So, why is it that (as I mentioned earlier), when you draw a line that turns left at every nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function (it actually works for just about any turn angle), it coils up into these lovely whimsical curlicues resembling Euler spirals? I think I have a general understanding of it now.
New preprint for the lab! We introduce GelMap, a method enabling intrinsic calibration and deformation mapping for expansion microscopy.
A glimpse of the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA)?
In any case, this is a stunning and important finding in evolutionary cell biology.
Yo faculty who were hiring this season: Are all of your interviewees prospective homogeneity hires? If so, what are you doing to change that next hiring season? The time to do the research on that is now.
A common retort is "there weren't enough qualified underrepresented people in the applicant pool". That is a crap excuse, but even so, what are you doing now to change that within your graduate program? Current grad students will be applicants in a few years.
Sharing this in case it's useful: I find that students often have a hard time conceptualizing quantitative parameters in genomics and popgen.
Here is a draft version of a cheat-sheet that I put together for my winter-quarter human genetics class. It's also part of a book that I am slowly writing on human popgen.
Corrections and other comments very welcome
This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/
Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.
Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.
Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.
Nina Simone - Four Women (Audio) https://youtu.be/V8C5lloBfV8 via @YouTube
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
10 PRINT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
20 GOTO 10
There are more people here now so maybe this will find someone who knows - is this some kind of lichen? I find it in my firewood, it’s often a little ball form as you see. #lichen #mosstodon #fungi #forest
RT @Centriolelab
Delighted to present our latest work in collab with @Dey_Gautam and @LoewithLab labs (Kudos to @KHinterndorfer @MarineLaporte8 @F_Mikus). We applied U-ExM to S. cerevisiae and S. pombe and combined HPF with U-ExM for optimal organelle preservation
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/24/jcs260240/286062/Ultrastructure-expansion-microscopy-reveals-the
What happens when you twist your lens' focus ring while shooting long exposures of fireworks
Great news for python lovers: A python version of DESeq2 is out! @biorxivpreprint #bulk #RNAseq #python #bioinformatics
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.14.520412v1
@andrei_chiffa @admin @edward_marcotte @richardsever (using personal account)
yes I have prototyped an external parser for dereferencing shortlinks on masto and also just have been tinkering around with a fork that does a lot of the UI you would need to do to implement it in browser ( https://wiki.neuromatch.io/Mastodon/Mathjax ) so I think it would be maybe a months work?
Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology.
I'm interested in how amoebae divide, especially relatives of the "brain-eating amoeba"
I study this with microscopy, image analysis, and comparative genomics.
Postdoc at UMass Amherst Biology, PhD in Biophysics from Stanford.
I also love jazz and nature photography!
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