.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

The way his eyes flick sideways after he glitches makes it look like he is listening to someone (who is presumably telling him to STFU) through an earpiece.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The advent of confocal laser scanning microscopy in biological research - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

The advent of laser-scanning confocal microscopy revolutionized cell biology, offering unprecedented resolution and depth and enabling scientists to visualize cellular structures in 3D.

www.nature.com

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so happy when my students and mentees do well. I just heard that someone who applied to my lab in the Year Of No New Studentships, who I kept in touch with over lockdown and afterwards, has got a great PhD position. Some nice news for a change.

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 1d

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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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jan 5

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · May 6

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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