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TJ Porri

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Nov 19

An intro! I’m TJ. I help people to do science. Currently, I do that by taking X-ray images and non-clinical CT scans of whatever they want to see inside of. Animals, plants, computer parts, fossils, and food are all fair game.

Cross section of a CT scan of a goldfish cracker.

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about flow cytometry, here is your chance! Both in person and remote options available Aug. 27. events.cornell.edu/event/introd...

Introduction to Flow Cytometry - Biotechnology Resource Center Seminar Series

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 20

Would not put it past him to be a fan of red socks and quirky spelling

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 17

Heh the teen describes our current car as “the average of all cars”. It is *impossible* to find in a lot. I miss the eggplant car whose color I hated.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 13

Doesn’t everyone start their day by saying “hooray, my snake penises have arrived!”?

A sealed US mail box (full of snake penises) sitting on a desk in a lab. A flammable solvent cabinet is visible in the background.

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 9

For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !

🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social

@lsfm-na.bsky.social

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 10

Pareidolia fun at work: The researcher and I saw two different faces in this slice of tomato. Either it’s a cyclops with two eyebrows, or it has a funny shaped nose.

A screenshot of a single grayscale CT slice of a tomato with a few scattered pixels highlighted in red. A lower-density region around the stem looks a lot like a realistic eye, and there are two other air spaces around seeds in the approximate location of two eyebrows.

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · Jun 6

We love a goofy, bucktoothed, and smiling parrotfish in Coral City 😁🏳️‍⚧️🦜🐟 #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #bucktooth #goofy #smile #protogynoushermaphrodite #supermale #terminalphase #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 6

Have CT scanned anesthetized snakes and can confirm that putting them under (with injectable anesthetic) was way more of a rigamarole than I was expecting. Their heart was higher up than I was expecting—their whole bottom 85% is just a stretched out intestine.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 6

We all deserve the results of projects that were gearing up or in full swing, which you’d paid for. When projects like this get cancelled, you lose out on way more than that last year of money, and you also can’t start it up again quickly. We all lose.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 6

The Cornell Chronicle has been absolutely killing it lately sharing stories of research funding that has been rescinded without notice. Pediatric heart pumps, tick borne disease tests, military nutrition, and cybersecurity projects. What is next?

news.cornell.edu/categories/r...

Research at risk | Cornell Chronicle

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · Jun 2

My department is hosting a seminar on "Advancing multiomics for biomarker discovery: From cell-free RNA transcriptomics to spatial profiling" on Wednesday. In Ithaca and want to learn more? Sign up here: takarabio.com/register-3

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 30

Day to day at work, I’m busy with scans and emails and worrying about funding and all the small practical bits that come with helping people learn more about the world. I do forget that I’m breathing rarefied air, how lucky I am to be a working class kid, breathing it.

I’m remembering it today.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 30

I’m sitting outside, eating my lunch and listening to American Prometheus, which is chock full of little anecdotes about people whose names are attached to units or equations I’ve used. To wit, a very peripheral name got mentioned and I’m literally facing a building with that name on it.

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 30

Exactly—I phrased that poorly but we have gotten caught by that a couple of times.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 30

Related: if it is smart enough to sense a passenger, it should be smart enough to let that passenger connect to Bluetooth.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · May 29

If National snail day is not sufficient for your snail curiosity, don't worry we will have many more snails in our mollusk exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth, opening next week #NationalSnailDay 🐌🦑

Teaser for the Marine snail diversity case, arranged by feeding ecology. 1 side is all predators

~40 different shaped predatory snails in a case with 3 tiered shelves

~40 different shaped non-predatory snails in a case with 3 tiered shelves

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 29

This has always been my explanation of why I’m not a professor. If I want 3 full time jobs, y’all better pay me for three full time jobs.

Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · May 29

IMHO one reason being a professor is stressful (and professors are constantly late and absent-minded) is that it's not just one job, it's three or four jobs in a trenchcoat.

Plowed away the past few days catching up on research stuff and now I'm even more behind on email and admin 😢

It never ends

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · May 23

Several studies in our lab involve chemically cleared brains. Finally took the time to have a photo shoot, so I can show in presentations. The cleared brain shines brightly ✨ under natural light.

A normal mouse brain sits next to a chemically cleared mouse brain.

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 23

Please, dogs ass.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 22

If I don’t close all my tabs at the end of the day I have failed.

TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 19

Happy Monday!

a 2D slice through a CT scan that looks like a smiley face.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · May 18

Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Ventral view of a two-headed zebrafish stained with a dye that marks collagen. You can see the developed structure of the jaw and head.

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TJ Porri @tjporri.bsky.social · May 17

On the topic of “tactile representations of CT scans”, this makes me think LOTS of thoughts:
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3D Led Cube Light Electronics Kit with LED 16x16x16 Electronic Learning Toy for Children and Teenagers Learning Activities Suit (3D16MINI-MULTI-KIT)

Amazon.com: iCubeSmart 3D Led Cube Light Electronics Kit with LED 16x16x16 Electronic Learning Toy for Children and Teenagers Learning Activities Suit (3D16MINI-MULTI-KIT) : Toys & Games

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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · May 17

And that's a wrap on our NoCTURN 2025 meeting at the @amnh.org 🎉🎉 I'm brimming with pride at all the things we've been able to achieve! Just the most marvelous community (who knows how to have a good time). Look at all the things we did (much more still to come 😉): nocturnetwork.org

The Non-Clinical Tomography Users Research Network standing all together in the dinosaur hall at the American Museum of Natural History

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Molly Franke @mollyfranke.bsky.social · May 15

All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.

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