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Dr. Brittany J. Carr
@drbjcarr.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @UAlberta. Genetically-modified frogs 🐸, retinal development & degeneration, imaging. She/Her. Views are my own. Canadian 🇨🇦
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · Nov 13
I think I can announce it (it's on the website now), but I'm really excited to say that I got the journal cover for the November issue of JCS! The retina is so beautiful, and I'm so happy I get to share that.
doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

🐸 🧪 #neuroskyence #academicsky #sciart 🐡
A journal cover photo for Journal of Cell Science, Volume 137 (21) Novermber 2024. It is depicting a healthy frog retina labelled using wheat germ agglutinin (magenta), which binds to the photoreceptor outer segments; anti-calbindin antibody (green), which marks cone inner segments and a subset of bipolar cells; and Hoechst 33342 (blue), which stains cell nuclei. It has the Company of Biologists logo on the bottom left.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 8h
But then I have to start over completely 🥲
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 8h
Ah, I didn't realize that. It still tries though. I just have to put a pin in after anyway.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 8h
JFC. I am so sorry Bryan. That hurts on so many levels.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 10h
Windows 11 updated and now facial recognition no longer works and I cant find our work printer on ethernet. I assume it's something similar, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out. I've been a PC user my entire life, but this is a whole new level of stupid. It's making me want to switch to mac.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 2d
And I thought predatory journal emails were bad 🙄😒
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 2d
So we just get sent AI spam summaries of our own preprints now? Wtf is BGPT?
A block of text from an email that summarizes my own work in the form of AI, and then provides a link to click.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 3d
You dont find yourself, you build yourself 🙌
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 4d
Like are we the same person because the same thing happened to me as a kid except it was recurring dreams of Anubis and he was always trying to eat me.
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Ann C. Morris @anncmorris.bsky.social · 10d
Assistant or Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Kentucky: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/601...
#academic jobs #edusky
Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology
The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...
ukjobs.uky.edu
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 6d
You are a powerhouse! Congratulations!
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 6d
Well deserved 😊
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations!
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 9d
Missed saying goodbye. Safe travels home!
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 10d
Neat!
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 12d
Ugh, I'm sorry. At the very least frogs are less expensive than mice. They can live much longer though, so losing adults (especially transgenics) sucks.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 12d
Luckily for me this year, I did not need to go for a fall grant. I will be trying to submit for spring though.

I just have no idea what will happen to our animals at the moment. The University blanket rejected all requests for research continuation earlier this year and we do tadpole husbandry.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13d
It’s @drbjcarr.bsky.social talking about Prom1 as a highly conserved protein responsible for photoreceptor outer
segment morphogenesis at #Visionarium2025
Vision scientist Brittany Carr at the lectern talking about her work in Xenopus vision.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 14d
Ugh. Glad I avoided that. I did watch the final lectures on the live stream though.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 14d
I did not. I just went straight from Prague to Helsinki. I needed some recovery time. I was strangely exhausted after RD.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 14d
Wait...are you going to Visionarium? Lol! See you there.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 14d
Round and round we go. Same with U of A right now.
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Webvision @webvision.bsky.social · 16d
Webvision Has A New Home!

www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...
A colorful mosaic of abstract spots arranged in squares that are derived from retinal research data.
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Diane Bovenkamp, PhD @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social · 17d
So proud for @brightfocus.bsky.social to be supporting Dr. Carr and her students. Looking forward to witnessing many discoveries from this lab.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 19d
That's a wrap! My first RD conference as a PI *and* with two graduate students in attendance. Featuring @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social and generous funding from @brightfocus.bsky.social

The BrightFocus Foundation was invaluable in launching my career, and I could not be more grateful!
Three women smiling and standing in front of a scientific poster at a conference. Two women and a man smiling and standing in front of a scientific poster at a conference. Two people, a red haired women and a man, pointing at a logo that says "BrightFocus Foundation" on a poster at a scientific conference.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 19d
She looks punk rock in this photo.
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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 19d
That's a wrap! My first RD conference as a PI *and* with two graduate students in attendance. Featuring @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social and generous funding from @brightfocus.bsky.social

The BrightFocus Foundation was invaluable in launching my career, and I could not be more grateful!
Three women smiling and standing in front of a scientific poster at a conference. Two women and a man smiling and standing in front of a scientific poster at a conference. Two people, a red haired women and a man, pointing at a logo that says "BrightFocus Foundation" on a poster at a scientific conference.
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