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Niall Geoghegan

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Images cells live. Sometimes makes them dead and images that too. All things 4D imaging, malaria, microscopy, analysis etc. etc. 🔬🧬🦠

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hello fellow social media app migrators 🖐️ Niall from Melbourne here. Current focus is on imaging things that move and trying to leverage the information density of live-cell imaging data. At the moment trying to understand how malaria invades red blood cells like this cookie monster here. 🧪🔬🦠

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

Love this

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · 9d

Would never hire him, way too long 😅

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 26d

@fritzlaylin.bsky.social et al. propose a simple way to highlight both experimental #reproducibility & cell-to-cell variation, while avoiding pitfalls common in analysis of cell biology data rupress.org/jcb/article/...

📕 Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Jul 11

WTF is this Australia?!?

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Jul 7

If the method says "Analysis was performed in Fiji" I'd at least accept the location

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Jul 7

On today's episode of useless methods we have this lovely number from Cell

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · Jul 4

Heh.

An x-ray of a lego minifig Professor Frink. Never not funny.

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking to boost some SSD storage space but coming away thinking about the life span of elephants

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Jun 8

I think it might be a load-bearing mop

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Jun 3

Think I've found a winner for "least helpful microscopy method" ever written. This isn't a method, it's barely a sentence.

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · May 29

Pssst, international people of science. Come start/move your lab to Melbourne.

www.wehi.edu.au/careers/make...

Make your future Melbourne

Lead the next wave of biomedical discovery

www.wehi.edu.au

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · May 25

Worth it I'd say, but yeah a bit of a treat for sure. Some incredible models and story telling

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · May 25

Lego star wars exhibit qt Melbpurne museum today with the big kiddo. Strong recommend

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 21

I usually just double down on attack elephants before sending the last remaining villagers in

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 21

And then build a trebuchet and throw them all back at once.

Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 19

a man in a blue shirt is clapping his hands in the air

ALT: a man in a blue shirt is clapping his hands in the air

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 14

Is that a Harrison York I spot there?

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 13

Incredible structural Cryo-EM in this one. Congrats to all the team.

WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · Mar 13

World-first: researchers have discovered what protein #PINK1 looks like in humans and how it is activated, solving a decades-long mystery in the fight against #Parkinsonsdisease. The team hope to use the knowledge to find a drug to stop #Parkinsons.

www.wehi.edu.au/news/scienti...

Scientists solve decades-long Parkinson’s mystery

WEHI researchers have made a huge leap forward in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, solving a decades-long mystery that paves the way for development of new drugs to treat the condition.

www.wehi.edu.au

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Sylvie Callegari @sylviecallegari.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 10

House smells amazing

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 7

The cow lives!

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 6

Google finally getting something right it seems

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Mar 1

Breaking News: Overnight cow tipping incident reported at Preston Market, Melbourne.

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Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Feb 25

Particularly those resembling potatos

Niall Geoghegan @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social · Feb 22

I have found peak Australia

Stubby folder for a zooper dooper

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